Jessica has a Bachelor's degree in English and Journalism and a master's degree in Student affairs counseling. With over a decade of higher education experience, she loves helping students on their way to and in their college experience.

 

This tasty presentation focuses on the fascinating history of England’s chocolate & tea pioneers, along with the Quaker connection.The generational ingenuity of the Cadbury, Rowntree, Fry, Twinings & Lipton legacies will be shared.  Samplings of English tea (decaf at evening programs) and chocolates will be sampled for this most proper pairing. A fun trivia quiz will round out this historic class!  Feel free to come in costume!

 

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Join us for the Out of This World Science Fiction / Fantasy Book Club!  We meet on the last Monday of the month, and alternate between science fiction and fantasy titles.

 

The title for October is Glorious by Gregory Benford

Learn how to needle felt a pumpkin using wool roving and a barbed needle. Pop up Art School will show you the basics of needle felting. You’ll leave the class with the knowledge and basic supplies you need to continue felting on your own!  Please note: Each patron will make one felted pumpkin.

 

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Situated just outside of Dublin, the hellfire club was a place of sacrifice, ritual and mayhem. Members of this infamous club were the elite of British and Irish society who feared none; until one stormy night a stranger arrived to play a hand of cards. One hundred and fifty miles away on Ireland’s rugged south coast lies the most haunted house in Ireland, home to the wealthy Loftus family. Here, another fateful game of cards took place. How are these two events connected? And is there a connection to the present day?

 

About The Speaker: The Wall Street Journal has called Steve Parsons “The Gold Standard in Ghost Hunting." Parsons has spent more than 30 years as a full-time investigator of ghosts, poltergeists, haunted houses and related phenomena. He is acknowledged by his peers and leading academic parapsychologists to be one the best investigators in the UK. He is the author of two highly regarded books, Ghostology, The Art of the Ghost Hunter and Paracoustics, Sound and the Paranormal, his prolific work has been featured or has been cited in many books, journals, magazines and newspapers. 

 

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Lighthouses and ghost stories often seem to go hand in hand. In the past, Jeremy has discussed the lovelorn spirit known as Ernie at Connecticut's New London Ledge Light and the piano playing ghost of Maine's Seguin Light, among others as well as about the mysterious Woman in White in the Isles of Shoals and the spirit of a drowned lighthouse keeper at Penfield Reef in Connecticut. This time, who knows what fascinating and haunting tales Jeremy will come up with - we do know he's using the suggestions from our 2.0 session to create the 3.0 one (we love crowd-sourcing!).

 

Jeremy D'Entremont is the president and historian of the American Lighthouse Foundation, historian for the U.S. Lighthouse Society, and the author of more than 20 books and hundreds of articles on lighthouses and maritime history. He's the producer and host of the U.S. Lighthouse Society's podcast, Light Hearted. He has appeared on the popular Ghost Hunters TV show, as well as Haunted Lighthouses of America on the Travel Channel. He has also appeared on the History Channel, Public Television, and National Public Radio speaking about lighthouses.

 

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