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Feelin' Lucky?
Take a chance on our "Lucky Charms"! Visit the Garden Room to find our Lucky Charms Display.
Select a fiction book based on the summary provided and take it to the front desk for check out! You might have the Luck o' the Irish and find a new favorite! |
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Construction Update
Interior work continues on Cooper Street. Now that Spring is around the corner, we are hopeful for a Springtime return to our library. Work is ongoing and we will continue to provide updates as we receive progress reports.
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Identity Theft and Scams Monday, March 14 @ 6:30 p.m.This is a virtual presentation. The Attorney General's Office of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts returns to present on this popular topic. Learn about the different types of scams that are out there and what you can do to protect yourself and your information. This program will take place on Zoom. Please register here. Participants will receive a Zoom link on the day of the event. |
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Wi-Fi Hotspots Available for Loan!
Need a wireless connection on the go? The library now has wireless hotspots that you can check out-just like a book! - Hotspots can be borrowed for two weeks-with one renewal.
- Borrowers must be 17 years old or older and in good library standing.
- Only one hotspot per household.
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March Tech Topics
We are thrilled to offer our continuing tech series for the month of March. All are invited to four more help sessions to learn how to use our digital library. In the help sessions, Libby and Hoopla are introduced and users are shown how to use their library card to access these great resources! Don't forget to bring your tablet or smart phone, your library card and your Apple ID (if applicable). These sessions are in-person here at the Senior Center, but space is limited. Masks are encouraged, please. Click on the desired date to register:
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Why Should Kids Have All The Fun?Our all-ages bookmark contest was a great success so we are giving grown-ups another chance to share their creativity! For an official entry form, please click here. Entries must be submitted by April 8th. Winners will be announced on April 14th! Good luck and have fun!
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Spring is almost here! Our Winter Garden series continues this month with a concentration on gardening tips and tasks to help us prepare for an active vegetable and herb growing season. Our last Winter Garden presentation will feature gardening activities that we can do during the winter months. |
During the month of March, we will talk about planting zones and frost dates, preparing your indoor seeds and soil and garden shows! Please visit our website for the entire Winter Garden Series. For more information on our Garden Series, contact Shari Petrucci (413) 789-1550 X4 |
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The Salem Witch Museum Pass is Back!
After two years, the Salem Witch Museum is again offering discount passes to library patrons! Discounted rates are as follows: Adult/Senior $13.25, Child (3-14) $10.75 and each pass allows you to purchase 6 tickets. Tickets must be purchased online using the code located on the library pass, which must also be presented at the museum. The SWM follows the history of witches, witchcraft and witch hunts through the ages. Their main presentation is an overview of events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Witches-Evolving Perceptions is a provocative exhibit with presents the ancient pagan wise women, the stereotypical witch, modern witchcraft and the phenomenon of witch hunts. |
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A Black Women's History of the United States
by Daina Ramey Berry
"Centering on Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African women who arrived in what became the US to African American women of today."
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Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
by Mikki Kendall
"A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women's rights The ongoing struggle for women's rights has spanned human history, touched nearly every culture on Earth, and encompassed a wide range of issues, such as the right to vote, work, get aneducation, own property, exercise bodily autonomy, and beyond. Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists is a fun and fascinating graphic novel-style primer that covers the key figures and events that have advanced women's rights from antiquity to the modernera. In addition, this compelling book illuminates the stories of notable women throughout history--from queens and freedom fighters to warriors and spies--and the progressive movements led by women that have shaped history, including abolition, suffrage, labor, civil rights, LGBTQ liberation, reproductive rights, and more. Examining where we've been, where we are, and where we're going, Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists is an indispensable resource for people of all genders interested in the fight for a more liberated future"
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Taste makers : seven immigrant women who revolutionized food in America
by Mayukh Sen
"America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a blind chef; Marcella Hazan, the deity of Italian cuisine; and Norma Shirley, a champion of Jamaican dishes. In imaginative, lively prose, Mayukh Sen-a queer, brown child of immigrants-reconstructs the lives of these women in vivid and empathetic detail, daring to ask why some were famous in their own time, but not in ours, and why others shine brightly even today. Weaving together histories of food, immigration, and gender, Taste Makers will challenge the way readers look at what's on their plate-and the women whose labor, overlooked for so long, makes those meals possible"
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