The Community Library is observing Independence Day on, Monday, July 5. We will re-open Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. … [Read more...] about Library CLOSED: Independence Day
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ZOOM: Audacious Read Book Group: “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
2021 AUDACIOUS READ One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Fourth Tuesday of Each Month | 3:00-4:00 p.m. | Zoom Of Gabriel García Márquez, the writer Salman Rushdie said, “No writer in the world has had a comparable impact in the last half-century.” In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1982, García Márquez stated, “In spite of [. . .] oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life [. . . . W]e the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to … [Read more...] about ZOOM: Audacious Read Book Group: “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
OUTDOORS – Tech Help Desk with Paul Zimmerman
Fourth Tuesday of the Month | June-September Do you have questions regarding your computer, tablet, phone or smart watch? Paul Zimmerman can help you! Stop by the Library’s Cimino Plaza between 5:00 – 7:00 pm to have all of your questions answered. The Cimino Plaza is outside the entrance to the Children’s Library at the corner of 4th and Walnut. Email mwilliams@comlib.org with questions. … [Read more...] about OUTDOORS – Tech Help Desk with Paul Zimmerman
2021 Ernest Hemingway Seminar: Hemingway in Africa
Register to Attend: IN-PERSON or VIRTUALLY The 2021 Ernest Hemingway Seminar, initially scheduled for Fall 2020, will celebrate two short stories and Hemingway’s time in Africa. We'll read "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," both published in 1936 following Ernest and Pauline's three-month safari in 1933. Both stories can be read online by clicking their titles above, or in multiple print editions, including The Complete Short Stories: The Finca Vigía … [Read more...] about 2021 Ernest Hemingway Seminar: Hemingway in Africa
2021 Ernest Hemingway Seminar: Hemingway in Africa
Register to Attend: IN-PERSON or VIRTUALLY The 2021 Ernest Hemingway Seminar, initially scheduled for Fall 2020, will celebrate two short stories and Hemingway’s time in Africa. We'll read "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," both published in 1936 following Ernest and Pauline's three-month safari in 1933. Both stories can be read online by clicking their titles above, or in multiple print editions, including The Complete Short Stories: The Finca Vigía … [Read more...] about 2021 Ernest Hemingway Seminar: Hemingway in Africa
ZOOM – Drop-In Lunchtime Writing Workshop
REGISTER HERE Join us every other Tuesday, June 15 through December 14, for a drop-in virtual writing workshop, led by Martha Williams, the Library’s programs and education manager. Each workshop begins with a warm-up prompt, then moves into a prompt that we will work with for the remainder of the hour. These free-form writing exercises are designed for writers of all genres–poetry, fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. After each exercise we’ll share, discuss, and give each other … [Read more...] about ZOOM – Drop-In Lunchtime Writing Workshop
