Small Meeting Room  

Join with fellow book lovers as we take a look at works from a period in a language or culture's history that was particularly creative and productive. You do not have to read the selection before the meeting date. No registration required.

January: The Awakening by Kate Chopin 

A boundary-pushing story of a Louisiana housewife who loses herself and yearns for independence from her husband and children. The 19th century critics panned Chopin's realism and questioning of societal expectations in this moving novel. 

This program is sponsored in memory of Marie Schleicher.

1:00 pm, Community Room 

Join us for an afternoon of board games, card games, games of skill and strategy. Fun for the entire family. The library has a stash of games to choose from or you are welcome to bring your own. Ages 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult. No registration necessary. 

 BCC, Upper Level
Need hands-on help with your smartphone, tablet, laptop or e-reader? Trying to download an app or program and getting stuck? Want to use free library media resources like eBooks and audiobooks from Libby? Sign up for a thirty-minute Device Advice session for in person assistance. Bring your personal tablet, laptop, smartphone, or e-reader with you. Make sure you have all passwords you might need during the session. Registration is required.

January 23, 6:30 – 8 PM in the Community Room

Take a safari drive through Thula Thula Game Reserve and see elephants, rhinos, leopards, hippos, and if you are lucky, a hyena at night. Located in the former Zulu Empire, Thula Thula, in partnership with local communities provides almost 14,000 acres of natural land for wildlife in South Africa. Learn about their efforts to protect endangered rhinos and meet elephant land size needs.
Recommended reading by author, Françoise Malby-Anthony, owner of Thula Thula, available at the library include: “An elephant in my kitchen: what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival,” and “The elephants of Thula Thula.” Plus, “The elephant whisperer: my life with the herd in the African wild,” by Thula Thula founder, Lawrence Anthony.

2 pm Small Meeting Room
New to meditation? No problem! A certified trainer from the Heartfulness Institute (www.heartfulnessinstitute.org) will help you in taking that first step to develop calmness from within. As a practitioner, you can experience better concentration, inner balance and true wellness of being. Come and experience the peace and love as a starting point of many good things in life. REGISTER HERE. 

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. in the Community Room 

Between 1935 and 1975, the pursuit of mental health became a social priority in the United States particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. How did San Francisco, once a sleepy outpost of the mental health professions, become a world-class psychiatric city after World War II? Why did the pursuit of self-improvement through psychotherapy become commonplace in certain regions of the country but not in others? Join writer and historian Justin Suran in this discussion of his Substack series “Reasons’ Frontier: How Psychiatric Science and Therapeutic Culture Became Part of Everyday Life.” No registration required.

Come prepared for a discussion at each meeting by reading these articles on Substack:

1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. in the Community Room 

Between 1935 and 1975, the pursuit of mental health became a social priority in the United States particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area. How did San Francisco, once a sleepy outpost of the mental health professions, become a world-class psychiatric city after World War II? Why did the pursuit of self-improvement through psychotherapy become commonplace in certain regions of the country but not in others? Join writer and historian Justin Suran in this discussion of his Substack series “Reason's Frontier: How Psychiatric Science and Therapeutic Culture Became Part of Everyday Life.” No registration required.

Come prepared for a discussion at each meeting by reading these articles on Substack: