Bethel Public Library Programs

Tell Your Story: A Memoir Workshop
Presented by Linda Chiara
Bethel Senior Center (Park in rear - second driveway off Wooster Street)
Tuesday, April 8 10:30-11:45 am

Linda will help you get started this morning writing your own memoirs.
This program is open to all but registration is required. Register at the Reference Desk or call (203) 794 8756 ext. 4 or by email.

Introduction to Family History
Library Boardroom
Thursday, April 10
2:00-3:30 pm

Librarian Amy Schumann shows you how to get started researching your family tree.
Registration is required for this program. Register at the Reference Desk or call (203) 794 8756 ext. 4 or by email.

Crocheting Club
Connecticut Chapter of the Crochet Guild of America

Sunday, April 20
2:00-4:00 pm
Seelye Room, Library
189 Greenwood Avenue, Bethel

Important - please bring Crochet hook size H or I, light colored 4-ply acrylic yarn (available at craft and hobby shops, and large discount stores)

Registration is required for this program. Register at the Reference Desk or call (203) 794 8756 ext. 4 or by email.

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tuesday, April 29
7:00-8:00 pm

Following the festivities celebrating the renovation of the Library's Shakespeare Garden on April 26th, a talented troupe of teens brings Shakespeare to the Library in an original Sabrina production.

Registration is recommended for this program. Register at the Reference Desk or call (203) 794 8756 ext. 4 or by email.

Maintain Your Brain
Bethel Senior Center
(Park in rear - second driveway off Wooster Street)
Tuesday, May 13
7:00-8:30 pm

This workshop, open to all, features scientifically-rooted nutritional and lifestyle advice, interactive exercises and activities, and materials to take home for further reading. The program, created by the National Alzheimer’s Association, is for adults who want to learn more about staying fit and enhancing brain health and vitality.

Registration is recommended for this program. Register at the Reference Desk or call (203) 794 8756 ext. 4 or by email.

Night Gardening
by E. L. Swann
Monday, April 14, 2008
7:30-8:45 pm

Divorced Tristan Mallory is a top-notch landscape architect hired by a wealthy couple in order to make magic on the grounds of their estate. Tristan, however, soon finds himself making even more magic next door as he observes widow Maggie Welles in her own long-neglected garden. Maggie has recently survived a stroke, and at first Tristan merely admires her resilient personality from afar as she does the grueling exercises necessary to regain her speech and motor skills. Swann seamlessly blends a Zen philosophy of gardening into her radiant tale of second chances, using her love for horticulture as a metaphor for the regenerative nurturing and flourishing of characters and the blossoming of love.

The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
Monday, May 12, 2008
7:30-8:45 pm

In this book John Berendt does for Venice what he did for Savannah in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Like the earlier book, The City of Falling Angels is nonfiction that reads like fiction, with a cast of characters ranging from high-society American expatriates, a surrealist painter and provocateur, a master glassblower whose sons are engaged in a dynastic war, pigeon trappers, hustlers, the Plant Man, the Rat Man, and Henry James.

The book opens with Berendt riding in a water taxi to his hotel three days after a colossal fire destroyed the Fenice Opera House, one of the most beloved cultural landmarks in Venice. Berendt decides to extend his stay to learn more about the fire and the city. His stay lasts, off and on, for nine years, giving him plenty of time to get to know the real yet novelistic Venice and many of its characters.

Night Gardening
by E. L. Swann
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
10:00-11:30 am Note new time

Divorced Tristan Mallory is a top-notch landscape architect hired by a wealthy couple in order to make magic on the grounds of their estate. Tristan, however, soon finds himself making even more magic next door as he observes widow Maggie Welles in her own long-neglected garden. Maggie has recently survived a stroke, and at first Tristan merely admires her resilient personality from afar as she does the grueling exercises necessary to regain her speech and motor skills. Swann seamlessly blends a Zen philosophy of gardening into her radiant tale of second chances, using her love for horticulture as a metaphor for the regenerative nurturing and flourishing of characters and the blossoming of love.

The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:00-11:30 am

In this book John Berendt does for Venice what he did for Savannah in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Like the earlier book, The City of Falling Angels is nonfiction that reads like fiction, with a cast of characters ranging from high-society American expatriates, a surrealist painter and provocateur, a master glassblower whose sons are engaged in a dynastic war, pigeon trappers, hustlers, the Plant Man, the Rat Man, and Henry James.

The book opens with Berendt riding in a water taxi to his hotel three days after a colossal fire destroyed the Fenice Opera House, one of the most beloved cultural landmarks in Venice. Berendt decides to extend his stay to learn more about the fire and the city. His stay lasts, off and on, for nine years, giving him plenty of time to get to know the real yet novelistic Venice and many of its characters.