Currently On View

“Crossroads: Classical To Contemporary Realism,” featuring pastel and oil paintings by Phyllis Acuzzo, is on view in the library’s lower meeting room until September 30.

The public is invited to attend a reception with the artist on Sunday, September 13, from 2 to 4 pm.

*Also on view beginning September 11 will be the annual exhibition of recent works by The Scrapbag Art Quilters.

This year’s collection, entitled “Gray Plus One… ,” is the result of a challenge to the quilters to use only one color in addition to grays in each of their works.

Scrapbag members are accomplished quilt artists who meet weekly to share ideas, techniques, and to critique their works. Most live in northern Fairfield County. The collection is on view until October 23.

 

Children’s Programs

*Mother Goose II: Just for 2 year olds: Children age 24-36 months old will have their own drop in program of songs, rhymes, music, movement, flannel board activities and simple books beginning Thursday, September 17, at 10 am.

No registration is required, but the program is limited to Newtown residents only.

*Mother Goose on the Loose: Mother Goose on the Loose continues to meet every Wednesday morning at 10 in the library meeting room.

Open to Newtown residents, this award winning program of rhymes, music, and movement is geared for very young children, ages birth to two. No registration is necessary.

 

Young Adult

For full details and signups for YA programs, visit biblio.org/YAWebSpot.

Program signups can also be made through the calendar on the library’s homepage (CHBoothLibrary.org): go to the program date or the date that a series of programs begins and proceed from there.

 

Adult Programs

*Behind the Crimes is a new a four part mystery discussion with CHB’s favorite professor, Julie Stern.

We’ll be reading four mysteries in which the authors recreate social conflicts and cultural issues that shape the characters and define a particular time and place. From the carefully negotiated relationship between Afrikaaner police lieutenant Tromp Kraemer, and his Zulu sergeant, Micky Zondi, during the era of South African Apartheid in James McClure’s The Steam Pig (September 16), to efforts of Navajo tribal policeman Jim Chee’s desire to reconcile his modern education with Native American tradition in Tony Hillerman’s Skinwalkers (September 30), from the emotional disconnect that alienates Smila Jaspersen, born out of a temporary liason between a wealthy Copenhagan surgeon and a primitive Intuit woman in Peter Hoeg’s Smila’s Sense of Snow (October 21) to the violent mix of mobsters, underpaid police officers, Cajuns, poor Blacks, and Neo-Nazis who populate New Orleans in James Lee Burke’s Dixie City Jam (November 4), these great reads are highly satisfying crime novels.

Online registration is requested.

*Author Talk: So You Want To Go Where?

Jeff Blumenfeld, editor and publisher of Expedition News, will visit the library to discuss his latest book, So You Want to Go Where? How to Get Someone to Pay for the Trip of Your Dreams on Tuesday, September 22, at 7 pm.

*New Writing Group for Adults: Georgia Monaghan, writer and journalist is starting a group for writers at the library the fourth Monday of each month.

The first meeting will be September 28, and the group will meet from 7 to 9 pm.

Space is limited to ten participants, and it’s filling up fast. Call or visit us online to get in while you can.

*Congo Documentary: On Thursday, September 24, at 7 pm, there will be a screening of Heart: The Congo Chronicles, which introduces viewers to a Congolese woman who seeks an adoptive US home for her daughter, in order to save the girl from the poverty and violence that is rampant in the Congo.

Director and composer Kenneth Lundquist Jr. will perform music from the film and there will also be a talk back session with Mr Lundquist and producer/screenwriter Jeffrey Luken Hartlage following the screening.

*Calling all Mets Fans: Local author Dana Brand will visit the library on Tuesday, September 29, at 7 pm, to discuss his latest book, The Last Days of Shea, Delight and Despair in the Life of a Mets Fan.

Former Mets pitcher Jerry Joosman has said: “The Last Days of Shea is a great tribute to Shea Stadium and to the spirit of the fans who made it such a wonderful place to play baseball.” Find out for yourself when the author visits the library.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the talk.

*Video Sale: The adult department is busy discarding a number of VHS tapes, and all are available for $2 each.

Stop by the circulation desk on the second floor to view the selections.

C.H. Booth Library is at 25 Main Street in Newtown. Call 426-4533 or visit CHBoothLibrary.org to register for any of the above listings, and for information on additional programs and offerings.