Children’s Programs

*Gingerbread Workshop: Come decorate your own gingerbread house with royal icing and festive candies. A special workshop will be held on Saturday, December 13, at 3 pm, in the library’s lower meeting room. A $3 material fee is due upon registration. Sign up in the children’s department. Phone registrations will not be accepted.

*The Return of Rabbi Praver: Rabbi Praver is returning with his guitar and talent to C.H. Booth Library on Sunday, December 14, at 3 pm, for an hour of Israeli and American folk music for children ages 4 to 7. The program is free and no registration is required.

Young Adults

*Book Discussion: Join us on Wednesday, December 3, from 4:30 to 5:30 pm, for a discussion of Odysseus in the Serpent Maze by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris. This is a swashbuckling adventure complete with mythical Greek heroes and pirates.

Copies are available in the Young Adult area. Register by visiting at the Main Floor Circulation Desk or calling the library.

*New Date For Stamp Art Workshops: Barbara Shohet’s workshop for Winter & Festive Stamp Art has been rescheduled for Wednesday, December 10, from 4 to 6 pm.

Use your creative energy to make a gift bag or box, greeting cards, and even a stationery portfolio. Samples are on display in the library. The workshop is for those in grades 6 and up. There are just 15 spaces available, and a $5 supply fee will be necessary when you register. Sign up at the Main Floor Circulation Desk or call the library.

Now On View

*Travers Sculpture: James Travers, a self-taught artist who began sculpting only six years ago, is currently exhibiting his work at the library.

Mr Travers’s welded steel sculptures, created in his studio off Huntingtown Road, often incorporate found objects that have undergone extreme stress by heat, pressure, or forceful impact. Nevertheless, their inherent shape and integrity may be understood. His works range in size from tabletop to monumental. Though abstract in nature, they may suggest human or natural forms, and they are frequently untitled. The smaller pieces, which he calls “scenics,” are often brightly colored and may include some representational elements.

Mr Travers is presenting 13 of his works until December 2.

*Mann’s Miniature Porcelains: Jean Mann is showing a selection of her miniature porcelains until November 24. Her art is on display on both the first and second floor of the library.

*Fabric & Watercolor Works: Eleanor Loecher is presenting a collection of her fabric collages and watercolor paintings in the Olga Kopeckne Memorial Meeting Room at the library. The exhibition, which opened last weekend, will remain on view until November 29.

A former Newtown resident who now lives in Heritage Village in Southbury, Mrs Loecher has had shows in Texas, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and Florida, as well as in Connecticut. Her work is in private collections as far away as Venezuela.

Adult Programs

*1854 Newtown Maps: One of the library’s beautiful historical maps of Newtown has been reproduced by the Friends of The C.H. Booth Library and can be yours for $40. The 1854 map measures 24 by 30 inches and is printed on 100% cotton rag. It features several familiar Newtown landmarks including homes, businesses, and churches.

CH. Booth Library, at 25 Main Street, can be reached at 426-4533 to register for any of its programs or for additional information.