events @ the Library

Monday, October 1
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy an afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Click here to learn more about the Wii

Monday, October 1
Noon
McManus Room

Lisa Alther on Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree - The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors, a wise, funny inquiry into the complexities of inheritance ultimately presenting a provocative take on the South's obsession with skin color.

Book Review
Books available for purchase and signing.

Friday, October 5
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
The Great Hall

The Friends of the Library invite you to an art reception for the opening of the exhibit "Special Places" to view the work of impressionist, watercolorist, Leonard Mizerek.

Light refreshments will be served. Please enter through the upper level entrance.

More about the artist

Sunday, October 7
3:00 pm
McManus Room

Honor Moore is the author of two collections of poems, Darling and Memoir, and of The White Blackbird —a life of her grandmother, the painter Margaret Sargent, a New York Times Notable Book. Her play Mourning Pictures was produced on Broadway, and her edition of the selected poems of Amy Lowell was published by the Library of America.

Poet’s Voice is supported by the Horace E. Manacher Poetry Fund.

More on Honor Moore

Monday, October 8
10:30 am & 7:30 pm
Westport Country Playhouse

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED AND WILL NOT BE RESCHEDULED.
The Library and the Playhouse are sorry for the inconvenience.

Tazewell Thompson, Artistic Director of the Westport Country Playhouse, will lead a discussion on the play Turn of the Screw, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James. Co-sponsored by Westport Library and Westport Country Playhouse.

To obtain a copy of the play, phone 291-4821.
Reservations requested, phone 227-4177.

More information

Wednesday, October 10
6:30 pm
McManus Room

The Painted Veil Once love is lost, can it be reclaimed? Based on Somerset Maugham's novel and filmed in China, The Painted Veil is a portrait of an emotional marriage set against the drama of a nation in turmoil. This Golden Globe winner is rated PG-13. 125 min.

Wednesday, October 10
Noon
McManus Room

Local author Max Wilk on his latest book, The Making of the Sound of Music, the full story of the making of the show. Wilk brings a musical theater historian's eye to the work, along with his passionate involvement as a witness to this history.

Books available for purchase and signing at the event.
Book Review.

Sunday, October 14
2:00 pm
McManus Room

The Alturas Duo, Scott Hill and Carlos Boltes, will play a fiery mix of South American and classical music with the unusual ensemble of the guitar, viola and charango. Their unique repertoire ranges from Bach and South American folkloric to new, commissioned music.

Alturas Duo website

Dr. Philip Landrigan, renowned expert on environmental health and pediatrics, spoke at the Library on October 15 about the effects that the enviornment has on children. He has been a member of the faculty of Mount Sinai School of Medicine since 1985 and Chairman of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine since 1990.

More about Dr. Landrigan.

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Monday, October 15
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Dr. Philip Landrigan, renowned expert on environmental health and pediatrics, will speak about the effects that the enviornment has on children. He has been a member of the faculty of Mount Sinai School of Medicine since 1985 and Chairman of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine since 1990.

Mount Sinai's Department of Community and Preventive Medicine is renowned for its work in children's environmental health, occupational medicine, epidemiologic research, and disease prevention. Department Chair Dr. Philip Landrigan and his team of medical researchers are uniquely qualified to identify environmental hazards and protect the health of our children.

Dr. Landrigan is an international leader in public health and preventive medicine. His research helped catalyze the U.S. government's phase-out of lead from gasoline and paint beginning in 1976. Dr. Landrigan chaired a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Pesticides and Children's

Health, whose report secured passage of the major federal pesticide law in the United States, the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996. This is the first federal environmental law to contain specific protections for infants and children. His work as Senior Advisor to the Environmental Protection Agency was instrumental in helping to establish the EPA's Offi ce of Children's Health Protection.

Monday, October 15
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

CANCELLED

Enjoy an afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Click here to learn more about the Wii

Tuesday, October 16
10:30 am & 7:30 pm
Seminar Room

Discuss The Places in Between by Rory Stewart, a story of the author’s walk across Afghanistan, surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs. New participants always welcome. For copies of the book, phone 291-4821.

Book Review.

Wednesday, October 17
Noon
McManus Room

Cathleen Schine on The New Yorkers. Set on an Upper West Side street, the story captures human joys and sorrows, comedy and drama, beginnings and endings, as the dogs compel their owners to live outside of themselves.

Book Review
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

Library Book Blog

Wednesday, October 17
10:00 am
McManus Room

Learn how Library resources can help with your job search. Resumes will be reviewed by a CT Department of Labor career specialist.

Friday, October 19
Noon
McManus Room

Caroline Weber on Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, an illustrated history that suggests that the queen's fashion obsession wasn't about narcissism and frivolity but self-assertion.

Book Review
Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Library Book Blog

Sunday, October 21
2:00 pm
Seminar Room

The group will meet to discuss The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard, this year's Agatha winner, set in Kansas in 1987, where the murder of a teenage girl changes a small town forever. Publishers Weekly called it "mesmerizing." For copies of the book, call 291-4821. New participants always welcome.

Book Review

Library Mystery Book Blog

Riverwalk Display Case
through October 22

"Star Wars Turns 30," celebrates the 30th anniversary of the release of the first film in George Lucas' epic series. The pieces on exhibit are from the extensive collection of Westporter and Star Wars fan extraordinaire Watts Wacker.

Monday, October 22
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy an afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

Click here to learn more about the Wii

Tuesday, October 23
7:30 pm
McManus Room

Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun of the University of Connecticut Huskies shares his seven secrets for motivation, success, leadership, and life.

Book Review
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

Library Book Blog

Monday, October 29
4:00 to 6:00 pm
McManus Room

Enjoy an afternoon of gaming and snacks. Ages 12 and up.

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Tuesday, October 30
Noon
McManus Room

Jerry Labriola on The Strange Death of Napoleon Bonaparte. Labriola picks up the trail of history's coldest case--the controversial death of the French
emperor--in a suspenseful novel that combines equal parts mystery and rich historical detail.

More about the author

On Exhibit October 1 through October 31
The Great Hall
Regular Library Hours

View the exhibit "Special Places, " the work of impressionist, watercolorist, Leonard Mizerek.

More about the artist