events @ the Library

Opening reception: Friday, June 5, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm.

Light refreshments served. Enter through the main level Library entrance.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Contact Jaina Lewis at 291-4809 or jlewis@westportlibrary.org for more information.

Co-sponsored with the Green Village Initiative.

Funded by Jerry A. Tishman.

Sponsored by The Smilow Family.

Light refreshments served.
Enter through the upper level Library entrance.

Funded by Jerry A. Tishman.

Contact Jaina Lewis at 291-4809 or jlewis@westportlibrary.org for more information.

Co-sponsored with Fairfield County Community Foundation.

Wiese was the youngest president in The Explorers Club’s hundred-year history. He has hosted many nationally seen television shows, most recently "Exploration with Richard Wiese." He just completed filming a special series with the BBC and Discovery called "Hell on Earth." As an explorer and respected field scientist , Richard has traveled to all seven continents. He has tagged jaguars in the Yucatan jungles, expedition leader to the Northern Territory of Australia to look for basis of the Aboriginal myth of the Rainbow Serpent, team member of the largest medical expedition ever conducted on Mt. Everest, achieved the first ascent of an unclimbed mountain in Alaska and discovered 29 new life forms on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa and cross country skied to the North Pole. Most recently Richard traveled to the hottest place on earth in Ethiopia to attempt to extract fragments of DNA from molten lava to look for evidence of microbial life in conditions never thought able to support life.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

For copies of the book, phone 291-4821 or email Sue Madeo at smadeo@westportlibrary.org. . New participants always welcome.

In We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: The Kids Who Fought for Civil Rights in Mississippi, Westporter and illustrator Tracy Sugarman chronicles the sacrifices, tragedies, and triumphs of the 1964 Freedom Summer. As an illustrator and journalist, Sugarman covered the nearly one thousand student volunteers who traveled to the Mississippi Delta to assist black citizens to register to vote. Blending oral history with memoir and image, the reader is drawn into the lives of Sugarman's subjects, showing the passion and naiveté of the volunteers, the bravery of the civil rights leaders, and the candid, sometimes troubling reactions of the black and white Delta residents.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Free tickets available in the Children’s Library beginning at
9:00 am on the day of each performance—space is limited.
Children's Library website.

Library catalog.

Library catalog.

Items about the Supreme Court in the Library catalog.

Co-sponsored by Westport Library and TEAM Westport.