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July 2017
July 11, 2017 @ 3:00 pm
Summer Reading Club: Desert Solitaire
Hailed by The New York Times as a passionately felt, deeply poetic book, the moving autobiographical work of Edward Abbey,...
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Baby Birds: An Artist Looks Into the Nest
Zickefoose painted wild nestlings day by day, bearing witness to their swift growth. In this talk, she shares her influences...
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August 6, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
Lecture and Garden Walk: Butterfly Neighbors
Inspired by the collection of moths and butterflies on view at the Museum, Himmelman introduces participants to the current state...
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Summer Reading Club: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Dillard sets out to see...
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September 10, 2017 @ 3:00 pm
Summer Reading Club: The Primal Place
Layered excursions into the natural and human environs of the author's Cape Cod home. Finch begins at the window of...
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Slide Lecture and Book Signing: Marshes: The Disappearing Edens
This presentation by naturalist, photographer, writer, and Old Lyme native William Burt explores the best of North American marshlands with...
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October 8, 2017 @ 12:00 pm
Workshop & Book Signing: “Fairy House Cooking”
Featuring Liza Gardner Walsh, Author Reading excerpts from her newest book, Fairy House Cooking, Walsh will share tips on cooking for the faeries and...
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November 11, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
Samuel Thorne Memorial Lecture: American Artists and WWI
Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Paintings, Minneapolis Museum of Art Lecture held in Fellowship Hall at the First Congregational Church of...
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Reading Club: “A Farewell to Arms”
A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and...
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June 10, 2018 @ 2:00 pm
Lecture & Book Signing: Boot Camp for Your Senses
Featuring Tovah Martin, Author and Garden Expert.
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July 24, 2018 @ 3:00 pm
Summer Reading Club: A Piece of the World by Christina Baker
Dr. Mark J. Schenker discusses the well-researched fictional account of Christina Olsen, who was the inspiration for Andrew Wyeth’s famous...
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August 21, 2018 @ 3:00 pm
Summer Reading Club: Poetry of the Farm and Country
Dr. Mark J. Schenker, Senior Associate Dean and Dean of Academic Affairs at Yale College, discusses selections of poems drawn...
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