Founders' Day 2024: Growing Toward Liberty

Date: 
Sun, 05/19/2024 - 2:00pm to 6:00pm

The library collaborates with the Friends of Hathorn to sponsor a free living history reenactment of 18th century agriculture outdoors on the lawn at the Gen. John Hathorn historic site, The Old Stone House Inn (21 Hathorn Rd.)  for more details visit https://hathornhouse.wordpress.com/founders-day/.  Reenactor educator Scott Lance will show tools and techniques, with other family friendly hands-on activities such as butter making, flour grinding, etc.  No registration is necessary.



      
      
  
  

Pioneer Travel on the OregonTrail

Date: 
Mon, 07/15/2024 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Age Group: 
Children

An exciting interactive play by Kit’s Interactive Theatre. Relive the spirit of covered wagon travel (buffalo stampedes and snakebites included!) before dancing by moonlight with pioneer Penny Pritchard. Performance combines history, dance, music, imagination, and improvisation with a great mixture of humor.

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Braver Angels - Family & Politics: How to Talk with Loved Ones on the Other Side

Date: 
Sat, 11/09/2024 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Contact: 
The Help Desk at 986-1047, ext. 4
Age Group: 
Adult

Family relationships are becoming casualties of our toxic political environment. Family members are having nasty political arguments, avoiding each other, or even cutting off lifetime relationships. If you want to preserve important family bonds while still being true to your values and political beliefs, this workshop is for you! 

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Braver Angels: Skills for Disagreeing Better

Date: 
Sat, 10/05/2024 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Contact: 
The Help Desk at 986-1047, ext. 4
Age Group: 
Adult

This workshop helps participants learn how to understand the values and concerns of those who differ from them politically and teaches skills for communicating across differences and finding common ground.  Light refreshments provided.

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Crossing the Continental Divide: The Braver Angels Approach to Depolarization in the United States (Film & Discussion)

Date: 
Sat, 09/14/2024 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Contact: 
The Help Desk at 986-1047, ext. 4
Age Group: 
Adult

Are you dismayed by political division in America and interested in being part of the solution?  Don’t despair.  Come learn about Braver Angels, the nation’s largest cross-partisan, volunteer-led organization dedicated to bridging the partisan divide and to depolarizing American politics.  Bringing together Americans from across the political spectrum, Braver Angels is teaching new ways to communicate, collaborate and engage in public life for the b

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