The Pawling Library is Celebrating its Centennial.
For this program we are not only commemorating our library’s anniversary but bringing people together through their passion for great literary works.
We have selected four classic novels, one for each season, that were popular in the 1920s when our library first came into being.
Our presenter, Stephanie Rogers, will be reading an excerpt from each novel and then lead a Q & A for our audience. Stephanie Rogers is the author of The Horse I Belong To: How a Misused and Almost Forgotten Grade Mare Showed Me the Way.
The Pawling Library is proud to be partnering with our neighbors Pawling Recreation, the Book Cove and the Pawling Resource Center.
To participate in this program, order a copy of A Passage to India through our library. You can also support our partner, the Book Cove, by purchasing this classic novel from our favorite book store. A Passage to India was written by E. M. Forster and published in 1924.
Thank you for growing with us throughout the years.
Summer: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 / 6:30-8:00 pm
Autumn: A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Wednesday, September 29 / 6:30-8:00 pm
Winter: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Wednesday, December 8 / 6:30-8:00 pm
Spring: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 / 6:30-8:00 pm
Pawling Recreation
2 Lakeside Dr, Pawling NY 12564
https://pawlingrec.com/info/default.aspx
Book Cove
22 Charles Colman Blvd, Pawling NY 12564
http://www.pawlingbookcove.com
Pawling Resource Center
126 East Main St, Pawling NY 12564
https://www.pawlingresourcecenter.org
Wednesdays
Teachers say that the skills that lead to the most student success in school are their social and emotional skills. Join us to help develop these skills, all while children play! This supervised hour of fun provides a large space for children to meet and play, either inside or out, depending on the weather. This program is designed to ease the transition to daycare, preschool, and especially kindergarten and is paid for in part by Dutchess County.
Wednesday, May 25
“The Family Plot, by Linda McCauley Freeman, pulses with life. Poems rich in sense detail portray one American girlhood, one American family, in all of its joy and its sorrow. McCauley Freeman understands that joy and sorrow often coexist inside one moment, and that this moment lives on, like ‘one of those [souvenir] photos/vendors take without asking, then charge you to keep.’ One poem recalls a father bursting into his boisterous sons’ locked room: ‘the hinges popped/and our father became for a moment//Aladdin, riding the door to the floor/in a flash of dust.’ Likewise, The Family Plot arrives on the poetry scene, and not a minute too soon.”
