Library Closed
The Conway Public Library will be closed in observance of New Year's Day
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Library Closed
The Conway Public Library is closed.
Author Talk: Sandell Morse and L. Annette Binder
Purchase The Vanishing Sky from White Birch Books by clicking here.
Purchase the Spiral Shell from White Birch Books by clicking here.
Signed copies of the books are available at White Birch Books. Call them at 356-3200 to purchase.
The Last Traverse, Ty Gagne Book Talk
Join Ty Gagne on Zoom as he discusses his new book, The Last Traverse. Sign up for access here: http://bit.ly/TyGagne
The Middle East
The term "Middle East" is a changing geopolitical concept. Throughout recent history, this term referred to a political, a cultural, and a geographical region with no clear boundaries. Moreover, this concept serves to generate stereotypes and misunderstanding. This multimedia presentation by Mohamed Defaa provides an analytical framework to understand the histories, social identities, and cultures behind this complex concept of "Middle East."
This is a virtual presentation. Register for Zoom access here: https://bit.ly/3ppRXxi
The Guitar in Latin America: Continuities, Changes and Bicultural Strumming
Jose Lezcano presents a multi-media musical program that showcases the guitar in Latin America as an instrument that speaks many languages. Lezcano presents a variety of musical styles: indigenous strummers in ritual festivals from Ecuador, Gaucho music from Argentina, European parlor waltzes from Venezuela, and Afro-Brazilian samba-pagode. He also plays pieces by Villa-Lobos, Brouwer, Lauro, Barrios, Pereira, and examples from his Fulbright-funded research in Ecuador.
Handmade Greeting Card Workshop
Led by Carol Hanson, Artist.
This workshop has a strict limit of 6 participants. and registration is first come, first serve. Sign up through this link: https://bit.ly/2GUzIPa
Wit and Wisdom: Humor in 19th Century New England
Whatever did New Englanders do on long winter evenings before cable, satellite and the internet? In the decades before and after the Civil War, our rural ancestors used to create neighborhood events to improve their minds. Community members male and female would compose and read aloud homegrown, handwritten literary "newspapers" full of keen verbal wit. Sometimes serious, sometimes sentimental but mostly very funny, these "newspapers" were common in villages across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont and revealed the hopes, fears, humor and surprisingly daring behavior of our forebears.
The Quest for Happiness
The ancient Greek philosophers defined eudaimonia as living a full and excellent life. In this illustrated talk, Maria Sanders explores how ideas of happiness have changed in Western civilization through the ages, while comparing and contrasting major concepts of well-being throughout the world. Can money buy happiness? To what extent does engaging in one's community impact happiness? When worldwide surveys of happiness are conducted, why doesn't the United States make the top ten?
Computer Hardware Donation Day
Donate your laptop or desktop computer to the library and we will upgrade it and place it into the hands of a needy senior citizen. This program is a partnership between the Library, the Gibson Center for Sentior Services, and Computer Port. No tablets or cell phones will be accepted. This endeavor is part of a larger project to help improve the computer skills of senior citizens.
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