Join Wilton Library and the Wilton Coalition to Combat Antisemitism for an important talk, "Pittsburgh and Beyond: Antisemitism from the 2018 Synagogue Shooting to Today," by Mark Oppenheimer, on Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. Oppenheimer is a NY Times columnist, Pulitzer grantee and the author of Squirrel Hill, the Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting […]
Join Wilton Library for a special poetry seminar series with Judson Scruton as part of this year’s Wilton Reads program which features Cristina Henriquez’s The Great Divide, an epic novel on the construction of the Panama Canal. His series will run on four Thursday mornings starting on April 4 at 10:30 a.m. They will distribute […]
Please join Wilton Library online via Zoom as Mark Schenker takes us through Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, a Victorian take on the medieval Arthurian legends. In the early 19th century, the rise of Romanticism in Europe generally, and in England in particular, led to a renewed interest in medievalism. Consequences of this resurgence persisted […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses the Wilton Reads selection The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez this month at Wilton Library. The Great Divide is a fascinating historical novel about one of the greatest engineering feats in history, the Panama Canal. It explores the interwoven stories of laborers, locals, activists, doctors, scientists. It sheds […]
Join Wilton Library for a special poetry seminar series with Judson Scruton as part of this year’s Wilton Reads program which features Cristina Henriquez’s The Great Divide, an epic novel on the construction of the Panama Canal. His series will run on four Thursday mornings starting on April 4 at 10:30 a.m. They will distribute […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses the Wilton Reads selection The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez this month at Wilton Library. The Great Divide is a fascinating historical novel about one of the greatest engineering feats in history, the Panama Canal. It explores the interwoven stories of laborers, locals, activists, doctors, scientists. It sheds […]
Join Wilton Library for a special poetry seminar series with Judson Scruton as part of this year’s Wilton Reads program which features Cristina Henriquez’s The Great Divide, an epic novel on the construction of the Panama Canal. His series will run on four Thursday mornings starting on April 4 at 10:30 a.m. They will distribute […]
For Wilton Reads 2024, Wilton Library's teen pick is Silver People by Margarita Engle. Set during the building of the Panama Canal, this novel in verse follows two main characters and a collection of different fictional and historical voices. Join to discuss the book and create some poetry of your own! Registration is required as […]
Join Wilton Library for a special poetry seminar series with Judson Scruton as part of this year’s Wilton Reads program which features Cristina Henriquez’s The Great Divide, an epic novel on the construction of the Panama Canal. His series will run on four Thursday mornings starting on April 4 at 10:30 a.m. They will distribute […]
Students in grades 3-6 can celebrate Wilton Reads by joining Wilton Library to discuss the graphic novel Invisible by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Gabriela Epstein. Five Latinx kids who barely know each other get stuck cleaning the cafeteria in the mornings before school. To their surprise, they find themselves secretly working together to make a […]
