Join Wilton Library for a special Author Talk with Patrick Bringley. He shares his debut memoir, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me. This is an intimate look at The Met and its profound effect on Bringley's life while he grieved the death of his older brother. Caught up in […]
Professional book discussion leader Susan Boyar discusses Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy this month on Zoom. Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures - and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on […]
Join Wilton Library for an inspiring talk from Alison Jacobson. Sharing her inspirational story of overcoming struggles and tragedies, Jacobson empowers women to boldly break free of the self-imposed blocks that are preventing them from living their magnificent lives. At 57, Jacobson released her first book and completed the NYC Marathon, having never run in […]
Join the Wilton League of Women Voters, Wilton Library and the Wilton Historical Society for a community program featuring Alicia Cheng, who will speak about her recent book: This is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot. Cheng's book, the first illustrated history of printed ballot design, illuminates the noble but […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Wilton Reads 2024 culminates with Wilton Library's author talk event featuring Cristina Henriquez, acclaimed author of The Great Divide. The Great Divide is a fascinating historical novel about the Panama Canal construction, one of the greatest historical engineering feats. It importantly explores laborers, locals, activists, doctors, scientists, and others interwoven stories. They are clearly the […]
