Tea Time Book Chat
Friday, February 21st
3:00 – 4:15 pm
What are you reading? Enjoy some hot tea and chat about your favorite books this winter. To register, please send an email to [email protected]
Cookbook Club: Virtual Cooking Class with Jennifer Marcks
Gluten Free Menu
Wednesday, February 26th
6-7:30pm
Join us to try some easy and delicious recipes to create a healthier plate!
Building a healthier lifestyle requires building a healthier plate with better options. Making simple swaps in ingredients can grant big rewards for your health. Let’s stop derailing our health by loading up our bodies with unnecessary ingredients.
Come learn how easy and delicious gluten-free can be. When you change your plate, you change your health, you change your life!
Join Jennifer Marcks, certified Gluten-Free Health Coach and founder of Gluten-Free Marcks the Spot, where she teaches you to create a sustainable and delicious gluten-free lifestyle that just becomes routine. There is no reason to live in deprivation when cutting things from your plate. “When you change your plate, you change your health, you change your life.”
Jennifer lives gluten-free with all three of her children. Therefore, all of the recipes shared are gluten-free and dairy-free – but don’t let that scare you away! Come learn how gluten-free living can be healthy and delicious! Please speak with a librarian to sign up for this event.
Culture and History of the Mohegan Tribe
Saturday, March 1st
1-2pm
Join David Eichelberg, Pataqaham Wahsoohs, Outreach and Tradition Specialist for the Mohegan Tribe to learn historical, cultural, and spiritual aspects of the Tribal nation that has called Southeastern Connecticut its home for over 500 years. David will cover topics about culture and history through the last 400 years passed down by Mohegan ancestors and elders. All ages welcome!
Preschool Storytime
Wednesdays (no storytime on Feb. 12)
10:30-11:30am
Preschoolers can come hear a story, make a craft, and play. This event is held Wednesdays in the library’s meeting room. Although this program is aimed at preschoolers, all ages are welcome!
Chaplin Ukulele Band
Wednesdays – 4:30pm
Join the Chaplin Ukulele Band. No experience required. No ukulele? We have one available for checkout! Stop in and join the fun.
Friends Group Meeting
Third Wednesday of the month- 2:00 pm
We have a Friends group! If you are interested in helping the library, please attend a meeting. Please note there will be no meeting in September.
PROGRAM RECORDINGS
Bicentennial Talk:
The History of Chaplin Place Names
Watch the recording of Warren Church’s talk!
Join Chaplin resident and local historian Warren Church to learn about place names in Chaplin. Why is it called Bear Hill Rd? Who was Diana of Diana’s Pool?
Bicentennial Talk:
Ruth Snow Bowen, Chaplin Quilt Maker
Watch the Recording of Catherine Smith’s talk!
Chaplin resident and artist Catherine Whall Smith shared the history of former Chaplin resident and artist Ruth Snow Bowen, who lived on Chaplin Street and sold many of her wonderful quilts throughout Connecticut. Each month the library is displaying small fiber art pieces of homes on Chaplin Street paired with a quilt from Catherine’s collection.
National Poetry Month: An Evening with Connecticut’s New Poet Laureates
Recording includes Adelaide Northrop
Listen to Connecticut’s newest poet laureates, including Chaplin Poet Laureate Adelaide Northrop.
Bicentennial Talk: History of the William Ross Library
Recording of Leslie Ricklin and Ingrid Wood’s talk
Chaplin resident Leslie Ricklin and Columbia Town Historian Ingrid Wood discussed the history of the William Ross Library.
Bicentennial Talk: Benjamin Chaplin’s Will
Recording of Gavin Horning-Kane and Brendan Kane’s talk
The 2nd Chaplin Bicentennial talk was a discussion of Benjamin Chaplin’s will. Chaplin residents Gavin Horning-Kane and UConn History Professor Brendan Kane explored the contents of our town benefactor’s will. Since it was written in 1790, the handwriting can be difficult to read. View the will for yourself, try your hand at transcribing a portion of it, and discover a bit about our town’s history.
Virtual Bicentennial Talk – Trouble in the Land of Steady Habits:
The Constitution of 1818
Recording of Walter Woodward’s Talk is available!
In celebration of Chaplin’s bicentennial, Connecticut State Historian Walter Woodward discussed what was happening in our state when Chaplin was taking steps to become a town. Connecticut in 1818 was in many ways eerily similar to Connecticut today: A troubled state, seeking a new direction. This lecture highlights the perfect storm of crises — environmental, economic, demographic, religious, and political — which converged in the middle of the eighteen-teens (1810s) to force the state to rethink the ways it had been conducting its affairs for the previous two centuries.