Hartland Public Library

Calling all tweens & adults! Help author Jane Kelley find ghosts in our town library! The experience will make you want to write and Jane will help you with tips & encouragement.

She’ll also talk about her new book The Girl Behind the Glass. Yummy breakfast pastries, coffee and hot chocolate included!

VERMONT FOLK ART

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 7:00 PM

A Vermont Humatities Council event hosted by the Hartland Public Library

Much of Vermont’s folk art is personal: a stair rug capturing the history of a family, a

weathervane symbolizing the artist’s career in the railroad, or a quilt representing the

memories of farm life. Vermont Folklife Center founder Jane Beck’s slide presentation and

lecture touches on the informal process of learning a traditional art, life crises that spur the

creation of folk art, and the emotional bond that exists between the maker and the receiver

According to Dartmouth professor of ethics and human values Ronald M. Green, these short stories "remind us that most of our problems arise in the hidden recesses of the human heart."

WEDNESDAY FEB 22: Pride: William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” and Flannery O’Connor, “Good Country People” Envy: Edith Wharton, “Roman Fever” and Tobias Wolff, “Smokers”

THURSDAY MAR 29: Anger: Rudyard Kipling, “Mary Postgate” and Margaret Atwood, “Hairball Sloth: Anton Chekhov, “The House with the Mezzanine” and Bobbie Ann Mason, “Shiloh”

WEDNESDAY APR 18: Greed: D. H. Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and Elizabeth Bowen, “The Inherited Clock” Gluttony: Raymond Carver, “Fat” and Xu Xi, “Famine” Lust: Perri Klass, “Not a Good Girl” and Nathan Englander, “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges”

Discussions led by Rachael Cohen, Vermont Humanities Scholar and Hartland Resident

For people who love books and love to either talk about them or only listen to what others have to say. Copies of the books are available to loan at the library.

BLACK & WHITE: A FILM SERIES
Friday Nights - 7:00 PM

March 2 – PI

A solitary mathematician works on the edge of dementia to crack a numbers puzzle that promises to solve profound questions relating to the understanding of all existence. In an effort to dodge Wall Street's greedy pursuit of his invention, Max allows himself to be drawn into a Hasidic cabalistic sect which hopes to use his research to unlock the mystical secrets of their holy texts. Rated R/1998

March 9 – THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE

Ed is a quiet barber in 1950’s California who doesn’t try to interfere too much with the world around him – even when he finds out that his wife has been cheating on him with her boss, Big Dave. That is until he meets a man who needs an investor to start his Laundromat chain and he blackmails Big Dave in this dark and moody film. Starring Billy Bob Thornton & James Gandolfini. Rated R/2001

In 1919, eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Now, director John Sayles recreates a long gone era in this acclaimed film that examines what possessed these talented players to betray the national pastime. Rated PG; 120 minutes; 1988

Based on the classic Henry James novel, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY is the deeply psychological period drama of an American woman’s (Nicole Kidman) complex journey to challenge and eventually break the confines of her sheltered existence. Rated PG-13; 145 minutes; 1996

THIS PROGRAM SERIES WAS FUNDED BY A GRANT FROM THE COUNCIL ON AGING for SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT

Cecil Castellucci. Plain Janes. 2007. When Jane moves to the suburbs she thinks her life is over, but she meets three friends who form a club P.L.A.I.N., but can art really save a group of misfits from high school? 176 pages.

John Green. Paper Towns. 2008 One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q’s neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears. 320 pages.

Socrates Café is a philosophical discussion for the everyday individual. Whether you have a 3^rd grade education or 6 PhDs., your opinions, ideas & life experiences contribute to discussions on philosophical questions. Socrates Café allows for a forum where discussion questions society’s assumptions (and your own!) in an open and honest way. This is challenging, but it is often very invigorating.

Please join us for Scrabble, Cards and other Board Games

EVERY FIRST and THIRD Wednesday of the Month
1:00 PM

Games and Refreshments Provided
Funded in part by a grant from the Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont

Please come to an artist recpetion for Toni Streeter on Sunday, March 4th from 6-7 PM

Toni's current show "Songs of the Desert," oil pastels on textured paper, is now on display in the library's community room.