Attention crafters! If you like to knit, crochet, sew, cross-stitch, or practice other similar crafts, you should check out our new crafting group. Come and meet other crafters while you work on your next project. Share tips, get inspiration, and enjoy some company while you craft! We will have relevant books for you to check out, too! This event is open to adults and teens. Questions? Call 434-735-8812
Book Club @ Wylliesburg
When Helen Macdonald’s father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. H is for Hawk … Read More
Book Chat @ CCH
Want to meet and talk to other people who like to read, without the commitment of a book club? Book Chat is for you. Over a cup of coffee, you can get a book recommendation, hear what other people are reading, and share your reading interests with others. Free event. No registration required.
Book Club @ CCH
1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, … Read More
Distinguished Gentleman’s Literary Society @ Keysville
The Distinguished Gentleman’s Literary Society is a newly-formed group of men who like to read and discuss great books. January’s pick is Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five , an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what … Read More