Kindergarten Prep! Join us each week to explore a different book. We will read the story and then participate in crafts and activities that relate to the story.

Recommended ages 3 - 6. Registration required.

If you are unable to keep your registration, please cancel your reservation through Eventbrite or call and speak with one of our Children's Aides at the library so we may open a spot to someone on the Waitlist if the event is full.

Location: Community Room

• 9/11- The Leaf Thief
• 9/18- A Very Big Fall
• 9/25- Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
• 10/2- Mr. Pumpkin's Tea Party
• 10/16- Pumpkin Hill
• 10/23- It's a Pumpkin
• 10/30- The Ugly Pumpkin
• 11/6- Nuts to You!
• 11/13- Powwow Day
• 11/20- Thankful

1 pm in the Community Room, Lower Level 
Part 2: Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 and the greatest story of endurance of all time – how Shackleton kept all his men alive by undertaking an 800-mile open-boat journey in the worst ocean in the world.

Part 1 will be held on November 12 at 2 pm.

Presented by Lou Thieblemont, Captain (ret.), TWA & American Airlines. Mr. Thieblemont, who returned from the Antarctic in January 2023 will share personal stories and photos from his own travels.

2 pm in the Community Room, Lower Level 
Part 1: Scott, Amundsen & Shackleton: A Look at the Race to the South Pole Part 1 highlights the three voyages of discovery and the first to reach the South Pole – Scott in 1900, Shackleton in 1907 and the 1911 race in which Amundsen reached the Pole first and Scott died on the way back.

Part 2: Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Wednesday, November 15, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Part 2: The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 and the greatest story of endurance of all time – how Shackleton kept all his men alive by undertaking an 800-mile open-boat journey in the worst ocean in the world.

Presented by Lou Thieblemont, Captain (ret.), TWA & American Airlines. Mr. Thieblemont, who returned from the Antarctic in January 2023 will share personal stories and photos from his own travels.

2 pm in the Community Room, Lower Level 
In a memorable scene from the movie Oppenheimer, President Truman bristles when J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project, expresses guilt over the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In their real-life meeting at the White House, Truman is believed to have replied: “the blood [is] on my hands-- let me worry about that.”

Post doctoral fellow, high school and college teacher, Justin Suran, will review America’s use of atomic weapons at the end of World War II as one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. How have “orthodox” and “revisionist” historians debated the necessity and morality of Truman’s decision? How do recently published histories characterize Truman’s use of nuclear weapons? What relevance might the dilemmas of the early Atomic Age have for us today?

10 am in the Community Room
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