Index RPG Nights - March 2022

rpg6:00 pm – 9:00 pm via Zoom
Interested in Dungeons & Dragons but wished it was less time-consuming? Here is your chance to try the Index Card Role Playing Game (ICRPG). Join us virtually on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month while we play in this new format. The game play is shorter and more interactive, the rules are simpler, there is minimal math involved, and it’s still a great time gaming together! Perfect for first-timers or gamers with busy schedules. Come give it a try as RPG expert/Game Master, Jon Langer, leads you through an evening of tabletop gaming. Ages 14 and older, please. Registration begins February 1 and is required for Zoom link.

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Index RPG Nights - Feb 2022

rpg6:00 pm – 9:00 pm via Zoom
Interested in Dungeons & Dragons but wished it was less time-consuming? Here is your chance to try the Index Card Role Playing Game (ICRPG). Join us virtually on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month while we play in this new format. The game play is shorter and more interactive, the rules are simpler, there is minimal math involved, and it’s still a great time gaming together! Perfect for first-timers or gamers with busy schedules. Come give it a try as RPG expert/Game Master, Jon Langer, leads you through an evening of tabletop gaming. Ages 14 and older, please. Registration begins January 2 and is required for Zoom link.

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Natalie D. Craumer Writers’ Workshop: Critiquing the Critique

craumer8 Tuesdays, March 15 – May 3
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm in the Masland Board Room, Lower Level

Join Catherine Jordan, author, editor, and instructor, for Critiquing the Critique: Techniques for development using critique as a guide for effective fiction writing. This eight-week course will focus on using different forms of critique in order to: catch plot holes, rework character and setting issues, increase conflict, and drive suspense. Seating is limited. Registration begins February 1.

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Curl Up with the Classics: American Short Stories

book10 am – 11 am Hybrid, In Person AND Zoom
Join us as we discuss this month’s Curl Up with the Classics choice: American short stories by various authors. These include:
"An Angel in Disguise" by T. S. Arthur
"The Cactus" by O. Henry
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
"The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank Stockton
"On the Gull's Road" by Willa Cather
"Regret" by Kate Chopin
"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
Stories can be read here for free
You must have read or listened to the stories to attend. Ages 18 and older, please. Registration begins February 1.

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Curl Up with the Classics: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

book10 am – 11 am in the Community Room, Lower Level
Join us as we discuss this month’s Curl Up with the Classics choice The House of Mirth, a novel about young socialite who seeks opportunities for wealth and status in early 1900s New York City. You must have read or listened to the book to attend. Ages 18 and older, please. Ages 18 and older, please. Registration is open.

 

 

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Saturday Fredricksen Reads: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

book9 am – 10 am via Zoom
Join us for a special Saturday discussion on Zoom about the book People We Meet on Vacation, a novel about two friends who haven’t spoken in years. Can their relationship be reconciled during one week of vacation? You must have read or listened to the book to attend. Ages 18 and older, please. Registration begins February 1.

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Fredricksen Reads & Author Visit: The Bright Unknown by Elizabeth Byler Younts

author7:00 pm via Community Room or Zoom
Join us, and the author herself, for this month's discussion of The Bright Unknown, a novel about friends Brighton and Angel who escape their rural Pennsylvania asylum home in the 1940s. You must have read or listened to the book to attend. Ages 18 and older, please. Registration is required.

 

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Fredricksen Reads: The Songs of Trees: Stories from Natures Great Connectors

book7:00 pm – 8:00 pm via Community Room or Zoom
Join us for this month's discussion of The Songs of Trees, this year’s Longwood Gardens Community Read choice. Author David George Haskell's book details how “trees are nature’s great connectors that help us gain insight into ourselves and our place in the world.” You must have read or listened to the book to attend. Ages 18 and older, please. Registration begins February 1.

 

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Fredricksen Reads: Chasing the Thrill by Daniel Barbarisi

book7:00 pm – 8:00 pm via Zoom
Join us for this month's discussion of Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt, a first-person account of the modern legend of the mysterious treasure hunt created by Forrest Fenn. You must have read or listened to the book to attend. Ages 18 and older, please. Registration begins February 1.

 

 

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Fredricksen Reads: The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

book7 pm – 8 pm via Zoom*
Join us for this month's discussion of The Paris Library, a novel about heroism found in the character of Odile, a librarian from the American Library in Paris during World War II. You must have read or listened to the book to attend. Ages 18 and older, please. 

*This session is FULL. An 8:15 pm session has been added - REGISTER HERE

 

 

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