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Calling all builders! Make something cool for our weekly challenge, or just let your imagination run wild. Creations will remain on display at the Library until the Club’s next meeting. Recommended for ages 4 & up.

Sunny is a Bright Spot Therapy Dog who likes to hear stories and look at the pictures. She is a very friendly Labrador Retriever. We will have sign ups for 10 minute slots with our reading buddy.

Join us for Family Story Time with our Representative Dan Carey as our Special Guest and Reader. We will have stories, songs, and a craft (snacks too!). ages 3+

Sunny and her human, Gail, will be ready to listen to stories at 3:30-4:30 in the youth department. We have 10 minute spots available to register to have a turn with Sunny. Call or stop by to register!

Join us on this 1/2 day to meet Nicole and her service dog, Hera. Nicole will present a story time about assistance dogs, Hera will exhibit the many ways in which animals can help a person live independently.

Join us for a repeat of last year’s event! Paint a pumpkin, create a graham cracker haunted house, and more! Ages 3+

Join us for this special event — A Meat for Tea author reading with Andrew Varnon! Andrew will read his essay “The Other Side of the Net”. This event is drop-in. 

In “The Other Side of the Net,” writer Andrew Varnon imagines playing tennis with the ghost of David Foster Wallace, the author of the monumental novel Infinite Jest. Wallace committed suicide in 2008, but has a devoted following of readers and fans. In his essay, Varnon describes how he came to read Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest through his interest in tennis. The novel is partially set at the fictional Enfield Tennis Academy in Massachusetts. In the tennis community, Wallace is also known for his essay on tennis icon Roger Federer, “Both Flesh and Not,” and is widely credited with the appellation for tennis as “chess on the run.” In his essay, Varnon engages Wallace’s writing style – complete with end notes – and explores the idea of how the activity of reading and writing is, in fact, like playing tennis.

Writer and teacher Andrew Varnon lives in Greenfield with his wife and family. He is the boys tennis coach at Greenfield High School and an active recreational tennis player. He is also a journalist and an award-winning poet. “The Other Side of the Net” was originally published online at The Smart Set (www.thesmartset.com/the-other-side-of-the-net/) and was republished locally in Meat for Tea. Varnon presented a portion of his essay to the David Foster Wallace Conference in Normal, Illinois, this June.

Author and artist Grace Desmarais is back! Grace will give background on her medical experience and then discuss her comic Spoons: a dairy on chronic illness, Tubes: diaries from the hospital and her up-coming book Healing Year. She will then hold a Q&A. At the end, attendees will have an opportunity to buy her mini comics and have them signed.

Artist Bio: 
Grace Desmarais is a French-Canadian illustrator and cartoonist. She currently lives in Eastern Massachusetts and spends most of her time drawing.

Grace Desmarais primarily self-publishes auto-bio comic while also being involved in a variety of anthologies. Most of Grace’s work is rooted in subjects like art history, dis/ability and personal experience. Her long-term goal is to be a published author/illustrator with a committed comics publisher.