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Seating is limited at 61 Ffyler Place. Please register for a showing at 860-668-3896. Downsizing
Wed., May 2 at 2 p.m.
Thurs., May 3 at 6 p.m.
Fri., May 4 at 2 p.m.
12 Strong
Sat., May 5 at 2 p.m.
Mon., May 7 at 2 p.m.
The Last Movie Star
Wed., May 9 at 2 p.m.
Thur., May 10 at 6:30 p.m.
Fri., May 11 at 2 p.m.
Phantom Red Thread
Wed., May 16 at 2 p.m.
Thur., May 17 at 6:15 pm. Fri., May 18 at 2 p.m.
The Post
Wed., May 23 at 2 p.m.
Thur., May 24 at 6:15 p.m.
Fri., May 25 at 2 p.m.
The Greatest Showman
Wed., May 30 at 2 p.m.
Thur., May 31 at 6:30 p.m.
Fri., June 1 at 2 p.m.
Teen Programming is in full gear this Spring. Cat Carter from Asnuntuck Community College shared job search tips on March 27 with a roomful of teens and a few parents as well. Important tip: Make sure your voicemail is clear and professional! On April 7, teens designed and built chariots to be raced around a track using Mini-Spheros as the engine. And, April 27 was scheduled for the Dance Moves for Prom program.
Register for our programs online or by calling the library at 860-668-3896. See you there!
Traditional modern short stories were published in the early 1800s in the United States. Shortly afterward, in 1821, The Saturday Evening Post appeared, one of the most widely circulated magazines. The great demand for short stories in the 1920s insured high prices paid to writers. F. Scott Fitzgerald sold short stories to magazines to pay off his many debts. He received the equivalent of $50,000 for each story placed in The Saturday Evening Post.
The Suffield Historical Society will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 16 at 7 p.m. at the Suffield Senior Center. Guest speaker will be State Historian Walter Woodward who will tell the tale of treasonous times, angry politics and the Convention of 1818 that changed Connecticut’s Standing Order. Dr. Woodward is always an engaging raconteur, and his talk is sure to be lively and enlightening. The public is welcome to join members.
From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society
On March 28, Julie Oakes, Facilities Director of the Public Works Department, issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for remediating the PCB problem at the Kent Memorial Library. Under the direction of the Permanent Building Commission, the RFP had been prepared by their environmental consultant, Bob May of Fuss & O’Neil. On April 4, seven companies sent representatives to the mandatory walk-through at the library building to evaluate the task. Bids for the work were opened on April 18. The response was a disappointing surprise.
Recently I went on a binge of reading books about North Korea. The books below are non-fiction, but I want to mention the novel Pachinko by Min Jin Lee. It shows the struggle of Korean people trying to carve out lives for themselves in Japan, both before and after World War II. The Japanese were extremely biased against Koreans. Resident Koreans were very rarely able to get full citizenship.
