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The Morris Public Library will offer Story and Music Time for participants ages 9 mo. - 5 years old every Tuesday at 10 am. Please call to register: 860-567-7440. Sing songs, read a story, pick up a craft!

The Morris Public Library Online presents the Women & Money Roundtable Series, How to Make Sense of Today’s Financial Markets, on November 13, December 11, at 1 PM, with Julia Strayer and Liz Maccarone, of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. The Women & Money Roundtable Series is a way to empower and educate women of any age on financial matters that affect their lives. Morris patrons are invited to participate in the roundtables on a monthly basis. Register BELOW: November 13th ...

The Mystery Book Club will meet at the Morris Public Library on Wednesday, November 13, 6:30 PM to discuss "The Dark Vineyard" by Martin Walker. Two young men—Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic wine, and Fernando, the heir to an American wine fortune—become rivals for the affections of Jacqueline, a flirtatious, newly arrived Québécoise student of wine. Events grow ever darker, culminating in two suspicious deaths, and Bruno finds that the problems of the present are never far ...

“Mental Fitness” with Coach Jackie Ross, Morris Public Library, Thursday, November 14, 6:30 PM. Mental Fitness is a practical approach that helps people handle life’s greater challenges without mental stress or other negative emotions. Today, more than ever, individuals are struggling with burnout, fatigue, and feeling overwhelmed. In this personal and professional development workshop, Coach Jackie Ross will provide the framework developed through Positive Intelligence (PQ) to build the three core mental fitness muscles to help people thrive and achieve greater ...

After School Stories and Craft, Grades K-2, at the Morris Public Library Join Miss Beth for “After School Stories and Craft” for students in Grades K-2 at the Morris Public Library on Fridays, November 15, December 6, 2024, 3:45 – 4:30 PM. An engaging story and educational activities will be offered along with a craft and interaction time. Pick-up after school (JMS) by a librarian is offered - bring a permission slip to school. Parent pick-up from the library is ...

The Fantasy Book Club will take place at the Morris Public Library on Friday, November 15, at 6:30 PM. The group will discuss "Shadow of Night" by Deborah Harkness, All Souls Series, book 2. Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old ...

The Popular Book Club will take place at the Morris Public Library on Tuesday, November 26, at 6:30 PM. The group will discuss "Horse" by Geraldine Brooks. Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the ...

From a critically acclaimed performance artist, a funny, vivid, and ultimately heartbreaking memoir about forging identity in the chasm between cultures and classes. Anya Liftig grew up with a foot in two very different worlds: While her mother’s upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her “holler rat,” her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Liftig spent school years in affluent Connecticut and summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to ...