In connection with the Columbia County Libraries Association Community Read, Monique Gray Smith joins us to discuss her most recent book, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults, which received the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for 2022. Open for all ages. Date/Time: Tuesday, April 22, 7pm Location: Virtual via Zoom Registration: To register and receive […]
Author Talk: Monique Gray Smith (Tuesday, April 22) Read More »
The Columbia County Libraries Association is hosting its second county-wide Community Read between March and May in 2025. We are reading Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Indigenous scientist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer, which explores the reciprocal relationships between humans and the land and provides a vision for how
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Our youth radio crew records their weekly Bound By Books radio show remotely on Tuesday afternoons. Tune in Friday evenings and Sunday mornings to hear tweens and teens, along with our library director Emily Chameides discuss books they love, books they’re currently reading, and other tween and teen media and literary topics. Bound By Books
For this month’s Fix-It Picnic, our special guest will be Aki Goto—a video, sound, and installation artist from Japan, originally trained in textile art. Aki practices Sashiko, a traditional Japanese embroidery technique for reinforcing and decorating fabrics with patterns, and she will share her knowledge on how to use this technique for mending garments/fabrics. In
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