This public program shares adaptive strategies for managing environmental challenges that affect your homes and communities. With inspiration from Wendell Berry and others, we’ll generate ideas that can take root in our backyards, schoolyards and public institutions.

A new turn for our cookbook club, too: we're joining the Eat Your Books Cookbook Club online! We'll meet and eat together using suggestions from the EYB site and then share our success (and otherwise) with other cookbook lovers everywhere. We hope you'll join us for this eating adventure and some good southern cooking!

Learn how and why identity theft occurs, get instruction on protective steps and what to do if it happens. Presented by AARP.

Part two of our multi-media Austen experience features the 1995 movie with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet as Sense and Sensibility, respectively.

Join us to discuss yet another hot-button area of American foreign policy. Major internal conflict has plagued Afghanistan for four decades. The U.S., for its part, has conducted military operations in the country nearly continuously since 9/11. Today, war with the Taliban persists, and tensions between the U.S. and Pakistan have gradually deteriorated. Does the U.S. face a no win situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Reading materials available at the circulation desk. Registration suggested.

Come join us for the release of popular local tree warden Larry Hamilton’s Fences in the Landscape Talk – Are We Listening? A Whimsical Photographic Essay. Photos and text by Larry Hamilton; edited by Linda Hamilton. Join friends to reminisce about Larry and celebrate the publication of his book, one year after his death. Light refreshments. Remarks by Linda about the book’s background and the challenges of making Larry’s dream a reality. Copies will be for sale at the event, which is co-sponsored by the Flying Pig Bookstore and the Charlotte Library.

This short documentary depicts the unique and poignant stories of farm kids (ages 10-28) from across the state of Vermont. The film expresses the importance of what it means to each child to grow up on their own farm, and how their experiences have shaped their lives. Join Misse Doe Axelrod of NOFA for discussion and refreshments following the film showing.