BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harwinton Public Library - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Harwinton Public Library X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Harwinton Public Library REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T150000 DTSTAMP:20260511T051046 CREATED:20251126T194944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260313T151736Z UID:25402-1778767200-1778770800@www.harwintonlibrary.org SUMMARY:Afternoon Book Discussion DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact\, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely\, brilliant\, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with–of all things–her mind. True chemistry results. \nBut like science\, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother\, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows\, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out\, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo. \nLaugh-out-loud funny\, shrewdly observant\, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters\, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/afternoon-book-discussion-2-2026-05-14/ LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/lessons.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T190000 DTSTAMP:20260511T051046 CREATED:20251126T195355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T193430Z UID:25412-1779127200-1779130800@www.harwintonlibrary.org SUMMARY:Evening Book Discussion DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job\, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? \nMonique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her\, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography\, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. \nSummoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment\, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ’80s\, and\, of course\, the seven husbands along the way\, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition\, unexpected friendship\, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star\, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion\, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways. URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/evening-book-discussion-6-2026-05-18/ LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/seven.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T150000 DTSTAMP:20260511T051046 CREATED:20251126T194944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T164630Z UID:25403-1781186400-1781190000@www.harwintonlibrary.org SUMMARY:Afternoon Book Discussion DESCRIPTION:This month’s book selection is The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd. Hetty “Handful” Grimke\, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston\, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter\, Sarah\, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world\, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. \nKidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday\, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful\, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years\, as both strive for a life of their own\, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt\, defiance\, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. \nAs the stories build to a riveting climax\, Handful will endure loss and sorrow\, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes\, betrayal\, unrequited love\, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister\, Angelina\, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements. \nInspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke\, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters\, both real and invented\, including Handful’s cunning mother\, Charlotte\, who courts danger in her search for something better. \nThis exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history\, through women whose struggles for liberation\, empowerment\, and expression will leave no reader unmoved. URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/afternoon-book-discussion-2-2026-06-11/ LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/invention.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T190000 DTSTAMP:20260511T051046 CREATED:20251126T195355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T181509Z UID:25413-1781546400-1781550000@www.harwintonlibrary.org SUMMARY:Evening Book Discussion DESCRIPTION:This month’s selection is: George Washington’s Secret Six: the Spy Ring that Saved the American Revolution by Brian Kilmeade. \nThe American Revolution is well under way in 1776\, but things are looking bleak for General George Washington and his Continental Army. With Washington’s hasty retreat from New York City in August\, many think the war might soon be over. After all- how on earth is this ragtag group going to defeat its enemy\, the well-trained and well-funded military of the largest empire in history? \nBut Washington soon realizes he can’t win with military might. Instead\, he must outsmart the British\, so he creates a sophisticated intelligence network- the top-secret Culper Spy Ring. Drawing on extensive research\, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger tell the fascinating stories of these long unrecognized spies- a reserved merchant\, a tavern keeper\, a brash young longshoreman\, a curmudgeonly Long Island bachelor\, a coffeehouse owner\, and a mysterious woman. URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/evening-book-discussion-6-2026-06-15/ LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/secret.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260709T150000 DTSTAMP:20260511T051046 CREATED:20251126T194944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T164313Z UID:25404-1783605600-1783609200@www.harwintonlibrary.org SUMMARY:Afternoon Book Discussion DESCRIPTION:TBD URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/afternoon-book-discussion-2-2026-07-09/2026-07-09/ LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260720T190000 DTSTAMP:20260511T051046 CREATED:20251126T195355Z 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DTSTAMP:20260511T051046 CREATED:20251126T195355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T181038Z UID:25415-1786989600-1786993200@www.harwintonlibrary.org SUMMARY:Evening Book Discussion DESCRIPTION:TBD URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/evening-book-discussion-6-2026-07-20/2026-08-17/ LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T150000 DTSTAMP:20260511T051046 CREATED:20251126T194944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260410T164314Z UID:25406-1789048800-1789052400@www.harwintonlibrary.org SUMMARY:Afternoon Book Discussion DESCRIPTION:TBD URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/afternoon-book-discussion-2-2026-07-09/2026-09-10/ LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260921T180000 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United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261221T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261221T190000 DTSTAMP:20260511T051046 CREATED:20251126T195355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T181038Z UID:25419-1797876000-1797879600@www.harwintonlibrary.org SUMMARY:Evening Book Discussion DESCRIPTION:TBD URL:https://www.harwintonlibrary.org/event/evening-book-discussion-6-2026-07-20/2026-12-21/ LOCATION:Harwinton Public Library\, 80 Bentley Drive\, Harwinton\, CT\, 06791\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Discussion END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR