Weston Public Library Under The Eaves Happenings Newsletter - October 2023

Special Events/Announcements

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month

September 15 - October 15

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month by reading an ebook or audiobook from an Hispanic author using Libby and Hoopla, the Weston Public Library's digital book resources! Libby, also known as Overdrive, has put together a collection of eBooks and eAudiobooks. Check them out here! 

Hoopla also has a collection of Latinx Stories & Experience ebooks that you can view here and check out a title today. Happy reading!

Halloween on Hoopla 

It's Halloween! Celebrate all month long with your children using a curated selection of materials from Hoopla. Check out something from a host of great materials including audiobooks, ebooks, comics, and films FREE with your library card on Hoopla!

Library Closed: Indigenous Peoples' Day / Columbus Day

Monday, October 9

The Weston Public Library will be closed in observance of Indigenous Peoples' Day / Columbus Day.

Virtual Galley and Art Tour with Riva Blumenfeld

Alex Katz - Gathering, at the Guggenheim

Thursday, October 12 at 7:00 pm (ZOOM)

Across eight decades of intense creative production, Alex Katz (b. 1927 Brooklyn, New York) has sought to capture visual experience in the present tense. “Eternity exists in minutes of absolute awareness.” Katz stated in 1961. “Painting, when successful, seems to be a synthetic reflection of this condition.” Whether evoking a glancing exchange between friends or a shaft of light filtered through trees, he has aimed to create a record of “quick things passing,” compressing the flux of everyday life into a vivid burst of optical perception. Katz is known as “a painter’s painter.” This retrospective—including his early experimental work—shows why.

Register here. All registrants will be sent the Zoom link the day of the program. Please register no later than 4 pm that day to receive the link.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Weston Public Library

Sunday Soundscapes: Jazz Combo

Sunday, November 12 at 4pm

A Celebration of Two Jazz Greats: Oscar Peterson and Stephane Grappelli.

The Friends of the Weston Library welcome you to our second Sunday Soundscapes concert, on November 12 at 4 pm. Connecticut pianist Matt DeChamplain and celebrated violinist Jason Anick team up in a special concert to launch their newest CD – a tribute to jazz legends and frequent collaborators Oscar Peterson and Stephane Grappelli. Joining them will be New York- based Matt Munisteri on Guitar and Brazilian-born Eduardo Belo on bass. If you don’t know “gypsy jazz”, you are in for a treat!

Click here to register. Suggested donation at the door is $20 for adults, $10 for students. We believe everyone should have access to this music, so if those donation levels are uncomfortable for you, please give whatever you can.

Craft for a Cause: Red Scarves

Through December 1, 2023

We will be accepting red scarves for the Foster Care to Success Project. Guidelines and information can be found here. You can drop off completed scarves anytime until December 1, 2023.

Recurring Events

New Yorker Roundtable

Tuesdays, Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24 at 11:30am

Meetings are hybrid, in-person at the library and online via Zoom.

Join the Friends of the Library New Yorker Group to discuss articles from the current issue on politics, current events, literature, and more. The New Yorker is available online with your Weston Public Library card at https://researchitct.org/popularmagazinespublic/. 

Sponsored by the Friends of the Weston Public Library

Sip and Stitch
Thursday, Oct. 12 at 7pm

Join friends and neighbors for a night of sipping and stitching in the Library's Community Room. Make a little progress on your needle work while chatting and sharing tips.

Please register. 

Book Discussions

Thursday, October 12, 10:30am (Hybrid)

Infatuations by Javier Marias

Wednesday, October 18, 7:30pm (Virtual)

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

To reserve a copy of the book, please email kbennett@westonct.gov If you would like to join either group virtually, please email westonlibrary@westonct.gov for the Zoom link.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Weston Public Library.

Cookbook Club 
Monday, October 16 at 12pm

The Weston Public Library Cookbook Club is an opportunity for those who love cooking to share favorite recipes and try new recipes with neighbors and friends! Make your favorite dish to share and bring the recipe! This month's theme: Vegetables.

Looking for favorite recipes from previous meetings? You can check out all of the recipes here. 

Please register. This group meets monthly in the Community Room.

Service Spotlight:

New Services: AtoZ World Food and AtoZ Food America

Enjoy two new services at the Weston Public Library or at home using your Weston Library Card: AtoZ Food World and AtoZ Food America! These new databases showcase recipes, prep instructions/videos, cultural insights, culinary history, and regional etiquette. Going to visit France for Christmas? Why not learn how to make a bûche de Noël. Visiting Mexico for the first time? Learn what makes Chapulines, a street food, so special. Visit our website to access these great new offerings!

Local History Resources

Learn more about the rich history of Weston through the library's Local History Resources including digitized versions of The Chronicle Quarterly, the Weston Forum, and more! 

Click here for access.

Prepare for Your Next Big Trip with Transparent Language Online

Learn over 110 languages from all over the world, including indigenous languages from the Americas, English as a Second Language, and Irish Gaelic!

Sign up through the library website.

Homebound Delivery Service

Weston residents who are temporarily or permanently homebound due to health or disability issues or COVID concerns are eligible for the Library's free homebound delivery service.

Call the library at 203-222-2665 or email westonlibrary@westonct.gov for more information.

Consumer Reports Online Access

Did you know that you can access current and back issues of this popular magazine for FREE? Through the state library's ResearchIT resource, you can read, download, and print individual sections including the popular Buyer's Guides. Check it out here!

Librarian Picks: October Releases

What new releases are librarians most looking forward to in October? Check out the selection below from Weston's Adult Services Librarian, Anne.

Avoid the rush and place your holds early at www.westonpubliclibrary.org.

Glory Be by Danielle Arceneaux The first in a vivid and charming crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the hilariously uncensored amateur sleuth Glory Broussard. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club.

The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate search for the daughter who was taken from her at birth. But with her husband on her trail she’s forced to make increasingly risky decisions if she ever hopes to be reunited with her daughter.

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow Opal takes a job at her town's notorious haunted house in order to provide a better life for her younger brother, but sinister forces are digging deeper into the buried secrets of Starling House.

Absolution by Alice McDermott Sixty years after they lived as wives of American servicemen in early 1960s Vietnam, two women reconnect and relieve their shared experiences in Saigon.