Wood Memorial Library and Museum Calendar Of Events - March 2023

From: Wood Memorial Library and Museum
March 3, 2023

Learn more about this program with local Connecticut author Thomas Edward Grant, which will focus on the early history of South Windsor.

Stephen King Book Club: Needful Things
Thursday March 23, 2023
6:00 p.m. to 8:0 p.m.

Facilitated by local author Jessica Bottomley. Feel free to BYO food/drink. Co-sponsored with Book Club on the Go.

Learn more about the Maple Sugar Demonstration in Nowashe Village with Dan Shears, Material Culture Advisor for the Nulhegan Abenaki tribe's Cultural and Historic Preservation Department, and Brian Chenevert, Nulhegan Abenaki tribal historian. Passamaquoddy Maple Syrup and hot beverages will be for sale. Storytelling and a maple craft will also be offered. This program is sponsored by New England Silica, Inc.

Isabella
presented by Delvena Theatre Company
Sunday March 26, 2023
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Step back in time and meet the famed founder of the eponymous museum in Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner.  Learn about her life, charm, friends and acquaintances. 
Learn more about the Isabella Stewart Gardner 2023 Spring Series.

This program series is sponsored by Aqua Pool.

New England’s Other Witch Hunt
with Walt Woodward, CT State Historian emeritus
Thursday, March 30, 2023,
7 - 8 p.m.

Walt Woodward brings this extraordinary and nearly forgotten story to life in a lecture that begins with the Protestant Reformation and traces its history all the way through the Hartford Witch hunt of the 1660’s – a nightmare of trials and executions that preceded Salem by a generation. Learn more about our Witch Hunt 2023 Spring Series

This program series is sponsored by Distinctive Tree Care.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Spring Series

“What Isabella Wanted” Children’s Storytime & Art Workshop

Sunday, April 30, 2023

2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

 

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Heist Lecture

 Thursday, April 20, 2023

7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Interested in a possible Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Field Trip?
Let us know.

Spring Into Space!

This program series is sponsored by Astro Chemical.

"South Windsor’s Contributions to Space"
Panel Discussion, Exhibit and Reception

Sunday, April 16, 2023

2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

“Good Night Oppy!” Children’s Storytime and Science Workshop
Sunday, April 30, 2023

2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m

Spring Book Clubs and Authors!

 

Vintage Book Club: Travels with Charlie
Thursday, April 20, 2023

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Local Poet Steve Straight
Thursday, April 27, 2023

7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

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