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Presented by Scott Butwill

Scott Butwill will be sharing his collection of artwork, which includes photography, watercolors, pen and ink drawings, and mixed media collage. His work will be on display from November 5th, 2022 – December 31st, 2022. An artist reception to meet Scott will be held on Saturday, November 5th, from 12-2pm.

Scott is a longtime Litchfield County resident surrounded by the outdoors, who has built a career as an electrical engineer and has always enjoyed art and creativity, and found that that the two balance each other out.

The word “mood” is how Scott describes his art. “Mood”, ‘a state or quality of feeling at a particular time’, “I think this word applies well to nature and being outdoors. Have you ever been outside and had a feeling or emotion which was hard to describe? My artwork tries to capture some of these moods. I’ve lived most of my life here in Litchfield County, surrounded by the constantly changing moods of the outdoors.”

Gunn Memorial Library is located at 5 Wykeham Road at the juncture of Route 47 opposite the Green in Washington, CT. Library hours may be found at gunnlibrary.org. For more information call (860)868-7586 or email, [email protected].

Saturday, November 26th
Drop in: 10 am – 2 pm

This annual activity is always a fan favorite. Bring your youngsters in to make their very own gingerbread house just in time for the holidays. A variety of candy decorations, as well as your own milk carton gingerbread house, will be available. Use your creativity to design the perfect gingerbread house! Please bring a bag of unwrapped candy to share for decorating. No peanuts, please!

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Monday, November 28 @ 1 pm

Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil’s romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land.He is a cowboy as raw as his hides. The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, reveling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter — all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her. As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form — he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil’s cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace? R 2h 6m

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Presented by Scott Butwill

Scott Butwill will be sharing his collection of artwork, which includes photography, watercolors, pen and ink drawings, and mixed media collage. His work will be on display from November 5th, 2022 – December 31st, 2022. An artist reception to meet Scott will be held on Saturday, November 5th, from 12-2pm.

Scott is a longtime Litchfield County resident surrounded by the outdoors, who has built a career as an electrical engineer and has always enjoyed art and creativity, and found that that the two balance each other out.

The word “mood” is how Scott describes his art. “Mood”, ‘a state or quality of feeling at a particular time’, “I think this word applies well to nature and being outdoors. Have you ever been outside and had a feeling or emotion which was hard to describe? My artwork tries to capture some of these moods. I’ve lived most of my life here in Litchfield County, surrounded by the constantly changing moods of the outdoors.”

Gunn Memorial Library is located at 5 Wykeham Road at the juncture of Route 47 opposite the Green in Washington, CT. Library hours may be found at gunnlibrary.org. For more information call (860)868-7586 or email, [email protected].

Thursday, December 1 @ 6:30 pm

At this next meeting, we will discuss Gary Shteyngart’s 2021 novel, Our Country Friends.

In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gather in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family.

Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story.

“A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature.”—Molly Young, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)

Copies of this book are available at the front desk in the library. Registration is requested.

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Festival of Trees is Back!

Our annual Festival of Trees cocktail party takes place in the historic Wykeham Room, planned for the first Friday in December from 5 to 7 pm. While sipping wine and sampling hors d’ oeuvres, guests can bid on auction items, purchase a pouch ticket for a surprise gift donated by generous local businesses, or buy a decorated tree, wreath, or special item made and donated by our patrons and local residents.

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This story is inspired by the remarkable true story of retiree Jerry Selbee, who discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife, Marge, wins millions and uses the money to revive their small Michigan town. PG -13 1h 30m.

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A cinematic odyssey exploring Bowie’s creative, spiritual and musical journey. From the visionary mind of Brett Morgen, Moonage Daydream features captivating, never-before-seen footage and performances spanning David Bowie’s 54-year career. The film includes 40 exclusively remastered Bowie songs and is the first film ever sanctioned by the Bowie Estate, with local access to the artists’ archives. PG-13 2h 14m.

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The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Inspired by true events, The Woman King follows the emotionally epic journey of General Nanisca (Oscar®-winner Viola Davis) as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life. Some things are worth fighting for…. PG-13 2h 15m.

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Presented by Scott Butwill

Scott Butwill will be sharing his collection of artwork, which includes photography, watercolors, pen and ink drawings, and mixed media collage. His work will be on display from November 5th, 2022 – December 31st, 2022.

Scott is a longtime Litchfield County resident surrounded by the outdoors, who has built a career as an electrical engineer and has always enjoyed art and creativity, and found that that the two balance each other out.

The word “mood” is how Scott describes his art. “Mood”, ‘a state or quality of feeling at a particular time’, “I think this word applies well to nature and being outdoors. Have you ever been outside and had a feeling or emotion which was hard to describe? My artwork tries to capture some of these moods. I’ve lived most of my life here in Litchfield County, surrounded by the constantly changing moods of the outdoors.”

Gunn Memorial Library is located at 5 Wykeham Road at the juncture of Route 47 opposite the Green in Washington, CT. Library hours may be found at gunnlibrary.org. For more information call (860)868-7586 or email, [email protected].