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Wallingford Table Presents: A Turkish Coffee Tasting

2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Library Branch: Wallingford Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Community Events, Lectures, Presentations, & Author Events, Music, Arts, & Culture, Other
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Join us for the first event in our Wallingford Table community series! In this one of-a-kind program, attendees will learn all about the cultural significance of Turkish coffee while enjoying samples of this delicious beverage, along with Turkish tea...

Gray-Wulff Environmental Series: "A River Speaks"

7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Library Branch: Wallingford Public Library
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Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures, Presentations, & Author Events, Film & TV, Other
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Join us for a screening by the Gray-Wulff Environmental Series as we celebrate National Earth Week! The documentary film A River Speaks is an exploration of the Mill River, a small river that runs through New Haven County. More broadly, it is an exam...

The History of Antisemitism

7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Library Branch: Wallingford Public Library
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Age Group: Adults
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Antisemitism is defined as prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people and has existed for millennia. During the Holocaust, the largest mass genocide in human history, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered six million Jewish men, women, an...

Healthy Cognition for Adults: A TLC Speech Presentation

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Charlotte Collins Meeting Room
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Library Branch: Wallingford Public Library
Room: Charlotte Collins Meeting Room
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Health, Wellness, & Lifestyle, Lectures, Presentations, & Author Events
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Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. It plays an important role in our everyday lives. Some examples of cognition include learning something new, processing la...

Turtle Travels: Saving Wildlife Around the World from Home

7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Library Branch: Wallingford Public Library
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Age Group: Adults, Everyone
Program Type: Lectures, Presentations, & Author Events, Other
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Turtles are in trouble. Regarded until recently as indestructible, they are now the most endangered group of vertebrates on the planet. Anthony Pierlioni is the Senior Director of theTurtleRoom, an international organization of conservationists who w...

The Art of Gaman: Crafts of Japanese-Americans Interned During WWII

7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Library Branch: Wallingford Public Library
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Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Lectures, Presentations, & Author Events, Arts & Crafts, Music, Arts, & Culture, Other
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During World War II, nearly 120,000 Japanese-Americans were forced to leave their homes on the West Coast and then incarcerated in internment camps. One way to learn about their lives is to see the objects they created during their imprisonment....

Memorial Day

All Day 5/25 - 5/27
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Wallingford Public Library

Juneteenth

All Day
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Virtual Author Visit with Tiffany Jewell

2:00pm - 3:00pm
Zoom Virtual Meeting
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Library Branch: Wallingford Public Library
Room: Zoom Virtual Meeting
Age Group: Teens, Middle Schoolers, High Schoolers, Adults
Program Type: Lectures, Presentations, & Author Events
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In partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium, we're streaming Unpacking a History of Systemic Racism in the American Education System with Tiffany Jewell. This is a live author event with an interactive Q&A session! Tiffany Jewel...

Connecticut's Headless Horseman: The True Story of Sleepy Hollow

7:00pm - 8:00pm
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Library Branch: Wallingford Public Library
Room: Community Room
Age Group: Teens, Middle Schoolers, High Schoolers, Adults
Program Type: Summer Reading, Lectures, Presentations, & Author Events, Other
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In 1781, at the height of the Revolutionary War, a French Paymaster carrying wages for the Allied Army’s troops stopped at an inn in Canton, Connecticut. Unable to speak English, he took a hasty meal and then retired for the evening. The landlord sai...

Labor Day

All Day 8/31 - 9/2
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Wallingford Public Library

Thanksgiving

All Day 11/28 - 11/29
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Christmas

All Day 12/24 - 12/25
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