The Tunbridge Library Plans
Five 'Winter Evening' Talks

The Tunbridge Public Library will host two novelists, a humanitarian inventor, a historian and a museum founder for the fourth season of "Winter Evenings. "

On Thursday, Jan. 10, the Vermont Humanities Council will sponsor historian John Johnson with a slide talk about "The Granite Workers of Barre," including their place in the context of America's industrial heritage.

Inventor Carl Bielenberg, founder of the Better World Workshop, who works to combat poverty through economic development programs, will speak Thursday, Jan. 24.

"An Evening With Mystery Writer Sarah Stewart Taylor" Thursday, Feb. 7 will feature the author of the Sweeney St. George mystery series discussing her character, an art historian who specializes in funerary art- and murder.

On Thursday, Feb. 21, Dartmouth College English professor Ernest Hebert, the New England Booksellers Association's 2006 Fiction Author of the Year, will talk on "What Does It Mean To Be an American?" He will discuss American identity as seen through his novel "The Old American" and give a short reading.

"The Nuanced Meanings of Humbug; PT Barnum, His Museum and His Influence in Vermont" with David Fairbanks Ford, founder of the Main Street Museum in White River Junction, will conclude the series Thursday, March 13. Ford promises an entertaining night with "lots of pictures of odd things."

Refreshments and author signings will follow the 7 p.m. presentations. All programs are free, with donations welcomed. For more information call the library at 889-9404 or Kay Jorgensen at 889-5528.

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