Families with children ages 2 and up are invited to Earth Day storytime. Participants will learn rhymes, sing songs, and hear stories about the earth and gardening. Each family who attends will be given a small planted seed to take home. 

No registration required. 

Registration required. Please register all attendees. Drop-ins welcome if space allows.

Please join us for a Wilton Reads screening of the PBS documentary film Panama Canal.

On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world's two largest oceans and signaling America's emergence as a global superpower. This film, using an extraordinary archive of photographs and footage, interviews with canal workers, and firsthand accounts of life in the Canal Zone, unravels the remarkable story of one of the world's most significant technological achievements.

No charge. Registration recommended. Register online or call 203-762-6334. For additional information please contact Andrea Sato at asato@wiltonlibrary.org

Registration required. Drop-ins welcome if space allows.

Please join us as Miwako Ogasawara leads a discussion of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

Jane Austen’s first novel was published anonymously in 1811, with the author on the title page listed as simply “By a Lady.” It sold out its first print run within about a year and a second run immediately followed. In print continuously since then, it has been excerpted, abridged, illustrated, parodied, annotated, and translated countless times. It has been adapted numerous times for the theater, radio, television and film with perhaps the most notable example being the 1995 film starring Emma Thompson who also won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. Yale literary giant Harold Bloom was a major fan including an entire chapter on Austen in his book The Western Canon in which he wrote: “The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.”

This group meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month from September through May, excluding December. Call the Senior Center for details and to register at 203-834-6240. Comstock Community Center, 180 School Road, Wilton.

For adults, ages 18+. Space limited. Registration required. 

Registration is required as space and supplies are limited. Attendees will receive a copy of Silver People to keep. This program is for grades 6-12.

2 and 3 year-olds and their caregivers are invited to join us for a storytime geared especially for them!  Participants will hear stories, sing songs, learn rhymes, do movement activities, and have the opportunity to use scarves and instruments, while building literacy and social skills.  Feel free to stay after to scocialize.

Although he will be making references to the novel throughout the series, the primary discussion related to the novel will be on the fourth Thursday of these seminars, April 25th.

Advance registration is required. Register online or call 203-762-6334.  There is no charge for this program. By registering for the first session you will automatically be registered for all four sessions. This lecture series is made possible with the support of the Literary Series in Memory of Amy Quigley.  Please email Andrea Sato with any questions at asato@wiltonlibrary.org.  

Judson Scruton M.A. (The Johns Hopkins University, The Writing Seminars, specializing in poetry) has taught creative writing and literature at prep schools and universities. In his career as an educator Judson has also directed publications, communications, public relations, and development at a variety of educational institutions in the U.S. and U.K. including the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Weekly drop-in for Needlework Crafters. All welcome whether you knit, crochet, needlepoint, embroider or do any other needlework by hand.  Make new friends, get tips and share ideas while working on your own projects, or a group project for donation to a charitable cause. Bring your own materials.

No registration required.

For further information contact Caryn: cfquinn@wiltonlibrary.org.