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Library Corner, Feb. 22 edition

by | Feb 20, 2023 | Featured

For more information on any of the following programs or other activities at the library, visit hopkintonlibrary.org. The library also can be found on Facebook, @hopkintonlibrary, and on Twitter, @HopkintonPLMA.

Frayed Knot Fiber Arts Circle
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Participants are invited to bring their current project or pattern. This group is open to teens and adults of all skill levels. All fiber arts crafts (knitting, crochet, needlepoint, cross-stitch, needle felting, etc.) are more than welcome. This group meets on the second and last Wednesdays of each month from 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Author Talk: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Wednesday, Feb. 22 7-8 p.m.
This virtual program features writer, historian and lecturer Erica Armstrong Dunbar, who is the author of “Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge” (National Book Award finalist) and “She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman,” as well as pieces in The New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer. She also appears in documentaries such as PBS’s “The Abolitionists.”

Author Talk: Grace M. Cho
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 8-9 p.m.
In this virtual program, award-winning author Grace M. Cho will discuss her memoir, “Tastes Like War.” Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, “Tastes Like War” is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia.

Author Talk: Sadeqa Johnson
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 4-5 p.m.
In this Zoom program, highly acclaimed author Sadeqa Johnson, the author of “Yellow Wife,” will talk about her new novel, “The House of Eve.”

Red Cross Blood Drive
Thursday, March 2, 2-7 p.m.
Register on the Red Cross website at rcblood.org/3AmuYsP.

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