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The FOLIO-sponsored Adult Book Discussion program series “Murder They Wrote” will continue on Saturday, March 14 at 2pm with nonfiction title Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann.
The book investigates a series of murders of wealthy Osage people that took place in Osage County, Oklahoma in the early 1920s—after big oil deposits were discovered beneath their land. It presents detailed evidence of how the newly formed FBI started to track the mastermind behind it down.
Adult Book Discussion Group-Original
Join us Thursday February 20 6pm:
Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Based on a true narrative.
Coming Next Month: Educated by Tara Westover March 19.
Classics Book Club- Tuesday February 25 at 6pm: “Main Street” by Sinclair Lewis. Carol Milford is convinced by her new husband, Dr. Will Kennicott, to leave the city life to which she is accustomed. They relocate to his hometown of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, where she is taken aback by the little town’s backward ways and ugly appearance. She soon sets about to “improve” it.
Coming Next Month: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald on March 24.
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Library of Congress has added this month the full-text archives of the Frederick Douglass Newspapers, from 1847 to 1874
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New Haven Register
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Census 2020:
Governor Ned Lamont and Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz today announced they have launched an official State of Connecticut website for the 2020 U.S. Census. Accessible at ct.gov/census, the website provides the state’s residents with trustworthy and reliable resources about this year’s census and its impact on Connecticut, including information for completing the census, ways to get involved, events that are being held around the state, and opportunities for job openings with the census.
Connecticut’s census activities are also active on social media by following @CTCounts2020 on both Twitter and Facebook.
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