Valentine’s Day Film Screening: “Undine”
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with our free film screening of Undine on Saturday, February 14, 2026, from 2 to 4 pm in our Program Room, Youth Services Department, Radcliffe Children’s Library. Joe Sgammato, film professor at SUNY Westchester Community College, will introduce the film.
If you’re looking for a Valentine’s romance that feels mysterious, intelligent, and quietly intoxicating, Undine offers a love story unlike anything else in cinemas today. Set in
contemporary Berlin yet steeped in ancient myth, the film follows Undine, a historian whose modern life is shadowed by a centuries-old legend: When betrayed in love, she must return to the water. What begins as an explosively modern “meet cute” with Christoph, a gentle industrial diver, unfolds into a romance that is tender, strange, and deeply felt, where glances linger longer than words and emotion simmers beneath the surface. Director Christian Petzold, leading light of the “Berlin School” of modern German cinema, crafts a hypnotic mood, blending everyday realism with the uncanny, allowing love to feel both fragile and fated. The chemistry between Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski is intimate and sincere, making each moment ache with possibility and loss. Undine is perfect for viewers who want a romantic drama that favors atmosphere over clichés, emotion over spectacle, and the haunting question of whether love can ever truly escape destiny. In German with English subtitles.
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Historic Gardens: A Zoom Presentation by Caryn B. Davis
The Garden Club of Old Greenwich and the Perrot Memorial Library are thrilled to welcome back Photographer, Journalist, and Author Caryn B. Davis for a Zoom Presentation on Historic Gardens of Connecticut on Wednesday, February 4, at 7 pm.
Caryn B. Davis is an architectural, interior, and landscape design photographer with over 25 years of experience. She partners with design firms, businesses, and creative professionals to photograph residential and commercial spaces. Each project is a thoughtful collaboration approached with care, curiosity, and clear communication. Caryn works closely with her clients to understand their vision, goals, and audience to create imagery that reflects the distinct character of each design and helps elevate their brand.
Ms. Davis began her career in the visual arts as a documentary television producer and design journalist, where she honed her ability to tell stories with depth, nuance, and sensitivity. This foundation continues to inform her photography today. Her work has taken her to more than 20 countries and has been featured in over 60 publications worldwide. She has produced three photography books A Connecticut Christmas, Connecticut Waters, and Connecticut Gardens, all available in our catalog. Caryn is a long-time member of the Association of Independent Architectural Photographers and the American Society of Media Photographers, and she works throughout New England, New York, and beyond.
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For more information on Ms. Davis, visit her website.
For more information on this program, call us at 203-637-1066 or email us at adultprogramming@perrotlibrary.org.
Environmental Book Group Discussion: “The Comfort of Crows,” by Margaret Renkl
The Environmental Book Group will meet on Monday, February 2, 2026, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building, for a discussion of The Comfort of Crows, by Margaret Renkl. Our discussion will be facilitated by Rebecca Poirier, environmental analyst, Conservation Department, Town of Greenwich. This program is co-sponsored by Perrot Memorial Library and the Conservation Commission.
In The Comfort of Crows, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As we move through the seasons — from a crow spied on New Year’s Day, its resourcefulness and sense of community setting a theme for the year, to the lingering bluebirds of December, revisiting the nest box they used in spring — what develops is a portrait of joy and grief: joy in the ongoing pleasures of the natural world, and grief over winters that end too soon and songbirds that grow fewer and fewer. Along the way, we also glimpse the changing rhythms of a human life. Grown children, unexpectedly home during the pandemic, prepare to depart once more. Birdsong and night-blooming flowers evoke generations past. The city and the country where Renkl raised her family transform a little more with each passing day. And the natural world, now in visible flux, requires every ounce of hope and commitment from the author–and from us. For, as Renkl writes, “Radiant things are bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world.”
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For more information, call us at 203-637-1066 or email us at adultprogramming@perrotlibrary.org.