Purls of Wisdom: An Evening Knitting Group
Calling knitters experienced and new to the craft! Join us on the second Tuesday of each month for our evening knitting group, “Purls of Wisdom.” Our next session will be Tuesday, September 9th, at 6 pm in our Rand Room, Waid Building, Perrot Memorial Library.
Knitting is better when we do it together! Knitting in a group can increase your confidence, creativity, and willingness to take risks. Bring your own pattern and supplies and join our friendly group, facilitated by experienced knitter, Miriam Kliewe, who can offer project support and troubleshooting.
Miriam has been knitting for more than 30 years and has a lifetime of mistakes under her belt. She has guided children, teens, and adults on their knitting adventures and will cheerfully unravel any project to get to that one mistake.
Registration is required. Class is limited to the first 15 registrants. Please register here.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or at judys@perrotlibrary.org.
Book Discussion: “The Broken King,” with Author Michael Thomas
Join us on Wednesday, September 10, at 7 pm for a book discussion of The Broken King: A Memoir, with Author and Associate Professor at Hunter College Michael Thomas. The event will take place in our Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library.
Thomas’s memoir, The Broken King (Grove/Atlantic, 2025), about four generations of men in his family, traces the lives of these men against the backdrop of the last century-and-a-half in American history. From Reconstruction to the Jim Crow South and the Civil Rights movement, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and beloved, trauma and recovery, race and deracination, success and failure, soccer, and the Boston Red Sox in a beautiful and unique memoir.
Michael Thomas is the author of The Broken King, a memoir about four generations of men in his family, and the novel Man Gone Down, winner of the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a New York Times Top Ten Novel of the Year. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, The New York Times, and in Ben George’s anthology, The Book of Dads. Thomas received his BA from Hunter College and his MFA from Warren Wilson College. He is a professor of English at Hunter College and lives in Brooklyn.
Registration is required. To register, click here.
Copies of Mr. Thomas’s book will be available in our catalog and for purchase from Athena Books or at the program.
For more information about Michael Thomas, visit his website.
For more information about this program, contact Lisa Thomas at 203-637-1066 x20 or lisat@perrotlibrary.org.
Perrot P.I.s: “The Ice Princess,” by Camilla Lackberg
The September meeting of Perrot P.I.s, our drop-in mystery discussion group, will take place on Thursday, September 11th, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library. We’ll discuss The Ice Princess, by Camilla Lackberg. All are invited to attend.
After she returns to her hometown to learn that her friend, Alex, was found in an ice-cold bath with her wrists slashed, biographer Erica Falck researches her friend’s past in hopes of writing a book and joins forces with Detective Patrik Hedstrom, who has his own suspicions about the case.
To reserve a copy of the book, visit our catalog.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or judys@perrotlibrary.org.