Month: June 2024

July Adult Book Groups

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Our Adult Book Groups are a mix of in person, hybrid, and virtual programs. Please see our July titles and dates below. The online/hybrid groups are being held via Zoom. We are requiring registration for the online/hybrid book groups in order to send out the Zoom meeting information. Click on the date below to register. Information on our adult book groups can also be found on our website: https://bit.ly/chescolibs-bookgroups.  

Evening Book Group
July 1, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews
This session will be held in person in the Burke Room at the Chester County Library.

Afternoon Book Group
July 17, 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
This session will be held in person in the Burke Room at the Chester County Library. 

The Page Turners and Whodunits groups will return in September.

Registration is required for all online book groups. Registration will close at least 2 hours prior to the scheduled start time of the book group. A Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 2 hours before the book group starts.  Make sure to check the email address you registered with to receive the link.  You do not need a Zoom account to attend the virtual book group.

These programs support the PA Forward Civic and Social Literacy Initiative.

June Releases

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Audiobooks

Award-Winning Alzheimer’s Documentary: Screening and Intergenerational Discussion

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On Thursday, June 27th, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Henrietta Hankin Branch Library will hold a special intergenerational screening of Cycle of Memory, followed by a live virtual discussion with the filmmaker, Alex Leff.  This award-winning documentary is about the filmmaker and his younger sibling’s bicycle adventure to find the memories their grandfather lost to Alzheimer’s. Their grandfather, Mel Schwarz, escaped the Great Depression on a bicycle adventure he would remember for the rest of his life.  Guided by old photographs of the 1945 trip, his grandchildren search for places he had visited, now aged by time. But while searching for Grandpa Mel’s past, the two siblings are confronted with their own fraught history. If they are going to complete the turbulent journey, they will have to face their own emotional potholes and tumultuous relationship.

Cycle of Memory explores the importance of intergenerational connection, healing painful pasts, and leaving a meaningful time capsule for the future. Selected to be part of many film festivals nation-wide (including Sunset Film Festival of Los Angeles, Long Island International Film Festival, Knoxville Film Festival, Miami Jewish Film Festival and the Art of Bklyn Film Festival to name a few), this film’s unique perspective on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia has been resonating with diverse audiences, from Millennial caregivers to Senior Centers and Councils on Aging. Specifically, family members who have lost a parent to Alzheimer’s and have children of their own have been finding that the film’s uplifting message, emphasizing what can’t be forgotten, provides a blueprint for families to hold on to their connections despite aging and memory loss.

The event, which is co-sponsored by the Henrietta Hankin Branch Library together with Eagleview Landing Senior Living, will begin at 5:30 pm with light refreshments and the free raffling off of some prizes to in-person participants.  The screening of the 72-minute long documentary will begin at 6:00 pm and be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, who will address the audience virtually via Zoom.  Participants are welcome to join us virtually if they are not able to make it here in person.

We thank the Friends of the Henrietta Hankin Branch Library for their generous support in making this event possible.  Registration is required. To register, visit https://ccls.libcal.com/event/11716130 or call the library at 610-344-4196.  Henrietta Hankin Library supports PA Forward Health and Civic and Social Literacy.

Author Event: The Judge and the Incorrect Decision by David Moskowitz

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Join author David H. Moskowitz to discuss the newest title in his The Creative Positivist Series, The Judge and the Incorrect Decision. 

Each book in this series of four is designed to introduce and then expand upon Moskowitz’s legal theory of creative positivism.

Moskowitz explains, “Creative positivism is a legal philosophy that is an extension of the legal positivist theory presented by H.L.A. Hart in his classic work The Concept of Law…I present the foundation for creative positivism and the principles of creative positivism in The Judge and the Incorrect Decision. Accepting that judges make incorrect decisions, as I have defined them, and that these incorrect decisions make new legal rules is the central theme of creative positivism.”

Registration is required at https://ccls.libcal.com/event/12464217. This program supports PA Forward Civic and Social Literacy. 

CCLS/CCL Board Meeting

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The Board of Trustees of the Chester County Library System/Chester County Library are hosting their monthly board meeting as a hybrid offering. If you have always wanted to attend a meeting but haven’t had the time, this is your opportunity. Please click on this link at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 18 to join the Chester County Library System Board Meeting virtually; or attend in person at the Henrietta Hankin Branch Library, 215 Windgate Drive, Chester Springs, PA 19425. The Chester County Library Board Meeting will immediately follow. Find the Chester County Library Board Packet here.

If you are a person with a disability and wish to attend this meeting and require an auxiliary aid, service, or other accommodation to observe or participate in the proceedings, please call Chester County Library’s Administration Office at 610-344-5600 or email ddadoly@ccls.org to discuss how we may best accommodate your needs.

Discovering 18th & Vine in Kansas City: stories of African American History and Culture at Henrietta Hankin Branch Library

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CHESTER SPRINGS—Museums are extremely important to our society for the way they bring out the extraordinary (and ordinary) stories of our past, stories that define our culture.  This can be especially significant for African American history and culture which has been largely overlooked in the past.  On Thursday, June 20th, from 6:00-7:30 p.m., in the Annex, Henrietta Hankin Branch Library is pleased to share fascinating clips from “Discovering 18th & Vine in Kansas City, stories of American history and culture,” in which host Crosby Kemper (Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services) travels to two museums in Kansas City, Missouri, that chronicle that community’s contributions to a pair of uniquely American pastimes: the Negro League Baseball Museum and the American Jazz Museum.

After the screener, enjoy some light refreshments and join in a discussion with a panel of guests from some of our own local museums: Christopher Miller, Executive Vice President of the African American Museum in Philadelphia; Kathryn Lynch, Collections Manager for the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia; and Ellen Endslow, Director of Collections/Curator at the Chester County History Center, West Chester, PA. Panelists will share their impressions of the screener as well as stories from their own experiences in chronicling local African American history and culture.  All of the museums that our panel represents are part of the Museum Pass Program of Chester County Library and Henrietta Hankin Branch, so participants may be inspired to go and visit some of the special exhibits discussed.

“Discovering 18th & Vine in Kansas City: stories of African American History and Culture,” is part of the PBS series, Visions of America: All People, All Stories, All Places. Henrietta Hankin Branch will be hosting screeners and discussions on other episodes from this series in the fall in partnership with PBS Books.

Fans of baseball, jazz, and museums alike are sure to enjoy and gain valuable wisdom from attending this special event. To register and learn more about our amazing guest panelists, visit https://ccls.libcal.com/event/12200561  or call the library at 610-344-4196.  Henrietta Hankin Library supports PA Forward Civic and Social Literacy.