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Virtual Book Chat: Gary Hillard’s The Buckman Kids
Tuesday Dec 8th 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm - VirtualBrookfield author Gary D. Hillard will join our Zoom chat to discuss his writing and specifically his book The Buckman Kids. Gary has lived in the Randolph/Brookfield for many years. He retired at 57 after twenty-two years as a child and family therapist, and eleven years as a school teacher. He raised four kids, including two girls he adopted out of foster care, and was a foster parent as well. He came away from this work pretty well burned out, and filled with stories, that he thought needed to be told. The Buckman Kids: Toby is an eleven-year-old boy, familiar with his small world of church, farm and family, a life set in the early sixties on a small dairy farm in rural Vermont. His days are made of school, chores, homework, a bath, and then bed. Toby finds this world rocked when the Buckmans, a famously troubled family, move into the old single wide trailer just down the road. Roy Buckman is Toby’s age, but tough as nails, and his kid sister, Trish, is even more powerful for Toby. Copies of the book are available at the Library. Call or email for a Zoom invitation.
Book discussion: If Beale Street Could Talk
Tuesday Dec 15th 7:00 pm to 8:30 pmWe invite you to participate in a discussion co-sponsored by Kimball Library, Bethany Church and FORE (Focus on Racial Equality) of the book If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. To borrow a print copy of the book, contact Anne Belanger, the church secretary at Bethany, 802-728-5849 or Kimball Library, 802-728-5073. You may also download the e-book or audiobook from Overdrive through your Library’s membership. The discussion will be led via Zoom. If you would like to participate, please contact the Library: [email protected] or call 802-728-5073. You will then receive an e-mail invitation or phone number to call, several days before the discussion.