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  • Worldwide Knit in Public Day

    June 8, 2013 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
    Location: Hinds Plaza / Community Room

    Bring your knitting and crocheting and join this fourth annual international celebration of knitting. Representatives from Pins and Needles will be on hand to teach beginners how to knit. Author Adrienne Martini will join the knitters and read from her book “Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously” about tackling...

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  • Piano and Cello Student Concert

    June 9, 2013 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Advanced and intermediate piano and cello students ages 6-17 years old will perform. Community Room

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  • Talk: Surviving and Thriving in College

    June 10, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Nic Vogue, associate director of McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University, and Matt Frawley, a director of student life at the university, discuss making the academic and social transition from high school to college. Intended for high school students and their families. Community Room

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  • Poets at the Library

    June 10, 2013 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Featured poets Esther Schor and Therese Halscheid read from their works for 20 minutes each followed by an open-mic session. A professor of English at Princeton University, Schor won the National Jewish Book Award for her biography, “Emma Lazarus.”  She is also the author of “The Hills of Holland: Poems” and...

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  • “Downton Abbey” Tea Time

    June 11, 2013 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Join us for tea and two episodes of “Downton Abbey,” the acclaimed British period drama about the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants who live in the fictional Yorkshire country estate. The series has played for three seasons as part of “Masterpiece Classic” on PBS. This event will continue weekly...

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  • Chess Club

    June 11, 2013 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
    Location: Story Room, third floor

    Members of the Princeton High School Chess Club lead these after-school sessions for young people of all ages and abilities.  Some instruction will be available in addition to matches.  The library provides the chessboards.

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  • Lecture: “Over and Under the Stormy Seas”

    June 11, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Marianne Grey, Princeton University Art Museum docent, offers illustrations of nature’s art and of man’s attempts to capture the mysteries of the sea in art. Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer” is only one legend about this watery universe that has intrigued and challenged sailors since the Phoenicians. Part...

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  • RETIREMENT LIVING: CONTRACTS, YOUR OPTIONS, YOUR WAY

    June 11, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
    Location: 2nd Floor Fireplace Area

    Over the last few years the retirement living industry has broadened its spectrum of available options and amenities. While this may help to serve more seniors, it also means more confusion for consumers trying to research, compare and understand their choices. From financial plans to health and wellness options and more, consumers need...

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  • Wednesday Writers Workshop

    June 12, 2013 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
    Location: Princeton Room

    Led by Beth Plankey, this group encourages and supports creative writers through group and individual discussion sessions leading up to the November celebration of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Princeton Room

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  • Teen Volunteer Orientation

    June 12, 2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
    Location: Community Room

    Teens who have been accepted as summer volunteers must attend one hourlong orientation session

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