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Simsbury Free Library Announces February Programs

In February, the Simsbury Free Library (SFL) will continue its popular Drop In Book Club and Genealogy Road Show. In addition, the SFL will host a special art reception and sale to benefit the Friends of Heublein Tower. For all events, RSVP via email (simsburyfreelibrary@gmail.com) or phone (860-408-1336).

Drop In Book Club: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Tuesday, February 9, 2016, 11:15 a.m.
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See is a beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure's reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum's most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure's converge.

Doerr's "stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors" (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer "whose sentences never fail to thrill" (Los Angeles Times).

New members in search of great book discussions and even better company are always welcome at the SFL's FREE Drop In Book Club. Readers are welcome any time they are interested in the SFL's monthly book. Past book discussions have included: The Boys in the Boat, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, and One Thousand White Women. To make a reservation or for more information, call (860-408-1336) or email (simsburyfreelibrary@gmail.com).

Genealogy Road Show
Saturday, February 13 and 27, 2016, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
If you are researching your family tree, but don't know where else to look to find missing ancestors, bring in your tree. Genealogy librarian Diane LeMay can help with deciphering handwriting, online research, Massachusetts and French-Canadian research, and much more. Free to members; $5 for non-members. RSVPs recommended via email (simsburyfreelibrary@gmail.com) or phone (860-408-1336).

Heublein Tower En Plein Air Art Reception
Thursday, February 25, 2016, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Artwork painted at Heublein Tower's second annual En Plein Air event in September 2015 will be on display at the SFL. See and purchase beautiful paintings of Heublein Tower and the vistas beyond by artists Catherine Elliott, Deborah Leonard, Janet Iffland, Mandy Adendorff, Brian Colbath, Kate Tortland, and Victor Legere. All the paintings will be for sale, and all proceeds benefit the Friends of Heublein Tower for the ongoing restoration of the Heublein Tower. Refreshments will be served. Free.

About the Simsbury Free Library
The Simsbury Free Library (the Simsbury Genealogical and Historical Research Library) opened on the second floor of the Hopmeadow District School in 1874. In 1890, the Library's collection was moved to its present location at 749 Hopmeadow Street in Simsbury. Today the Simsbury Free Library (SFL) seeks to promote interest in genealogy and history by providing access to research material and expertise, artifacts, and educational and cultural programs. It seeks to help patrons connect with the past and to learn from and be inspired by those who have gone before them. The SFL provides a relaxed setting in which people can pursue family research history at their own pace. For everyone from seasoned genealogy veterans to beginners, the SFL has the staff and resources necessary to help visitors develop the skills required to create family trees, search local histories, look up census records, explore vital records, etc.

The Simsbury Free Library - the Gracious Yellow Lady - is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and the second and fourth Saturdays of the month from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. as well as by appointment. To RSVP or for more information, visit www.simsburyfreelibrary.org or call (860) 408-1336.

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