Afternoon Book Discussion

Do you like to read as well as talk?  We, perhaps, have just the thing for you.  On the first Thursday of each month at 2:00 pm, the Afternoon Book Discussion meets at the library and talks about the book of the month.  We have a "goodie," cup of coffee or tea and discuss our thoughts, about the book and author.

The group will also meet on October 2 to discuss The Sea Captain’s Wife  by Martha Hodes.  If you are interested in joining, call the library at 942-5472 or ask at the front desk!

Award-winning historian Martha Hodes brings us into the extraordinary world of Eunice Connolly. Born white and poor in New England, Eunice followed her first husband to the Deep South and soon found her relatives fighting on opposite sides of the Civil War. Back in New England, Eunice and her children struggled to get by -- until Eunice fell in love with a well-to-do black sea captain, married him, and moved to his home in the British Caribbean. Tracking every lead in the family letters, Hodes retraced Eunice’s footsteps and met descendants along the way. The Sea Captain’s Wife takes up grand themes of American history -- war, racism, freedom -- and illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past.