Senior Center Book Discussion: Musical Tables

Tue, Sep 24, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Please join us as Caryn Friedman leads a discussion of Billy Collins's Musical Tables. As a sort of preview for our in-person event with Billy Collins at Wilton Library, we will discuss one of his recent books of poetry: Musical Tables.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Tue, Oct 22, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Please join us as Caroline Mandler leads a discussion of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation. For years, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has been offering insightful, data-based analysis over a range of our most intense social issues including political/religious polarization and cancel culture on college campuses.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: The Man Who Planted Trees

Tue, Nov 26, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Please join us as Ray Rauth leads a discussion of Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: I, Robot

Tue, Jan 28, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Call the Senior Center for details and to register at 203-834-6240. Comstock Community Center, 180 School Road, Wilton. Please join us as Michael Hess leads a discussion of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot. Isaac Asimov is often called one of the fathers of science fiction and his massive literary output set the standard for decades of speculative fiction.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: The House of Mirth

Tue, Feb 25, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Please join us as Amy Davenport leads a discussion of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Wharton’s 1905 novel placed her firmly on the literary map as one of America’s great writers.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: Coolidge

Tue, Mar 25, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Please join us as Carol Kaelin leads a discussion of Amity Shlaes's Coolidge. “Silent Cal” had been unfairly disdained by pundits and historians alike, that is until Amity Shlaes’s brilliant and provocative reexamination of the life of this restrained and soft-spoken man.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: The Beginning of Spring

Tue, Apr 22, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Please join us as Miwako Ogasawara leads a discussion of Penelope Fitzgerald's The Beginning of Spring. Penelope Fitzgerald has crafted a lovely, at times virtuosic, comedy of manners set in Russia in 1913 on the verge of the Bolshevik revolution. Although one of the main characters is a big Tolstoy devotee, this is not a novel of epic sweep.
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Senior Center Book Discussion: Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing)

Tue, May 27, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Offsite

Please join us as Michael Bellacosa leads a discussion of Salman Khan's Brave New Words. Sal Khan has been at the leading edge of the development of educational technology beginning about 15 years ago with his founding of Khan Academy.
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