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Revolutionary War Fashion

Monday, June 29, 2026
6:30pm – 8:00pm

From the mythology of homespun to legends of midnight rides in red cloaks & calashes, the Dirty Blue Shirts share stories of women who waged war on multiple fronts as well as a look at what they wore as their worlds turn’d upside down. This program is presented by costumed historians and includes reproduction clothing pieces & fabric samples as well as a PowerPoint presentation with images of extant originals.

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Beaded Plants (Grades 6-12)

Thursday, July 9, 2026
2:30pm – 3:30pm

Make a plant you can’t kill! Use a variety of beads to create your own hanging plant.

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The Matchbox Miniature Craft

Wednesday, July 22, 2026
6:30pm – 8:00pm

This is a 90-minute “make-and-take” project. It is a teeny diorama-making session focused and “success-guaranteed,” Participants would get a curated project sheet featuring pre-tinted, vintage-style elements pre-scaled to the matchbox dimensions. This allows patrons to focus on composition and paper engineering rather than a blank page. 

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The Inklings Detective Agency

John R Kelly

The Foursome

Christina Baker Kline

Broken Truths

Alessandro Robecchi

P FKN R

Vanessa Díaz

Not Your Grandma's Crochet

Beth Povey

Cross Stitch Cabinet of Curiosities

Grace Isobel

A Murder in Marylebone

Emily Sullivan

In the Spirit of French Murder

Colleen Cambridge

This Weekend Doesn't End Well for Anyone

Catherine Mack

A Deadly Episode

Anthony Horowitz

The Secrets of the Abbey

Jean-Luc Bannalec

The Art of Jacques Pépin

Jacques Pépin

Get Started in Finger Knitting

Sabrina-Rose Benedict

Good Poems for Hard Times

How to Cheat Your Own Death

Kristen Perrin

We Would Never Tell

Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

The Patchwork Players

Jennifer Chiaverini

Death Times Seven

Anne Perry

Cat on a Hot Tin Woof

Spencer Quinn

Go Gentle

Maria Semple

Upward Bound

Woody Brown

Too Close to Home

Seraphina Nova Glass

Kill for a Million

Janet Dailey

Japanese Gothic

Kylie Lee Baker

The Baby Dragon Bakery

A T Qureshi

The Art of Spending Money

Morgan Housel

Age Like a Girl

Mindy Pelz

Tame Your Thoughts

Max Lucado

Strangers

Belle Burden

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