Tag: Authors
Bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author to speak in state
Monday September 15, 2025New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks is coming to Glastonbury on Sept. 28 to discuss “The Art of the Historical Novel: Making Fiction from Fact,” according to event organizers… Read the Hartford Courant Article […]
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Geraldine Brooks Press Release
Thursday August 28, 2025FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 8/28/25 For More Information: Contact The Welles-Turner Memorial Library Second Century Fundy Registration Bestselling, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Geraldine Brooks is Coming to Glastonbury for Free Talk 2 p.m., September 28, 2025 Smith Middle School 216 Addison Road, Glastonbury, CT Sponsored by: Welles-Turner Memorial Library Second Century Fund New York Times-bestselling […]
Geraldine Brooks Discussion Series
Thursday May 15, 2025Geraldine Brooks is Coming to Glastonbury! We’re thrilled to announce that the Welles-Turner Memorial Library Second Century Fund will be hosting New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks in Glastonbury on September 28! Stay tuned for more details on this exciting event. To celebrate and prepare for her visit, WTML will be hosting a special […]
Paul S. Krantz, Jr. to visit Welles-Turner on February 8, 2015
Wednesday January 14, 2015Paul S. Krantz, Jr., professional sailor and author of Riding The Wild Ocean, will visit Welles-Turner Memorial Library, Glastonbury, on Sunday, February 8 for a book talk and signing at 2PM in the Friends’ Room. At three years of age, Paul Krantz began sailing with his father; at fifteen, he started to teach sailing and […]
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Author Susan Campbell – Book Talk & Signing, May 19th
Saturday April 26, 2014Monday, May 19, 2014, at 7 PM – Riverfront Community Center 300 Welles Street, Glastonbury. Free admission – Open to the public – Refreshments served. The Second Century Fund’s next book talk will be by Susan Campbell, award-winning author of Dating Jesus and the just-published biography Tempest-Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker. Ms. Campbell, […]
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Twist of Lemmon: A musical memoir
Sunday June 10, 2012The Second Century Fund was thrilled to sponsor Chris Lemmon’s musical memoir, Twist of Lemmon. Chris, a long-time supporter of the Welles-Turner Memorial Library and a founding member of the Second Century Fund, played to an enthusiastic audience at Glastonbury’s Riverfront Community Center in June 2012. Check out a clip of Twist of Lemmon here. […]
Amy Bloom — Author visit and book talk
Thursday April 5, 2012March 31, 2012 – After her first planned visit was cancelled in October 2011 due to Winter Storm Alfred, Second Century was pleased to welcome author Amy Bloom to Glastonbury’s Riverfront Community Center on March 31. Amy talked of her early life and how she came to love and write books, and gave a reading […]
