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Geraldine Brooks Press Release
Thursday August 28, 2025

FOR 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 […]

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Paul 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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Monday, 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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March 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 […]

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