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Anime Club for Teens
Grades 7 & 8 meet from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.
Grades 9 & up meet from 7:30 - 9:30 pm
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The Great Divorce - A Special Community Event
Sunday, November 6th at 2:00 pm

Ilyon Woo will be our guest to talk about her book The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. This well-received book has an Albany setting in the early 1800s and is about Eunice Chapman – the only woman ever granted a divorce by the New York State Legislature!

From the publisher: “The Great Divorce is a dramatic, richly textured narrative history of early America’s most infamous divorce case. A young mother single handedly challenged her country’s notions of women’s rights, family, and marriage itself – all in a bid to win back her kidnapped children from the celibate, religious sect known as the Shakers. Pulling together the pieces of this saga from crumbled newspapers, Shaker diaries, and long-forgotten letters, Woo delivers the first full account of Eunice Chapman’s epic five-year struggle."

Several related programs will be held during October. For a list of programs, view our October newsletter, or click here to view a brochure for the event.

Tag Card Option
Key Tags are now available. Each set includes a regular size card, a key tag, and a Friends of the Library book mark. Patrons wishing to switch their regular card for a key tag card may do so by stopping at the Circulation Desk on their next visit. There is a $1 charge for the Key Tag set.

Museum Passes
We are pleased to offer our patrons museum passes to sign out for a three day period.  These non-requestable passes will be available on a first-come-first-served basis. Passes for the USS Slater, Mass MoCA, the Clark Art Institute, and The Tang are located near the Information Desk .