Now in its 21st year, the Throwback Thursday Film Series screens a variety of classic movies for an adult audience. March Theme: Seeing Green March 14: The Corn is Green (1945) NR Bette Davis plays a schoolteacher in a poor Welsh mining town bucking tradition and expectations to help a promising young man succeed as...
Enjoy a movie in the library theatre, Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023, PG-13, 1hr 49min). Bring your friends! For ages 13-18. No registration required.
Now in its 21st year, the Throwback Thursday Film Series screens a variety of classic movies for an adult audience. March Theme: Seeing Green March 7: Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) PG-13 A discontented woman (Kathy Bates) befriends a cheerful nursing home resident (Jessica Tandy) who tells engrossing tales of her childhood. Mary Stuart Masterson and...
It’s time for battle! This is a book-based, Jeopardy-style trivia competition played by local school teams. WRL librarians select lists of 12 great books each for grades 4–5 and 6–8 for our competitors to read. Come out and cheer for your team! Winners will move on to the regional competition on March 16. For more...
This film series brings art house film flavor to your Tuesdays. Plus, meet new friends, hear from special guests who are film experts, enjoy light refreshments, and have a discussion after the film. March 5: Air (2023) R Ben Affleck directed and stars in this fine biopic about how a Nike executive (Matt Damon) recruited...
The 23rd Anniversary of the Virginia Peninsula Jewish Film Festival presents The Narrow Bridge. Director Esther Takac has worked as a trauma psychologist with bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families for 9 years in a Jerusalem hospital. In the documentary film, she profiles four individuals from Israeli and Palestinian families who have lost a child or...
J2B2 (John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band) is an all-star bluegrass supergroup featuring four legendary, award-winning musicians – John Jorgenson on acoustic guitar, mandolin and vocals; Herb Pedersen on banjo, acoustic guitar and vocals; Mark Fain on bass; and Patrick Sauber on acoustic guitar and vocals – delivering bluegrass like no one has ever heard it before....
Interested in doing an oral history with your family or in your community, but you don’t know how? Help is here! Join in for this session with Colonial Williamsburg historian Andre Taylor, who will teach you how to plan and conduct an oral history.
The Portokalos family visits Greece to fulfill the final wish of the family’s late patriarch in this new comedy from director/star Nia Vardalos that costars John Corbett and Louis Mandylor. 1hr 32min Watch trailer
Experience a dance experience from TEN Dancers Worldwide. This organization trains, equips, and provides dance experiences across the country. Their specialty is biblical and Christian dance training and techniques and their motto is “impacting the world through dance.”
Now in its 21st year, the Throwback Thursday Film Series screens a variety of classic movies for an adult audience. February Theme: 1950s Sci-Fi February 22: Forbidden Planet (1956) G In the 23rd century, the crew of a starship are sent to check up on the colonists of planet Altair IV. They find two survivors,...
This film series brings art house film flavor to your Tuesdays. Plus, meet new friends, hear from special guests who are film experts, enjoy light refreshments, and have a discussion after the film. February 20: A Man Named Pearl (2006) G Armed with a hedge trimmer, self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar transformed a 3-acre property...