In recognition of National Hospice Month, please us on Monday, November 2nd at 6:30 p.m. for an inspiring presentation:

Five Wishes: The First Living will with a Heart"

Five Wishes lets your family and doctors know:

• Who you want to make health care decision for you when you can't make them.
• The kind of medical treatment you want or don't want.
• How comfortable you want to be.
• How you want people to treat you.
• What you want your loved ones to know.

Five Wishes is changing the way America talks about and plans for care at the end of life.  More than 12 million copies of Five Wishes are in circulation across the nation, distributed by more than 15,000 organizations.  Five Wishes has become America's most popular living will because it was written in everyday language and helps start and structure important conversations about care in time of serious illness.

The Guest Presenter is Rev. Lucia Camara, Spiritual Care Minister & Holistic Practitioner at Overlook.

 

From 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. every Tuesday come knit with Sonya!   Assistance will be given to anyone needing help with a pattern.  Any handcrafters are welcome to join! 

 

On Monday, November 9th from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. senior lecturer
 

from the Center for Interdisciplinary & Special Studies at the College of Holy Cross, will be speaking about local Native American history in celebration of Native American Month.

What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose.

In 1990 President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 "National American Indian Heritage Month." Similar proclamations, under variants on the name (including "Native American Heritage Month" and "National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month") have been issued each year since 1994.

The theme for this year's heritage month is "Celebrating Tribal Nations: America's Great Partners."

 

The Friends of the Jacob Edwards Library present The Grocer's Son which will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Pioppi Room, lower level.  Candy will be available for purchase.

 

Synopsis:
"It is summer, and thirty-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provence.  His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed-driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few remaining inhabitants.  Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters with the villagers, who initially seem stubborn and gruff, but ultimately prove to be funny and endearing.  Ultimately, this surprise French box-office hit is about the coming-of-age of a man re-discovering life and love in the countryside"
 

Each month the Friends of the Jacob Edwards Library present and independent or foreign movie as part of the Library Box Office Series.  All movies are available in DVD format for borrowing after the screening.  The Pioppi Room is equipped with surround-sound and a large screen projector to enhance your viewing experience.