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Learn the basics of knitting: casting on, knit and purl stitch, and casting off.

Limited to 10 beginners.

BYO supplies or $25 for yarn and needle.

Questions? Contact Susan Saccardi at ssbbddsaccardi@gmail.com.

Drop-ins welcome for knitters and crafters who want to meet others, craft and talk, or help beginners.

6:30 pm-7:00 pm –  Join Grumbling Gryphons and children in a short performance of Earth Honoring songs, poetry, and puppets!

7:00 pm-7:30 pm – Premiere Screening of Grumbling Gryphons’s Environmental Film: “Count Ampula and The Carbon Curse”: A Film by Ben Willis and Leslie Elias, and Om Sweet Om Production in collaboration with W. B Willis Film. Filmed in Cornwall with Cornwall children and Grumbling Gryphons actors, this madcap, zany intergenerational film addresses the urgent need to reduce our human carbon footprint and produce clean energy.

7:30 pm-8:30 pm – Sharing Stories, Songs, Thoughts, Poems & Music in Honor of Earth Day. An open mic for all! Everyone is invited to contribute and participate! Contact: Leslie Elias for more info grumblinggryphons@gmail.com.

Learn the basics of knitting: casting on, knit and purl stitch, and casting off.

Limited to 10 beginners.

BYO supplies or $25 for yarn and needle.

Questions? Contact Susan Saccardi at ssbbddsaccardi@gmail.com.

Drop-ins welcome for knitters and crafters who want to meet others, craft and talk, or help beginners.

A Special Evening with Caroline Paul, author of Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking—How Outdoor Adventure Improves Us as We Age

Caroline Paul, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl, has always filled her life with adventure. From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Alaskan mountain Denali, the tallest in North America, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration that the outdoors can bring. But through it all, she has always wondered, Why aren’t women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age?

Now 60, she expects the next stage of life to be every bit as invigorating and full of high adrenalin escapades as the current one. In her just-published book, Tough Broad, Caroline dives deep into the current research on aging, and interviews older women who exemplify the confidence and well-being that come from embracing the outdoors. Among them are 93-year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith; 80-year-old scuba diver Louise Wholey; and her own mom, Sarah Paul, who began bicycling later in life.

Growing up, Caroline Paul lived in Cornwall and attended Cornwall Consolidated School. She explains that it is that sense of excitement and exhilaration that came from riding her bike down Dibble Hill at ten years old which “infuses every book I write now.”  And it was Cornwall where she first learned that adventure means “a quest outside, often with trusted companions, not always easy, but brimming with the delight of uncertainty, physical vitality, and freedom.“

Combining science, cultural studies, psychology, and personal stories, Tough Broad is a quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must; it is a high-spirited call for all of us to embrace the outdoors, not back away from it, as we age.

Caroline will be back in Cornwall on May 18th to talk about her new book. She will be welcomed back and introduced by her childhood friend, Henry LaBalme, a Cornwall resident.

Registration is required.

The Book Sale Under the Tent returns Memorial Day weekend! Saturday, May 25th from 10 until 2, Sunday, May 26th from 11 until 2, and Monday, May 27th from 10 until 2.  Fill a bag for $5 on Monday.

The Book Sale Under the Tent returns Memorial Day weekend! Saturday, May 25th from 10 until 2, Sunday, May 26th from 11 until 2, and Monday, May 27th from 10 until 2.  Fill a bag for $5 on Monday.

The Book Sale Under the Tent returns Memorial Day weekend! Saturday, May 25th from 10 until 2, Sunday, May 26th from 11 until 2, and Monday, May 27th from 10 until 2.  Fill a bag for $5 on Monday.