2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Adults

A Vote, A Voice: Women’s Suffrage and the Fight for Representation (Hybrid)

The East Brunswick Public Library is pleased to present the program “A Vote, A Voice: Women’s Suffrage and the Fight for Representation” on Thursday, October 20 at 6:30 pm. Scholar Lucia McMahon, PhD will speak about the long history of women’s activism over the course of the nineteenth century, to highlight the multi-faceted mosaic of the women’s suffrage movement.

You are welcome to attend this program in-person or on Zoom.  A link to join via Zoom is listed below. 

A Honeymoon on the French Riveria

A Honeymoon on the French Riveria by Joyce Fisher (a Short Story Contest entry)

 

"Can you call the front desk for the time" my husband asked? " You can speak French", he added confidently. I willingly picked up the phone and said in my best high school accent, "pardon et moi, quelle heure est- il, s'il vous plait"? The clerk answered me politely, but rather rapidly, and I thanked him, "merci beaucoup".

"Well darling" my bridegroom asked, "what time is it"? I answered in exasperation "who can understand French"?

Cowbirds

Maeve thought about cowbirds as her eyes traced the clear tubing leading from her teenage daughter’s arm to the IV bag, plump with fluids meant to quell the storm created when a virus collides with starvation. How did she miss the “die” in diet? What Maeve once considered audacity on the cowbird’s part—laying her speckled eggs in others’ nests—she now conceded might be wisdom. Letting a better bird raise your baby.