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Emely Silver, left, with Jean Penny, RN, in Kenya. The container that American Friends of Kenya loaded May 14, at Murphy Storage in Franklin. Published May 24. 2021 12:33PM By GLENN ALAN CHENEY, Special to the Times What’s Norwich got to do with Kenya? Quite a bit, actually. It started back in 2004. Norwich resident Emely Silver, coordinator of the Career Center at E.O. Smith in Mansfield, met Irene Kimenyi, a math tutor there. Irene and her husband Samson, a professor of economics at UConn, were both Kenyans. The Kimenyis had a modest but beautiful dream. They wanted to establish a little community library in their hometown back in Kenya, maybe even distribute books to nearby schools. ....
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A fundraising effort is underway to bring the first Toni Morrison Society-inspired bench in the state to a Canterbury museum dedicated to the story of a 19th century local civil rights icon and a Black student yearning to become a teacher. Anne Mahoney, the state’s attorney for the Windham Judicial District, is working with the Prudence Crandall Museum, town officials and the Sustainability CT group to bring a 6-foot steel bench to the South Canterbury Road museum. Mahoney said her role in the effort began with a fundraising event years ago at Norwich’s Otis Library in which attendees at an author’s forum were invited to bid on displayed gifts. Mahoney ended up winning one of those items, a trip to Hilton Head, S.C. ....
The Becket Athenaeum is registering participants for free virtual workshops. Tarot: Using Your Intuition, Imagination, & Sense of Play will be offered from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturdays, May 15 and 22, via Zoom. Participants will need a 78-card tarot deck (not an oracle deck) and journal, sketchbook or notebook. Seasoned tarot practitioners and tarot newcomers are welcome. Preregistration is required at bit.ly/BA-tarot. The Otis Library and Becket Athenaeum are co-sponsoring Spring Cleaning: Organizing Your Home with Glenn Davison at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 18, via Zoom. This class includes a list of resources to help participants continue organizing after the class is done. Preregistration is required at bit.ly/BA-spring-cleaning. ....
Otis Library: New Book Buddies program a way to connect people By Bob Farwell As a state, we are making steady progress toward what will be defined as a new or near normal. The success of vaccination programs and social distancing bode well for our progress to an environment with few inhibitors in our daily lives. We have absorbed many lessons that will inform Otis Library’s future. An overarching lesson of the pandemic is the need for adaptability, the prescience to recognize opportunities and creatively adapt to the new possibilities exemplified by innovations such as curbside materials pick up, virtual program platforms, and the suddenly ubiquitous Zoom meeting. ....