This winter for Adults!

Whether or not you attended the book launch for Jodi Lew-Smith’s new book, Asa James, last month, you are invited to a book discussion about it, led by Jodi herself, on Thursday, February 5 at 6:30 pm.

Because the book is new, we are not yet able to interlibrary loan it from other libraries. If you don’t have a copy, let us know, and we can add you to the list. If you DO have your own copy and would be willing to share it ahead of the discussion, please let us know, and we will match your book up with a reader!

Jodi Lew-Smith is a biologist and scientific curator who reads primary literature for the Candida Genome Database. She came to writing fiction later in life, calling herself a late bloomer among writers. Jodi lives on a farm in the Northeast Kingdom with her family, their apple trees, and their animals.

Friends of the Jeudevine invite you to a free talk by Rick Winston about films that use the murder mystery genre to make larger points about social issues, whether it’s race (“In the Heat of the Night”), immigration (“Lone Star”), official corruption (“The Secret in their Eyes”), sexuality (“Victim”) or class divides (“Gosford Park”).

Rick ran the Lightning Ridge Film Society in Montpelier and was co-owner and co-manager of the Savoy Theater as well as Programming Director of the Green Mountain Film Festival.

The Friends will host a film series this winter based on Rick’s talk with dates and times TBA.