Marjorie Harris: Tuesday, September 27 at 7:30 PM / Grimsby Public Library / $15.00
Let's Stop Making Ugly Gardens! Acclaimed garden commentator and writer Marjorie Harris will direct her audience to better choices, resulting in more beautiful, effective gardens. Armed with design tips, slides and plenty of stories, Marjorie will share her knowledge and her characteristic humour. This program is offered in partnership with the Grimsby Garden Club.
Marjorie’s 15th gardening book, The Thrifty Gardener, due in March, 2012 by House of Anansi, will arrive in time to see eager gardeners through till spring. Gardening columnist for the Globe & Mail, Marjorie is planning a sumptuous garden tour of Italy with Travel Specifics. She runs her garden design company, Marjorie Harris Gardens, out of Toronto, where she lives with her husband, author Jack Batten. They’ve shared their city garden since 1967.
Mary-Lu Zahalan: Tuesday, October 18 at 7:30 PM / Grimsby Public Library / $10.00
Mary-Lu Zahalan received the world’s first Master of Arts degree in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society, granted by Liverpool Hope University. Her studies examined the link between the city of Liverpool and the international sensation known as the Beatles. She explored Liverpool’s influence on their early music, and the Beatles eventual influence on the identity, culture and society of their hometown and the wider music world. As well as being an ardent Beatles fan, Mary-Lu Zahalan is a member of the faculty at Sheridan College’s Musical Theatre-Performance program in Oakville, where she teaches singing.
Natalie MacLean: Tuesday, November 22 / 7:30 PM / Casablanca Winery Inn / $50.00
An evening with Natalie MacLean is so much more than a reading. Savour six wine tastings and receive a copy of her newest book, Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World’s Best Bargain Wines. The book takes readers on a humourous tour of the world’s vineyards, in search of that elusive Holy Grail: great, affordable wine. Discover wines from Germany, Italy, Australia, South Africa, and the Mediterranean. She brings to life the eccentric, obsessive personalities that populate the world of wine and the mouth-watering foods that accompany them.
An accredited sommelier, Natalie tastes over 10,000 wines each year and is the drinks blogger for Epicurious, website of both Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines. Amongst many awards, Natalie’s 2006 book, Red, White and Drunk all Over: a Wine Soaked Journey From Grape to Glass was chosen as the Best Wine Literature Book in the English language at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and won the Culinary Literary Book Award in the Cordon d’Or international culinary arts competition. This is an evening you won’t want to miss. Cheers!
How to Dig Up a Dinosaur with Dr. David C. Evans / Sunday, January 8 / 2:00 PM
Dr. Evans is Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum. Dr. Evans will present a step-by-step guide on how to dig up a dinosaur. Children will learn about dinosaur bones and how they relate to our own human skeletons.
Tickets for children and parents are $3.00/person and are available at the Library Circulation Desk starting on Monday, November 28th.
David C. Evans / In Search of African Dinosaurs: New Discoveries in South Africa and Sudan Monday, January 9 / 7:00 PM / $10.00
The Grimsby Author Series: At the Library is very pleased to welcome one of the brightest, young personalities in the world of vertebrate palaeontology and dinosaur research. David Evans., Ph.D., is Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. He first laid eyes on dinosaur skeletons in the galleries of the ROM and has been fascinated with dinosaurs and paleontology ever since.David has spent considerable time in the field and has worked around the world, from southern Alberta, to the high Arctic, South Africa, to the Sudan. He is widely published and eminently respected. This fascinating talk for adults and teens will feature plenty of slides and opportunities for questions. Please Note: Tickets will be available at the GPL starting on Monday, November 28.
Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife: Friday, February 10 at 7:00 PM / Grimsby Public Library / $15.00
Paula McLain's instant national best seller, The Paris Wife, has been called a "compelling, spellbinding portrait of a marriage." This stunningly evocative, beautifully rendered story told in the voice of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, reveals Paris of the Lost Generation and introduces the reader to fascinating cultural icons of the 1920s such as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. The city and its inhabitants provide a vivid backdrop to this engrossing and wrenching story of love and betrayal that is made all the more poignant knowing that, in the end, Hemingway would write of his first wife, "I wish I had died before I loved anyone but her".
"The Paris Wife is a lyrical novel that is beautifully written on every single page. Paula McLain is as talented as the writer and his wife depicted herein. Stunning!"
Wine sponsor: Creekside Estate Winery
Past Events
Marjorie Harris: Tuesday, September 27 at 7:30 PM / Grimsby Public Library / $15.00
Let's Stop Making Ugly Gardens! Acclaimed garden commentator and writer Marjorie Harris will direct her audience to better choices, resulting in more beautiful, effective gardens. Armed with design tips, slides and plenty of stories, Marjorie will share her knowledge and her characteristic humour. This program is offered in partnership with the Grimsby Garden Club.
Marjorie’s 15th gardening book, The Thrifty Gardener, due in March, 2012 by House of Anansi, will arrive in time to see eager gardeners through till spring. Gardening columnist for the Globe & Mail, Marjorie is planning a sumptuous garden tour of Italy with Travel Specifics. She runs her garden design company, Marjorie Harris Gardens, out of Toronto, where she lives with her husband, author Jack Batten. They’ve shared their city garden since 1967.
Mary-Lu Zahalan: Tuesday, October 18 at 7:30 PM / Grimsby Public Library / $10.00
Mary-Lu Zahalan received the world’s first Master of Arts degree in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society, granted by Liverpool Hope University. Her studies examined the link between the city of Liverpool and the international sensation known as the Beatles. She explored Liverpool’s influence on their early music, and the Beatles eventual influence on the identity, culture and society of their hometown and the wider music world. As well as being an ardent Beatles fan, Mary-Lu Zahalan is a member of the faculty at Sheridan College’s Musical Theatre-Performance program in Oakville, where she teaches singing.
Natalie MacLean: Tuesday, November 22 / 7:30 PM / Casablanca Winery Inn / $50.00
An evening with Natalie MacLean is so much more than a reading. Savour six wine tastings and receive a copy of her newest book, Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World’s Best Bargain Wines. The book takes readers on a humourous tour of the world’s vineyards, in search of that elusive Holy Grail: great, affordable wine. Discover wines from Germany, Italy, Australia, South Africa, and the Mediterranean. She brings to life the eccentric, obsessive personalities that populate the world of wine and the mouth-watering foods that accompany them.
An accredited sommelier, Natalie tastes over 10,000 wines each year and is the drinks blogger for Epicurious, website of both Bon Appetit and Gourmet magazines. Amongst many awards, Natalie’s 2006 book, Red, White and Drunk all Over: a Wine Soaked Journey From Grape to Glass was chosen as the Best Wine Literature Book in the English language at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards and won the Culinary Literary Book Award in the Cordon d’Or international culinary arts competition. This is an evening you won’t want to miss. Cheers!
How to Dig Up a Dinosaur with Dr. David C. Evans / Sunday, January 8 / 2:00 PM
Dr. Evans is Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum. Dr. Evans will present a step-by-step guide on how to dig up a dinosaur. Children will learn about dinosaur bones and how they relate to our own human skeletons.
Tickets for children and parents are $3.00/person and are available at the Library Circulation Desk starting on Monday, November 28th.
David C. Evans / In Search of African Dinosaurs: New Discoveries in South Africa and Sudan Monday, January 9 / 7:00 PM / $10.00
The Grimsby Author Series: At the Library is very pleased to welcome one of the brightest, young personalities in the world of vertebrate palaeontology and dinosaur research. David Evans., Ph.D., is Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. He first laid eyes on dinosaur skeletons in the galleries of the ROM and has been fascinated with dinosaurs and paleontology ever since.David has spent considerable time in the field and has worked around the world, from southern Alberta, to the high Arctic, South Africa, to the Sudan. He is widely published and eminently respected. This fascinating talk for adults and teens will feature plenty of slides and opportunities for questions. Please Note: Tickets will be available at the GPL starting on Monday, November 28.
Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife: Friday, February 10 at 7:00 PM / Grimsby Public Library / $15.00
Paula McLain's instant national best seller, The Paris Wife, has been called a "compelling, spellbinding portrait of a marriage." This stunningly evocative, beautifully rendered story told in the voice of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, reveals Paris of the Lost Generation and introduces the reader to fascinating cultural icons of the 1920s such as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. The city and its inhabitants provide a vivid backdrop to this engrossing and wrenching story of love and betrayal that is made all the more poignant knowing that, in the end, Hemingway would write of his first wife, "I wish I had died before I loved anyone but her".
"The Paris Wife is a lyrical novel that is beautifully written on every single page. Paula McLain is as talented as the writer and his wife depicted herein. Stunning!"
