Thursday, December 30, 2021

Upcoming Event: Plants First-- Virtual Book Discussion with Dr. Katie Takayasu

Upcoming Event:
Plants First, A Virtual Book Discussion featuring Dr. Katie Takayasu
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022, at 7 PM via Zoom

Dr. Katie Takeyasu will discuss her book, Plants First: A Physician's Guide to Wellness Through a Plant-forward Diet, and share how plant-based nutrition can help prevent disease and manage chronic illness. Learn easy recipes and tips for introducing plant-based meals into your everyday diet. 

Katherine Wehri Takayasu, M.D., M.B.A. practices Integrative Medicine, combining traditional Western medicine with acupuncture, mind-body medicine, botanicals, nutrition, and lifestyle optimization. She’s an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian and teaches the next generation of doctors about healing the whole patient mind, body, and spirit. For her own wellbeing, Dr. Katie practices what she preaches by engaging in regular yoga and meditation. She lives with her husband and sons in Connecticut. Visit www.DrKatie.com to discover Dr. Katie’s Life Kitchen and visit her on Instagram @DoctorKatie

Copies of the book are available at Diane’s Books in Greenwich.

Register today via Zoom


Monday, December 06, 2021

Winners of the Semi-Annual YCC Jeopardy Tournament

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the Semi-Annual Young Critics' Club Jeopardy Tournament! 

The winning team was the Descendants of Alex Trebek: Audrey, Diya, Vanya, and Skylar (not pictured)

They have showed their mastery of trivia questions related to books that YCC (our book club for Grades 5, 6, and 7) has read over the past year.

Thursday, December 02, 2021

Upcoming Event: Decorating Holiday Planters, In-person/outdoors at Perrot

Upcoming Event:

Decorating Holiday Planters, with Floral Designer Lorie Cunningham

In-Person/Outdoors at Perrot Library

Saturday, December 11th, 2021, at 1 PM

Learn how to decorate outdoor planters for the holidays with local floral designer Lorie Cunningham. Using winter greens, berried branches, and her innate creativity, Lorie will show you how to make an outdoor container go from just pretty to spectacular for the holiday season. This event will be in-person and outdoors, outside of the main entrance to Perrot. No advance registration required.