Vibrant library, educational & cultural institution/Open to the public/500 programs a year/Literature + Music + Art + Science + Humanities = Pequot Library
720 Pequot Ave., Southport, CT
Joined April 2013
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Last week: Shots from a wonderful day at Luis Muñoz Marín School!
Students from Pre-K through Grade 8 explored new stories and big ideas at a book fair provided by Pequot Library and funded by the Reene B. Fisher Foundation. ✨
🎃 Discover the unsettling worlds of Jean Hanff Korelitz, from the marriage-shattering revelations of "You Should Have Known", the inspiration for HBO’s "The Undoing", to the buried past of "Admission" and the campus intrigue of "The Devil and Webster".
Then indulge in a literary treat: Pequot Library’s Literary Luncheon on Friday, November 13, at 11:30 a.m., featuring the bestselling author herself. Indulge your taste for deliciously tangled stories while supporting Pequot Library.
Reserve your tickets before this thrilling afternoon becomes a ghost of an opportunity! Learn more: buff.ly/jPLFALB 👻
Kids, teens, and families: Swing by to explore Lines on the Landscape. What can a map tell you about a place? Discover Pequot Library’s Great Lawn and nature trail with a self-guided mapping adventure inspired by "Lines of Liberty: Maps, Power, and the Making of America."
Follow the map, look for landmarks, decode symbols, choose your route, and try your hand at making a map of your own. Along the way, discover how maps help us understand—and make decisions about—the world around us.
Readers, we have a question: Which Jean Hanff Korelitz book would you recommend to a friend—"The Plot", "The Sequel", or another favorite? Tell us in the comments, then join the intimate conversation in person at our November 13 Literary Luncheon (11:30 a.m.). 📚
Korelitz will chat with Susy Hayes Jones, the creator and host of The Hayes’ Pages Literary Salon Series. Tickets: buff.ly/CMXnhhp
🍽️🌾 Nov. 19 at 7:00 p.m. - What can the past teach us about how we feed the future?
Join culinary historian, author, and journalist Ramin Ganeshram for an illuminating conversation on food, land, seasonality, and provisioning—then and now.
Presented as part of The Common Table: A Conversation Series on Culture, Place, and Food, a collaboration between Pequot Library and @southportgeneralstore. Please register here: buff.ly/ArW5wl7 📚🥕
And save the date for the next conversation in the series: Wine, Terroir, and the Long Table: An Evening With Neal Rosenthal on January 14, 2027, at 7:00 p.m. Register: buff.ly/TdlJ1XY 🍷
👻 Next weekend! 🎃
Join us Saturday, 10/31 at 1 p.m. for our Halloween “Boo Fest” Movie & Costume Party! 🧙♀️🦇For kids 8 and below.
Come dressed in your favorite costume for an afternoon of crafts 🎨 and games 🎲. Enjoy a screening of “Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest.”
Fun guaranteed! Register: buff.ly/kn5Q30l 🍬
#HalloweenBooFest #CostumeParty #FamilyFun #PequotLibrary #SouthportCT
Victoria Kann joined us last month to toast the launch of her new book, "Snickerdoodle"! Reserve your copy of this story about a zealous but misbehaved puppy here: buff.ly/F7wwiUi
N.N. [possibly Thomas Peake]
"America: Or an Exact Description of the West-Indies: More Especially of Those Provinces Which Are Under the Dominion of the King of Spain", 2 parts in 1 vol.
London: Ric. Hodgkinsonne for Edw. Dod, 1655
Its engraved map presents N. and S. America within a European system of names, borders, + imperial possessions. The text’s attention to natural resources, ports, trade, conquest, + colonial government reveals that geographic knowledge was tied to political + commercial ambition.
This map is displayed in our newly-opened Special Collections exhibition, "Lines of Liberty: Maps, Power, and the Making of America." It remains on view from Oct. 8 until Jan. 9, 2027. Learn more: buff.ly/C6Twutt
