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Monday: 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Tuesday: 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Thursday: 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Friday: 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Saturday: 10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Sunday: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

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Chess in the Afternoons

Wednesdays at 3 p.m.

Learn to play chess or play a friendly game with others. Open to all ages.

It's a Dog's Life... But It's Your Carpet

May 12, 7 p.m. - Hillcrest Meeting Room

Dr. Justine Lee, author of It’s a Dog’s Life... But It’s Your Carpet, explains your dog's odd antics and answers questions. Whether you're looking for real advice on pet rearing, solutions to a dog's most frustrating habits, explanations of a dog's weirdest quirks, or simply a good laugh at the pooch's expense, this program is sure to entertain and surprise even the most well-informed dog lover. Dr. Lee's dog JP will join her for this event.

Wolfquest

May 19, 3:30 p.m. - Village View Room
WolfQuest is an exciting interactive 3D wildlife simulation game created by the Minnesota Zoo and eduweb. WolfQuest players take on the role of a wolf living in Yellowstone National Park. In either single player or multiplayer missions players can hunt elk and rabbits, chase coyotes, and interact with other wolves.

Build a Box

May 27, 7 p.m. - Village View Room
Learn to fold and embellish your own little boxes using card stock and designer papers. You’ll leave the class with patterns that you can take home to create more of these little cuties. Class is open to anyone. Younger children are welcome if accompanied by a helping adult. Please call 651-695-3700 to register.

Chinese Calligraphy

June 3, 3:30 p.m. - Village View Room

Discover the most popular Chinese characters and the techniques to write them. Leave with your own handwritten work on fine paper (materials provided). Space is limited. Call to register.

Tails From an Iditarod Veterinarian: Vetting a 1049 Mile Sled Dog Race

June 30, 7 p.m. - Hillcrest Auditorium

Get the insider's guide from a veterinarian on the magic and history behind the Iditarod, the 1049 mile "last great race" from Anchorage to Nome. Find out what veterinarians do on the trail, and how they take care of the dogs. Find out how many dogs they examine, how they stay warm at -40 degrees, and how they keep these great canine athletes healthy for this famous dog race! Meet Dr. Lee's own dog JP (who isn't a sled dog), and see him dressed up in Iditarod dog gear.

June 10

Will Eisner's A Contract with God

Set among 1930s Bronx tenements, these four stories capture the brutal, tender world of working-class Jews. In the title story, Frimme Hersh's daughter suddenly dies, sorely testing the "contract" this self-made man once entered into with God. In "Cookalein," Eisner casts a humorous eye on the amorous, social-climbing tendencies of young urbanites spending a summer in the Adirondacks. Wry, honest, and sad, these four stories showcase Eisner's unique ability to capture character with the quick stroke of his pen.

June 24

Art Spiegelman's The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale

The comic book transfigured, this graphic novel tells the story of Spiegelman's parents Vladek and Anna, Jews reaching maturity in a Europe on the verge of Nazism, and their terrifying history and eventual survival in the concentration camps. Spiegelman uses the broadest tools of the genre—Jews are drawn as mice, Nazis as cats, Poles as pigs, Frenchmen as frogs, and so on—to make vivid the unimaginable, both to the reader and to himself, appearing as a character in the book listening to his father's story.

July 8

Ben Katchor's Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories

Steeped in a melancholy, grey-tinted world of elevated trains, luncheonettes, and gently decaying tenements, Katchor's perambulating photographer Julius Knipl documents a rapidly vanishing urban netherworld. Peopled by men who map the migration of hairstyles and those who belong to the Amalgamated Panty-Waist Fitters Union, his cityscape is a familiar one, albeit with the touch of a demented fairy tale.

July 22

Harvey Pekar's The Quitter

Ostensibly covering Pekar's early years, this dark graphic novel tackles everything from his brief stint in the Navy to jazz criticism and mid-century race relations. The gritty and atmospheric artwork by American Splendor collaborator Dean Haspiel perfectly captures Pekar's cantankerous tone. But a surprisingly hopeful message ultimately surfaces. It's possible to find your way in the world, Pekar suggests, even if it takes a lifetime to do it.

August 5

Joann Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat

After eating a parrot, an aged Algerian rabbi's cat develops the ability to speak and quickly declares his desire not only to be Jewish, but to have a bar mitzvah. The rabbi engages his pet in a spiraling debate, touching on topics such as spelling, parental love, and the very nature of Jewish identity.

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