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SUMMARY:Book Club: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 19th for Book Club at 10 AM. This event is open to the public.\nThis month’s book is: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy\n“Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore. Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again. But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust one another enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late–and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together”–Inside jacket flap.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/book-club-wild-dark-shore-by-charlotte-mcconaghy/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260121T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260121T110000
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PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:22
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SUMMARY:Book Club: King Solomon’s Mines by H.R. Haggard
DESCRIPTION:Join us on January 21st for Book Club at 10 AM. This event is open to the public.\nThis month’s book is: King Solomon’s Mines by H.R. Haggard by Gillian Flynn\n \n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/book-club-king-solomons-mines-by-h-r-haggard/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251217T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251217T110000
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Gone Girl by G. Flynn
DESCRIPTION:Join us on December 17th for Book Club at 10 AM. This event is open to the public.\nThis month’s book is: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn\n“On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick’s wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy’s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn’t true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren’t his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did really did happen to Nick’s beautiful wife?”\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/book-club-gone-girl-by-g-flynn/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251015T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251015T110000
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PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Thursday Murder Club by R. Osman
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 15th for Book Club at 10 AM. This event is open to the public.\nThis month’s book is: Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman\n“In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the friends suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. They might be senior citizens, but they are cleverer than most. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it’s too late?”\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/book-club-thursday-murder-club-by-r-osman/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260218T100000
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SUMMARY:Florence County Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Florence County Book Club meets on the third Wednesday of every month at 10:00 AM in the library. All are welcome to join at any time.\nPlease contact the library with any questions.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/florence-county-book-club/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260214T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260214T110000
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PRIORITY:5
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Jessie Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Jessie Garcia will be at Florence County Library, Saturday, February 14th at 10 am for an author talk! Please join us!!\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/author-talk-with-jessie-garcia/
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250517T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250517T120000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250321
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:2
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SUMMARY:American Bird Conservancy (ABC): Bird talk and walk
DESCRIPTION:Northwoods Bird talk and walk to follow for those that want to attend.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/american-bird-conservancy-abc-bird-talk-and-walk/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250503T100000
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SUMMARY:Bizarre History of Wisconsin- Strange Stories From Our Past!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special talk from Chad Lewis: Bizarre History of Wisconsin- Strange Stories From Our Past!\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/bizarre-history-of-wisconsin-strange-stories-from-our-past/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250729T100000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250312
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SEQUENCE:1
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SUMMARY:J&R Aquatic Animals
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun, one-hour presentation featuring real live animals! 🐍🦎🦔🐦 You’ll meet snakes, lizards, insects, spiders, hedgehogs, birds, and more. We’ll answer questions and, if time allows, you might even get to see the animals up close!\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/jr-aquatic-animals/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250722T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250722T120000
DTSTAMP:20250312T120724Z
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SUMMARY:Wesley Waffles
DESCRIPTION:“The Wacky World of Wesley Waffles” offers an engaging kid’s show like no other! With fun props, engaging music, and audience participation, people LOVE Wesley Waffles LIVE!\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/wesley-waffles/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250715T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250715T120000
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SEQUENCE:1
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SUMMARY:Jeff McMullen Magic Show @ NWTC in Aurora
DESCRIPTION:Jeff McMullen is a multifaceted vaudevillian with an emphasis on physical comedy who entertains audiences young and old alike with his antics!\nThis show will take place at NWTC in Aurora.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/jeff-mcmullen-magic-show-nwtc-in-aurora/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids
LOCATION:2030 Calvary Dr., Aurora, WI 54151
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250708T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250708T120000
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SUMMARY:Magical World of Color
DESCRIPTION:This year, get ready for another of Great Scott’s magical reading programs. Imagine an all-out, fun and magical adventure with color and surprise, ooohs and aaahs.\nSo, what can you expect from this program? How about amazing magic, very-cool ventriloquism, appropriate mood-setting music, fantastic fun for everyone, and the message of Read, Read, Read — all rolled into an ALL NEW well-designed, professional show for kids and families.\nThis is going to be a great, fun show filled with:\n\nMagic\nMusic\nPuppets\nVentriloquism\nPuppets\nLaughter\nThe message of Read, Read Read!!\nPlenty of audience participation and involvement\n\nPreschool through 12 years old will come away from this experience having had a wonderfully fun time, but they will be carrying seeds of truth inside as well.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/magical-world-of-color/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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SUMMARY:Strutz Dragon Training
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/strutz-dragon-training/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250617T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250617T120000
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SUMMARY:Rondini Bombastic Bubble Show
DESCRIPTION:What is the BOMBASTIC BUBBLE SHOW?  Part magic show, part science show, part juggling show, part STEM EDUCATION = 110 % FUN for young and old!\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/rondini-bombastic-bubble-show/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250610T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250610T120000
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SUMMARY:Glaser’s Reptarium
DESCRIPTION:Glaser’s Reptarium is an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages!\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/glasers-reptarium/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250709T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250709T230000
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SUMMARY:Book Club: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
DESCRIPTION:Join us on July 9th for Book Club at 10 AM. This event is open to the public.\nThis month’s book is: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride\nIn 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and communityheaven and earththat sustain us. Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/book-club-the-heaven-earth-grocery-store-by-james-mcbride/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250910T230000
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SUMMARY:Book Club: James by Percival Everett
DESCRIPTION:Join us on September 10th for Book Club at 10 AM. This event is open to the public.\nThis month’s book is: James by Percival Everett\n“From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “cult literary icon” (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature”–\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/book-club-james-by-percival-everett/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250827T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250827T230000
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SUMMARY:Book Club: The Secret History by Donna Tartt
DESCRIPTION:Join us on August 27th for Book Club at 10 AM. This event is open to the public.\nThis month’s book is: The Secret History by Donna Tartt\nRichard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampeden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life — in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly, self-assured, and at first glance, highly unapproachable.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/book-club-the-secret-history-by-donna-tartt/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250813T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250813T230000
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SEQUENCE:15
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SUMMARY:Book Club: The Women by Kristin Hannah
DESCRIPTION:Join us on August 13th for Book Club at 10 AM (unless stated otherwise). This event is open to the public.\nThis month’s book is: The Women by Kristin Hannah\nTwenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a choice for her life different from the sheltered world in which she grew up. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/book-club-the-women-by-kristin-hannah/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250723T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250723T230000
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
DESCRIPTION:Join us on July 23rd for Book Club at 10 AM. This event is open to the public.\nThis month’s book is: Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing\n“Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day’s sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But for Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men the ordeal had barely begun. It would end only after a near-miraculous journey by Shackleton and a skeleton crew through over 850 miles of the South Atlantic’s heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. This astonishing tale of survival by Shackleton and all twenty-seven of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, “defined heroism.” Alfred Lansing’s brilliantly narrated book has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the Endurance’s fateful trip”–\nDescribes how polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship became immobilized in ice for ten months on his 1914 expedition to Antarctica, resulting in an 850-mile journey back to civilization with only a skeleton crew remaining.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/book-club-endurance-shackletons-incredible-voyage-by-alfred-lansing/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250618T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250618T230000
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PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:12
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Camino Ghosts by John Grisham
DESCRIPTION:Join us on June 18th for Book Club at 10 AM. This event is open to the public.\nThis month’s book is: Camino Ghosts by John Grisham\nOn Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn’t know is that the island has a remarkable history, and locals believe it is cursed… and the past is never the past…”–\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/book-club-camino-ghosts-by-john-grisham/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250501T230000
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SUMMARY:Book Club: As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meisner
DESCRIPTION:Join us the first Thursday of the month for Book Club at 10 AM. This event is open to the public.\nThis month’s book is: As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meisner\n“From the darkest hours rises life in all its glory…From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and A Bridge Across the Ocean comes a new novel set in Philadelphia during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which tells the story of a family reborn through loss and love. In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone streets. Into this bustling town, came Pauline Bright and her husband, filled with hope that they could now give their three daughters–Evelyn, Maggie, and Willa–a chance at a better life. Their dreams are short-lived. Just months after they arrive, the Spanish Flu reaches the shores of America. As the pandemic claims more than twelve thousand victims in their adopted city, they find their lives left with a world that looks nothing like the one they knew. But even as they lose loved ones, they take in a baby orphaned by the disease who becomes their single source of hope. Amidst the tragedy and challenges that surround them, they learn what they cannot live without–and what they are willing to do about it. Under the Canopy of Heaven is the compelling story of a mother and her daughters who find themselves in a harsh world not of their making, which will either crush their resolve to survive or purify it”–\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/book-club-as-bright-as-heaven-by-susan-meisner/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250512T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250517T000000
DTSTAMP:20250306T160609Z
CREATED:20250306
LAST-MODIFIED:20250307
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:4
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SUMMARY:Art Show
DESCRIPTION:Stop in to see art on display from May 12-16 during open hours.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/art-show/
CATEGORIES:Adults,Kids
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UID:MEC-07cdfd23373b17c6b337251c22b7ea57@florencecountylibrary.org
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250311T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250311T170000
DTSTAMP:20250305T161425Z
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PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:3
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SUMMARY:Central Crafts
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a central craft program on Tuesdays (all day during open hours). One craft per child per visit, please.\nCrafts are provided by the Friends of the Library.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/central-crafts/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250307T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250307T103000
DTSTAMP:20250305T161009Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250307
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:9
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SUMMARY:Story/Tot-Time
DESCRIPTION:During school, join us for Story/Tot-Time for the littles on Fridays at 9:30.\n
URL:https://florencecountylibrary.org/events/story-tot-time/
CATEGORIES:Kids
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