BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Library Market//iCal Export//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ZOOM- Happy Christmas at Home: Celebrating the Holiday, UK Style UID:20259 DTSTAMP:20260422T171900Z DTSTART:20221207T190000Z DTEND:20221207T203000Z LOCATION: DESCRIPTION:This program will also be streamed to our Kingsley Room. Regis ter here if you want to watch it at the library.\r\nJoin former UK resid ent and lifelong Anglophile Claire Evans for a cultural tour of Christmas in Great Britain.  She’ll be your culinary travel guide to what special food and drink appears at the holiday table, with authentic recipes to tr y at home.  And it wouldn’t be a British Christmas without pantos, crac kers, and the Christmas number one, so she’ll also talk about the tradit ions and cultural quirks essential to a proper British holiday.  You’ll be fully prepared to eat, drink, and be merry, UK-style!\r\nClaire Evans is a former journalist, attorney, and college lecturer who started her lov e of most things British as she and her mother watched countless episodes of "Are You Being Served," "Fawlty Towers," and " The Vicar of Dibley" on PBS.  She went on to study abroad in London and, against the odds, she married a Brit she met in Peoria, Illinois.   They moved to England, where they lived for a number of years.  Outside of her work for a legal advice charity, Claire became a student of histor ical sights, pub dining, and tea shops.  Her business, Tea with Claire, grew from friends asking for travel and relocation advice.\r\nLike all Sou thbury Public Library programs, this event is free to attend and open to a nyone regardless of town of residency. Registration is required. This pro gram is sponsored by the Friends of the Southbury Public Library.  For mo re information about this program, please email Rebecca at rrandall@biblio .org or call the reference desk at 203-262-0626 ext 130. URL:https://www.southburylibrary.org/event/zoom-happy-christmas-home-celeb rating-holiday-uk-style END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR