Put Down Your Phone And 'Hang Out' At Avon Library

AVON, CT — A noted author and collegiate academic will be at the Avon Free Public Library Thursday to, simply, "hang out."

But that doesn't mean Champlain College professor and author Sheila Liming doesn't have an objective to her visit.

Rather, the free program at the library, located at 281 Country Club Road, Avon, will look at the lost art of "hanging out" — that is returning to a society where folks gather in person and talk face-to-face.

It takes place on Thursday, Jan. 11, at 6:30 p.m. and it is free.

Liming not only teaches at the Burlington, Vt., college, but she is also an accomplished author, with one of her works entitled "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time."

Her analysis compares past practices of people gathering and enjoying each other's company with modern practices of Zoom meetings, cell phones, text communications, and the digital world.

According to an event announcement, Liming "makes an intelligent case for the importance of this most casual of social structures, and shows us how just getting together can be a potent act of resistance all on its own."

Her book came out nearly a year ago in January 2023 and it is available on Amazon.

For more information or to order "Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time," click on this link.

For more information on the Avon Free Public Library, click on this link.