Why Crafting Matters with Perri Klass, MD

October 29, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

If you’re turning to crafting while at home this year, you’re not alone. We craft because it feels good. Listen to New York Times columnist and award-winning author Dr. Perri Klass talk via Zoom about the importance of crafting during emotionally intense times. You are welcome to craft along with us while at home.

Perri Klass is Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics at New York University and Co-Director of NYU Florence. She writes the weekly column,“The Checkup,” for the New York Times Science Section. She has written extensively about medicine, children, literacy, and knitting. Her new book, out October 13th, A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future, is an account of how victories over infant and child mortality have changed the world.

She is also a prolific knitter. She writes about her time training as a pediatrician: “I had a lot to say about the ways that knitting mattered to me during those emotionally intense years of taking care of very sick children, those sleep-deprived years of long nights in the hospital.”

In order to participate with Zoom securely, please register on our website at https://www.windsorlibrary.com/adult/sign-up-for-a-program/