Jul
12
Wed
Wednesday Afternoon Book Club
Jul 12 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

This group picks a book to read each month and comes together for a lively discussion on the second Wednesday afternoon of each month. For information on the latest title, please visit the Wednesday Afternoon Book Club page of our website!

Jul
18
Tue
Guitar Circle with Lynne
Jul 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Join Lynne Knudsen for the first meeting of a new, ongoing guitar circle! Bring your string instrument, voice, or both. Lynne will be bringing sheet music to share, and invites others to bring their favorite music. This month, she’ll focus on international music to follow the Build a Better World theme.

Build a Better World is sponsored by the Emily Williston Memorial Library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Jul
25
Tue
Strings & Sings with Lynne
Jul 25 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Strings & Sings with Lynne

Join Lynne Knudsen for Strings & Sings! Bring your string instrument, voice, or both. Lynne will be bringing sheet music to share, and invites others to bring their favorite music. No registration required.

Jul
26
Wed
Build a Better World Book Discussion
Jul 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Join Nancy Stenberg in discussing Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debby Irving. Copies available to check out with a valid library card. Also available through CWMARS as an e-audiobook on the Commonwealth eBook, or as an e-audiobook on Hoopla with a BPL e-card. Read more about Irving and Waking Up White on her website.

Build a Better World is sponsored by the Emily Williston Memorial Library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Jul
27
Thu
RESCHEDULED! — Walking Tour of Mutter’s Field Accessible Trail
Jul 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Join Pascommuck Conservation Trust board member Marty Klein on a tour of their award winning Mutter’s Field Accessible Trail, “A Place in Nature for Everyone.” Completed in 2016, the trail has been embraced by the community as a tranquil place to enjoy nature’s beauty and has become one of Easthampton’s “special places.” Participants should meet at the East St. entrance. In the event that lot is full, parking is available along East Green Street. Enter the trail at the end of the street and proceed to the East St. trail head to meet the group.

Build a Better World is sponsored by the Emily Williston Memorial Library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Aug
5
Sat
Build a Better World Potluck!
Aug 5 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

It’s coming up — our Build a Better World Adult Summer Reading POTLUCK!! Registration is NOT required to come to the event, but IS required to bring something.

Click here or sign up at the Library if you’d like to contribute. We appreciate anything you can provide!! 

Aug
8
Tue
Strings & Sings with Lynne
Aug 8 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Strings & Sings with Lynne

Join Lynne Knudsen for Strings & Sings! Bring your string instrument, voice, or both. Lynne will be bringing sheet music to share, and invites others to bring their favorite music. No registration required.

Aug
9
Wed
Wednesday Afternoon Book Club
Aug 9 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

This group picks a book to read each month and comes together for a lively discussion on the second Wednesday afternoon of each month. For information on the latest title, please visit the Wednesday Afternoon Book Club page of our website!

Aug
22
Tue
Strings & Sings with Lynne
Aug 22 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Strings & Sings with Lynne

Join Lynne Knudsen for Strings & Sings! Bring your string instrument, voice, or both. Lynne will be bringing sheet music to share, and invites others to bring their favorite music. No registration required.

Aug
29
Tue
Weaving Easthampton’s Past and Present
Aug 29 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Weaving Easthampton's Past and Present

An interactive weaving of Easthampton’s past and present by Henry Amistadi and María José Giménez through storytelling, poetry, translation, and group reflection. Visual and written examples of storytelling will be shared and explored, focusing on intersecting, evolving ideas of “place” in the local cultural identity.