Calendar

Bring your ideas, creativity and energy to our month Emily’s Friends meeting!  We’re planning all kinds of fun events and we’d love to have you join us.  Our fundraising work provides needed items for the library such as museum passes, technology and much more.  This group meets in the Public Safety Complex.

Bring your ideas, creativity and energy to our month Emily’s Friends meeting!  We’re planning all kinds of fun events and we’d love to have you join us.  Our fundraising work provides needed items for the library such as museum passes, technology and much more.  This group meets in the Public Safety Complex.

Bring your ideas, creativity and energy to our month Emily’s Friends meeting!  We’re planning all kinds of fun events and we’d love to have you join us.  Our fundraising work provides needed items for the library such as museum passes, technology and much more.  This group meets in the Public Safety Complex.

Bring your ideas, creativity and energy to our month Emily’s Friends meeting!  We’re planning all kinds of fun events and we’d love to have you join us.  Our fundraising work provides needed items for the library such as museum passes, technology and much more.  This group meets in the Public Safety Complex.

This is a drop-in slide show, presented by local author and illustrator Blanche Cybele Derby. Blanche will talk about how some common, early spring weeds can be used as food. You’ll discover how to identify and use often overlooked plants for delicious additions to your meal.
Blanche Cybele Derby is author and illustrator of My Favorite Plants, My Wild Friends (out of print) and More My Wild Friends, and creator of the film trilogy Edible Plants: Wild and Tame (Spring, Summer, and Fall). She has led numerous walks, lectured extensively and regularly includes wild plants in her meal.

Check out her website to learn more!

In collaboration with the Dreyfus Foundation and the National Science Foundation, the Mount Holyoke College Passport to Chemistry program presents: “Put Your Resources to Work”! Join us to experience the “power” of chemistry… Parent/child teams will explore hands-on experiments to learn about different ways that energy can be created by putting their brains, arms, lungs, and a source of light to work. Following the event, Chemistry Kits will be available for patrons to check out to continue the adventure at home!

Emily’s Friends of the Library is holding their annual members meeting with a special talk to follow! Tom Ricardi of Massachusetts Birds of Prey Rehabilitation Center will present on Raptors of the Pioneer Valley.

David Daley, former Editor-in-Chief of Salon, joins the library on June 14th to talk about his book, Rat F**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count. With much political and judicial debate around gerrymandering in today’s news cycle, we are thrilled to have the man who wrote the book uncovering the GOP-organized REDMAP program to reshape districts and legislatures in favor of Republican interests. Copies of Daley’s book are available at the library for checkout. Daley will be talking about his book with local author Seth Harwood, answering your questions, and signing books. Join us for tea and coffee to follow.

Stop by to try out Angela’s Structo Loom that’s over 100 years old. A great project for developing hand-eye coordination, and easy enough for toddlers to try!

Stop ‘n’ Craft returns this summer for two special sessions! We’ll get strung out with paint and become some unlikely DJs. All ages are welcome, but extra little crafters may need some help from a grown up.