The library will be participating in the town’s Earth Day celebration on the Green on Sunday, May 4th from 1:00-4:00pm. We will be giving away seeds from our seed library and take-home craft kits for children. We will also be providing information about our environmentally friendly practices and upcoming programs/events featuring mother nature.
Plant and care for the library’s native plant butterfly and pollinator garden! Learn about the importance of native plants and how you can help. Do crafts and participate in citizen science/community science activities, where ordinary citizens/community members help scientists by gathering local data. Help the library raise monarch caterpillars to be released as butterflies at the end of the summer.
Do you believe in Magic? Join local artist Samantha Barlow-Beamer for an hour-long workshop where you’ll make your own fairy house using material gathered across beaches, forests and fields in […]
Anyone ages 5 & up is welcome to join us once a month for Lego Club. Build and display your creation at the library. We provide the Legos, you provide […]
Author Laura Marris will discuss her latest book The Age of Loneliness.
Have you ever wondered how bees are helpful to our environment? In this month’s STEM Storytime, we will discover how bees are pollinators, and how they help make flowers and […]
Plant and care for the library’s native plant butterfly and pollinator garden! Learn about the importance of native plants and how you can help. Do crafts and participate in citizen science/community science activities, where ordinary citizens/community members help scientists by gathering local data. Help the library raise monarch caterpillars to be released as butterflies at the end of the summer.
One Saturday each month, come to the library to learn about local & global animals & plants and meet wildlife/animals. This month we will be learning about all different owls found in Connecticut. Meet three different owls and a hawk, comparing their nocturnal and diurnal lifestyles and adaptations.
Learn about the life cycle of honeybees, try on beekeeper gear, and learn how beekeepers harvest honey from this unconventional farm animal, the honeybee! Lots of fun give-aways in this interactive presentation. Presenter: Humble Bee Honey Co.
Plant and care for the library’s native plant butterfly and pollinator garden! Learn about the importance of native plants and how you can help. Do crafts and participate in citizen science/community science activities, where ordinary citizens/community members help scientists by gathering local data. Help the library raise monarch caterpillars to be released as butterflies at the end of the summer.
Plant and care for the library’s native plant butterfly and pollinator garden! Learn about the importance of native plants and how you can help. Do crafts and participate in citizen science/community science activities, where ordinary citizens/community members help scientists by gathering local data. Help the library raise monarch caterpillars to be released as butterflies at the end of the summer.
Celebrate the real science behind many of the magical special effects in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (no spoilers, though, if you haven’t read them all yet). You’ll experience a Thickening Potion and its Antidote, Indoor Snow, a Crystal Ball full of pearly white mist, and many other dramatic chemical and physical changes. Professor Sepoc features lots of eye-catching sparks, flames, foams, and color changes involving safe, simple chemicals.
This inclusive, family-friendly show welcomes anyone ages 5 & up who can listen to instructions and be respectful to attend. Registration required.
Meet nature’s clean-up crew and learn about all the essential services some of our less-fancy native birds provide. Loveable once you get to know them, you can meet a crow, raven, vulture, and other birds once deemed, “pests” by humans. Presenter: Horizon Wings Raptor Rehabilitation
Plant and care for the library’s native plant butterfly and pollinator garden! Learn about the importance of native plants and how you can help. Do crafts and participate in citizen science/community science activities, where ordinary citizens/community members help scientists by gathering local data. Help the library raise monarch caterpillars to be released as butterflies at the end of the summer.
Butterfly release days are to be determined, based on how many monarch caterpillars we find and successfully raise from our gardens, when they decide to emerge, and weather. Register below if you want to be informed of when butterfly releases are happening.
Plant and care for the library’s native plant butterfly and pollinator garden! Learn about the importance of native plants and how you can help. Do crafts and participate in citizen science/community science activities, where ordinary citizens/community members help scientists by gathering local data. Help the library raise monarch caterpillars to be released as butterflies at the end of the summer.
Plant and care for the library’s native plant butterfly and pollinator garden! Learn about the importance of native plants and how you can help. Do crafts and participate in citizen science/community science activities, where ordinary citizens/community members help scientists by gathering local data. Help the library raise monarch caterpillars to be released as butterflies at the end of the summer.
Meet some of the local animals that live where you do and learn how each of them survives in the wild. Featuring: a turtle, a frog, owls, a vulture, and a millipede. Presenter: Earthplace
| Sunday | 1pm-4pm | |
| Monday | 9am-8pm | |
| Tuesday | 9am-8pm | |
| Wednesday | 9am-8pm | |
| Thursday | 9am-8pm | |
| Friday | 9am-6pm | |
| Saturday | 9am-5pm |