Stay in touch with your friends this summer here at the library!  Sign up together for tons of fun programs and volunteer activities to keep you busy.

Teens will make art using recycled objects with the help of a Treecycle artist for their upcoming Illuminated Sculpture Forest Walk on April 22 in Stanley Deming Park.

This course will include an in-depth exploration of mindfulness of the body as a path toward calm and connection to ourselves and others. Much more than just a relaxation technique, mindfulness gives us a new way to relate to all of our experience, with kindness, with interest and without judgment.  With mindfulness, we can step out of habitual reactions and find new ways to respond to ourselves and others. Each class will include guided mediation practice, teaching and Q&A, as well as optional homework.

This course will include an in-depth exploration of mindfulness of the body as a path toward calm and connection to ourselves and others. Much more than just a relaxation technique, mindfulness gives us a new way to realate to all of our experience, with kindness, with interst and without judgement. With mindfulness, we can step out of habitual reactions and find new ways to respond to ourselves and others. Each class will include guided mediation practice, teaching, and Q&A, as well as optional homework.

This course will include an in-depth exploration of mindfulness of the body as a path toward calm and connection to ourselves and others.  Much more than just a relaxation technique, mindfulness gives us a new way to relate to all of our experience, with kindness, with interest and without judgment.  With mindfulness, we can step out of habitual reactions and find new ways to respond to ourselves and others. Each class will include guided meditation practice, teaching, and Q&A, as well as optional homework.

The Magic of Sharks:  Help Magician Steve Woyce make the magic happen as we learn amazing shark facts in this high-energy comedy magic show. Ages 4-10. Register beginning June 16 online or in person at the Children's Desk.

Sonic Sounds-Mad Science This workshop is all about sounds with demonstrations and experiments. Make a loud shock wave! Grades K-3. Register beginning June 16 online or at the children's desk.

Jurassic Encounters:  Learn some interesting facts about dinosaurs, such as what they ate and where they lived, and what could have brought about the end of the dinosaurs.  Meet our surprise guest "Fluffy."  Ages 4-10.  Register beginning June 16 online or at the Children's Desk.

Do you love Shakespeare’s sonnets?  Ferlinghetti’s free-wheeling poems?  The elusive Emily Dickinson?  Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Odgen Nash, Sylvia Plath, Marge Piercy, and all the many others — what poet has gifted you with your favorite poem?  Come to this Poetry Month celebration to share a poem that has enriched your life or helped you though a difficult time. This reading is a marvelous way to discover new poems, as well as share your own favorites. Drop in for a while, or stay for the entire program.

An informal spinning group focusing on drop spindle yarn method from wool and other fibers.  Beginners and more advanced spinners welcome.  Bring your own spindle and fiber, or if you are new to this ancient craft, contact us ahead so we can provide "loaners" to you (a small fee for wool used will be collected as arranged in advance).  Drop spindle spinning uses a lightweight spindle that is very portable, as opposed to a heavy and expensive spinning wheel.  Co-sponsored by the Friends of Hathorn House Historical Society.