Scoville Memorial Library News - August 2, 2023
From: Scoville Memorial Library
August 3, 2023
Thursday, Aug. 3rd: Supporting our Pollinators at 10:30am
Saturday, Aug. 5th: S'mores & Stories at 2PM
Sunday Aug. 6th: A Dozen Delightful Donuts at 10:30am at HLS
Thursday, Aug. 10th: Silent Silliness at 8PM
Saturday, Aug. 12th Summer Reading Finale Community Picnic
All Together Now Family Story Time
Wednesdays & Fridays, 10:30am
Join us every Wednesday and Friday morning for stories, songs, rhymes and more! This song and story is for all ages and will take place on the Scoville Memorial Library lawn next to the Buttons Garden. Stories and activities will be themed according to the summer reading program focus of the week. Get ready to spend time with friends, make new friends, and build community!
Making Space for Pollinators with naturalist Jerry Schneider
Thursday, August 3rd, 10:30 am
Ages 6+
Come learn about local pollinators and be inspired to pay more attention to our friends, the butterflies, bees, bats, and other pollinators in our neighborhood. Audiences learn how to create and maintain pollinator habitat. The program concludes with a wonderful tee-shirt craft. Please register in advance.
All Together Now S'mores & Stories
Saturday, August 5th, 2-3 PM
All ages
Come together for s'mores, stories and games at our last weekend event before the summer reading program finale. There will not be a prize drawing, but there will be some cool condimental riffs on the classic s'more! And a very special story.
A Dozen Delightful Donuts! at the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon
Sunday, August 6th at 10:30am
All ages
How do you like your donut? Glazed? Sprinkled? Jelly filled? Join us as we munch on some delicious donuts and work together to make a dozen (at least!) donut paintings that will be displayed as a mural in the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon and the Scoville Memorial Library. Please check the Hotchkiss Library website for registration details.
Silent Silliness: Comedy shorts for the whole family. Live music by Joanna Seaton and Donald Sosin
Thursday, August 10th at 8pm
Join us on the library lawn for an outdoor film and concert featuring short silent comedies by some of the greatest comedians ever to grace the silver screen. Live music by the famed piano/vocal team of Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton, Lakeville residents who perform worldwide, will bring these silent films to life! Ground covering, cushions, and popcorn will be provided, but feel free to bring your favorite picnic blankets and snacks. Fingers crossed for sunny skies, but if necessary, the rain date is Friday the 11th at the same time.
This program is made possible by the generosity of the Friends of the Scoville Memorial Library (FSL)
All Together Now Summer Reading Program Finale!
Saturday, August 12th, 12-2pm
Let's meet for fun and celebration on the Sharon Green in front of the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon for a community picnic with interactive outdoor games and ice cream. Bring your completed BINGO boards to be entered in the final prize winning raffle drawing of the summer and additional great prizes - think Dinosaurs and Unicorns! Great work everyone, now let's party!
The Friends of the Scoville Library are currently accepting donations of books for their ongoing book sales
Mondays 10 am to 12 noon
All proceeds benefit the library's programs. Donated books should be:
clean and in good condition so that they will be appealing to other readers
relatively dust free, not discolored or written in
structurally sound with intact binding and pages which are not ripped
Please no textbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries or travel guides older than four years. Donations can be dropped off on Mondays between 10-Noon, or contact the Friends to make other arrangements.
Check them out!
The library has passes to several area cultural institutions available for check out for up to 48 hours! Click here for a complete list and link to place a hold, or stop by the library to check out your passes today!
Support The Library!
Drop your LaBonne's shopping receipts off at the library, and they will send us a donation based on a percentage of the total. Easy as that and we greatly appreciate it!
Kanopy Kids is
parent-approved.
Unlimited Plays
Curated Streaming
Access w/library card
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