Library Closing: Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024
Clapp Memorial Library 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, United StatesThe Library will be closed in observation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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Friends’ Book Sale!
Friends’ Book Sale!
Clapp Memorial Library 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, United StatesThe Friends of the Clapp Memorial Library Book Sale Monday: 4:00-8:00pm Members Night – memberships available at the door Tuesday-Friday: 10:00am-8:00pm Saturday: 9:00am-3:00pm The Friends of the Clapp Memorial Library Book Sale accepts cash, check, and credit card. Want to join the Friends? The Friends meet every third Thursday of the month at 6:30PM!
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Maltese Falcon Book Group
Clapp Memorial Library 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, United StatesHave you ever wanted to take the time to discuss a novel in depth? In this six-session group we will discuss the classic detective novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. The discussion will be introduced and facilitated by retired professor David Spector, who has some expertise on birds in literature. There are, indeed, birds, [...]
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Free Food Friday
Clapp Memorial Library 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, United StatesTeens are invited to the library after school on the third Friday of the month (October 18th) for free snacks as they visit and use the library! Students must be in grades 7-12 and arrive between 2:00-3:30PM for a free snack, courtesy of the library, as supplies last.
![[img] a line of carved pumpkins in front of the library](http://clapplibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/pumpkins-scaled.jpg "pumpkins")
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Once Upon a Halloween
Clapp Memorial Library 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, United StatesSaturday, October 19th 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM What would Halloween be without some chillin’ tales for the spookiest time of the year? Once Upon A Halloween is a fun-filled, Halloween event – complete with a huge cauldron bubbling over with fog for the last dramatic story! This family program contains some old chestnuts as [...]
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Halloween Spook-Tacular
Halloween Spook-Tacular
Chestnut Hill Community School 59 State St, Belchertown, MA, United StatesHalloween Spook-Tacular Belchertown Pollinator Garden 5:30 pm on Sunday, October 20th and Thursday, October 24th. Registration is required, sign up here for your choice of date: https://forms.gle/Wfd5gTSa7Z54QPFX9. Space is limited. Sunday is full, new Sunday signups will be added to the waitlist. Have fun with spooky stories, a scavenger hunt, cider, cookies and crafts. Bring [...]
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Needle Felting Pumpkins
Needle Felting Pumpkins
Clapp Memorial Library 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, United StatesCome learn the art of needle felting at the Clapp Memorial Library on Monday, October 21 from 2:30-5:30 OR Wednesday, October 23 from 6:00-9:00. Local fiber artist Anna Sunschauer will teach you how to sculpt fluffy wool fiber into a pumpkin using felting needles. No prior needle felting experience is necessary, but it is recommended [...]
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Maltese Falcon Book Group
Clapp Memorial Library 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, United StatesHave you ever wanted to take the time to discuss a novel in depth? In this six-session group we will discuss the classic detective novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. The discussion will be introduced and facilitated by retired professor David Spector, who has some expertise on birds in literature. There are, indeed, birds, [...]
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A Narrative of Dwight Village in Belchertown, Part 1
Clapp Memorial Library 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, United StatesMichael Carolan will provide a two-part documented history and geographical genealogy of the indigenous and nonindigenous peoples, notable events, architecture and landscapes, from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth centuries, and the district’s contributions to art, industry, politics, science and religion, on October 24th and November 14th. Known as Logg-town, Hopetown, Dwight’s Station and Pansy Park, [...]
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Teen Advisory Board (Oct 2024)
Clapp Memorial Library 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, United StatesThe Clapp Memorial Library’s Teen Advisory Board will meet Friday, October 25th from 4:30-5:30PM in the library’s Activity Room for its second meeting of the 2024-2025 school year! TAB is a group of 7th-12th grade students who meet monthly during the school year to propose library programming for teens, provide input on teen services, volunteer, [...]