Red Ribbon Week Bookmark Contest Award Announcement Friday, October 27, 6:45 PM Join the Clapp Memorial Library and Belchertown Overcoming Adversity Together (BOAT) as we announce the winners of our Red Ribbon Week Bookmark Contest. A winner will be chosen from each age category: ages 12-18 and 11 and younger. Free pizza will be provided [...]
Join us in the Town Hall Auditorium on Monday, November 6 when the Clapp Memorial Library is hosting an evening of the strange and mysterious with Ronny LeBlanc from the Travel Channel / Discovery+ television series Expedition Bigfoot & Paranormal Caught on Camera and author of Monsterland: Encounters with UFOs, Bigfoot and Orange Orbs. At [...]
Celebrate International Games Month at the library! Patrons of all ages are invited to the library's Games Day on Friday, November 17th, from 3:00-5:30PM. Drop in and play a game or two while enjoying snacks and entering to win a board game or puzzle of your own. Borrow from our collections of games and puzzles [...]
Our weekly Music with Pop is happening at the Belchertown Senior Center for a Holiday Concert on December 6th at 10am! Music with Jacques Hooten aka Pop! Wednesdays, geared towards ages 1 to 6. Funded by the Friends of the Clapp Memorial Library.
Sun on the Muddy: A poetry reading by Jim Armenti with photography by Dave Madeloni Join Jim Armenti (poet) and Dave Madeloni (photographer) as they share their work Sun On The Muddy, a book of poetry and fantastic photos published by Levellers Press, for a short presentation, poetry reading, a few songs, and conversation. Books [...]
**PROGRAM FULL - NEW SIGN-UPS WILL BE ADDED TO WAITLIST** Join us for a movie afternoon! We will be showing a Haunting in Venice based on the Agatha Christie novel on Friday, January 19th, at 2PM. Space is limited, registration is required. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/shTbbf14GsHZZz5Z8 For patrons 18 and over.
On Saturday, February 3 at 3pm, the Clapp Memorial Library will host a free acoustic concert by the Belchertown duo, Ukes for Ukraine. Terry Nagel (soprano ukulele) and Jimmy Burgoff (bass ukulele) will bring their street corner music, and their little blue tip bucket, indoors with an hour of favorite uke tunes and more stories [...]
Clapp Memorial Library Board of Trustees - Seeks New Members and Hosts Informal “Meet & Greet” *Registration Required* Are you a Belchertown resident? Do you love the Library? Do you want to support the Clapp Memorial Library and the amazing programming it provides our community? If you answered “yes” to these questions then you might [...]
All are invited to the The Friends of the Clapp Memorial Library Board Meeting in the Activity Room at 6:30pm. For information email friendsofclappmemoriallibrary@gmail.com http://www.friendsofclapplibrary.org/ The Friends of Clapp Memorial Library is a volunteer not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising monies to assist the Library beyond the ordinary scope of the Library’s budget to reach its [...]
The Clapp Memorial Library has embarked on a strategic planning process to develop priorities and plan the library’s future. We need your help! Join us and facilitator Deb Hoadley of Hoadley Consulting on Saturday, March 16 from 9:30am to noon in the Town Hall Auditorium for this important conversation about the community and the library. [...]
