Clapp Memorial Library

Fiber Arts with the Woolies
2026-08-27 17:00 - 18:30, 2026-09-03 17:00 - 18:30, 2026-09-10 17:00 - 18:30, 2026-09-17 17:00 - 18:30, 2026-09-24 17:00 - 18:30, 2026-10-01 17:00 - 18:30, 2026-10-08 17:00 - 18:30, 2026-10-15 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) and 7 more dates | Clapp Memorial Library, 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, United States
The Woolies are a local fiber arts group who meet weekly at the library to socialize and work on their various projects. Whether you’re interested in knitting, crocheting, felting, weaving, embroidery, needle point, sewing, or another fiber art, you’re welcome to join the fun.

Mass Save Pop-Up Resource Table
2026-09-01 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-09-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Clapp Memorial Library, 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, United States
Learn about no-cost Home Energy Assessments (HEAs) and other MassSave benefits for homeowners and renters. The goal of these assessments is to make residents’ homes safer, healthier, and more comfortable, while identifying ways to lower energy consumption, carbon emissions, and utility bill costs. There will be a table with resources and representatives of HomeWorks Energy will help explain all the benefits and answer any questions.
This program is funded by HomeWorks Energy, Inc.

Cookbook Club (Sept 2026)
2026-09-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Clapp Memorial Library, 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, United States
Do you like browsing cookbooks and trying new recipes? In the Cookbook Club, we each make a recipe from a cookbook and bring it for everyone to try. Taste, enjoy, and chat with your new cookbook friends! The September cookbook is Eat yourself healthy by Jamie Oliver.
Registration & confirmation required. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/GeC7X91ZfwSLNQkMA

Ukulele Play Along (Virtual Event)
2026-09-07 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-10-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-11-02 19:00 - 20:00, 2026-12-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual, MA
Strum along with the Ukulele Play Along on the first Monday every month!
Grab your ukulele and play along – because playing your ukulele is more fun when you do it with others. We’ll be focusing on 3 and 4 chord songs, with lyrics and chords provided on screen. Participants will be muted, so don’t worry about how you sound!
To join, email Julie Stepanek (julie@musicjulie.com) for the Zoom link and to receive the songs for the program. Don’t have a Ukulele? Don’t worry – you can borrow one from us!

"No to Nuclear" book talk
2026-09-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Clapp Memorial Library, 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, United States
Join us on September 8th at 7 p.m. at the Clapp Memorial Library in Belchertown, MA, for a special presentation of the new book No To Nuclear: Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War, with author Linda Pentz Gunter.
The climate crisis is very clearly upon us. The nuclear power industry would like us to believe it is the answer. But who pays the price for that choice?
No To Nuclear blasts aside claims that nuclear power is safe, green, and affordable, revealing a predatory and exploitative industry beneath the PR veneer.
The book not only makes the irresistible case that nuclear power is too slow, too expensive, too dangerous and too integrally connected to the nuclear weapons complex, it also delves into the lives of Indigenous peoples and communities of color, who have been harmed the most by the nuclear sector.
And it questions whether the way we devalue nature, the environment and the other animals with whom we share this planet, is costing us the chance of a genuinely just energy transition.
Linda Pentz Gunter is the founder of the US-based non-profit Beyond Nuclear and serves as its Executive Director. She also launched and writes for her organization’s news platform, Beyond Nuclear International. A former journalist with Reuters, she currently writes for the Morning Star (UK) and Ralph Nader’s Capitol Hill Citizen.

Plant Swap
2026-09-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Clapp Memorial Library, 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, United States
Bring a plant (or not!) to the library and swap it for a new one. The program takes place on the library lawn. Monthly on the third Tuesday of the month from May to September.
This program is funded by the Belchertown & Around Plant Swap

Fall Foraging Walk
2026-09-16 16:30 - 17:30 | Foley Field, 66 State Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, United States
Fall Foraging Walk, 4:30-5:30pm
Gain greater food security by learning wild and feral edible and medicinal plants and fungi. On Wednesday, September 16 at 4:30pm using the Wallace Lake Sensory Trails, we will learn how to identify and prepare foods using common wild edibles that you can find near where you live. Join naturalist and wild edibles enthusiast Arianna Alexsandra Collins of Offerings for Community Building on our foraging walk. She will discuss flora and fungi characteristics for proper identification as well as meal and medicinal preparation. Trailside nibbling during this 1-hour walkabout is encouraged.
Registration is required; sign up here: https://forms.gle/EUBcUDVYge1g2Wso8
All ages welcome. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
The Lake Wallace Sensory Trail is located at 70 State Street, behind the Police and Recreation Departments buildings.
Sponsored by the Friends of Clapp Memorial Library.

Friends of the Clapp Memorial Library Meeting
2026-09-17 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-10-15 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-11-19 18:30 - 19:30 | Clapp Memorial Library, 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, United States
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 potential in our community. The group’s additional purpose is to promote and maintain close relationships between the Library and the people it serves, to increase public awareness of Library resources, and to encourage community participation in Library activities.

Upcycling Workshop
2026-09-19 11:00 - 13:00 | Clapp Memorial Library, 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, United States
Saturday, September 19: Upcycling Workshop 11-1pm
Join Elena Wang, former sustainable fashion professor in an upcycling jam session! You’ll learn easy, no-sew upcycling tricks, including cropping, fabric painting, spray painting and dye techniques. Bring anything you rarely or never wear from your closet.
Registration is not required but it helps us plan. Sign up here to let us know if you plan to attend: https://forms.gle/j8Fn9e1ntQZS3svd7
This program is funded by the Friends of the Clapp Memorial Library.

Friend’s Annual Meeting
2026-10-22 19:00 - 20:00 | Clapp Memorial Library, 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA, 01007, United States
The Friends of Clapp Memorial Library announce that they will hold their annual meeting for this year at 7 PM on October 22, 2026, in the Clapp Memorial Library, 19 South Main Street, Belchertown, MA 01007. The meeting will review actions from the past year, hold elections for Board members, and discuss plans for the coming year. The general public is invited, and current members of the Friends group are highly encouraged to attend.
