Children ages 6 and up are invited to spend the morning creating with Lego. We will be doing our zip line challenge! We provide the bricks, you provide the imagination. Registration is required. All Lego pieces will stay at the Library but you can take a picture of your creation.
Come by at 6:30 pm to visit with Frosty the Snowman and check out some cool books! At 7:00 pm, sit back, put your feet up, take off your coat and join Storyteller Rona Leventhal for a journey around the world and back with her back pocket full of multi-cultural stories! Rona Leventhal is one [...]
Children ages 10 to 17 are invited to check out some cool new technology at the Clapp Memorial Library! Registration is required. See, learn and use some of the coolest new tech out there, such as a 3D Printer, 3D Design software, 3D Scanning, 3Doodler, Ozobots, Little Bits Electronics and Sphero. Participants will learn how to create 3D [...]
More trivia fun happens from 7 pm to 8 pm. Watch Marvel's "Doctor Strange" at 8. Sign up for either event or both. For grades 7-12.
Area wildlife photographer, Dale Monette, shares his stories and photographs of the animals of Quabbin as they go about their daily routines throughout the four seasons. Monette has documented the thousands of hours he has spent on the Quabbin Reservoir watershed. From eagles and loons to otters, bear, moose and more, it’s all been captured on [...]
Ed Orzechowski will discuss and read from his new book "You'll Like it Here: Donald Vitkus-- Belchertown Patient #3394". Donald Vitkus was given up for adoption at 27 days old. After bouncing between foster homes, he was sent to the Belchertown State School at age 6. Labeled a “moron”, he was not allowed to leave [...]
Please join us for a concert of Irish music on April 7 at 7pm. This Program was originally scheduled for March 31.
Please call the Library tomorrow, April 1 to check on open status. No joke!
Callin all poets, novelists, daydreamers and storytellers! Join Ruth Ann Sterling Thursday nights in April for Teen Write Nights from 4pm to 6pm. Students in grades 7-12 are welcome. No experience necessary. Please register at the circulation desk or by calling 413-323-0417. Contact [email protected] for more information.
The talented Belchertown High School students in Lori St. Pierre's art class have created a group mosaic that will hang in the Clapp Memorial Library, guided by mosaic artist Christine Kenneally. Come see the completed piece, installed in its Library home and meet the student artists. Refreshments will be served.
