Saturday, August 6 at 8pm Come to the Clapp this Saturday for a free evening of opera with McKenna Troy (soprano) and Ryan Nash (tenor). Having just returned from their international debut together in Novafeltria, Italy, they’re very excited to share the beautiful Italian music they fell in love with in the Belchertown community. Amidst [...]
Trap the Zhu Zhu - August 8th at 10:00 AM Come join real scientists as we use the engineering design process to create a trap to stop a moving 'animal'. Use your ingenuity, creativity, and reasoning skills to design a prototype trap and then re-design it to make it even better! Students ages 5-10 are [...]
Wednesday, August 10th at 6:00 pm Library Lawn (Town hall auditorium if rain) Come for a family comedy magic show with professional magician, balloon sculptor, and flea circus ring master Ed Popielarczyk.
Teens entering grades 7-12 are invited to the library's first-ever Summer Reading Bingo program on Friday, August 12th at 6:00PM. Teens will play bingo for the chance to win awesome prizes like Wii U games, board games, gift cards, books, and more! All attendees will earn a raffle ticket for the Teen Summer Reading Program. Teens can [...]
By invite only! For children & families that have completed our Summer Reading Program. Entertainment by The ToeJam Band. Sponsored in part by Country Bank.
Teens entering grades 7-12 are invited to tie-dye their free summer reading shirts outside the Clapp Memorial Library on Friday, August 19th from 5:30-6:30PM. The program will take place on the library's lawn. Teens who did not sign up to receive a shirt may bring their own clean shirts to tie-dye. There will also be [...]
The Friend of the Library are hosting a one-day $1 DVD & Music CD Sale on August 27th, from 8am-3PM in the Library parking lot!
The Library will be closed in observation of Labor Day
Wednesday, September 7 @ 7pm Author Tim Spofford joins us to talk about his new book, What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous "Doll Test" and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World. Spofford tells the story of the towering intellectual and emotional partnership between two Black scholars who highlighted the [...]
Saturday, September 10 @10:30am (Activity Room) Local author Lu Wanda Cheney joins us to talk about her new book, On Her Feet, which she wrote with her daughter, Ashley Cheney. When she was 14, Ashley jumped off a roof, thinking it would be fun, and suffered a permanent spinal cord injury. Her doctors tell her [...]
