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! This month’s book is Gatherings: Casual-Fancy Meals to Share. Registration & confirmation required, sign up here: https://forms.gle/A4tUx5bSHyodufry6
The BHS Writing Club and the Clapp Memorial Library are teaming up for a writing workshop for teens! Ruthie Sterling, a novelist and the library’s Teen Services Coordinator, will run a writing workshop based on the Letters About Literature Writing Contest at a BHS Writing Club meeting. The workshop will take place from 2:15-3:00PM on [...]
Join us at the Clapp Memorial Library on Tuesday, November 18 at 7pm for a movie screening of the 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre featuring Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Judi Dench, and Holliday Grainger. Popcorn will be provided. Public performance rights provided by SWANK
Thursdays, 4:30 pm to 5:00 pm October 30th, November 6th, 13th, & 20th Mindful Music with Mr. Ryan is a joyful, heart-led program for children ages 6–11 that blends the magic of music, movement, mindfulness, and mythology—all through the colorful lens of Bhakti, the Indian practice of love and connection with self and others. Each [...]
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 Friends of Clapp Memorial Library announce that they will hold their annual meeting for this year at 7 PM on November 20, 2025, 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 [...]
Clapp Memorial Library is offering a Stress Reduction Awareness course. The eight-week introductory course starts on Thursday, September 25 at 7 PM and runs every Thursday through November 20 (excluding October 16). The course is designed to teach and practice mindfulness-based skills. Mindfulness meditation skills teach us to be fully present in the moment and, [...]
Nipmuc Story Time with Hassanamisco Nipmuc tribal members Saturday, November 15 & 22, 9:30-10:15am Join us in celebration of Native American Heritage Month for this drop-in story time! All ages are welcome; the event is geared towards K-3rd grade children.
Have you ever wanted to take the time to discuss a novel in depth? In this five-session group, we will discuss the Gothic novel, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. The discussion will be introduced and facilitated by retired professor David Spector. After registration is confirmed, participants can pick up a copy of the novel to [...]
A monthly book group for lovers of high fantasy, hard science fiction, fable, far future, and all of the speculative fiction options. We meet online via Google Meet. Upcoming reads: The Naming Song / Jedediah Berry (1/27) The Children of Blood and Bone / Tomi Adeyemi (2/24) The Tainted Cup / Robert Jackson Bennett (3/24) [...]