Calling all young writers, poets, playwrights, and novelists! Once again the Clapp Memorial Library is opening its doors to young and aspiring writers during National Novel Writing Month.  The library will host a weekly writing program for teens in grades 7-12 throughout the month of November. The program, held mostly on Monday nights, is a [...]

Join Gardener, Debra Lapointe and Head of Youth Services at the Clapp Memorial Library, Jennifer Whitehead for an evening of creepy stories and a dark scavenger hunt through the gardens. Costumes welcome, come dressed for the weather and bring your own flashlight. Geared toward brave children ages 5 to 9 and their families. Stories start [...]

Clapp Memorial Library is offering an eight-week Stress Reduction Awareness course led by Magda Bechar, starting on Monday, October 21st. Mindfulness meditation skills teach us to be fully present in the moment and, when practiced regularly, helps decrease stress levels and improve general well-being and health. Skills covered in the course are gentle and free [...]

This 90 minute ‘virtual tour’ chronicles New England cemetery art, history, and symbolism, from colonial burial grounds, through the rural cemetery movement of the 19th century and into 21st-century locations. Why do we have cemeteries and gravestones? Why they look the way they do? How have styles and art evolved over 400 years? The Gravestone Girls scoured Belchertown’s graveyards, [...]