Thursday Storytime at Main
Drop in every week for age appropriate stories and craft with your favorite Children's Librarian. Ages 2-5
Events Calendar / March 30, 2023
Virtual Reality Tour: Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery
Enjoy the beauty of Early Renaissance art from the comfort of your local library! Join us for a virtual tour of the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London. Please call the McAuliffe Branch at 508-532-5636 or sign up at http://bitly.ws/zJF9 to reserve your time slot.
Mug Meals: Snickerdoodles (Main Library)
Spring is here, but it’s still a little chilly. So let’s make a quick and easy Snickerdoodle mug cake to keep cozy.
Grades 6-12
Lifelong Learning: Dickens and Van Gogh: A Study in Influence
Van Gogh’s favorite English writer was Charles Dickens. To no other author does he refer as often in his letters. During his life, Van Gogh read nearly all of Dickens’s books, most of them several times.
Toward the end of his life, in 1889, he told his brother: “I have a few volumes of Dickens, including Edwin Drood…Good God. What an artist! There’s no one like him.” Discussing Little Dorrit, he said its preface explained his own artistic problems, for Dickens expresses “what goes on in the mind of a painter while working on a composition.”
This illustrated lecture shows the many ways in which the writer was an important source of inspiration for Van Gogh.
Register for the Zoom link at bit.ly/FPL-Events before March 30.
March Madness: Battle of the Books
Your favorite books from across genres go head-to-head for March Madness: Battle of the Books! Stop by either library to vote and see which book wins it all!