Events Calendar / May 2023

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Bug Scavenger Hunt

ALL MONTH LONG | See if you can find all the “bugs” hidden in the Children’s Room! All Ages.

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Monday Storytime at McAuliffe

Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories and a craft, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten list.

Ages 2-5, all welcome. In-person.

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Tone and Stretch

A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.

If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again. 

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Spring 2023 Adventures in Lifelong Learning

Enjoy courses for adults 60+ on ZOOM! Online registration opens on Monday, March 27 at 11am. Registration is required by Friday, April 21. 

For full course descriptions, registration information, and instructions for using Zoom (by computer, tablet or phone), go to framinghamlibrary.org/adventures or bit.ly/Adventures-FSU.

Have questions? Email lifelonglearning@framingham.edu or call 508-215-5127. To join our mailing list, go to bit.ly/Adventures-mailing-list.

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Advanced Poetry Workshop

This class welcomes serious poets with experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry. Poets may discuss their work.

If you are new to the group and would like to participate, register at bit.ly/fpl-poetry by noon on the day of the workshop.

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Main Library Yarn Club

Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.

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Stretch and Relax

Join this class to maintain body flexibility, improve balance and reduce stress.

If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.

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Yarn Social Hour

Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.

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Resume Help & Job Searching Strategies

Make an appointment for remote, one-on-one Resume Help and Job Searching Strategies with professional career coach Ed Lawrence.

Appointments are free and available every Thursday from 9am-1:30pm online via Zoom. Please email elawrence@minlib.net to schedule your appointment.

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Lifelong Learning: Let’s Get Future-Fit: Envisioning Metrowest Beyond the Climate Emergency

What could Framingham and the Metrowest area look like if we decided to finally take the climate emergency as seriously as science tells us we must? If we chose to live within planetary boundaries? 

How do we transform everything—our neighborhoods, our economy, our food and transportation systems, and so on in a way that is just and equitable?

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Lunchtime Learning Series: South American Myths & Cosmology: An Illustrated Journey

Join us for a presentation of Pre-Colombian myths, legends, and deities from the Andes Mountain region with artist Samela St. Pierre. Focused mainly on the Inca Empire and its predecessors, this talk will be accompanied by the speaker’s original paintings illustrating the scenes of gods, goddesses, and legendary heroes. 

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Video Game Hangout

Play video games and eat snacks!

If you'd like to be added to our monthly reminder email list for our Video Game Hangouts, just fill out the form at this link: https://bit.ly/VGH-Reminder

If you've already filled this out in the past, there's no need to do so again.

Grades 6-12

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Friday Night Film: Elvis (PG-13, 2022, 2h 39m)

Join us for May's Friday Night Film: Elvis (PG-13, 2022, 2h 39m), starring Tom Hanks and Austin Butler.

From imdb.com: "The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker."

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McAuliffe Comic Con

Come join us at the McAuliffe Branch for our very own Comic Con! We’ll be hosting a cosplay contest, Star Wars trivia, crafts, and all kinds of fun programs. Costumes and cosplay are encouraged!

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Bob Dodd Sunday Concert Series: Sam & Carol Ou

Join us for our Bob Dodd Sunday Concert featuring brother and sister cellists Sam and Carol Ou! No registration required!

Stop by in person or stream online at youtube.com/framinghampubliclibrary. (Please note the video will appear about 10 minutes before the start of the event, but will not appear before then.)

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Monday Storytime at McAuliffe

Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories and a craft, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten list.

Ages 2-5, all welcome. In-person.

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Tone and Stretch

A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.

If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again. 

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Spring 2023 Adventures in Lifelong Learning

Enjoy courses for adults 60+ on ZOOM! Online registration opens on Monday, March 27 at 11am. Registration is required by Friday, April 21. 

For full course descriptions, registration information, and instructions for using Zoom (by computer, tablet or phone), go to framinghamlibrary.org/adventures or bit.ly/Adventures-FSU.

Have questions? Email lifelonglearning@framingham.edu or call 508-215-5127. To join our mailing list, go to bit.ly/Adventures-mailing-list.

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McAuliffe Evening Book Club: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine.

Join us for the McAuliffe Evening Book Club in person or online via Zoom. Register for the Zoom link at bit.ly/FPL-Events.

June book club to meet on June 13: The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont

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Advanced Poetry Workshop

This class welcomes serious poets with experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry. Poets may discuss their work.

If you are new to the group and would like to participate, register at bit.ly/fpl-poetry by noon on the day of the workshop.

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Main Library Yarn Club

Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.

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Stretch and Relax

Join this class to maintain body flexibility, improve balance and reduce stress.

If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.

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Lego League

Lego League 

WED. MAY 10, 4:30-6:30PM 

MON. MAY 22, 4:30-6:30PM 

Make a LEGO creation based on each month’s theme. Ages 5+.

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Yarn Social Hour

Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.

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Framingham’s Wallace Nutting: Celebrated 20th Century Photographer

Framingham’s Wallace Nutting was America’s foremost photographer during the early 20th c. and between 1900 and his death in 1941, Nutting sold more than 5,000,000 of his hand-colored photographs to America. He also authored 10 books, reproduced some of the finest early American Furniture ever produced, and his memorabilia has been widely collected for the past 60 years. Mike Ivankovich, noted Nutting author and auctioneer, will take us through Wallace Nutting’s accomplishments, and much more, in this special Framingham Public Library Program.

MIKE’s BIO: Mike Ivankovich has been involved in some phase of Wallace Nutting for nearly 50 years. He is a frequent lecturer and spoken before groups too numerous to list. He has authored more than 10 books and eBooks in this area, and has written articles and columns for most major national trade papers. He and his wife Sue ran Wallace Nutting Specialty Auctions for nearly 30 years. He is also the host of the “What’s It Worth? Ask Mike the Appraiser” Radio Show that airs every Friday morning from 9:30-10:30 AM on WBCB 1490 AM in Philadelphia PA. Mike is also a professional GPPA & MPPA Appraiser specializing in Appraisals for Estate, Insurance, Inheritance, Divorce, Insurance Claim, Non-Cash Charitable Donation, or other legal purposes. As a Pennsylvania Auctioneer, he has been named Pennsylvania's “Auctioneer of the Year” by fellow Auctioneers.

Register for the Zoom link at bit.ly/FPL-Events by 5PM on May 10.

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Resume Help & Job Searching Strategies

Make an appointment for remote, one-on-one Resume Help and Job Searching Strategies with professional career coach Ed Lawrence.

Appointments are free and available every Thursday from 9am-1:30pm online via Zoom. Please email elawrence@minlib.net to schedule your appointment.

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Sensory Storytime

Storytime for a neurodiverse audience. Parents or supporting adults should accompany each child. Ages 3-8

Registration required walk-ins welcome as space allows. Call 508-532-5636 X 4 or drop by to sign up. 

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Anime Club

Watch your favorite anime and eat tasty Japanese snacks!

If you'd like to be added to our monthly reminder email list for our Anime Club, just fill out the form at this link: https://bit.ly/Anime-Reminder

Grades 6-12

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Film Noir Club: The Long Goodbye (1973)

Join us for May's Film Noir Club: The Long Goodbye (1973), starring Elliott Gould.

From imdb.com: "Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder."

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Monday Storytime at McAuliffe

Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories and a craft, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten list.

Ages 2-5, all welcome. In-person.

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Tone and Stretch

A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.

If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again. 

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Spring 2023 Adventures in Lifelong Learning

Enjoy courses for adults 60+ on ZOOM! Online registration opens on Monday, March 27 at 11am. Registration is required by Friday, April 21. 

For full course descriptions, registration information, and instructions for using Zoom (by computer, tablet or phone), go to framinghamlibrary.org/adventures or bit.ly/Adventures-FSU.

Have questions? Email lifelonglearning@framingham.edu or call 508-215-5127. To join our mailing list, go to bit.ly/Adventures-mailing-list.

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Creating Comics Series: Script Writing and Storyboarding

Part 2 in the Creating Comics Series! There’s a lot that goes into making and telling a story, and everyone knows you’ve got to start somewhere. In this series, we’re going to break down the different components of comics so that you can make and tell your own stories. Fear not however, if you’re not interested in creating your own comics, all of the lessons will still apply for any project you want, like novels, short stories, or even video games!

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Advanced Poetry Workshop

This class welcomes serious poets with experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry. Poets may discuss their work.

If you are new to the group and would like to participate, register at bit.ly/fpl-poetry by noon on the day of the workshop.

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Main Library Yarn Club

Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.

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McAuliffe Matinee: Everything Everywhere All At Once (R, 2022, 2h 19m)

Join us for this McAuliffe Matinee of the Oscar-winning  Everything Everywhere All At Once (R, 2022, 2h 19m), starring Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis.

When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely hero must channel her newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

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Stretch and Relax

Join this class to maintain body flexibility, improve balance and reduce stress.

If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.

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Yarn Social Hour

Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.

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Resume Help & Job Searching Strategies

Make an appointment for remote, one-on-one Resume Help and Job Searching Strategies with professional career coach Ed Lawrence.

Appointments are free and available every Thursday from 9am-1:30pm online via Zoom. Please email elawrence@minlib.net to schedule your appointment.

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Bug Scavenger Hunt

ALL MONTH LONG | See if you can find all the “bugs” hidden in the Children’s Room! All Ages.

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McAuliffe Morning Book Club: The Guncle by Steven Rowley

Join us in person or online for this month's McAuliffe Morning Book Club: The Guncle by Steven Rowley.

Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no matter how adorable, Patrick is honestly a bit out of his league.

Can't join in person? Register for the Zoom link at bit.ly/FPL-Events.

June Morning Book Club to meet on June 15 for River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer.

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Book Buddies

Improve your reading skills by reading aloud to your new Book Buddy. Registration required. Call or drop by to sign up for a time slot.

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Monday Storytime at McAuliffe

Join your familiar children’s librarians for some stories and a craft, and keep adding to your 1000 books before Kindergarten list.

Ages 2-5, all welcome. In-person.

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Monday Matinee: The Goldfinch (R, 2019, 2h 29m)

Join us for May's Monday Matinee: The Goldfinch (R, 2019, 2h 29m), starring Ansel Elgort and Nicole Kidman.

From imdb.com: "A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime."

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Virtual Reality Tour: Notes on Blindness

After going completely blind in 1983, John Hull documented his new circumstances on cassette tapes to make sense of the change. Notes on Blindness is a virtual reality experience that blends these original recordings with an immersive narrative to create a “cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.” Please call the McAuliffe Branch at 508-532-5636 or sign up at https://bit.ly/oculus-may23 to reserve your time slot.

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Tone and Stretch

A variety of functional fitness exercises to tone core, upper and lower body muscles followed by stretches. This is a low impact class designed to be adaptable to participants’ different levels.

If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again. 

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Lego League

Lego League 

WED. MAY 10, 4:30-6:30PM 

MON. MAY 22, 4:30-6:30PM 

Make a LEGO creation based on each month’s theme. Ages 5+.

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Board Game Night: King of Tokyo and Fluxx

Join us at McAuliffe for a night of monsters and mayhem! Play as giant monsters, robots, and aliens fighting to destroy the city in King of Tokyo or match wits and giggles in the everchanging card game of nerdy proportions, Fluxx. Play time is roughly 30 minutes for each game.

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Community Puzzle Swap!

What to do with jigsaw puzzles you’ve completed? Swap them! Bring your puzzles to exchange with others. No puzzle to swap? Come anyway; there are always extras for you to take. All ages and levels welcome.

No registration required. For updated mask requirements, please check our website.

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Virtual Reality Tour: Notes on Blindness

After going completely blind in 1983, John Hull documented his new circumstances on cassette tapes to make sense of the change. Notes on Blindness is a virtual reality experience that blends these original recordings with an immersive narrative to create a “cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.” Please call the McAuliffe Branch at 508-532-5636 or sign up at https://bit.ly/oculus-may23 to reserve your time slot.

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Mechatronics 101 (Adult)

In this introduction to mechatronics and Arduino we will learn how to use micro-controllers and build simple projects using Arduino and LEDs. Curious about Arduino? Learn a little about it here & here.

This program is for adults. Laptop required.
We have a limited number of laptops available to borrow. If you would like to borrow a laptop for this program, please register: https://tinyurl.com/Mechatronics101

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Advanced Poetry Workshop

This class welcomes serious poets with experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry. Poets may discuss their work.

If you are new to the group and would like to participate, register at bit.ly/fpl-poetry by noon on the day of the workshop.

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Main Library Yarn Club

Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.

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Virtual Reality Tour: Notes on Blindness

After going completely blind in 1983, John Hull documented his new circumstances on cassette tapes to make sense of the change. Notes on Blindness is a virtual reality experience that blends these original recordings with an immersive narrative to create a “cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.” Please call the McAuliffe Branch at 508-532-5636 or sign up at https://bit.ly/oculus-may23 to reserve your time slot.

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Stretch and Relax

Join this class to maintain body flexibility, improve balance and reduce stress.

If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.

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Yarn Social Hour

Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.

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Resume Help & Job Searching Strategies

Make an appointment for remote, one-on-one Resume Help and Job Searching Strategies with professional career coach Ed Lawrence.

Appointments are free and available every Thursday from 9am-1:30pm online via Zoom. Please email elawrence@minlib.net to schedule your appointment.

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Musicals at McAuliffe: Little Shop of Horrors (PG-13, 1986, 1h34m)

Join us for this month's Musicals at McAuliffe with the classic film Little Shop of Horrors  (PG-13, 1986, 1h 34m), starring Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene.

Meek flower shop assistant Seymour pines for coworker Audrey. During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store. After Seymour feeds Audrey's boyfriend, Orin, to the plant after Orin's accidental death, he must come up with more bodies for the increasingly bloodthirsty plant.

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Advanced Poetry Workshop

This class welcomes serious poets with experience who would like to participate for one or more sessions. We begin with a discussion of a topic in poetry. Poets may discuss their work.

If you are new to the group and would like to participate, register at bit.ly/fpl-poetry by noon on the day of the workshop.

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Main Library Yarn Club

Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.

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Stretch and Relax

Join this class to maintain body flexibility, improve balance and reduce stress.

If you have NEVER attended this class, please register at this link: http://bit.ly/FPL-Exercise-Classes. If you HAVE attended any of our online exercise classes in the past, we already have your information, and you do not need to register again.

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Yarn Social Hour

Join us for knitting, crochet, and yarn crafting social hour! This is not a learn to knit or crochet program, but in person we can offer pointers and tips.