Check out Events at Your Library This September and October
Oscar Film: Animated Short Films
Wednesday, September 24, 1 p.m.
2025 Animated Short Films will be screened: In the Shadow of the Cypress, Magic Candies, Beautiful Men, Wander to Wonder, Yuck!
There are two screenings. All films will be shown at both sessions. Please register for the session you wish to attend by clicking the date and time above.
High School Volunteer Club
Thursday, September 25, 6 p.m
For high school students entering grades 9-12.
Earn community service hours at our high school volunteer club. Volunteers can work on special projects or train to become a volunteer shelf reader.
Registration is recommended but drop-ins are welcome if space permits. Click here to register.
Preschool Playtime
Saturday, September 27, 10:30 a.m.
Come play at our homemade obstacle course designed just for preschoolers! We'll build with blocks, go through tunnels, and jump in and out of hula hoops while going around and around.
Registration is required. Click here to register.
Quilting Cub
Wednesday, October 1, 12 p.m.
Located in our Conference Room, join this group of quilters for a collaborative working session. Learn new techniques and chat with other members. Please bring your own supplies and equipment.
No registration is necessary.
Crochet Club
Saturday, October 4, 10 a.m
All skill levels are welcome. Please bring your own supplies.
The Hooked on the Sound (HOTS) Crochet Guild is a non-profit group of enthusiastic crocheters in New Haven county. HOTS meets monthly to share stitch successes, assist with pattern problems, education, and generally having a great time crocheting! Bring any crochet project you are working on or one you may need help with.
No registration is necessary.
Friends of the Library Program
Concert: Tunes and Tales from Connecticut
Saturday, September 27, 2 p.m.
A musical journey through the rich history and folklore of the Nutmeg State. Kent Besocke blends engaging storytelling with well-crafted songs about unique characters, local history, strange occurrences, legends, myths, mysteries, and more, accompanied by the guitar, banjo, or mandolin.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
Registration is required for this event! Please click here or call the Library to register.
Book Groups
Mystery Book Discussion
Thursday, September 18, 2 p.m.
Join Mystery Discussion leader Donna DiMassa for a discussion of The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd.
Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, alongside her masterpiece Self Portrait As Sphinx.
Fifty years later, two Cambridge art history students are confounded when they stumble across proof that the fire was no accident but something more sinister. What they uncover threatens the very foundation of Juliette’s aristocratic family and revives rumors of the infamous curse that has haunted the Willoughbys for generations.
But what does their discovery mean? And how is it connected to a brutal murder in present-day Dubai?
Registration is required. Click here to register. Copies of the book are now available.
Bookcase Book Discussion
Monday, September 29, 7 p.m
Join Bookcase leader Toby Zabinski for a Zoom discussion of Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy.
Registration is required to receive the Zoom link. Click here to register.
Ban This Book Club
Monday, October 6, 7 p.m
Join Librarian Rebecca Harlow for a discussion of Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult.
PEN America lists Nineteen Minutes as the number one most frequently banned book of the 2023-2024 school year, having been banned 98 times. The ALA (American Library Association) lists Nineteen Minutes as the 23rd most challenged book of the decade in 2010-2019.
Join us as we discuss this as a work of literature as well as an object of censorship.
Copies are available at the Circulation Desk.
Registration is required for this event. Click here to register.
Wednesday Book Group
Wednesday, October 15, 1p.m.
Join Librarian Ellen Miller as you discuss a novel about the ways we experience, perceive, and misunderstand love. Campbell, who published her first book at 80, “parses the inner lives of ordinary people doing their best to process aftershocks of war, the parenting they do and don’t receive, and the many different forms love can take in one family.”
Copies of the book will be available at the Circulation Desk. Click here to register.
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Events are free and open to the public, except as noted. Registration is required for all events.
To register for events, go to https://casememorial.librarycalendar.com/event/
Phone: 203-891-2170
