Library Holiday Closures and September Events Schedule
Upcoming Library Closing
The Library will be closed on Saturday, August 30 and Monday, September 1 for the Labor Day holiday. Regular hours will resume on Tuesday, September 2 at 10 AM.
Lapsit Storytime
Tuesdays, beginning September 2, 10:30 a.m.
Little ones and their caregivers are invited to explore books, sing songs, and practice interactive nursery rhymes with Ms. Angela! This program includes storytime followed by an optional group playtime. For babies and toddlers up to age 2.
Registration is required for this event. Click here to register.
Toddler Storytime
Wednesdays, beginning September 3, 10:30 a.m.
Get the wiggles out with Ms. Angela! Stories, music, dancing, and more fill this high-energy storytime for toddlers and their grownups. This program includes storytime followed by an optional group playtime. For children aged 18 months to 3 years.
Registration is required for this event. Click here to register.
Quilting Club
Wednesday, September 3, 12 p.m.
Come and join other like-minded quilters every month. Share stories and work on projects. No registration needed. Please bring your own equipment and supplies.
Preschool Storytime
Mondays, beginning September 8, 10:30 a.m.
Music, movement, and literacy for our preschool friends! Join us as we get ready for the school years. There will be a craft after the storytime session. For children ages 2 to 5.
Registration is required for this event. Click here to register.
Take & Make: Scarecrow Puppets
Week of September 8
Celebrate fall with a cute scarecrow puppet! No registration required, kits are available in the children's room on a first come, first served basis starting Monday, September 8.
Crochet Club
Saturday, September 6, 10 a.m.
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. Please bring your own supplies. All skill levels welcomed.
Craft Workshop: Needle Felt Painting
Monday, September 8, 6:30 p.m
Create a needle-felted landscape painting with wool roving, wool felt, and needle felting tools at this hands-on craft workshop. Workshop guided by Librarian Rebecca Harlow.
This program is generously funded by the Friends of the Library. For adults and teens in grades 9-12.
Registration is required for this event. Click here 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.
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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
