Monday, October 6th

Monday, October 6th from 3:30 - 5:00 pm

At The Library After School (ATLAS) is an after-school program for 1st - 5th graders consisting of read-aloud stories, exploring the library, crafts, movies, STEM, and activities. The program will run weekly on Mondays from 3:30-5:00pm starting September 8. Registration required.

Monday, October 6th at 6:00 pm

Bring a pencil and some paper (or grab your laptop) and join a community of writers. Use the time to work on a project or join in on the prompts and games provided. The group meets from 6:00 - 7:00 pm on Monday nights whenever the library is open.

Tuesday, October 7th

Tuesday, October 7th at 10:30 am

Join us on Tuesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. for a fun, one-on-one program with bouncing rhymes, books, music, and group play just for our youngest patrons. This program is designed for ages birth to 18 months with a parent or caregiver. Older siblings may accompany.

Activities for older children are hosted throughout the week, please check our calendar for more details!

Tuesday, October 7th at 6:00 pm

The Mystery Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:00 pm in the library. 

The Amish Wife by Gregg Olsen: In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner’s report: natural causes. Ida’s husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed.

What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli’s shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli’s subsequent cross-country journey of death—including that of his own son—have been prevented if just one person came forward with what they knew about the real Eli Stutzman?

The questions haunted Gregg Olsen and Ida’s brother Daniel Gingerich for decades. At Daniel’s urging, Olsen now returns to Amish Country and to Eli’s crimes first exposed in Olsen’s Abandoned Prayers, one of which has remained a mystery until now. With the help of aging witnesses and shocking long-buried letters, Olsen finally uncovers the disturbing truth—about Ida’s murder and the conspiracy of silence and secrets that kept it hidden for forty-five years.

Wednesday, October 8th

Wednesday, October 8th at 10:30 am

Story time for children ages 3-5 and their families is held at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday, year-round. Story time consists of stories, body movement activities, songs, and rhymes, helping children grow the skills they need to become lifelong readers. Young children and their grown-ups are invited to join us for these free weekly events!

Thursday, October 9th

Thursday, October 9th at 1:00 pm

Join us for an hour of crafting at the library on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 1:00 pm. We'll provide the supplies, you provide the creativity!

Thursday, October 9th at 6:00 pm

Dystopia is an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice. Usually these imagined states end up ominously reflective of our own society.

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng: Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened to her—only that her books have been banned—and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him.

Then one day Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of heroic librarians, and finally to New York City, where he will learn the truth about what happened to his mother and what the future holds for them both.

Saturday, October 11th

Saturday, October 11th from 4:30 - 7:30 pm

Celebrate “all things pumpkin” during this family-friendly event that features games and arts activities for the kids, free refreshments, music, decorating with pumpkin demonstrations, and a lighted, carved jack-o-lanterns “parade” at dark on the garden paths. Look for social media posts about submitting a free pumpkin for the parade. Pumpkin Palooza will be Saturday, October 11th from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. and lighted pumpkin walk 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

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