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Birdscaping in Your Backyard with Steve Hale from Open World Explorers
Wed, April 3 at 7pm
Step up your game and attract more birds and more bird species to your backyard. We’ll review various feeder types, food types, and the importance of natural live and dead cover for birds. Diversify your backyard with food, cover and water will have the birds in your yard…and not in your neighbor’s yard!
60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer presented by James Kates
Wed, April 10 at 7pm
2024 marks the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer, a voting rights campaign that drew nearly 1,000 Northern volunteers–mostly college students–to work with local Civil Rights leaders in Mississippi. James Kates, Fitzwilliam resident, was one of those volunteer and will share his story.
Open Mic Night!
Tues, April 16 at 7pm
What’s your talent? Sing? Play an instrument? Come jam with some locals at Open Mic Night. there is not registration required. Feel free to be in the audience and support your neighbors!
Beginners Sourdough Workshop with Briana Cashman from Owl Hill Homestead
Wed, April 17 at 6pm
Whether you’re a seasoned baker or a complete novice, this workshop is perfect for anyone interested in the art of sourdough bread baking. Learn the ins and outs of sourdough from creating and maintaining your own starter to shaping and baking the perfect loaf. See what variations can be created! Bring a 9oz. container and go home with a starter! Registration is required and space is limited. Call 585-6503 or email info@fitzlib.org to sign up.
Cooking the Book!
Thurs. April 25 at 6pm
Fitzwilliam and Troy Libraries are cooking up something special! It’s our turn to host a new book group called Cooking the Book! Register now and check out a copy of Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi. Read through the cookbook and bring a dish to share! Patrons in Troy will be using a different cookbook by the same author/chef.
Spring Preschool Storytime
Wednesday mornings at 10:30am
Storytime, for children ages 3-5 and their caretakers, teaches children important pre-literacy skills when we read, sing, talk, and play together. Come and listen to a story, sing a song, and make a simple craft each Wednesday morning at 10:30am. Registration is appreciated. (info@fitzlib.org or call 585-6503)
April 3: Special Storytime with Pippin (lamb) & Annie (kid)!
“Big-Kid” Storytime
Tuesday after school at the library for kids K-2 at 3:45-4:45
Now kids who are a bit too old for preschool storytime and maybe a bit young for our Wednesday afternoon program are invited t join us for their own Library event! We will be reading a longer story or two followed by a craft or game. Register in advance at info@fitzlib.org or call 585-6503.
Wednesday Afternoon at the Library in April
Wednesday Afternoons at the Library invites kids in grades 1-6 for a craft or activity from 3:45-4:45. We cook, we craft, we build and create! Kids can ride the bus directly form Emerson School!
Participants must be registered for each class. Supplies and space is limited. Call ahead 585-6503 or email info@fitzlib.org at least 2 days in advance.
April 3: Mandala Suncatchers
April 10: Spinelabel Poetry with Miss Merrimack
April 17: Earth Day Lanterns
Pioneer Valley Symphony Library Passes
Get a pass for up to 4 tickets to any Pioneer Valley Symphony concerts of the 2023-2024 season. Check out a pass, bring it to the box office before the concert of your choice to redeem. The box office opens 1-11/2 hours before each performance. Return your pass to the library so it can bring the joy of music to others! Visit http://pvosc.org for the most up-to-date season information.
Stitch and Bitch!
Every Wednesday at 6pm
Whether you like knitting, sewing, crocheting, embroidering or just coloring, come join us! We gather to craft and chat!
Coffee Hour
Saturday Mornings at 10am
Enjoy coffee, conversation, and a freshly baked treat with neighbors.
Book Club – April 8th at 7pm
The Book of Goose
by Yiyun Li
Books available
A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li. Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised―the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now Agnès is free to tell her story.
Fitzwilliam History and Information Page
There is a whole new page on the Fitzwilliam Library website (http://fitzlib.org) featuring Fitzwilliam-specific history and resources. You can find it under the 24HOUR-LIBRARY tab. Information will be updated regularly. Check it out!
Booklist Reader: Find it under 24-Hour Library above!
Click on the image to access this great free resource for all book lovers.
Booklist, the review publication of the American Library Association, proudly announces the launch of Booklist Reader, a new digital library patron–facing magazine featuring diverse readers’ advisory recommendations for readers of all ages.
Each month, Booklist Reader will showcase top-10 lists, must reads, interviews with (and articles by) top authors and illustrators, and adult, youth, and audio recommendations for all communities and all who love to read. Booklist Reader is also partnering with LibraryReads, an organization that each month publishes a list of the top 10 books read by library workers across the nation.
Continued Support for Library Programming!
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Staff Book Recommendations
Cindi recommends:
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
“Eleanor Oliphant is a quirky loner and a model of efficiency with her routine of frozen pizza, vodka and weekly phone calls with Mummy. [She’s] a woman beginning to heal from unimaginable tragedy, with a voice that is deadpan, heartbreaking and humorous all at once.” –NPR.org
Kate recommends…
by Kaveh Akbar
“Brilliant . . . steeped in humor and absurdity but deathly serious as well . . . The strength of Martyr! is that Akbar arranges its various messes well and doesn’t strive too hard to reconcile them.”
—Los Angeles Times
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