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Beneficial Bugs

Learn about our local flyers and what brings them to our neighborhoods.     * Experience the sights of some of our smaller seasonal visitors! * Meet some dragonflies and damselflies * Learn what bees do and where they live * Learn how to attract these beneficial flyers into your gardens?   This program will […]

Puppy Love – Meet Therapy Dogs

Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States

Aroof, aroof, bow-wow-wow, bow-wow-wow: calling all dog lovers!  Come to the BFL grounds to meet and greet a variety of therapy dogs.   Since these dogs have received extensive training to help people in need, they are very smart, mellow, and sweet.  They can handle a lot of love from dog lovers of all ages.  These […]

Recurring

Bilingual Story Time

Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States

Would you and your niña or niño like to habla Español?   Ven a biblioteca -- come to the library!  (virtually, that is) Exposing children to a second language is wonderful for their developing minds, according to the Cornell Language Acquisition Lab.  And it can be fun, too.  Through familiar stories and songs, Miss Fran and Señorita […]

Nonfiction book club

Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States

  Join us for a discussion of  Summer World: A Season of Bounty by Bernd Heinrich. Bernd Heinrich is an emeritus professor of biology at the University of Vermont and according to the New York Times book review, "has an uncanny ability to find something intellectually stimulating whenever he steps out the door.   While Heinrich […]

Tails and Tales with Diane Edgecomb

Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States

Who has the best tales in the world? Animals do!  And who is fantastic at telling these tales?  Diane Edgecomb is! From folktales about adventurous monkeys to a true tale of a neighborhood squirrel that drives everyone nuts, master storyteller Diane Edgecomb brings us engaging stories about four-legged capers.  Beloved storyteller Diane Edgecomb is known […]

Cinéphile Mondays

Cinephilia is an academic word literally meaning “love of cinema,” but it also contains hints of nostalgia and passion for a film art that was undoubtedly the defining media experience of the twentieth century. As such, cinema has a variegated and fascinating history which extends well beyond the Hollywood we are all familiar with.  Meant […]

Book Club

Bacon Free Library 58 Eliot Street, Natick, MA, United States

This month, as part of the Natick Community Read, we'll be discussing How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals by Sy Montgomery.  In this memoir, Montgomery draws on her experience as a naturalist and adventurer to reflect on the unique personalities of 13 specific animals and the truths revealed by their grace. […]

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