*Please note: this month we are meeting on the 3rd Saturday (the 4th Saturday is on Memorial day weekend and the library is closed) This month, we will discuss Beautiful Country: a memoir of an undocumented childhood by Qian Julie Wang. About this memoir, from Penguin Random House: "In Chinese, the word for […]
This month, we will read and discuss Fresh Water for Flowers by Valérie Perrin. We meet in hybrid format. Join us live at the library or on Zoom for the discussion. Copies of the book are available at the library. Order your own copy HERE. Ebook and Audiobook instantly available on HOOPLA If you are […]
The Bacon Free Library invites you to a lunchtime excursion, without needing to leave your home or office. Each Wednesday through the end of May, enjoy a virtual talk given by the National Park Service about a local historic site. **PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will […]
The library will be closed today, May 27th, in honor of Memorial Day weekend.
The library will be closed today, Monday, May 29th, in honor of Memorial Day.
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 […]
We are happy to welcome author, journalist, and professor Dick Lehr back to the BFL to talk about his latest book, White Hot Hate. This book details the gripping true story of an averted domestic terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town’s immigrant Somali community. Crucial to this story is the FBI informant who exposed […]
Join us for a virtual Zoom discussion of The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey. Copies available at the library, or borrow as an ebook on Libby or digital audiobook on Hoopla. Please email cstirling@minlib.net to register and receive the Zoom link.
It's fun to learn about the beautiful colors in the world! Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs highlighting a different color each week. Kiddos (and their grownups!) are encouraged to bring or wear something that goes with the color of the week. Here's the schedule: March 21st - red March 28th - orange […]
Fantastical Folktales of Flowers with Oracle award winning storyteller Diane Edgecomb and Celtic harper Margot Chamberlain will be HELD IN THE LEBOWITZ ROOM OF THE MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY From the dramatic to the sublime to the wildly humorous, world stories of flowers and their origins are deeply entertaining. Retold in a dramatic storytelling by award-winning storyteller and […]
