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We will be closing at 1:30 pm on Tuesday, December 24th and will be closed all day on Wednesday, December 25th.

ABC Storytime

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

While the bigger kiddos are in school, here's a chance for the little ones to learn their A-B-C's.  We'll start with stories and songs that feature our letter of the week.  Then we'll do some simple crafts with the special letter - tracing, stamping, cutting, gluing, and coloring.  Also, each child can bring something with […]

Environmental Book Club

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

Join us for a Zoom discussion of Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson Copies of the book will be available at the Bacon Free Library.  Order your own copy HERE Join environmental enthusiast, Arthur Ensroth, in discussing current, historical and future environmental issues through books! We’re finding ways to become more engaged and participatory […]

Family Crafternoon: “Not a Box”

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

Calling children of all ages and their grown-ups: bring a cardboard box to the library and transform it into a robot, a racecar, or anything else you can imagine, just like the rabbit in Not a Box by Antoinette Portis. Drop in anytime between 3:00 and 5:00 and please bring your own box! We'll provide an […]

The Photography of Weegee

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

Art Historian, Mallory Mortillaro is back with a new program. She'll take us into the world of the photographer Weegee, born Arthur Fellig, who captured some of the grittiest scenes of New York City in the middle of the 20th century.  Much of Weegee’s work comes from his years trailing the city’s emergency service teams […]

Nonfiction Book Club

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

  This month, we will discuss I'm possible: a story of survival, a tuba, & a small miracle of a big dream by Richard Antoine White.  From the streets of Baltimore to the halls of the New Mexico Philharmonic, a musician shares his remarkable story in this inspiring memoir of perseverance and possibility. Copies of this […]

Hands on Nature: Winter Hibernation

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

How do your favorite animals spend the winter? Come find out, as we learn about hibernation and the amazing adaptations animals have for surviving through the harshest temperatures in New England. Bring a small stuffed animal and create a cozy hibernation den to take home! This program is presented by Hands on Nature and is […]

Recurring

Monday Morning Stories and Songs

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

Join us for a high-energy story time! We'll mix things up with a combination of stories for listening and songs for dancing. This program will be held indoors during the winter, then move back outdoors when the weather gets warmer. With cold and flu season in full swing, let’s share stories and not germs. Thank […]

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 […]

Tuesday Night Book Club

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

This month, we will read and discuss Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell.   We meet in hybrid format. Join us live at the library or on Zoom for the discussion.  Hamnet, takes place… “In 1580’s England, during the Black Plague where a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this exceptional historical novel” […]

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