• Environmental Book Club

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

    Join us for a Zoom discussion of: Our Moon: how Earth's celestial companion transformed the planet, guided evolution, and made us who we are by Rebecca Boyle  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 […]

  • Virtual: Fact & Fiction: The Art of British Spycraft

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

    Delve into modern British spy novels and the real-life characters and circumstances that inspired countless plot twists with author, former UK resident, and Anglophile Claire Evans.  In this program, Claire will recount her visit to Bletchley Park, the once top-secret hub of codebreakers vital to Allied intelligence during WWII.  This program will be held on […]

  • Jammin With You (indoors)

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

    Be prepared to laugh, dance, sing, and jam your way through 30 minutes of non-stop family fun! This performance is geared toward kids ages 1 - 7, but fun for the whole family. With modern takes on children's classics and classic original tunes, you'll be humming and bopping all the way home. This program will […]

  • VIRTUAL: Discussing “The Gilded Age Christmas Cookbook” with author Becky Libourel Diamond

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

    Have you ever tasted a sugar plum?  You've likely heard of them--thanks to the famous holiday poem A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore--but do you know what a sugar plum is?  You may be surprised to find out that they are not sugar-dusted plums (they are small, oval hard candies).  This Gilded […]

  • Recurring

    All Together: Preschool Storytime

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

    Join us on Mondays and Tuesdays for stories and songs! Outdoors, weather permitting. Bring along a blanket or chairs to get comfy. Note: if the weather is wet or below 55 degrees, we'll move this storytime indoors. The historic nature of our building limits accessibility. This program is also offered in an accessible location at […]

  • VIRTUAL: The Impact of 500 Years of Colonialism on the Abenaki and Wabanki Tribes with Anne Jennison

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

      The "People of the Dawnland" (Abenaki/Wabanaki) of New Hampshire and the Northeast are the first Indigenous peoples in North America to have had contact with Europeans.  In this presentation, Anne Jennison examines how European colonization of North America impacted generations of Abenaki/Wabanaki people and highlights the ways in which the Abenaki/Wabanaki peoples have acted […]

  • Closed for Thanksgiving

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

    The BFL will be closed Thursday and Friday in honor of Thanksgiving.

  • Recurring

    All Together: Preschool Storytime

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

    Join us on Mondays and Tuesdays for stories and songs!  Note: The historic nature of our building limits accessibility. This program is also offered in an accessible location at the Morse Institute Library (click here for dates, times, and more information).

  • VIRTUAL: A Charles Dickens Christmas with Bill Thierfelder

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

    Charles Dickens has famously been called “The Man Who Invented Christmas.” Inspired by the writings of Washington Irving earlier in the 19th century, Dickens wrote five Christmas novellas between 1843 and 1848 and over a dozen short stories between 1852 and 1866. Each of these--including the perennial favorite A Christmas Carrol--helped to shape how the […]

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    Lapsit Storytime

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

    Stories, bounces, and songs for babies 0-24 months and their grownups! The historic nature of our building limits accessibility. This program is also offered in an accessible location at the Morse Institute Library (click here for dates, times, and more information).

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