Now you can enjoy Pop up Art School’s projects in your home! Sign up to take home a kit and watch the how-to video any time within a 30 day period in the comfort and convenience of your home. Kits are limited, so please don't sign up unless you will watch the Pop up Art […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The BFL will be closed Thursday and Friday in honor of Thanksgiving.
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 […]
Be prepared to laugh, dance, sing, and jam your way through 30 minutes of non-stop family fun at the Bacon Free Library! 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 […]
(Note: the nonfiction book club usually meets on the 4th Saturday of the month. In light of the holiday season, this meeting serves as the November/December session of the book club) This month, we will discuss An Unfinished Love Story: a Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin. From the publisher: One […]
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