ADULT PROGRAMS AUGUST 2024

Summer Reading 2024

Why should kids have all the fun? Did you know that the Taft Public Library offers reading prize programs during the summer for teens and adults too? Get in on it! For all the details including Summer Reading registration and our calendar of events visit www.taftpubliclibrary.org.

Upcoming Events:

To register for an event, click on the Library Event Calendar & Registration link at the top of the library’s homepage (www.taftpubliclibrary.org). 

Adult Handcrafting Group

Let’s get crafty!

 Join us on August 21 at 2 p.m. downstairs in the library and get your craft on! Bring your own craft project, whatever it might be, to work on while you visit. Intended for adults.  No registration is required.  Crafts are NOT supplied. 

Adult Book Club

The Adult Book Club will meet again starting in September. Adult Book Clubs are typically held on the second Monday of the month. For upcoming book clubs contact the library at 508-473-3259 to request copies of the books or log in to your account from our website to request them through interlibrary loan. Upcoming books for the Adult Book Club are as follows:

September: Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid and The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

October: The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

November: The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel

December: Oh William! By Elizabeth Strout

Footnotes Nonfiction Book Club

The Footnotes Nonfiction Book Club typically meets downstairs in the library on a quarterly basis. This year the group will read five nonfiction titles. Those interested are asked to stop at the downstairs desk to sign the Footnotes registration sheet and pick up a copy of the latest book.

Upcoming books in the Footnotes series:

Thursday, August 8 at 7 p.m.: A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

October (date TBD): Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne

January (date TBD): American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve Laplante

March (date TBD): The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt June (date TBD): How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

German Conversation Club

Are you looking for a place to practice what German you remember or to improve your German vocabulary? Conversations in German is no pressure, just fun. Lead by Library Assistant (and Mendon resident) Monika Schmid, the group typically meets the last Monday of each month. Registration is required. To register, visit our website.

Next club date: Monday, August 26 at 6 p.m.

Friends of the Taft Public Library Meeting

The Friends of the Library meetings are typically held on the last Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. downstairs in the Art Holmes Community Room, unless it falls on a holiday or during a school vacation. All are welcome (and encouraged) to attend. If you plan on attending, it’s always a good idea to call the library at 508-473-3259 or email the Friends at [email protected] to confirm the date and time of the meeting. The group will do its best to post any meeting changes on the Taft Library web site.

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS

AUGUST 2024

Summer Reading 2024 

Summer Reading continues in August. Your friends at the Taft have been busy for months putting together a Summer Reading program that is sure to please. For every three hours of reading, children through grade 4 will be able to pick a prize from our treasure chest. To register please visit our website at www.taftpubliclibrary.org.

August Events 

8/12 - Puppet Storytime 10:30 a.m. 

8/13 - Itty Bitty Storytime 9:30 a.m., Story & Craft 10:30 a.m., Toe Jam Puppet Band at Town Beach 6:30 p.m.

8/14 - Kidding Around Yoga 9:30 a.m. and Read Around Town: Clough School 10:30 a.m.

8/16 - Last day to redeem Summer Reading prizes 

8/27 - Music & Movement with Deb Hudgins 10:30 a.m.

8/28 - Coffee & Conversations 9:15 a.m. and Puppet Storytime 10:30 a.m.

For more information and to register for these events please visit our website at www.taftpubliclibrary.org.