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AML HOURS:
Monday-Thursday; 9am-9pm
Friday & Saturday: 9am-5pm
Sunday: 2pm-5pm
Upcoming Closures:
AML will be closed on Monday, 10/11.
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Book Sale:
* The Preview Sale for Friends Members is Friday evening, Oct 22, from 7-9 pm. That means first pick, and light music. Residents may join the Friends at the door for $20.
* The Book Sale is open to the general public Saturday, Oct 23, from 9am to 4pm.
* Sunday, Oct 24, is ‘Half-Price Day’ from 2-4pm.
Book Sale Prices: most $2 except children's paperbacks $1. Also selection of first editions and signed monographs individually priced.
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Outdoor Baby Toddler Storytime
Tuesdays, October 5th/12th/19th/26th
9:30am on the Library Lawn
Stories, songs, rhymes, and movement for infants and toddlers! Bring a blanket or a towel to sit on.
Program will be cancelled for bad weather. No registration required!
Sponsored by the Acton Memorial Library Foundation
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Preschool Storytime
Thursdays in October
10am on the Library Lawn
Interactive Storytime with Miss Elise geared toward preschoolers ages 3 and up. All are welcome for picture books, singing and movement!
Outdoor Program on the library lawn! In case of rain, program will take place in the meeting room.
Please bring a towel or blanket for sitting.
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
Questions? Email Acton Memorial Library’s Children’s Department at ACTChildrens@minlib.net
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Read to Zora
Thursdays 10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28
4pm-5pm in 15 minute appointments Library Lawn
Young readers can make a 15 minute appointment to read aloud to Zora, a charming, very clever Golden Retriever. Zora has gone to school to be a therapy dog, so she's the perfect listener. Zora and her person are members of the Pets and People Foundation.To REGISTER for a 15 minute appointment with Zora, please stop by the children's desk or call the children’s department at 978-929-6545.
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Dungeons & Dragons for Teens
Every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the Month,
10am-12pm at the Library
We are thrilled to welcome D&D back to Acton Memorial Library for teens in grades 7 and up (also open to adults with teens!).
We meet the first and third of every month. Registration is required in advance to play. Registration for the next session will open at the end of the current session. Please register for each session you are coming to.
D&D will be held outside at the picnic tables by the playground. If the program needs to be canceled because of weather, participants will receive an email the morning of the program.
All participants will be going through the campaign Hoard of the Dragon Queen. DMs are already selected, please come to play! No experience with D&D required.
If you have not already, please fill out the D&D at AML survey as well as registering via the link a
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Fruit Pies and Tarts : A Virtual Cooking Demo
Wednesday, September 29
6:30—7:30 PM - Zoom
A delicious pie is one pie crust and one filling away. In this class Liz Barbour of The Creative Feast will demonstrate her favorite pie dough recipe and prepare a seasonal fruit pie and tart. Liz will share information about her favorite pie baking tools, ingredients, and preparation methods. . After the class, each participant will be emailed copies of the recipes made to try it for yourself!
Please register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_461ZypExQ_efxu1ezutDuA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Can't make this one? Join us on November 3rd for New Traditions for Thanksgiving - Side Dishes : A Virtual Cooking Demo - Register here.
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Acton Indian-American Experiences
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021 at 4pm - Virtual
Indian immigrants are a growing community in Acton who have contributed to Acton’s growing reputation as a highly educated, multi-cultural, economically thriving town. What has been their journey, experiences, and challenges? Find out through this WEBINAR and panel discussion featuring several long-term residents of diverse backgrounds and interests.
Watch LIVE on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/ActonTV1
Or Register to attend via Zoom:
https://tinyurl.com/y884ed74
Sponsored in conjunction with the Acton Historical Society, Acton TV and Nishkam TV
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Salem Witch Trials and Public Memory
Wednesday, October 6th
6:30—7:30 PM on Zoom
Join us on Zoom for The Salem Witch Trials and Public Memory. presented Virtually by the Salem Witch Museum! Though the Salem witch trials were relatively mild when compared with the devastating witch trials that ravaged Europe during the early modern era, Salem has become one of the most infamous witch-hunts in Western European history. Today, Salem, Massachusetts has become a complex and unique example of public memory. In this program, we will discuss the history of witch trials, placing Salem in context of three hundred years of European trials. We will consider how and why Salem has become a powerful social metaphor, one that is still used to this day to denote fanatical, superstitious or unjust behavior. We will also consider how the city of Salem has struggled with its witch-related history, and has gradually changed over time, reflecting the drastically different and ever evolving popular conception the witch.
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AML Book Discussion Group
Tuesday, October 19th at 7:30pm on Zoom
This month, the Acton Memorial Library Book Group will discuss the book The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good by Michael J. Sandel. All are invited to join in discussion.
This event will be held via Zoom. Registration is required.
The group's future selections can be found here.
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Living History: Thoreau reads "Autumnal Tints" and takes questions
Saturday, November 6th at 10:30am
Outside on the Library Lawn
Henry David Thoreau loved autumn, and in his essay "Autumnal Tints" he expressed why he considered it the most beautiful time of the year, saying, "October is the month of painted leaves".
Step back in time to 1860 and celebrate the season at the Acton Memorial Library with Mr. Thoreau himself! Join Historian Richard Smith (as Thoreau) as he reads selections from the essay "Autumnal Tints." After the reading there will be a question and answer session with Mr. Thoreau as he discusses life in 19th Century Concord.
This Living History program is FREE and open to the public; it is appropriate for all ages. Registration is required, and opens October 1.
Registered participants with contact information will receive a notifications of updates to the program.
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Craft Night : Felted Fall Scene with Kit
Wednesday, November 10th at 7pm on Zoom
Join Pop Up Art School for a fun night of needle felting! Learn how to “paint” a seasonal landscape with wool. Use a barbed needle to attach colorful merino wool to an embroidery hoop. Leave the class with the basic supplies and knowledge to needle felt on your own. Needle felting is surprisingly easy, relaxing and fun! We will supply everything you need to create this craft at home (just bring scissors), follow along as we teach you live on zoom!
This program is open for adults and registration is required.
Please note: registration for this program includes a take home kit. Pick up for this kit will be available a week prior, so please be sure to enter a valid email address, as a zoom room code and class instructions will be sent using this email address.
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Friends of Pine Hawk October 2021 Virtual Programs
The Acton Memorial Library is proud to sponsor the following events with the Friends of Pine Hawk. For a list of all the Pine Hawk October programs, click here.
To register for any of these events, please go to https://tinyurl.com/pinehawk2021program at least two days prior to the event. You will be sent a Zoom link a day before a Zoom event. For other events, you will receive a confirmation email, with additional details for outdoor programs. Questions? Email friends.of.pinehawk@gmail.com.
Pine Hawk : Nashobah Praying Indians: A Living People, A Living Landscape
Monday, October 4th at 7pm
Meet Strong Medicine Bear of the Nashobah Praying Indians and local historian Daniel V. Boudillion as they discuss the 1654 Nashobah Praying Indian Village, the Nashobah People, who are alive and well, and the living landscape of native ceremonial structures in Acton and neighboring towns.
Pine Hawk: Native American Ceremonial Stone Structures of Acton
Thursday, October 7th at 7pm
Friends of Pine Hawk member Linda McElroy and Acton photographer Rob Houghton will discuss and show slides of the variety of stone structures left by Native Americans throughout a significant ceremonial landscape.
Pine Hawk : Book Discussion - "This Land is Their Land"
Thursday, October 14th at 7pm
BOOK DISCUSSION: THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND - David Silverman’s gripping, Native-centered narrative of the English incursion into New England vividly contextualizes the first Thanksgiving, placing Native diplomacy and actions at the story’s center, along with the warfare, dispossession, and struggle for sovereignty in the aftermath of first contact. This story continues into the present. Copies are available through the library, but you need not have read it to join the discussion.
Pine Hawk : Rock Art in New England
Wednesday, October 27th at 7pm
Rock art, imagery pecked or painted on stone, is typically associated with the American Southwest or Ice Age European caves. But some of the earliest documented engravings are located right here in New England. Rock art researcher Peter Anick takes us on a tour of New England’s rare petroglyphs and shares speculations about their origins and meanings.
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