Wednesday, October 12, 7-8pm, Community Room

Registration required

Learn how to transform maple leaves into roses that you can bring home to display in a vase or use to decorate an autumn wreath. (Bring a few dozen maple leaves that you've collected...we'll also provide some leaves.)

Thursday, October 20, 7-8pm, Community Room

Registration required

In April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the team to play on Sundays. The Red Sox got the councilman’s much-needed vote, but the tryout was a sham; the three players would get no closer to the major leagues. It was a lost battle in a war that was ultimately won by Robinson in 1947.

This book tells the story of the little-known heroes who fought segregation in baseball, from communist newspaper reporters to the Pullman car porters who saw to it that black newspapers espousing integration in professional sports reached the homes of blacks throughout the country. It also reminds us that the first black player in professional baseball was not Jackie Robinson but Moses Fleetwood Walker in 1884, and that for a time integrated teams were not that unusual. And then, as segregation throughout the country hardened, the exclusion of blacks in baseball quietly became the norm, and the battle for integration began anew.

Saturday, October 15, 1-4pm

Open to ages 10+

Registration opens 9/12 at 6am

Try out different games and consoles with OneUp Games' Freeplay! Drop in any time during the program to play! For safety reasons, VR can only be used by ages 10 and up.

Tuesday, October 25th, 4pm in the Community Rom

Ages 3-10 with an adult

Registration opens 10/3/22

What scurries through the woods? What creatures shuffle in the darkness? And what lies...inside their bodies? Explore the creepiest of our crawlies, and real bones of native animals to New England!

Thursday, October 27th, 10:30am in the Community Room

Registration required.

Self Help Inc presents Monster STEM. Learn about polymers and chemistry by making your own slime and experimenting with other hands-on science activities.

Challenge yourself with our monster math games and be a detective with our pumpkin observation station. Perfect for 3 to 8 year-olds and their parents, these science-based activities are all Halloween-themed.