|
|
☀️ Happy summer! Here's what's happening at your library (all upcoming events are listed here, not just Summer Reading Program).
|
➡️ The library is 🥶AIR-CONDITIONED🥶. Please stop by, if for no other reason than to cool off. We've got lots of seating and the daily papers, magazines, cold water, and - if you dare - hot coffee and tea. Friendly, helpful staff, too!
|
🧸 HAPPENING NOW! ✨Riley Raccoon's Annual Stuffie Sleepover. Batten your hatches! These are some lively stuffies I have here.
|
🧸 MONDAY, July 13, 6:00-7:00 pm ✨Stuffie Slideshow and Pick-up. Stuffie owners: If you want, wear your pajamas when you pick up your stuffie! Watch a slideshow of everything those critters got up to the night before! (If you can’t come at this time, come any time Tuesday or later. The slideshow will be posted on the website after this event.)
|
📖 TUESDAY, July 14, 10:30 am. Story Time with Miss Judy is becoming READ WITH CONVERSE CREW! Several of the Crew (age10-12) will be at the library to read one-on-one (or in small groups) with your child. Best for ages 3-8. The CC is really excited about this! Please attend if you can.
|
🦖 🍕 WEDNESDAY, July 15, 5:30-7 pm. Family Night: Pasta Paleontology! Come as a family and/or a group of neighbors or friends. We'll make two-dimensional dinosaurs from pasta shapes glued to paper and learn a few fun facts along the way. Pizza will be served! ⭐PLEASE REGISTER BY 5 PM TUESDAY at this link (Google Form), regardless of whether or not you want pizza: https://forms.gle/1M1vSHqETnT9Dznv7
|
|
🎬 THURSDAY, July 16, 12 noon. SRP26 MOVIE: Ice Age (2002; 1hr, 20 min; PG). Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the saber-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby to his father across a world on the brink of an ice age. Please accompany children under 7. We will serve snacks and water. Children may also bring their own snacks or lunch and covered drinks. Pick-up is around 1:30.
|
🎬 THURSDAY, July 16, 3 pm. MOVIES FOR GROWN-UPS (MGups): The Boys in the Boat (2023; 2 hrs, 3 min; PG-13). A 1930s-set story centered on the University of Washington's rowing team, from their Depression-era beginnings. Based on the book of the same name. Snacks and water will be available. Feel free to bring your own, too!
|
📚 TUESDAY, July 21, 7 pm. Gentle Reads Book Group. We're reading The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, by Robert Hillman, this month. Copies to borrow are available at the front desk. All are welcome to participate. The GRBG will take a break in August and soon we'll announce the new booklist for September 2026-July 2027.
|
ONGOING
🎨 Friends of Lyme Library Art Show, through September 30. From Her Roots to Her Wings, In Honor of Our Mum: Paintings by Jennifer Brown.
🀄 Mondays, 1:30-5 pm Mah Jongg Monday More info
💻 Tuesdays, 1:30-3 pm Tech Tuesday More info (NOTE: No Tech Tuesday 7/23 or 7/30)
🧶 Wednesdays, 2-5 pm Handcrafters Gathering More info
|
🖥️ You can find the basic schedule and other useful links for SRP26 HERE on our website. All events are also listed on our online calendar. The community is welcome to join us in any of the activities. It's never too late to sign up either. Teens and adults can sign up HERE and youth, preK to age 14 can register HERE
|
|
📋 Here are some of the reading and viewing lists we have put together in our online catalog. (We made some lists for adults, too, in case you too are looking to "unearth a story!")
|
|
🦕SRP26: Unearth a Story - Youth
|
🦕 SRP26: Unearth a Story - DVDs
|
|
If you're looking to maintain that summer state of mind, try one of these lists:
|
|
|
|
|
In an email last year, I included my "interpretation" of Teddy Bears Picnic in honor of the Stuffie Sleepover and today, I figured I'd drop it in once more... 😊
|
|
If you go out in the town today
|
|
you're in for a big surprise
|
|
If you go out in the town today
|
|
You'll never believe your eyes!
|
|
For every stuffie that ever was
|
|
Will gather at 38 Union because
|
4:30's the time the stuffies have their par-tee
|
|
Every stuffie who's ever been good is sure of a treat today
|
|
There's lots of marvelous things to eat and wonderful games to play
|
|
Inside the library where nobody sees
|
|
They'll hide and seek as long as they please
|
As long as Miss Judy stays awake for the par-teee
|
|
Sleepover night for Lyme stuffies
|
|
The little creatures will have a lovely time tonight
|
|
She'll watch them, catch them unawares
|
And see the silly photos on Monday
|
|
They love to play and shout
|
|
They never have any cares
|
|
At six o'clock their mummies and daddies
|
|
Will trust them to Miss Ju-u-dy
|
'Cause they're tired little stuffie toys
|
|
They're tired little stuffie toys...
|
|
|
|
|
Judy, Margaret, and Claire
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
