POWER RANGERS follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove – and the world – is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our heroes quickly discover they are the only ones who can save the planet. But to do so, they will have to overcome their real-life issues and before it’s too late, band together as the Power Rangers.

Battle aliens and save the planet with the Power Rangers while you enjoy popcorn and snacks.

Rehoboth Artist Tammy Syrett will lead an autumn paint night at the library. There are limited spaces available, so please register to secure your spot. 

Preschoolers are invited to join Miss Lorie for some fun stories and a craft that you can make and take home.

Registration is not required.

All family historians are invited to drop in and use the library's free resources. We have databases like Ancestry.org, Heritage Quest online and American Ancestors, as well as print resources to help you get organized. There will be someone available to help with your research, if you need it. 

Do you like to play Magic the Gathering?

Do you want to learn strategy to be a better player?

Join us to play this engaging game and try to win a booster pack.  Learn new strategy and play a practice game then try to win a prize.

Toddlers are welcome to join Miss Lorie for songs, fingerplays, a short story and some time to play with other children and fun learning toys.

Lincoln Village residents and Dighton residents over the age of 60 are able to get library services at Lincoln Village's community room during this time.

Preschoolers are invited to join Miss Lorie for some fun stories and a craft that you can make and take home.

Registration is not required.

SpongeBob and Plankton form an alliance to recover the secret recipe for Krabby Patties, which has been stolen by the pirate Burger Beard. Their search eventually leads them to the real world, where they become superheroes.

Battle Burger Beard and find the real world with Spongebob while you enjoy popcorn and snacks.

The Afternoon Book Discussion Group of the Dighton Public Library is discussing The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich.

From Booklist: /*Starred Review*/ Erdrich’s nine-volume cycle of novels revolving around an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota has always carried within it a deep faith in the sacredness of the world and of the stories we tell one another. Her fiction looks fearlessly at the harshest experiences and finds within them both mystery and meaning. In her latest, former drug addict Faye Travers is an estate appraiser living in a small New Hampshire town. Faye, a thoroughly modern woman, has always regarded the Native American part of her background with a certain wariness. But her reserve crumbles when, upon being called to sell the possessions of the descendants of an Indian reservation agent, she finds a rare and valuable drum . She impulsively takes it home, where it wakes her at night with its haunting sounds. She tracks it back to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, discovering how it was bartered away for alcohol. The drum  was originally made by a grieving father in tribute to his young daughter, who was eaten by wolves. Once the drum  is given back to its rightful owner, it plays a crucial role in guiding three young children, left alone in a freezing house with no food, to safety. It also serves to connect Faye to her heritage and to her deepest emotions. All of the voices that weave in and out of this narrative are, by turns, mournful and funny, rueful and proud, and always, even within the bleakest of circumstances, full of hope. If, for Erdrich, the reservation is the place of original sin, it is also the place of final redemption. -- Joanne Wilkinson (BookList, 06-01-2005, p1711)

All are invited to join the discussion. This book group usually meets on the last Thursday of each month at 4:00. Copies of the book are available, in advance, at the library.

Steve Manchester returns to the Dighton Public Library, as part of the Dighton Public Library's Fall Author Series, to share his writing process and discuss his latest award winning novel, Ashes. 

From the book jacket: "Middle-aged brothers Jason and Tom Prendergast thought they were completely done with each other...But life - and death - has a robust sense of irony, and when they learn that their crule father has died and made his final request that they travel together across the country to spread his ashes, they have no choice but to spend a long, long car trip in each other's company...The trip will be as gut-wrenching each each expects it to be and is revealing in ways neither of them is prepared for."

Steve has collaborated with local artist Brian Fox for Ashes. The artist and his work both appear in the novel. 

All are welcome to meet with Steve. Copies of Ashes will be available to purchase. This is the first author event in the Dighton Library's Fall Author Series.

Preschoolers are invited to join Miss Lorie for some fun stories and a craft that you can make and take home.

Registration is not required.

All family historians are invited to drop in and use the library's free resources. We have databases like Ancestry.org, Heritage Quest online and American Ancestors, as well as print resources to help you get organized. There will be someone available to help with your research, if you need it. 

Do you like to play Magic the Gathering?

Do you want to learn strategy to be a better player?

Join us to play this engaging game and try to win a booster pack.  Learn new strategy and play a practice game then try to win a prize.

Preschoolers are invited to join Miss Lorie for some fun stories and a craft that you can make and take home.

Registration is not required.

 Image from Rhode Island Monthly Magazine, 

Join us to learn how to determine which wild mushrooms are safe to eat. Ryan Bouchard is the author and photographer of Gourmet Mushrooms of Rhode Island, the first book about mushroom hunting in the Ocean State. He will be joined by Emily Schmidt, who studies the countless ways that mushrooms can be used for cooking, as well as the nutritional values of our local varieties. 

Their audiovisual presentation will introduce the audience to the fun of mushroom science and the hobby of mushroom hunting in our area. This workshop is free. Registration is recommended, but not required.

The Traveling Book Group is meeting to discuss Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. 

From Novelist: "A murder in a small English village leads Hercule Poirot into a strange mystery involving a determined, curious spinster, the local doctor, and a wide range of suspects with possible motives and mysterious relationships."  Copies of this book are available at the library.

Preschoolers are invited to join Miss Lorie for some fun stories and a craft that you can make and take home.

Registration is not required.

All family historians are invited to drop in and use the library's free resources. We have databases like Ancestry.org, Heritage Quest online and American Ancestors, as well as print resources to help you get organized. There will be someone available to help with your research, if you need it. 

Lincoln Village residents and Dighton residents over the age of 60 are able to get library services at Lincoln Village's community room during this time.

Preschoolers are invited to join Miss Lorie for some fun stories and a craft that you can make and take home.

Registration is not required.

Preschoolers are invited to join Miss Lorie for some fun stories and a craft that you can make and take home.

Registration is not required.

All family historians are invited to drop in and use the library's free resources. We have databases like Ancestry.org, Heritage Quest online and American Ancestors, as well as print resources to help you get organized. There will be someone available to help with your research, if you need it. 

Preschoolers are invited to join Miss Lorie for some fun stories and a craft that you can make and take home.

Registration is not required.

The Dighton Public Library has started a Cookbook Club. The next meeting is Wednesday, October 18 at 6:30 PM. The deadline for sign-ups is Wednesday, October 11.  We will be celebrating our local cooks by preparing and sharing a dish from A Taste of History, The Dighton Historical Society's Cookbook. The cookbook is available at the library.

This group meets once a month, with a different theme each month. Participants must sign up with the library in advance to let us know what type of dish you will be preparing (so we won’t have duplicates.) We will notify you of how many servings to bring for the group meeting. The servings are meant to be a taste – not full sized. And we ask that you bring copies of your recipes to share with the group.

Preschoolers are invited to join Miss Lorie for some fun stories and a craft that you can make and take home.

Registration is not required.

All family historians are invited to drop in and use the library's free resources. We have databases like Ancestry.org, Heritage Quest online and American Ancestors, as well as print resources to help you get organized. There will be someone available to help with your research, if you need it. 

The History at Play Ensemble™ presents the spirit of Hamilton where the Revolution began. You've heard about "the room where it happened", and now you will see about the town where it happened, Boston. Meet one of the most powerful Founding Families in this revolutionary rendevous. Enjoy the company of John and Dorothy Hancock, Samuel Adams, his cousin John, and many more, as you witness and particpate in the landmark events in the path to indpendence, while following John & Dorothy's rise to power. Fierce, factual, and unforgettably funny, this performance is suitable for audiences of all ages.

This performance is funded in part by the Dighton Cultural Council, a local agency and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Lincoln Village residents and Dighton residents over the age of 60 are able to get library services at Lincoln Village's community room during this time.

The Afternoon Book Discussion Group of the Dighton Public Library is discussing Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.

From Booklist: Readers curious about the emotional flow between hostages and their takers should cotton to this novel based on the 1996 Tupac Amaru takeover of the Japanese ambassadorial residence in Lima, Peru. It traces the hostages’ adjusting attitudes during the torpor of a months-long siege. Relief from their tedium takes the form of luscious world-class soprano Roxane Coss, who had been entertaining an international assortment of diplomats and businesspersons when the terrorists took the Peruvian vice president’s house. Everybody loves her, eventually--a Russian diplomat, the Japanese tycoon who paid for her performance, one of the teenage hostage-takers, and so on. The medium for all professions of admiration and love is polylingual Gen Watanabe. As Watanabe flits from conversation to conversation, Patchett develops the characters’ thoughts. Watanabe, for example, takes a shine to a child-soldier terrorist, Carmen, who comes to share the fate of an operatic earlier bearer of her name. Unhurriedly, even languorously, Patchett brings readers into the minds of the characters. (Reviewed June 1, 2001) -- Gilbert Taylor

All are invited to join the discussion. This book group usually meets on the last Thursday of each month at 4:00. Copies of the book are available, in advance, at the library.

Local author John "Red" Cummings is the next writer to join us in our author series to discuss his latest book: Murder, Manslaughter and Mayhem on the Southcoast. 

From the publisher: "The murderers in these pages used guns, knives, axes, fists, fire, rope, and other tools—including their hands—to commit their dastardly deeds. Mothers killed their children, husbands and wives killed each other, and children murdered their parents. Police officers were killed in cold blood while doing their jobs. Deaths occurred in physicians’ offices during abortions, and some victims were cut into pieces.

Murders were committed in the suburbs and the city. Many of the accused were proclaimed insane—others committed suicide after the killing. Either the slayer went to jail, an insane asylum, or did themselves in by their own hand— Murder does not discriminate. Victims and killers come from all races, nationalities, genders, and age groups. Many used drugs or sold drugs. Crimes of passion seemed to outweigh robberies but there were still many of those. Some killers were just “bad” people who did not regret their actions and had no qualms about how they slayed their victims. There were cult murders and unsolved roadside killings of young women believed to be prostitutes. Some of our murderers were released to kill additional innocent victims. Such is Murder, Manslaughter, and Mayhem on the SouthCoast."

All family historians are invited to drop in and use the library's free resources. We have databases like Ancestry.org, Heritage Quest online and American Ancestors, as well as print resources to help you get organized. There will be someone available to help with your research, if you need it. 

Lincoln Village residents and Dighton residents over the age of 60 are able to get library services at Lincoln Village's community room during this time.

Lincoln Village residents and Dighton residents over the age of 60 are able to get library services at Lincoln Village's community room during this time.

The Afternoon Book Discussion Group of the Dighton Public Library is discussing The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes.

From Booklist: World War II has ended, and four Australian women are about to embark on the trip of  a lifetime. They are joined by 650 other women who will make the six-week trip to England aboard the HMS Victoria to be reunited with the men they married just prior to or during the war. These "war brides " are in a perilous position: leaving behind everyone and everything they know to start a new life in a new country, unsure whether they will be welcomed by their new in-laws and able to handle life married to men they barely know. The stress of  these concerns, coupled with life on a battleship full of  seamen, ensures the trip is an adventure for all—especially when secrets are revealed that could ruin reputations and the hint of  forbidden romance blossoms on board. VERDICT Moyes's (Me Before You; The Girl You Left Behind; One Plus One ) engrossing and well-written novel with romantic content is light but powerful. Through emotive language and suspense, the author effectively thrusts readers into the brides ' world of  anxiety, urgency, hope, and excitement. Highly recommended for historical romance readers.— Jennifer Harris, Southern New Hampshire Univ. Lib., Manchester --Jennifer Harris (Reviewed October 1, 2014) (Library Journal, vol 139, issue 16, p75)

All are invited to join the discussion. This book group usually meets on the last Thursday of each month at 4:00. Copies of the book are available, in advance, at the library.

Lincoln Village residents and Dighton residents over the age of 60 are able to get library services at Lincoln Village's community room during this time.

The Afternoon Book Discussion Group of the Dighton Public Library is discussing 2 a.m. at the Cat's Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino.

From Library Journal: /* Starred Review */ Almost ten years old, Madeleine Altimari is a self-described "poor motherless girl in old stockings." Often hungry but pragmatically compensating for her grieving father's neglect, she's a mouthy old soul who doesn't play nice with others. What Madeleine does do is live and breathe jazz. On Christmas Eve, she is determined, at all costs, to sing at a run-down Philadelphia jazz bar called the Cat's Pajamas. Her teacher Sarina Greene whose love for an old flame is unrequited (or so she thinks) is also drawn to the Cat's Pajamas. Lorca, the bar's owner, has just been informed that his bar will be shut down unless he comes up with an impossible sum of money to cover his countless citations and bring the place up to code. That these threads converge is a given. The surprise is in the purely original construction of an irresistible story that takes place in just 24 hours. VERDICT By the fourth sentence of the first page, readers will fall in love with debut author Bertino; delighted adoration of Madeleine will take another half page. This assured, moving, brilliantly funny tale of music, mourning, and off-kilter romance entrances with its extraordinarily inventive language. Be prepared for a quick reread of this novel to try to answer the question: How did Bertino do that? [See Prepub Alert, 2/3/14.]— Beth Andersen, formerly with Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI --Beth Andersen (Reviewed July 1, 2014) (Library Journal, vol 139, issue 12, p70)

All are invited to join the discussion. This book group usually meets on the last Thursday of each month at 4:00. Copies of the book are available, in advance, at the library.