Joan Fisler of Red Barn Yoga of Lyme will be conducting yoga and meditation classes at the library twice a month. $10.00 per class paid to the instructor at the door. Participants should bring yoga mats if they have them  but a limited number of mats will be made available. Experience with yoga and meditation is not necessary in order to participate. This will be a relaxing and invigorating way to start the weekend off right.   

Cost: $10.00

Join us for this collaborative book club between the Lyme Public Library and the Lyme's Senior Center, which we are calling the "As the Page Turns" club. Each month we will be discussing a selected book, copies of which can be picked up at the Lyme Library's circulation desk (just speak to a staff member) in multiple formats (regular print, large print and audio). The club will be alternating the location of the meetings between the Lyme Public Library at 482 Hamburg Road in Lyme and the Lyme's Senior Center at 26 Town Woods Road, Old Lyme. Participants of all ages welcome.

This month's meeting to take place at the Lyme Public Library

This month's book is : "A Single Thread" by Tracy Chevalier

Cool-ology® provides hands-on, inquiry-based learning experiences aimed at getting kids really excited about science, engineering, STEAM connections, and the world around them! These active, social, creative lessons help kids begin to understand how the world works in a fun and educational way. Each session, children will explore a captivating, hands-on, inquiry-based science or engineering topic.

STEAM *Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math

This program is designed for children 2-5 years old.

Topic: Earth Day

Up to 90% of all visits to doctors’ offices are stress-related, according to Harvard.  Stress can be considered as much a risk factor for disease as smoking. Why can two people be in the same situation and respond to stress in different ways?

Can changing the way we carry stress be a learnable skill?

 Come and learn the difference between good and bad stress, increase awareness of how stress impacts the body, and hear about the emerging pattern matching specific symptoms and diseases with specific stresses. 

 Everyone will learn a technique to minimize stress and maximize vitality.

About Dr. Wendy:

A graduate of Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Hurwitz is a nationally recognized expert on stress. A former medical researcher for ABC News, Dr. Hurwitz is an expert in two fields: Mind/Body Medicine and Energy Medicine. She teaches both professionals and students in medicine, psychology, and the allied health professions, and has lectured at Harvard Medical School, Yale University School of Medicine, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, NYU, and Fordham University.

This program is co-sponsored by the Lyme Public Library and will take place at the Pheobe Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme -2 LIbrary Lane, Old Lyme To register click here and your registration will be forwarded to Old Lyme. 

Are you having basic technology issues, such as using email, Microsoft Office or Google Docs? Is using your cell phone becoming more trouble than it seems to be worth? Would you like to get access to the free services that the library has to offer such as downloading audio books via the LIBBY app? Well, Pastor Sue Latourette will be at the Lyme Library to help. Please come to the library and sign-up for one (or more) of the ½ time slots on our tech support sign-up sheet. All we will need is your name, contact information and a brief description of your technology issue. Make sure to bring along all the charging plugs, etc for your devices and have your usernames and passwords available to log in to the accounts you are having trouble with. Pastor Sue will be at the library from 2:00-4:00 to sit down one-on-one with you to help get you past your technology hurdle. 

Award winning screenwriter Janet Roach will be leading a Sunday afternoon film series at the Lyme Library running from January through April on the first and third Sundays of each month. She is calling the series “Around the World in Eight Movies” and the series will be featuring memorable international films you won’t want to miss. Join friends and family and make new acquaintances while armchair traveling around the globe via the breathtaking wonder of film.

Popcorn and beverages will be served.

Today's film will be: "Babette’s Feast" (Danish, 1987)

Based on the 1958 short story by Isak Dinesen, Babette’s Feast follows the lives of Babette Hersant, a political refugee, who comes to live on the remote western coast of Jutland with repressed and religious sisters Marine and Filippa. The two spinster sisters preside over a dwindling, but faithful elderly congregation started by their pious and authoritative late father. Through a series of unexpected circumstances, Babette’s presence in the village changes the dynamics of the congregation via her skills at cooking, and the introduction of the idea of how the sensuality of food forms its own community.

To register for this event email programreg@lymepl.org

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

Theme: Moon and Stars

Instructors from the Audubon Society’s Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center will be at the Lyme Library to teach attendees about the new, readily available, technologies that can be used to help you track, record and better understand the lives of the  avian wildlife around us.

To register email programreg@lymepl.org

Joan Fisler of Red Barn Yoga of Lyme will be conducting yoga and meditation classes at the library twice a month. $10.00 per class paid to the instructor at the door. Participants should bring yoga mats if they have them  but a limited number of mats will be made available. Experience with yoga and meditation is not necessary in order to participate. This will be a relaxing and invigorating way to start the weekend off right.   

Cost: $10.00

Join the Lyme Library Stitchcraft Club and practice your stitch craft in the company of like-minded stitchers. If you enjoy, knitting, embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, quilting or any other form of easily portable hand crafts join us on the 4th Saturday of each month at the Lyme library in the Periodicals Room to share your projects, good company and refreshments around the fireplace. This is the perfect opportunity to learn and expand your creativity by sharing with others.

 Did you know that during restorative sleep the body not only rests and recharges, it also cleans the brain of toxins and debris, consolidates memories, repairs tissues and organs, and grows new cells, including brain cells?

 Come learn about tips to improve sleep and restorative rest.

About Dr. Wendy:

A graduate of Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Hurwitz is a nationally recognized

expert on stress. A former medical researcher for ABC News, Dr. Hurwitz is an expert in two fields: Mind/Body Medicine and Energy Medicine. She teaches both professionals and students in medicine, psychology, and the allied health professions, and has lectured at Harvard Medical School, Yale University School of Medicine, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, NYU, and Fordham University.

To register email programreg@lymepl.org 

This program is co-sponsored by thePhoebe Griffin Noyes Public Library in Old Lyme.

Every last Tuesday of the month is the  meeting of the Lyme Library American Mah Jongg Club. Previous experience playing Mah Jongg is preferred. The library has two complete American Mah Jongg sets and 8 copies of the “Official Standard Hands and Rules 2023” booklets that participants can use while in the building. With the limited supply of American Mah Jongg sets available via the library if you have your own set of tiles you are encouraged to bring them along. Come join the fun and meet new friends. 

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

The Lyme Public Library is celebrating Children’s Book Week with local author and librarian, Elaine Alexander, as she reads her Connecticut Nutmeg nominated book Anglerfish: The Sea Devil of the Deep. After the book is read join us for a fun craft!

This program is best suited for ages 4-8  but all ages are welcome.

Shell & Bee Studio Art Class Series- Afternoon Art

To register email  programreg@lymepl.org or call 860- 434- 2272

 Join Ms. Marissa of Shell & Bee Studio as she leads a fun and creative afternoon class for elementary school students grades 1-5. 

Today’s Class: 

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

 Are you having basic technology issues, such as using email, Microsoft Office or Google Docs? Is using your cell phone becoming more trouble than it seems to be worth? Would you like to get access to the free services that the library has to offer such as downloading audio books via the LIBBY app? Well, Emily Lewis will be at the Lyme Library to help. Please come to the library and sign-up for one (or more) of the ½ time slots on our tech support sign-up sheet. All we will need is your name, contact information and a brief description of your technology issue. Make sure to bring along all the charging plugs, etc for your devices and have your usernames and passwords available to log in to the accounts you are having trouble with. Emily will be at the library from 2:00-4:00 to sit down one-on-one with you to help get you past your technology hurdle. 

 Members of the USA Financial & Tax Services (a family owned business with offices throughout Connecticut) team will be at the Lyme Library to present information on how best to get social security savings to work for you.

To register email programreg@lymepl.org

 Joan Fisler of Red Barn Yoga of Lyme will be conducting yoga and meditation classes at the library twice a month. $10.00 per class paid to the instructor at the door. Participants should bring yoga mats if they have them  but a limited number of mats will be made available. Experience with yoga and meditation is not necessary in order to participate. This will be a relaxing and invigorating way to start the weekend off right.   

Cost: $10.00

Every month the Lyme Public Library will be hosting a cookbook club where the participants will be using recipes from a particular cookbook (chosen by the participants at the previous month’s meeting) and making items to share with the group. This is a “tasty” book club where you can build your culinary skills and share with others.  

This month's theme: Sandwiches

 In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) month the Lyme Library is pleased to present the film “Ghost Mountain” by filmmaker James Taing. His father Mae Bunseng Taing whose life story is told in the book “Under the Naga Tail: A True Story of Survival, Bravery, and Escape from Cambodian Genocide” will present from his book and answer questions about his life experiences which is captured in his son’s film.

To register for this program email programreg@lymepl.org

 Come join the fun and meet new and old friends at the Lyme Library puzzle club.The meetings will take place every 2nd Tuesday of the month from 11:00am-12:30pm. Puzzles will be provided by the library. A range of puzzles will be available from 40 piece ones to 1,000 piece varieties. The library will also provide a puzzle case so that puzzles which the club is working on that were not able to be finished in one sitting can continue to be worked on at the next meeting. Coffee and tea are provided at a minimum cost.

Mentoring Corps for Community Development (MCCD) will be presenting the group’s methodology of how they deliver on their motto of “Helping Others Succeed”.

MCCD is a twelve-member board  (founded in 2012) of retired professionals offering  consultation services based on their accumulated skills after long careers  in medicine, business, law, philanthropy, real estate and the arts to name a few. The group works with clients on a confidential and pro bono basis .

If you are wondering how to improve outcomes for your business, not-for-profit or personal ambitions this meeting offers the opportunity to learn how this unique organization has helped others achieve their goals. See more at the MCCD website www.mentoringcorps.org.

Board members will look forward to welcoming you to this special event.

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

 Members of the USA Financial & Tax Services (a family owned business with offices throughout Connecticut) team will be at the Lyme Library to present the key things you should be doing now in order to build a lasting legacy for yourself in retirement and for the future of causes and people you love. 

To register email programreg@lymepl.org

Join us for this collaborative book club between the Lyme Public Library and the Lyme's Senior Center, which we are calling the "As the Page Turns" club. Each month we will be discussing a selected book, copies of which can be picked up at the Lyme Library's circulation desk (just speak to a staff member) in multiple formats (regular print, large print and audio). The club will be alternating the location of the meetings between the Lyme Public Library at 482 Hamburg Road in Lyme and the Lyme's Senior Center at 26 Town Woods Road, Old Lyme. Participants of all ages welcome.

This month's meeting to take place at the Lyme Public Library

This month's book is : "Saints for All Occasions" by J. Courtney Sullivan

This program is appropriate for children ages 6-11 years old.

Please register by emailing programreg@lymepl.org or calling 860-434-2272

Every month the Lyme Public Library will be hosting a cookbook club where the participants will be using recipes from a particular cookbook (chosen by the participants at the previous month’s meeting) and making items to share with the group. This is a “tasty” book club where you can  build your culinary skills and share with others.  
 

Are you having basic technology issues, such as using email, Microsoft Office or Google Docs? Is using your cell phone becoming more trouble than it seems to be worth? Would you like to get access to the free services that the library has to offer such as downloading audio books via the LIBBY app? Well, Pastor Sue Latourette will be at the Lyme Library to help. Please come to the library and sign-up for one (or more) of the ½ time slots on our tech support sign-up sheet. All we will need is your name, contact information and a brief description of your technology issue. Make sure to bring along all the charging plugs, etc for your devices and have your usernames and passwords available to log in to the accounts you are having trouble with. Pastor Sue will be at the library from 2:00-4:00 to sit down one-on-one with you to help get you past your technology hurdle. 

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

Did you know how many species of snakes and turtles call Lyme Their home? Or what unique habitats they depend on for their survival? Or how they carry out their lives in our preserves and back yards? Ever wonder what that Snapping Turtle is doing in your garden or at the edge of your driveway every June. Jim Arrigoni, Lyme Land Trust Environmental Director, will get you acquainted with charismatic species like Wood Turtle, Black Racer, Smooth Green Snake, and Musk Turtle, and also demonstrate how you can contribute to science by sharing your reptile observation with the Wild Lyme iNaturalist Project.

Register by emailing programreg@lymepl.org

Join the Lyme Library Stitchcraft Club and practice your stitch craft in the company of like-minded stitchers. If you enjoy, knitting, embroidery, crochet, cross stitch, quilting or any other form of easily portable hand crafts join us on the 4th Saturday of each month at the Lyme library in the Periodicals Room to share your projects, good company and refreshments around the fireplace. This is the perfect opportunity to learn and expand your creativity by sharing with others.

Every last Tuesday of the month is the  meeting of the Lyme Library American Mah Jongg Club. Previous experience playing Mah Jongg is preferred. The library has two complete American Mah Jongg sets and 8 copies of the “Official Standard Hands and Rules 2023” booklets that participants can use while in the building. With the limited supply of American Mah Jongg sets available via the library if you have your own set of tiles you are encouraged to bring them along. Come join the fun and meet new friends. 

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

Joan Fisler of Red Barn Yoga of Lyme will be conducting yoga and meditation classes at the library twice a month. $10.00 per class paid to the instructor at the door. Participants should bring yoga mats if they have them  but a limited number of mats will be made available. Experience with yoga and meditation is not necessary in order to participate. This will be a relaxing and invigorating way to start the weekend off right.   

Cost: $10.00

Shell & Bee Studio Art Class Series- Afternoon Art

To register email  programreg@lymepl.org or call 860- 434- 2272

 Join Ms. Marissa of Shell & Bee Studio as she leads a fun and creative afternoon class for elementary school students grades 1-5. 

Today’s Class: 

The Lyme Library is  honored to have award-winning actress, author, producer and film historian Illeanna Douglas appear to read from her new book “Connecticut in the Movies: From Dream Houses to Dark Suburbia”. Filled with insightful details about the many films that were shot in Connecticut as well as how the state has been perceived in films since the silent era, “Connecticut in the Movies” is a must-read for anyone who loves films. A resident of Connecticut, Ms. Douglas brings her love of the location and her knowledge as a film historian to bear when she writes about the fascinating facts of filmmaking in Connecticut. Ms. Douglas’ book will be available for purchase and signing at the event. 

To register email programreg@lymepl.org

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

For children ages 6-11, Cool-ology® offers hands-on, inquiry-based STEM/STEAM* experiences that get children really excited about science, engineering, and the world around them. Participants engage in empathetic problem-solving, creative design, and critical thinking skills. Cool-ology® classes encourage divergent thinking and deepen children’s understanding of core science and engineering principles- all while having fun!

Every month the Lyme Public Library will be hosting a cookbook club where the participants will be using recipes from a particular cookbook (chosen by the participants at the previous month’s meeting) and making items to share with the group. This is a “tasty” book club where you can build your culinary skills and share with others.  

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

Are you having basic technology issues, such as using email, Microsoft Office or Google Docs? Is using your cell phone becoming more trouble than it seems to be worth? Would you like to get access to the free services that the library has to offer such as downloading audio books via the LIBBY app? Well, Emily Lewis will be at the Lyme Library to help. Please come to the library and sign-up for one (or more) of the ½ time slots on our tech support sign-up sheet. All we will need is your name, contact information and a brief description of your technology issue. Make sure to bring along all the charging plugs, etc for your devices and have your usernames and passwords available to log in to the accounts you are having trouble with. Emily will be at the library from 2:00-4:00 to sit down one-on-one with you to help get you past your technology hurdle. 

Joan Fisler of Red Barn Yoga of Lyme will be conducting yoga and meditation classes at the library twice a month. $10.00 per class paid to the instructor at the door. Participants should bring yoga mats if they have them  but a limited number of mats will be made available. Experience with yoga and meditation is not necessary in order to participate. This will be a relaxing and invigorating way to start the weekend off right.   

Cost: $10.00

Cool-ology® provides hands-on, inquiry-based learning experiences aimed at getting kids really excited about science, engineering, STEAM connections, and the world around them! These active, social, creative lessons help kids begin to understand how the world works in a fun and educational way. Each session, children will explore a captivating, hands-on, inquiry-based science or engineering topic.

STEAM *Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math

This program is designed for children 2-5 years old.

Every month the Lyme Public Library will be hosting a cookbook club where the participants will be using recipes from a particular cookbook (chosen by the participants at the previous month’s meeting) and making items to share with the group. This is a “tasty” book club where you can  build your culinary skills and share with others.  

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Join Advanced Cicerone, author and cartoonist Em Sauter for a delicious presentation of two amazing things together- beer and ice cream! We will pair beers from Fox Farm Brewery of Salem  with local ice cream flavors from Salem Valley Ice Cream of Salem and discover how beer really is a versatile beverage with a range of flavors that can complement all foods. Beat the heat this summer with some sweet treats and a lesson about beer! 

Participants at this event must be 21 years old or older, with IDs being checked at the door.

Attendance is limited to 30 individuals. Register by emailing programreg@lymepl.org

Bio about Em Sauter:

Em Sauter is an Advanced Cicerone®, cartoonist, author, beer reviewer, international beer judge and public speaker who runs the award winning website Pints and Panels, which focuses on visual beer education. Her first book "Beer is for Everyone! (of Drinking Age)" was published in 2017 by One Peace Books. Her second book "Hooray for Craft Beer!" was released in April 2022 with Brewers Publications. She lives in New England with her husband Matt and two cats, Milbo and The Geen

Are you having basic technology issues, such as using email, Microsoft Office or Google Docs? Is using your cell phone becoming more trouble than it seems to be worth? Would you like to get access to the free services that the library has to offer such as downloading audio books via the LIBBY app? Well, Pastor Sue Latourette will be at the Lyme Library to help. Please come to the library and sign-up for one (or more) of the ½ time slots on our tech support sign-up sheet. All we will need is your name, contact information and a brief description of your technology issue. Make sure to bring along all the charging plugs, etc for your devices and have your usernames and passwords available to log in to the accounts you are having trouble with. Pastor Sue will be at the library from 2:00-4:00 to sit down one-on-one with you to help get you past your technology hurdle. 

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

This forty-minute program features a collection of “New Songs” and Hymns published in Connecticut during the American Revolution.  From the time of the Stamp Act through the British surrender at Yorktown, Connecticut’s seditious colonists used these works to foment rebellion, commemorate victory, and give thanks for preservation.   Richard Franklin Donohue, Tenor & Harpsichord, will explore this fiery repertoire that in the words of John Adams “cultivated the sensations of Freedom.”

To register for this program email programreg@lymepl.org

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

The Lyme Library is honored to have the author and educator Jim Cullen appear to speak about his book "Martin Scorsese and the American Dream”.

Credited as one of the greatest American filmmakers of our time, Scorsese has tackled the consequences of striving toward the "American Dream" in every one of his films. From "Mean Streets" to "Killers of the Flower Moon", he has portrayed the glamour and pitfalls both morally, and financially of ambition gone unchecked and what happens to the human spirit when it is disconnected from the anchors of human empathy and understanding. "Martin Scorsese and the American Dream" is a fascinating book and a must read for any Scorsese fan or film lover.

Register for this program by emailing programreg@lymepl.org

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

For children ages 6-11, Cool-ology® offers hands-on, inquiry-based STEM/STEAM* experiences that get children really excited about science, engineering, and the world around them. Participants engage in empathetic problem-solving, creative design, and critical thinking skills. Cool-ology® classes encourage divergent thinking and deepen children’s understanding of core science and engineering principles- all while having fun!

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

Cool-ology® provides hands-on, inquiry-based learning experiences aimed at getting kids really excited about science, engineering, STEAM connections, and the world around them! These active, social, creative lessons help kids begin to understand how the world works in a fun and educational way. Each session, children will explore a captivating, hands-on, inquiry-based science or engineering topic.

STEAM *Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math

This program is designed for children 2-5 years old.

Topic: A House for Hermit Crab

Author and artist Moya Hession-Aiken will be appearing at the Lyme Library to speak about and read from her fantastic memoir "Shoulder". An engaging, humorous, and heartfelt autobiography, "Shoulder: A Memoir" has the insight, wit and warmth that every autobiography needs to keep you turning pages and feeling like one has to say goodbye to a new friend at the end.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is: “Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters” by Lynnee Denise and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Join Ms.Natalie for books, songs and a craft. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

Show runs from September 2nd to November 1st ( haning begins last week of August)

ABSHALOM JAC LAHAV (he/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, parent, arts writer, children’s book author, and community organizer. Born in Jerusalem Israel with Iranian and Polish roots Lahav was raised in the United States and graduated with an MFA from Brooklyn College where they studied with Vito Acconci.

Lahav’s work investigates narratives about community, belonging, and cultural history through large series of paintings and installations. With solo shows at Richmond Art Museum Indiana, Longview MFA Texas, Saginaw Art Museum Michigan, Florence Griswold Museum Connecticut, Lahav’s work can be found in multiple public collections including the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, Mount Holyoke Art Museum, Jewish Museum NY among others. 

Recent solo exhibitions include the Slater Art Museum, Norwich (Summer, 2023) and the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London (Fall, 2023)

Lahav also has an active social practice over the past 10 years. Lahav’s curatorial projects have been written about in Hyperallergic, New York Times, Gothamist, Artnet, among others. During the pandemic, Lahav expanded their social practice, becoming an advocate for foster parents and helping start the group Public Art For Racial Justice Education (PARJE). Through their community work, Lahav helps facilitate large-scale mural projects, hosts educational artist talks, and runs children’s art projects to educate about under-represented narratives and equity in America.

In 2023 Lahav started Creative Lattice, a free online resource to help marginalized professional artists develop sustainable careers.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is: -“ Without Reservation: The making of America’s most powerful Indian Tribe and the world’s largest casino” by Jeff Benedict and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

Every month the Lyme Public Library will be hosting a cookbook club where the participants will be using recipes from a particular cookbook (chosen by the participants at the previous month’s meeting) and making items to share with the group. This is a “tasty” book club where you can  build your culinary skills and share with others.  

This month’s theme: 

Come join us for a S.T.E.A.M. program for curious preschoolers.

Local author Peter Prichard will appear at the Lyme Library to discuss his new book "Killing Grace"

Every month the Lyme Public Library will be hosting a cookbook club where the participants will be using recipes from a particular cookbook (chosen by the participants at the previous month’s meeting) and making items to share with the group. This is a “tasty” book club where you can  build your culinary skills and share with others.  

This month’s theme: 

Every month the Lyme Public Library will be hosting a cookbook club where the participants will be using recipes from a particular cookbook (chosen by the participants at the previous month’s meeting) and making items to share with the group. This is a “tasty” book club where you can  build your culinary skills and share with others.  

This month’s theme: 

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is: ““There, There” by Tommy Orangeand it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

This special Halloween program called “Fright Night” will include a panel of Connecticut horror writers and features author readings, horror trivia with prizes Q & A with each author and a meet and greet in which audience members may purchase books and have them signed. 

Contact: Email programreg@lymepl.org to register

For more information about the Connecticut Horror Writers Association go to https://horrorwritersct.com/

Every month the Lyme Public Library will be hosting a cookbook club where the participants will be using recipes from a particular cookbook (chosen by the participants at the previous month’s meeting) and making items to share with the group. This is a “tasty” book club where you can  build your culinary skills and share with others.  

This month’s theme: 

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is: - “One Person, No Vote: How voter suppression is destroying our democracy” by Carol Andersonand it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is: ““Beautiful Country: A memoir of an undocumented childhood” by Qian Julie Wang and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

Every month the Lyme Public Library will be hosting a cookbook club where the participants will be using recipes from a particular cookbook (chosen by the participants at the previous month’s meeting) and making items to share with the group. This is a “tasty” book club where you can  build your culinary skills and share with others.  

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To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s piece is: “Minari”  (A Lee Isaac Chung film) and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning” by Cathy Hong Park and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is:-“Amistad”( A Steven Spielberg film) and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is:  “Watermelons, Nooses and Straight Razors: Images from the Jim Crow Museum” by David Pilgrim.and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is: “Killers of the Flower Moon” (A Martin Scorsese film) and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month's book: - Indigenous American Poetry ("Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americans" and "Yaqui Deer Poems"

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is:-“ A Raisin in the Sun” (A Daniel Petrie film) and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is:-“The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” by Richard Rothstein- and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

“The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” by Richard Rothstein

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is:-“Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum” and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is:  “Malcolm X”  (A Spike Lee film) and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is: -“The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.

To investigate how race, racism and white supremacy impacts our lives and our culture the Lyme Library Racial Equity Book Club, meets once a month via Zoom to discuss books, films, and poetry on race in America. This group's meeting offers an open door to a respectful dialogue about systemic racism and its impact on society and the future.

To register for these meetings and to receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

This month’s book is:  “Fight: How Gen Z is channeling their fear and passion to save America” by John Della Volpe and it can be picked up at the Lyme Library circulation desk.