Get ready to read and get your wiggles out! Join Ms. Jenna at the library for some fun stories, songs, and dancing. Recommended for ages birth to five years old with a caregiver.

No registration is required.

  Can you fit your head through an index card sized paper?

   Have you tried your hand at a Mobius Strip Challenge making differet shapes with Mobius loops?

   Join us in the Children's Room between 4:00 and 6:30 pm to learn how to do to these fun paper stem activities.

   Recommended for ages 5 and up. No registration is required.

Stop by the Children's Room anytime between 4:00 and 6:00 pm for a fun craft and to get your creativity flowing! For this special session we will be creating a piece to celebrate the upcoming summer! 

Recommended for ages 5 and up. No registration required. 

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is often known as the crazy wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby.  She was the glittering half of the Golden Couple of the 1920's and muse and inspiration for the flapper characters in Fitzgerald's Jazz Age stories.  This original play, will pay tribute to an often misunderstood woman; a women who battled schizophrenia for much of her life; a woman who was also a mother, an accomplished ballet dancer, an exhibited artist and a published writer. 

Registration is suggested.  Rita Parisi founded her little production company, Waterfall Productions, in 2005 in order to create original theatrical presentations that entertain and inspire her audiences.

Thank you to Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation for funding this program!

Time to get creative (and maybe a little messy)! This hands on art session is for young ones to explore through process art with the help of their adult. Mrs. Marshall will start the session with a short story! 

For ages 3 to 5 years old, registration is required. This program will take place downstairs in our Meeting Room. 

Click on the link to register:

https://waterfordct.libcal.com/event/10755685

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (2018)  For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens. 

The facilitator for this discussion is Mariette Ogg, retired U.S. Coast Guard Academy professor of english.  

Join Jill at the Waterford Senior Center as she leads the discussion of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore (2017).  Multiple copies of this title are available at the library for check out.  This event is in partnership with Waterford Senior Services.  Join us!

The incredible true story of the women who fought America’s Undark danger.  The Curies’ newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.  Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these “shining girls” are the luckiest alive — until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.  But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women’s cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America’s early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights that will echo for centuries to come.

Get ready to read and get your wiggles out! Join Ms. Jenna at the library for some fun stories, songs, and dancing. Recommended for ages birth to five years old with a caregiver.

No registration is required.

Teens! It's almost the summer - you just have to get through these last few pesky finals. Come to the library after your finals on Monday to take a deep breath and destress with some snacks, crafts, and activities. Stop by the library meeting room anytime between noon and 2:30 pm for your moment of zen.

No registration required, all high school students are welcome. 

All Systems Red by Martha Wells (2019)  "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."  A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.

This is a zoom event. Please click here to register in advance.  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Pam Bedore, associate professor of english, UConn at Avery Point, leads our discussions.

Stop in to the Teen Section of the library to create a macramé daisy keychain!

No registration required. Ages 12-18.

Drop in any time between 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

Stop by the Children's Room from June 17th to June 30th to pick up supplies to make a narwhal!

Check our Facebook page (@waterfordpubliclibrary) for a step-by-step video tutorial on how to make your craft.

Available while supplies last.

Get ready to read and get your wiggles out! Join Ms. Jenna at the library for some fun stories, songs, and dancing. Recommended for ages birth to five years old with a caregiver.

No registration is required.

Join us in the Children's Room between 4:00 and 6:30 pm to celebrate Juneteenth with crafts.

Recommended for ages 5 and up. No registration is required.

Join presenters from Mystic Seaport for this show that will explore the star lore of the Ojibwe, a First Nations tribe living in the Great Lakes Region of southern Canada and the Midwestern United States. We will discover the elements that make up the traditional ecological knowledge of the Ojibwe, to see how they incorporate their cultural values into creating an understanding of the world around them.

Recommended for ages 8 and older, no registration required. 

This program is funded by the New England Chapter of the Association of Rural & Small Libraries.

Join Ms. Kathy, our local Life Safety Educator for a special storytime and touch-a-truck program! Learn about how we can plan and be safe in our community and have a chance to explore a fire truck, ambulance, and police cruiser. 

This program is for all ages and no registration is required. It will take place outside but in case of inclement weather will move indoors to the meeting room. 

The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (2021)  Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary.  As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women’s and common folks’ experiences often go unrecorded. The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. Inspired by actual events, author Pip Williams has delved into the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary to tell this highly original story.

This discussion is held in person.  Multiple copies of this title are available for check out  in the library.  

Our facilitator for this discussion is Karen Wink, professor of english, U.S. Coast Guard. 

Get ready to read and get your wiggles out! Join Ms. Jenna at the library for some fun stories, songs, and dancing. Recommended for ages birth to five years old with a caregiver.

No registration is required.

Find Your Voice at the library! Our summer reading program has begun! Join us for a special presentation from our friends at the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center at 4:00 pm then hang out for some crafts and activities for the whole family. 

This program is for all ages and no registration is required. 

This program is funded by the New England Chapter of the Association of Rural & Small Libraries.

A writing group that meets on the 4th Wednesday of each month.  A night of discussion on the creative art of writing and a space for inspiration, creativity and growth.  Bring your ideas, journals, works in progress and a desire to express yourself through the written word. 

This is a Zoom event.  Please CLICK HERE to register.  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Gwen Mariani, author of The Growing Tree, facilitates this group.

Bi-monthly meeting of the Library Board of Trustees. Meeting is open to the public.