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For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Have a story time, sing-along and craft wtih Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

 Learn the fundamentals of meditation and tools for starting a meditation practice. No previous experience with meditation required. The Lyme Library is honored to have Chrissy Carter teach this workshop. There will be an additional training session on Oct 24 also at 11:00am.

Chrissy Carter is an internationally-recognized yoga, meditation, and wellness educator with twenty years of teaching experience. She is a featured instructor on Meditation Studio App with over 90 guided meditations and the star of two yoga DVDs by Gaiam. Chrissy leads classes, workshops, retreats, and trainings for practitioners and yoga teachers worldwide.

To register email programreg@lymepl.org

The Lyme Public Library is pleased to welcome Joan Fisler from Red Barn Yoga of Lyme to teach  yoga and meditation classes in the library’s Community Room .No previous experience  with yoga or meditation is necessary, but if you  have a yoga mat you are encouraged to bring it along with you as limited numbers of mats will be available.The fee to attend is $10.00 and will be paid to the instructor, this fee will be waived if necessary.Join us for this healthy and peaceful way to start the weekend.

To register e-mail programreg@lymepl.org

Questions? Feel free to call the library @ 860-434-2272

Previous experience playing Bridge is preferred but not required. This is a great way to exercise your mind and spirit by meeting up with old friends and making new ones.

To register 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.

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library ! Have a story time, sing-along and craft wtih Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. 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. 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. 

GOING to EXTREMES  with Peter Mandel (Zoom)

A nationally-known adventure travel journalist for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and The Providence Journal, Peter Mandel hunts his stories and photos in the world's far corners, including Antarctica, India, Egypt, Patagonia, the fjords of Norway, the mountain pathways of Japan, and the deserts of Africa. 

 The author of ten books, he'll show slides of his most extreme travel experiences —surviving a coup in Ecuador, visiting a ‘city’ of penguins at the South Pole, fishing for piranha on Brazil’s Rio Negro, floating in the Goodyear Blimp, sailing on an Arctic icebreaker, camping in the African bush, and kayaking to the Statue of Liberty — and talk about how adventure travel turns to prose in today's media.  

 Mandel's books have been published by Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Henry Holt. One of his Boston Globe articles won the 2005 Lowell Thomas gold medal from the Society of American Travel Writers for adventure travel article of the year. Other articles, for The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun, won Lowell Thomas Awards in 2003, 2006 and 2007.

To register for this event and receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

GOING to EXTREMES  with Peter Mandel (Zoom)

A nationally-known adventure travel journalist for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and The Providence Journal, Peter Mandel hunts his stories and photos in the world's far corners, including Antarctica, India, Egypt, Patagonia, the fjords of Norway, the mountain pathways of Japan, and the deserts of Africa. 

 The author of ten books, he'll show slides of his most extreme travel experiences —surviving a coup in Ecuador, visiting a ‘city’ of penguins at the South Pole, fishing for piranha on Brazil’s Rio Negro, floating in the Goodyear Blimp, sailing on an Arctic icebreaker, camping in the African bush, and kayaking to the Statue of Liberty — and talk about how adventure travel turns to prose in today's media.  

 Mandel's books have been published by Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Henry Holt. One of his Boston Globe articles won the 2005 Lowell Thomas gold medal from the Society of American Travel Writers for adventure travel article of the year. Other articles, for The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun, won Lowell Thomas Awards in 2003, 2006 and 2007.

To register for this event and receive the Zoom meeting invitation email programreg@lymepl.org

Join Connecticut author Beth M. Caruso as she discusses the overwhelming factors that led to the beginning of the witch trials in colonial New England. Her well-researched novel, One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging, is based on the life of Alice “Alse” Young, the first colonial hanging victim.  She explores certain events in Windsor, Connecticut that were precursors to Alice’s indictment and death. She also touches upon the stories of some of the other eleven witch trial victims in Connecticut Colony. In her novel, the author uses extensive historical research combined with literary inventions, to bring forth a shocking and passionate narrative theory explaining this tragic and important episode in American history. She will also discuss some of these aspects in her novel. Copies of Beth’s book will be available for purchase and signing. Come and meet the author!

About Beth Caruso

Award-winning author, Beth M Caruso, is passionate to discover and convey important and interesting stories of women from earlier times. She recently won the literary prize in Genre Fiction (2020) from IPNE (Independent Publishers of New England) for her most recent novel The Salty Rose: Alchemists, Witches & A Tapper In New Amsterdam (2019). The Salty Rose is Beth’s second historical novel and explores alchemy in early colonial times, an insider’s view of the takeover of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, and the Hartford Witch Panic with information she gathered from previous and ongoing research. Beth’s first historical novel is One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging (2015), a novel that tells the tale of Alice ‘Alse’ Young and the beginnings of the colonial witch trials. She based the story on original research she did by exploring early primary sources such as early Windsor land records, vital statistics, and other documents. She lives in Connecticut with her family. Beth kayaks and gardens to unwind.

Website: www.oneofwindsor.com

Previous experience playing Bridge is preferred but not required. This is a great way to exercise your mind and spirit by meeting up with old friends and making new ones.

To register email programreg@lymepl.org

Local astronomy expert Alan Sheiness will be at the library to explain the partial solar eclipse we will be experiencing today. He will  be conducting a short presentation on what you will be witnessing in the skies above Lyme and will have telescopes on hand outside the library so you can get a closer look with the proper eye protection. The library will be providing eclipse glasses to library patrons that you can take home with you after the event is over.

Come witness first hand the beauty and wonder of science and the environment.

 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: Corn

 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 ! Have a story time, sing-along and craft with Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. 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

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 : "The Art Forger" by B.A. Shapiro

Let's celebrate Halloween with simple chemistry experiments and an introduction to the Engineering Design Process. Activities will include Mini Exploding Ghosts, 5 Little Pumpkin Gates, and more!

This program is appropriate for children ages 3-6 years old.

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

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library! Have a story time, sing-along and craft with Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

Learn the fundamentals of meditation and tools for starting a meditation practice. No previous experience with meditation required. The Lyme Library is honored to have Chrissy Carter teach this workshop. There will be an additional training session on Oct 3rd also at 11:00am.

Chrissy Carter is an internationally-recognized yoga, meditation, and wellness educator with twenty years of teaching experience. She is a featured instructor on Meditation Studio App with over 90 guided meditations and the star of two yoga DVDs by Gaiam. Chrissy leads classes, workshops, retreats, and trainings for practitioners and yoga teachers worldwide.

To register email programreg@lymepl.org

Previous experience playing Bridge is preferred but not required. This is a great way to exercise your mind and spirit by meeting up with old friends and making new ones.

To register email programreg@lymepl.org

Come in costume to enjoy spooky stories and songs, crafts, face painting, and games! Then get a chance to learn all about some spooky creatures with the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center. All ages are welcome.

10:30- 11:00 AM Storytime and Songs in Program Room

11:00-1:00 PM Crafts, Face Painter, Games

1:00-2:00 PM Spooky Creatures Presentation in Program Room

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 ! Have a story time, sing-along and craft with Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

Join your friends and family at "The Sweet Spot", the Lyme library’s cafe which meets at the library every first Tuesday of the month from 10:30AM to 11:30AM

Refreshments (coffee, tea and pastries) have been provided by volunteers and members of the Lyme Library Board and Friends of the Lyme Public Library. All items are free, but feel free to add to the "donation jar". "The Sweet Spot" provides games, magazines, newspapers and a warm and cozy space for folks to meet up and enjoy meeting old friends and making new ones. Come join the fun and learn more about what the library has to offer the community.

This program will review the origins of ocean travel beginning in the 1840's to today's passenger ships. The development of classic liners such as the Lusitania, Mauretania, Titanic and the Cunard "Queens". Also covered will be the wartime service in WWI and WWII of these great ships. Included will be the liners of tragedy with is part of the story. Join us as we "cruise through ocean liner history".

Presenter Rick Abramson and his wife Christine have traveled on the OE2 and twice on the Queen Mary 2. In tonight's presentation, Rick will include various photos he took of the QM2 as well as archival photos of the many transatlantic ships being discussed. With a lifetime of work in the American railroad system, Rick brings an infectious love and understanding of "non-automobile" travel to his presentations.

To register for tonight's presentation email programreg@lymepl.org

She will need a key and will drop by before the event.
 

Mara Dowler

Bluebird Home Organizing LLC

Certified KonMari Consultant 

www.bluebirdhome.net

mara@bluebirdhome.net 

(203) 843-2634

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

Today’s Class: Stop Motion Animation

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library ! Have a story time, sing-along and craft with Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. 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. 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. 

 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: TBA

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.

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library ! Have a story time, sing-along and craft with Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

Just in time for the upcoming holidays, Advanced Cicerone, Em Sauter will be appearing at the Lyme Library for a presentation on the best beers to pair with which cheese for your holiday table. We will be sampling beers for Fox Farm Brewery of Salem and cheese from Cato Corners of Colchester, both local businesses based in area so, if you like what you are sampling, you can swing by and support local farmers and breweries and pick them up after you've learned more about them. 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

 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

Fun for the whole family. The Lyme Library will be hosting a gift making workshop where we will be designing silk and cotton scarves using an easy tie-dye technique with tissue paper. Adults and kids are welcome. Limited to 30 participants (12 adults, 18 kids) due to supply limitations.You will get to take home your beautiful creations and either give them away to your loved ones for the upcoming holidays or keep them for yourself (no judgment from us  !)

Register to attend by emailing programreg@lymepl.org

 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 ! Have a story time, sing-along and craft with Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

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 ! Have a story time, sing-along and craft with Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. 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

Join your friends and family at "The Sweet Spot", the Lyme library’s cafe which meets at the library every first Tuesday of the month from 10:30AM to 11:30AM

Refreshments (coffee, tea and pastries) have been provided by volunteers and members of the Lyme Library Board and Friends of the Lyme Public Library. All items are free, but feel free to add to the "donation jar". "The Sweet Spot" provides games, magazines, newspapers and a warm and cozy space for folks to meet up and enjoy meeting old friends and making new ones. Come join the fun and learn more about what the library has to offer the community.

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

Today’s Class: Winter Scene

Dr. Bruce Stark will be leading a presentation about the history of slavery in Lyme and the surrounding areas and speaking about the facts he discovered when writing his book "The Myth and Reality of Slavery in Eastern Connecticut"

Bruce Stark served as the Assistant State Archivist at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford before retiring in 2009. His areas of expertise include General Assembly, judicial, and municipal records, with a special emphasis on those concerning people of color. Mr. Stark graduated from Brown University, is a U.S. Army veteran, and has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Connecticut. He also holds an M.S. in Library Science from Southern Connecticut State University and has written and spoken extensively on Connecticut history. A former president of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History, Stark's published works include Lyme, Connecticut: From Founding to Independence, The Myth & Reality of Slavery in Eastern Connecticut and Connecticut Signer: William Williams.

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library ! Have a story time, sing-along and craft with Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

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.

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.  

This month’s theme: TBA

 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 ! Have a story time, sing-along and craft with Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. 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. 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. 

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

Team members from the Lyme Ambulance will be teaching basic CPR training and first aid for common household emergencies. To register email programreg@lymepl.org

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 ! Have a story time, sing-along and craft with Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. 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

For children ages infant to 4. Discover what it is like to visit the library ! Have a story time, sing-along and craft with Ms. Natalie and meet new friends. Caregivers can check out books to take home to continue the fun of the library visit.

Join your friends and family at "The Sweet Spot", the Lyme library’s cafe which meets at the library every first Tuesday of the month from 10:30AM to 11:30AM

Refreshments (coffee, tea and pastries) have been provided by volunteers and members of the Lyme Library Board and Friends of the Lyme Public Library. All items are free, but feel free to add to the "donation jar". "The Sweet Spot" provides games, magazines, newspapers and a warm and cozy space for folks to meet up and enjoy meeting old friends and making new ones. Come join the fun and learn more about what the library has to offer the community.

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

Today’s Class: Northern Lights Drawing with soft pastels

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 "The King of Masks" (China, 1995)

“The King of Masks” is a Film of surprising emotional power. Set in the 1930’s it tells the tale of a Chinese street performer who practices the art of changing mask opera called bian lian. Hoping to pass on the art form to the next generation, he adopts a young orphan boy but quickly learns that his protegee is hiding a very important secret.

To register for this event 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.

Winter birding is fun, despite the fact that it is still months away from the spring migration of most birds back to the area. Why? Because the fascinating lives and habits of owls does more than fill the gap. Instructors from the Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center will be at the Lyme Library to help everyone better understand the local owls in and around the New England area. How to best spot them and how to appreciate and preserve their unique place in the ecosystem. 

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 :

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.  

This month’s theme:

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.

The first meeting will take place on January 7th @ 1:00pm

Today's film will be: Deepa Mehta's -"Water" (India, 2005) Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film.

Part of director Deepa Mehta’s elements trilogy, “Water” centers around the life of an eight-year-old child bride who is suddenly widowed and left at an ashram where she is expected to live for the rest of her life in accordance with Indian tradition. With the influence of political changes in the country, her destiny is rewritten in this poignant and powerful film which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film in 2005.

To register for this event email 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.

Enjoy a story and participate in a snow-themed creative movement class hosted by Eastern Connecticut Ballet. This class is 45 minutes long and is for children ages 3-6 years old.

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

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. 

 Join your friends and family at "The Sweet Spot", the Lyme library’s cafe which meets at the library every first Tuesday of the month from 10:30AM to 11:30AM

Refreshments (coffee, tea and pastries) have been provided by volunteers and members of the Lyme Library Board and Friends of the Lyme Public Library. All items are free, but feel free to add to the "donation jar". "The Sweet Spot" provides games, magazines, newspapers and a warm and cozy space for folks to meet up and enjoy meeting old friends and making new ones. Come join the fun and learn more about what the library has to offer the community.

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.

The first meeting will take place on January 7th @ 1:00pm

Today's film will be: "Breaker Morant" (Australia, 1980)

“Breaker Morant”, is the film adaptation of the 1902 court marital, of Australian lieutenants Harry “Breaker” Morant, Peter Handcock and George Wilton, who served in the British army during the Second Anglo-Boer War. This court martial is one of the first war crime prosecutions in British military history.

To register for this event email programreg@lymepl.org

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

Today’s Class: Melted Snowman Mixed Media

 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.

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 :

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.  

This month’s theme:

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.

The first meeting will take place on January 7th @ 1:00pm

Today's film will be: "Central Station" (Brazil, 1998)

“Central Station” follows the complicated emotional entanglement of Dora, an embittered retired schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate customers in Rio de Janeiro's Central Station and Josue the orphaned, 9-year old son of one of her former customers. Helping to find Josue’s father, who he has never met, leads both Josue and Dora into confronting their own losses and emotional redemptions.

To register for this event email 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. 

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.

The first meeting will take place on January 7th @ 1:00pm

Today's film will be: "Meeting Venus" (France, 1991)

“Meeting Venus” is a biting, comic, satire about the world of Grand Opera starring Glen Close, Niels Arestrup and Kiri Te Kanawa. Entangled in the snares of artistic egos, xenophobia, corporate high-handedness, union politics and funding negotiations a Hungarian conductor attempts to launch an Avant Garde version of Wagner’s Tannhauser with comedic results.

To register for this event email programreg@lymepl.org

 Join your friends and family at "The Sweet Spot", the Lyme library’s cafe which meets at the library every first Tuesday of the month from 10:30AM to 11:30AM

Refreshments (coffee, tea and pastries) have been provided by volunteers and members of the Lyme Library Board and Friends of the Lyme Public Library. All items are free, but feel free to add to the "donation jar". "The Sweet Spot" provides games, magazines, newspapers and a warm and cozy space for folks to meet up and enjoy meeting old friends and making new ones. Come join the fun and learn more about what the library has to offer the community.

 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.

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 :

 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:

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.

The first meeting will take place on January 7th @ 1:00pm

Today's film (in honor of St. Patrick's Day ) wll be: "Hear My Song" (Ireland, 1992)

“Hear My Song” is a fictional film about the real-life Josef Locke, one of Ireland’s greatest tenors. In the film a sleazy, fast talking Irish club promoter and owner of the failing Heartly’s Club attempts to recruit Locke to appear at his club to save it from ruin. But complications involving Locke’s criminal status with the British tax police launch comedic hand grenades into the film’s plot and into the lives of all involved.  

To register for this event email 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. 

Join your friends and family at "The Sweet Spot", the Lyme library’s cafe which meets at the library every first Tuesday of the month from 10:30AM to 11:30AM

Refreshments (coffee, tea and pastries) have been provided by volunteers and members of the Lyme Library Board and Friends of the Lyme Public Library. All items are free, but feel free to add to the "donation jar". "The Sweet Spot" provides games, magazines, newspapers and a warm and cozy space for folks to meet up and enjoy meeting old friends and making new ones. Come join the fun and learn more about what the library has to offer the community.

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.

The first meeting will take place on January 7th @ 1:00pm

Today's film will be: "A Private Function" (England, 1985)

“A Private Function” takes us to England where Maggie Smith and Michael Palin play citizens of a small town in Northern England.  The townsfolk (led by the social climbing character Smith plays) attempt to celebrate the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Price Phillip, with a party.  However, they must first circumvent the determined ministrations of the local food inspector since the party is taking place while England is still in the grip of post-war food rationing. Heralded as “the comedy of the year” when it was first released, the potent combination of comedic magic between Maggie Smith and Michael Palin is a must see.

To register for this event 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.

The Lyme Public Library is honored to have the members of the Connecticut River Poets association appearing at the library to read some of the poems recently created by the group’s members. Refreshments will be provided. 

The spring migration of birds is a wonderful thing to witness.  Learn more about it when instructors from the Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center of the Audubon Society come to the  Library to help you to improve your birding experience by teaching you how to better understand where, when and how to keep an eye out for your returning avian neighbors during the spring season.

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 :

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.

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 email programreg@lymepl.org and your registration will be forwarded to Old Lyme. 

 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:

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.

The first meeting will take place on January 7th @ 1:00pm

Today's film will be: "Ball of Fire" (USA, 1941)

Directed by the legendary film director Howard Hawks,” Ball of Fire” is one of the greatest screwball comedies of its era. Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper, the plot revolves around a group of nerdy professors who are working on compiling an encyclopedia of American slang who take in a mouthy slang-swinging nightclub singer who is wanted by the police. The police are attempting to question her to arrest her mob boss lover.

To register for this event email 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.

 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. 

 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.