Interactive Watershed Demonstration with Lopatcong Creek Initiative
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Friday, April 23, 12:00pm & 3:00pm Visit the Phillipsburg Library's new rain garden and join Lopatcong Creek Initiative for a live, interactive watershed demonstration. Participants will gather around a watershed model and learn about how pollution is carried into our local waterways. Get ready for messy, hands-on fun. We'll be learning about a big problem and how we can solve it together. For grades 3-8. Attendees for this program must wear masks and maintain social distancing. Registration is required. Click here or call the library at 908-454-3712 to sign up!
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Upcoming Events for Children
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All videos for our children's programs will be posted on our YouTube page, and linked from our website and Facebook page. Each video will remain up for 4 weeks after the initial posting. Storytime For ages 2 and up Join Miss Christina for this month's Storytimes, complete with a simple craft that may be reserved for curbside pickup! Very Hoppy Storytime: Wednesday, Apr 7th at 10:00 am Join Miss Christina for this week's Very Hoppy Storytime. Craft pickup starts April 6th. Call 908-454-3712 or email childrens_staff@pburglib.org to reserve a kit. You will have three days to pick up your reserve before it goes to the next person on the waiting list. Grow! Storytime: Wednesday, Apr 21st at 10:00 am Join Miss Christina for this week's Grow! Storytime. Craft pickup starts April 19th. Call 908-454-3712 or email childrens_staff@pburglib.org to reserve a kit. You will have three days to pick up your reserve before it goes to the next person on the waiting list. April Showers CraftFor grades 1-5. Create a fun wall hanging with this yarn and bead craft that is perfect for a rainy day! Pick up this month's kit for grades 1-5 starting Thursday, April 1st. Email childrens_staff@pburglib.org or call 908-454-3712 to reserve a kit.
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Ongoing Events for Adults
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Take & Make Craft: Soda Bottle Cherry Blossom ArtThursday, April 1Join us in celebrating Earth Day a little early this month - We're reusing empty soda bottles to create a beautiful work of art! Kits will be available for curbside pick-up starting Thursday, April 1st. For teens and adults. Call the library at 908-454-3712 or email info@pburglib.org to reserve your kit!
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PFPL Writers Group Monday, April 12 & 26, 6:00pm Do you have a story to tell? Join the PFPL Writers Group!
We welcome all levels of writers from beginner to published professionals. We'll discuss fiction, poetry, nonfiction (including memoir), and more. Bring your ideas, a notebook, and your magic pen! This event will be held on Zoom. Click here to register!
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Classic Book Club Tuesday, April 13, 7:00pm “Classic” books are classic for a reason – their literary excellence transcends passing fads, and they continue to engage readers generation after generation. If there are classics you have always meant to read “someday,” or if you read them in school before you were ready to appreciate them, now is the time to enjoy them with other adult readers. This month we're reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
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Book Forum Wednesday, April 21, 3:30pm
The book club with no assigned reading - talk about whatever you have been reading lately! This event will be held on Zoom. Click here to register!
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Happy Bookers Discussion Group: World's End Wednesday, April 28, 7:00pm
Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter van Brunt is about to have a collision with history. It will lead Walter to search for his lost father. And it will send the story into the past of the Hudson River Valley, from the late 1960's back to the anticommunist riots of the 1940's to the late seventeenth century, where the long-hidden secrets of three families--the aristocratic van Warts, the Native-American Mohonks, and Walter's own ancestors, the van Brunts--will be revealed. Multiple copies of the book are available for reserve. This event will be held on Zoom. Click here to register. See the Happy Bookers webpage for more information.
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For this month, we thought it would be fun to try individual mug cakes. These are great for when you just need something small to satisfy your sweet tooth. We did find that the cakes rise, sometimes over the top of the mug, but they fall as soon as the microwave turns off. They do not usually flow over. It's better to use a 12 ounce mug so there is room for the cake to rise. Most of the recipes are based on a 1200 watt microwave, so if yours uses less power, you will need to increase the cooking time. Some of the recipes we tried were found online and some were from America's Test Kitchen Cooking for One cookbook. We hope you enjoy trying something a bit different. Click here for the recipes!
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When a woman from her husband’s past shows up and raises questions about the death of his first wife, Stephanie remains loyal to her husband until a newly opened police investigation starts eroding her trust and her marriage. Selected by Lori, Library Assistant
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The Vanishingby Jayne Ann KrentzDecades after a mysterious explosion causes the members of their community to develop strange otherworldly symptoms, local investigator Cat teams up with an enigmatic scientist to stop a killer who may be behind a partner’s disappearance. Selected by Ruth, Administrative Clerk
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The Children's Blizzardby David LaskinDescribes the deadly 1888 snowstorm in the Great Plains that killed more than five hundred people including numerous schoolchildren, discussing how the storm devastated immigrant families and dramatically affected pioneer advancement. Selected by Cindy, Circulation Assistant
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