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RAYNHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY 760 South Main Street 508.823.1344
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Raynham Reads 2020 February - April Join in the fun of our One Book, One Community read. This year's selection is Good Riddance, by Elinor Lipman. In this delightful romantic comedy, one woman's trash becomes another woman's treasure, with deliriously entertaining results. Books available beginning February 10. Read the book, join the discussion and meet the author!
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Book BINGO January, February and March Play our winter BOOK BINGO and win a library tote bag and chances for a Grand Prize. Read books that match the categories on the front of the Bingo card and write the titles on the back. . For every Bingo completed your name is entered into a drawing for a Grand Prize. Prizes include an iPad Mini, dinner for two and movie tickets. If you can read, you can win!
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Art in the Afternoon Sunday, February 2, 1:30 pm Laurie Halls leads these monthly afternoon workshops in art techniques with different mediums. This Sunday you'll explore relief print making.This event is full.
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Cooking Club Monday, February 3, 6:30 pm Monthly meeting of the Cooking Club. New members welcome! Share recipes, cooking techniques and tasty food each month. In February - breakfast!
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February Flowers Saturday, February 8, 10:30 am Sue Burns returns with more flowers to arrange. A $3.00 fee is associated with this program. Please register!
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Get Crafty with Embroidery Wednesday, February 12, 6:30 pmSue St. Germain will teach you how to make an embroidered red heart or cardinal. It will be filled with batting and embellished with pearls, buttons and embroidery threads. Enjoy it for yourself or offer it as a gift. This event is full. |
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Sail Away with Pastels Wednesday, February 18. 10:30 am Sail Away on the Craft of Pastel Painting with award-winning artist Greg Maichack. Greg will mentor you through the creation of a beautiful pastel painting. This event is full.
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Discover Iceland Sunday, February 23, 2:00 pm Iceland has become a vacation hot spot, and there are many reasons why. Take a slide trip to discover this amazing country - Iceland, the Land of Fire and Ice, with Dana Zaiser. Please register.
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1st Wednesday Book Club Wednesday, February 5, 1:00 pm Educated, by Tara Westover, traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho. She describes her life in this paranoid environment and her resolve to educate herself well enough to escape to the unfamiliar world beyond.
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Tuesday Evening Book Club Tuesday, February 11, 6:30 pm Set in the south of France in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the tragic tale of a young actress, Rosemary Hoyt, and her complicated relationship with the alluring American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth pushed him into a glamorous lifestyle, and whose growing strength highlights Dick’s decline. Lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative,
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2nd Wednesday Book ClubWednesday, February 12, 1:00 pmIn the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty.
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Finance Basics for Teens Wednesday, February 5, 6:30 pm Rick Clark, Bristol County Savings Bank, explains the basics of finance - banking, credits cards, checking accounts and more. Part of the Adulting Workshops for Teens at the Raynham Public Library. A Teen Advisory Group sponsored event. Everyone is welcome!
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Vacation Week STEM FESTIVAL A week of STEM activities and fun for kids! Create paper circuits, build blanket forts, interact with robots and learn Don't Try This at Home with Mad Science.
- Tuesday, February 18, 3:00 - Paper Circuits
- Wednesday, February 19, 1:00 - Blanket Forts
- Thursday, February 20 - Mad Science
- Friday, February 21 - Robotics Workshop
- Sunday, February 23, 1:00 - Pokemon STEM
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Read Together Book Club Sunday, February 9, 2:00 pm A special monthly book club for kids and a caring adult. This month we discuss Apocalypse Taco, by Nathan Hale, a a graphic novel for middle-graders in which a fast-food run turns strange and two kids end up in another dimension. Books are available in the Children’s Room.
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Pokemon Club Sunday, February 23, 2:00 pm Join other Pokemon fans for all things Pokemon. There will be Pokemon related activities. You can bring your own cards to battle or trade/share. Monthly on the 4th Sunday afternoon.
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Baby Bookworms Mondays, 10:30 am Songs and stories followed by play and socializing. Especially designed for newborns to 18 months.
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Toddler Time Wednesdays, 10:30 am Stories, songs, and activities to help children develop the skills they need to get ready to read. Perfect for children ages 2 to 5. No registration necessary.
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Music & Movement
Fridays, 10:30 am A lively mix of yoga, prop songs, and dancing. Get moving and have fun. All ages. |
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Museum and Zoo Passes During February vacation week take advantage of the library's museum and zoo pass program to keep the kids entertained. We offer passes for reduced admission to popular area museums and zoos including the Museum of Science, New England Aquarium and the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Make your reservation online at raynhampubliclibrary.org.
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