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Kindergarten Story Time for Incoming Kindergarteners
Kindergarten starts soon! So, Kindergartners, we'll gather together for a relaxing afternoon of books, stories and songs. Photos and videos from this event may be [...]
MTL Teen Chess Club (Grades 5-12, IN-PERSON Program)
August 28    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Registration recommended below. We invite teen chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched Teen Chess Club. No prior chess knowledge is [...]
Creative Collective Discussion Group (Virtual)
August 29    
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Registration is now closed.  Please join us for our next session beginning Fall of 2023. Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in [...]
Midday Recharge: Autumn Meditation Series (Virtual)
August 30    
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Registration Required Below A changing season is a time for renewal and considering different points of view. Join popular meditation instructor Alexa Owen virtually for [...]
62nd Annual Mark Twain Library Book Fair
This year’s fair has a number of exciting offerings for shoppers. There are highlights in many categories.  View 2023 Highlights HERE. CHILDREN’S Highlights • Many foreign [...]
62nd Annual Mark Twain Library Book Fair
September 1    
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Click Here For More Information Labor Day weekend dates are Friday September 1, 2023 to Monday, September 4, 2023 Over 65,000 books for sale organized [...]
62nd Annual Mark Twain Library Book Fair
September 2    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
This year’s fair has a number of exciting offerings for shoppers. There are highlights in many categories.  View 2023 Highlights HERE. CHILDREN’S Highlights • Many foreign [...]
62nd Annual Mark Twain Library Book Fair
September 2    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Click Here For More Information Labor Day weekend dates are Friday September 1, 2023 to Monday, September 4, 2023 Over 65,000 books for sale organized [...]
62nd Annual Mark Twain Library Book Fair
September 3    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
This year’s fair has a number of exciting offerings for shoppers. There are highlights in many categories.  View 2023 Highlights HERE. CHILDREN’S Highlights • Many foreign [...]
62nd Annual Mark Twain Library Book Fair
September 3    
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Click Here For More Information Labor Day weekend dates are Friday September 1, 2023 to Monday, September 4, 2023 Over 65,000 books for sale organized [...]
Library Closed for Labor Day
The library will be closed on Monday, September 4 in observance of Labor Day.
62nd Annual Mark Twain Library Book Fair
This year’s fair has a number of exciting offerings for shoppers. There are highlights in many categories.  View 2023 Highlights HERE. CHILDREN’S Highlights • Many foreign [...]
62nd Annual Mark Twain Library Book Fair
September 4    
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Click Here For More Information Labor Day weekend dates are Friday September 1, 2023 to Monday, September 4, 2023 Over 65,000 books for sale organized [...]
MTL Cookbook Club (In-person)
September 6    
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Registration Required Below Join us for our new MTL Cookbook Club – part book club, part culinary tasting!  Each meeting will focus on a particular [...]
The Great Flu Pandemic of 1918 (Virtual)
September 6    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Registration Required Below Well before Covid-19 appeared, the world experienced a lethal outbreak of influenza that took the lives of millions. What was it like [...]
Sit to Be Fit: A Chair Yoga Series with Viki (Virtual)
September 7    
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Registration Required Below Want to free yourself from tension and stress? Lose weight? Build strength and flexibility? Then it’s time to get moving! Move in [...]
POSTPONED ~ Lights Out CT: A Bird's Eye View (Virtual)
September 7    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
PROGRAM WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN EARLY 2024 - NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON Light Pollution and Bird Migration This program is co-sponsored with New [...]
POSTPONED ~ Lights Out CT: A Bird's Eye View (In-Person)
September 7    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
PROGRAM WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN EARLY 2024 – NEW DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON Light Pollution and Bird Migration This program is co-sponsored with New [...]
Midday Recharge: Autumn Meditation Series (Virtual)
September 13    
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Registration Required Below A changing season is a time for renewal and considering different points of view. Join popular meditation instructor Alexa Owen virtually for [...]
Navigating the Challenge of Dementia — Luncheon & Lecture (In-person)
September 13    
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Co-sponsored by The Heritage Center Caring for someone suffering from memory loss? Interested in learning more about the condition? Join us for a light luncheon and [...]
Women and Money Roundtable: How to Make Sense of Today’s Financial Markets (Virtual)
September 13    
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Registration Required Below  The Women and Money Roundtable is a monthly financial program created to empower and educate women on financial matters that impact their families [...]
History Book Club — "The Path to Power" (In-Person)
September 13    
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Registration Required Below Interested in history? This book club is for you! Led by members of the Library's Programming Committee, this book club selects engaging [...]
Modern Makers @ MTL presents a Meaningful Magnets Workshop (In-Person)
September 14    
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Registration Required Below Bring more meaning into your everyday life with these unique personalize magnets.  Our favorite crafter, Deb Owen will guide us in creating [...]
JRMS Parent Chat & Chew (In-Person Program)
September 15    
8:30 am - 10:30 am
Registration recommended below. It's a new school year! The JRMS PTA welcomes our community to join us at a casual drop-in bagels & coffee chat [...]
Woman to Woman: So Much Has Changed and Yet So Much is Still the Same (In-Person)
September 17    
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Registration Required Below To mark the 100th anniversary of the Equal Rights Amendment, the Mark Twain Library will host a unique conversation between two women [...]
Kindergarten Story Time
September 18    
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Kindergartners, we'll gather together for a relaxing afternoon of books, stories and songs. Photos and videos from this event may be used on the Library's [...]
MTL Teen Chess Club (Grades 5-12, IN-PERSON Program)
September 18    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Registration recommended below. We invite teen chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched Teen Chess Club. No prior chess knowledge is [...]
The New SAT vs. ACT (Teens and Adults) Zoom Program
Please register below. All registered participants will receive a Zoom link the day of the event. It's official: the SAT will be changing in 2024! Curious [...]
Fall Family Story Times Begin! (birth-5)
September 20    
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Registration Required It's time for Family Story Time! We'll sing, dance, and read together.  This event is designed for children birth - 5 but interested [...]
"American Whitelash" — Conversations Read & Reflect Discussion Group (Virtual)
September 20    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Registration Required Read and Reflect Discussion Group is part of the Conversations: Truth, Myth & Democracy Series Our next Read and Reflect exercise will invite [...]
Sit to Be Fit: A Chair Yoga Series with Viki (Virtual)
September 21    
12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Registration Required Below Want to free yourself from tension and stress? Lose weight? Build strength and flexibility? Then it’s time to get moving! Move in [...]
3 & 4-Year-Old Story Time Begins!
September 21    
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm
This is an energetic and interactive 40-minute program for independent 3-and-4 year-olds since they will attend story time without their caregiver.  We will share books, [...]
Birdman of the Senate: Author Event  (Virtual)
September 21    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Registration Required This program is co-sponsored with New Pond Farm Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate by Will McLean [...]
Classics Book Club: Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
September 22    
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Registration Required Below This group is led by MTL's bibliophile extraordinaire,  Catherine Riordan. Catherine taught literature at the college level for many years, and shares [...]
MTL Teen Chess Club (Grades 5-12, IN-PERSON Program)
September 25    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Registration recommended below. We invite teen chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched Teen Chess Club. No prior chess knowledge is [...]
The Mindful Parent
Registration Required Below The intention of this series is to spend mindful time soaring above your parenting journey; to gain new and expanded perceptions of [...]
Creative Collective Discussion Group (Virtual)
September 26    
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Registration is now full.  Please join us for our next series to start later this fall. Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity [...]
'Behind the Red Pen' Redding Teachers Celebrate Poetry (In-Person)
September 26    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Registration Required Below "A good example is the best sermon," Anonymous Teachers often talk about the transformative power of the written word, but during a [...]
A Stone's Throw — Explore Weir Farm! (Off Site)
September 27    
9:45 am - 11:00 am
You don’t have to travel very far to learn and discover — this region is home to dozens of attractions offering history, arts and culture! [...]
Midday Recharge: Autumn Meditation Series (Virtual)
September 27    
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Registration Required Below A changing season is a time for renewal and considering different points of view. Join popular meditation instructor Alexa Owen virtually for [...]
3 & 4-Year-Old Story Time
September 28    
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm
This is an energetic and interactive 40-minute program for independent 3-and-4 year-olds since they will attend story time without their caregiver.  We will share books, [...]
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