An update from Bacon Free Library

Thanksgiving Hours

Bacon Free Library will be closed on Thursday, November 23 and Friday, November 24 in honor of Thanksgiving.

Bacon Free Library Trustees' Fundraiser

November 10 to December 11, 2023

Bacon Free Library is hosting a special fair trade fundraising event. FairTrade Caravans offers unique fair trade products, made or grown with: no child labor, fair pay for producers, safe working conditions, and sustainable practices.

Bacon Free Library will receive 25% of product sales to support our rich and varied programming for children and adults. Click here to shop.

Story Time

Mondays & Tuesdays at 10:00 am 

Join us for some stories, songs, and rhymes. All ages are welcome. We look forward to seeing you!

Baby Time

Wednesdays at 10:00 am 

Join us for a cozy storytime filled with lap bounces, rhymes, songs, and simple stories. Geared toward infants and young toddlers with their grownups. 

Spotted in France

One of our BFL librarians traveling in France right now came across two wonderful sights in Puycelsi, a village of 452 people. One is an old phone booth rehabilitated into a little free library. The other is a book mobile Médiathèque serving 16 villages, which unloads the books in a public room provided by the village and stays the whole day, with mornings reserved for class visits. We love seeing libraries around the world - thank you to our librarian for sharing!

Oldtown Calendars For Sale

2024 Oldtown Calendars are here! Started by The Eliot Church, proceeds from Oldtown Calendars benefit many local organizations, including Bacon Free Library. Calendars are $20 each, available for purchase at the library with cash or check.

Art Exhibit: Elizabeth Cohen

On display at BFL through December 13

Stop by Bacon Free Library beginning October 20 to view the work of Elizabeth Cohen. Elizabeth is an artist in the Boston area, creating wheel-thrown and altered functional and sculptural work in porcelain, as well as mixed media with natural material such as wasp nest, mushroom spores and mulberry paper. She holds a B.A. in English from Tufts University and a M.A. T. from Simmons College.

Museum Passes

The BFL and the Morse have joined forces to provide easy access to reserve museum passes from both libraries on one page. Plan your next weekend adventure! Visit our website to learn more.

Jammin With You

Friday, December 1 at 10:30 am

Be prepared to laugh, dance, sing, and jam your way through 30 minutes of non-stop family fun! This performance is geared toward kids ages 1–7, but fun for the whole family. With modern takes on children’s classics and classic original tunes, you’ll be humming and bopping all the way home. During the colder months, this program is held indoors and registration is required due to space limitations. Please register on our website starting one month before the program.

Carols by Candlelight

Sunday, December 3 at 3:00 pm *at the Natick History Museum

The Natick Historical Society and Bacon Free Library invite you to join us this holiday season to hear Diane Taraz perform a festive setlist of traditional Victorian Christmas carols. Many of our holiday traditions and much of the Christmas music was revived or created during the Victorian era, in the mid 1800’s. Diane will present these beloved carols, together with fascinating stories about their origins as she performs in a hand-sewn 1850’s dress and accompanies herself on guitar and dulcimer. This event takes place in person at the Natick History Museum (downstairs from the Bacon Free Library).

Create Fused Glass Key Rings

Tuesday, December 5 at 5:30 pm

Join artist Deenie Pacik for this fun fused glass workshop. You will be working with fusible glass including dichroic glass and chopped glass, as well as colorful paints. Create your key ring and Deenie will take it to her studio to fire it and send it back to you. Limited to 10 participants ages 12+. Registration required; please visit our website to register.

Join One Of Our Book Clubs!

Visit our website or click below to learn more about our book clubs. Copies of book club titles are set aside at Bacon Free Library, and often also available to borrow digitally. Pick up a copy today so you're ready for the next meeting. New members always welcome!

Tuesday Book Club
Tuesday, November 28 at 6:30 pm
The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michelle Richardson

Nonfiction Book Club
Saturday, December 2 at 10:00 am
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

Mystery Book Club
Thursday, December 7 at 1:00 pm
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

History Book Club
Thursday, December 14 at 11:00 am
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

Cinéphile Mondays

Monday, November 27 at 4:00 pm on Zoom

Cinephiles, join us for our film series! Watch a movie at home and then join Film History & Media studies Professor MV for a virtual discussion on the last Monday of the month. Join us this month for a discussion of Nadine Labaki's Where Do We Go Now?, available to request on DVD. Please visit our website to learn more and email [email protected] to register for the Zoom meeting.

Around the web...

Here are some online materials we've seen recently:

• Check out this year's National Book Award winners
• A message in a bottle takes 26 years to go from Cape Cod to France
• Recipe ideas for "Sidesgiving"
• Remembering author A.S. Byatt
• Fiction or filet?

Stay Connected With Us!

• Our website
• Join one of our clubs
• Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
• Library blog
• Librarian On Call
• Call us at 508-653-6730 
• Email us at [email protected]

Digital Resources

Check out some of these great online resources:

• Overdrive/Libby: ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, videos, and more
• Kanopy: stream thousands of movies for free
• Hoopla: ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, videos, and more, all available with no wait list
• Morse Institute Library databases (Bacon Free Library cardholders may access these)
• Minuteman Library Network databases
• Project Gutenberg: thousands of free e-books in the public domain -- now's the time to catch up on some classics!
• Don't have a library card? Sign up online to begin accessing digital resources
• Having trouble with your library card password? Reset it here

Click Here to view the Bacon Free Library Weekly Happenings Newsletter - November 20, 2023