An update from Bacon Free Library

Closed for Memorial Day
Bacon Free Library will be closed on Monday, May 29 in honor of Memorial Day.

Please note our summer hours have begun: we will be closed on Saturdays in June, July, and August.

Cinéphile Mondays

Monday, May 29 @ 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 Jean Renoir's La Règle du jeu, available on Kanopy. Please visit our website to learn more and email [email protected] to register for the Zoom meeting.

Colorful Storytime

Tuesdays at 10:00 am 

It’s fun to learn about the beautiful colors in the world!  Join us for stories, rhymes, and songs highlighting a different color each week. Kiddos (and their grownups!) are encouraged to bring or wear something that goes with the color of the week. If it is 55 degrees or warmer, this program will be held outside on the library lawn, so bring a blanket or chair. If it is rainy or less than 55 degrees, the story time will be moved indoors. This week's color is white.

Author Talk: Dick Lehr

Tuesday, May 30 at 5:30 pm

Welcome author, journalist, and professor Dick Lehr back to the BFL to talk about his latest book, White Hot Hate. This book details the gripping true story of an averted domestic terrorist attack against a Kansas farming town’s immigrant Somali community. Lehr also narrated the podcast adaptation of this story, ABC News Truth and Lies: The Informant. Dick Lehr, a professor of journalism at Boston University, is the author of seven award-winning works of nonfiction and fiction, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist during his time writing for the Boston Globe.

Mystery Book Club

Thursday, June 1 at 1:00 pm on Zoom

Join us for a virtual Zoom discussion of The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey. Copies available at the library, or borrow digitally. Please email [email protected] to register and receive the Zoom link.

Baby Time

Fridays 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.

Art Exhibit: Shannon Slattery

Currently on display at the library

Visit the library to view Shannon Slattery's stunning artwork, semi abstract landscape paintings inspired by mid-coast Maine, on display at the BFL through June 14. These works are painted in acrylic paint on reclaimed masonite panels. Inspired by the woods and coastline of the mid coast, they exist in the space between drawing and painting, representation and abstraction. Shannon is an artist and a teacher, serves on the Board of the Newton Art Association, and has been teaching Fine Art at Newton North High School for the last 24 years. She is an avid birder, hiker, and enjoyer of the outdoors. To learn more about Shannon and to see her work, visit her website.

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