Don't Forget!
We will be closed today, Monday February 20th, for Presidents Day. We will be open our normal hours tomorrow!

It's Almost Gardening Season! 

Get your veggie (and flower) gardens off to a good start by joining us for an evening full of tips and tricks that will help you get the most out of your gardening efforts!

We will be welcoming back Judith Taylor from Seeds2Plate to talk about preparing for your best gardening season yet! Our focus will be on how and when to plant, pest protection, water management, companion planting and more!

This will be a virtual presentation held on Zoom. Register Here!

This week's events:

Topsfield Library events in purple (View the Topsfield Library's calendar here)

Kids Take and Make Craft!: Tue 2/21, while supplies last: We have take-home activity kits available for kids ages 4+! The kits will be in the Children's Room at 10:00 AM, and will be first come, first serve. Please only take what you need so that everyone can participate!

Mah jongg: Tue 2/21, 1-4pm: Drop-in Mahjongg. All levels welcome, no sign-up necessary.

Lego Building Crew!: Wed 2/22, 1:00-3:00pm: Drop into the Library Activity Room and build with us! We bring the Legos, you bring your imagination! Ages 4+, with parent/guardian supervision required.

New Storytime: Wonderful Ones!

We are excited to announce a new lap-sit group for babies aged newborn to 18 months.

Come join us as we read simple board books, sing some songs, including lap bounces, finger play songs, tickles, and hugs. There will be lots of movement, stories, and loads of fun!

Space is very limited. Registration opens Tuesday, February 21st. 

Black History Month!

In February, the world celebrates Black History Month, and the Topsfield Town Library is highlighting Black authors in our collection!

The Deep

By Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’ rap group Clipping.

Maame

By Jessica George

Smart, funny, and deeply affecting, Jessica George's Maame deals with the themes of our time with humor and poignancy: from familial duty and racism, to female pleasure, the complexity of love, and the life-saving power of friendship. Most important, it explores what it feels like to be torn between two homes and cultures?and it celebrates finally being able to find where you belong.

In the Upper Country

By Kai Thomas

Traveling along the path of the Underground Railroad from Virginia to Michigan, from the Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes, to the Black refugee communities of Canada, In the Upper Country weaves together unlikely stories of love, survival, and familial upheaval that map the interconnected history of the peoples of North America in an entirely new and resonant way.