Lewisboro Library

Lewisboro Library Book Group: "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store"
2024-01-31 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York)
The Lewisboro Library Book Group usually meets at the Library on the last Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m.
The book selection for this month is The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride. It is a novel that begins in 1972, with the discovery of a skeleton that unravels the hidden secrets of Chicken Hill, a Pennsylvania neighborhood in the 1930s where Jewish and Black communities coexisted amidst racial tensions.
Books are available through the Westchester Library System and copies are often ordered in advance for members to pick up at the Library. New members are always welcome in this adult, co-ed book group. For more information contact Myrna or Steve Shomstein at (914) 533-2550.

(Virtual) How to Motivate Your Unmotivated Student
2024-01-31 19:00 - 19:30
Via Zoom.

Is your student in a January slump? In this 30-minute interactive webinar, parents are invited to learn a few tips, tools, and strategies to motivate, inspire, and support their student.
Presented by Successful Study Skills 4 Students.
Discover:

How to inspire your kids to motivate themselves
How self-esteem and anxiety impacts motivation
The effects of power struggles
The importance of goals and objectives, choices and consequences
What problem-solving skills benefit an unmotivated student

Please register for the Zoom link HERE.

Lewisboro Seniors Book Group: "Cutting for Stone" - Postponed from January 17
2024-01-31 11:00 - 12:00
Our group meets in person on (usually) the third Wednesday of the month during the Lewisboro Senior Adults meeting at the South Salem Firehouse. All seniors are welcome!
This month the group will be discussing Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese. This New York Times Bestseller is a saga of twin brothers, orphaned by their mother’s death at their births and forsaken by their father.
The Library will provide copies of the book to all participants. Large print copies are also available upon request. Please contact the Library if you need a copy of the book – (914) 875-9004 or lewisborolibrary@gmail.com. The book is also available as an eBook and audiobook via Overdrive/Libby.

Library Closed - Records Retention/Clean-up Day
2024-01-30
The Lewisboro Library will be closed on Tuesday, January 30, so the staff can work on reorganizing files, storage, etc. The outside bookdrop will be open all day for those who need to return Library materials.

MakerSpace Corner
2024-01-29 10:00 - 17:00
All Ages. Drop in from 10 am to 5 pm.
Create your own invention or craft from the materials in the Makerspace Center.
No Registration Required

Family Fun Saturday: Family Collage
2024-01-27 10:30 - 11:30
All Ages
Create a special family collage using your own family pics and supplies from our MakerSpace.
Bring your family photos, then create a personal collage with pictures, magazine clippings, fabric & more!
Space is limited; please register below.
Note: photographs are often taken at our events to post on social media and our website. Please let the event leader know if you would prefer your child not be photographed.

Family Storytime & Craft
2024-01-26 13:30 - 14:30, 2024-01-19 13:30 - 14:30, 2024-01-12 13:30 - 14:30
For Preschoolers.
Join Miss Marie in the children’s room for stories, music and crafts, for those in preschool.
Please register below, so we have your info in case we need to cancel.

Adult Scrabble
2024-01-25 18:30 - 20:30
Are you a scrabble player? The Library has formed a Scrabble club for those who want to meet at the Library and play.
The group meets on the second and fourth Thursday evenings of each month at 6:30 pm.
This is NOT a drop-in program. We need to know the number of players each week to set up the room.
If you are interested in joining the group, please send an email to lewisborolibrary@gmail.com.

Family Storytime
2024-01-25 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-01-23 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-01-18 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-01-16 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-01-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-01-09 10:30 - 11:30
For Infants & Toddlers
Join Miss Marie in the children’s room for seasonal stories, music and more fun for infants and toddlers.
Please register below, so we have your info in case we need to cancel.

Girls Who Code
2024-01-24 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-01-17 16:30 - 17:30, 2024-01-10 16:30 - 17:30
For Students in Grades 3 through 12.
Girls Who Code is a non-profit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology. The club is a FREE after-school computer science program, facilitated by Children’s Librarian Marie Nania and helpers from the JJHS Robotics Team. The club meets weekly.
Students are encouraged to bring their own laptops or Chromebooks; some will be provided.
Space is limited, please register below for the weeks you can attend.
Note: photographs are often taken at our events to post on social media and our website. Please let the event leader know if you would prefer your child not be photographed.

Teen Advisory Group
2024-01-23 19:00 - 20:00
For Teens in Middle & High School.

EARN COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS * PLAN AND RUN TEEN EVENTS * GAIN LEADERSHIP SKILLS!
The Lewisboro Library Teen Advisory Group (or “TAG”) seeks teens to help come up with fun, engaging programs for you and your friends all year round.
New members are welcome to join this group, which meets monthly for planning – and snacks!
Help us make the Library YOUR favorite gathering space!
Please register below.

MakerSpace Monday: Snowman Craft
2024-01-22 16:00 - 17:00
For PK – Grade 5
Come work on crafts, technology and more in the MakerSpace Corner of the Children’s Room. This month we are making crafts with a seasonal theme.
Space is limited. Please register your child below.
Note: photographs are often taken at our events to post on social media and our website. Please let the event leader know if you would prefer your child not be photographed.

Afternoon Film: "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3"
2024-01-22 13:00 - 15:00
Our Monday afternoon film series continues with a showing of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.
Join the Portokalos family as they travel to a family reunion in Greece for a heartwarming and hilarious trip full of love, twists and turns. Opa!
Space is limited, please register below.

Author Talk: Barry Pirro, the Connecticut Ghost Hunter
2024-01-21 15:00 - 16:00
Author Barry Pirro, “The Connecticut Ghost Hunter,” has been a professional paranormal investigator for over twenty years, and has appeared on radio shows, and podcasts across the country. He has also given several presentations at our Library. Barry will discuss his work as a professional paranormal investigator, share stories from some of his most intriguing cases, and read excerpts from his new book, Haunted Happenings: A Ghost Hunter’s Strangest Cases.
Haunted Happenings contains the chilling stories behind eight of his strangest paranormal cases, and tells how people’s lives have changed after living with ghosts, demons, and other restless spirits. The book will be available for purchase after the talk (cash or Venmo only).
Please register below.

Dungeons & Dragons
2024-01-20 16:00 - 18:00
For Players in Grades 4 – High School. Group will be split according to age.

Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy role playing game. Players work collaboratively through a series of adventures, gathering treasure and experience points along the way.
This co-ed group meets 1-2 times each month. New and experienced players are welcome.
We just added an additional Dungeon Master, so are taking on 5 additional players beginning in January. Please register below. (If registration is full, please contact the Library to ask about available space.)
Thanks so much to the Pezone family for running our D & D programs!

Teen Paint Night
2024-01-19 19:00 - 20:30
For Teens in Middle & High School
Come solo or with your squad and join others in a fun paint night to beat the winter doldrums.
Space is limited, please register below.

Note: photographs are often taken at our events to post on social media and our website. Please let the event leader know if you would prefer your teen not be photographed.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day - Library Closed
2024-01-15

Author Talk: Stephen A. Goldman
2024-01-14 15:00 - 16:00
Psychiatrist and author Dr. Stephen A. Goldman presents ‘The Impact of Reconstruction in the Border States and Above the Mason-Dixon Line.’ Dr. Goldman will link Union soldiers’ and sailors’ combat and military service with their sustained commitment to the Civil War’s ‘unfinished work’ of equality for all Americans. He will show how enhanced availability and quality of public education for African Americans, and use of the law to fight Jim Crow, can be traced to unprecedented efforts made by veterans during Reconstruction.
Dr. Goldman is the author of “One More War to Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle for Equality through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Lost Cause.” Books will be available for sale and signing after the presentation, courtesy of Books on the Common.
Please register below.

Adult Scrabble
2024-01-11 18:30 - 20:30
Are you a scrabble player? The Library has a Scrabble club for those who want to meet at the Library and play.
The group meets on the second and fourth Thursday evenings of each month at 6:30 pm.
This is NOT a drop-in program. We need to know the number of players each week to set up the room.
If you are interested in joining the group, please send an email to info@lewisborolibrary.org.

Library Board Meeting
2024-01-10 19:00 - 20:30
The monthly meeting of the Lewisboro Library Board of Trustees meets in person at the Library.
Meetings are open to the public.

MakerSpace Monday: Marshmallow Snowflakes
2024-01-08 16:00 - 17:00
