A Carnegie Library serving the Pittsfield, Burnham, and Detroit communities
Come to the Summer Reading Program Kick Off party! Sign up for the program, get your reading logs, and plant some real seeds with the Pittsfield Community Garden Club. We'll have snacks, games, and a good time for all! Then bring your sprouted seeds back in three weeks to repot them into a planter you […]
Come join us for a night of European-style board games. Bring a favorite or come prepared to learn a new one! Recent games have included RoboRally, Forest Shuffle, Cartographers, and more! The library sponsors this group every Wednesday evening. It is librarian led and intended for adults 18+. We welcome players new and old – […]
Come to a fascinating program all about butterflies and their crucial role as pollinators. What butterflies are there in Maine, and what can we do to attract them and to help them raise their young? How can we create pollinator habitats? After the presentation, make yourself a stunning butterfly t-shirt! Bring a plain colored cotton […]
Come join Waterville, Maine author Jeanine Deas as she reads The ABC Ducks of Deering Oaks Park with Miss Cassidy! The park ducks waddle, quack and swim their way through the alphabet. Then have fun with a duck-themed craft!
Bring back your seedlings from the kick off party and transplant them into a pot you beautifully decorate yourself! And if you don't have a seedling to bring back...we'll have some extra plants to transplant.
The 2026 Ann B. McGowan Maine Writers Series and the Pittsfield Public Library are proud to present an evening with local Maine novelist Kristen Clanton. Kristen teaches humanities at MCI and coaches cheerleading when not writing. Kristen's debut work is the young adult horror novel The Swallows. Set in the Black Mountain region, The Swallows […]