Pittsfield Public Library

Story Time Reads How to Say Hello to a Worm
2026-06-22 10:30 - 11:30 UTC | Pittsfield Public Library, 110 Library St, Pittsfield, ME, 04967, United States
Come read How to Say Hello to a Worm with Story Time as we gear up for the Summer Reading theme of Plant a Seed – Read! How do you say hello to worms and other garden friends? Enjoy a fun craft after the story.

Summer Reading Kick Off Party!
2026-06-24 15:30 - 16:30
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 decorate yourself!

Adult Board Game Night (18+)
2026-06-24 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-08-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-08-12 18:00 - 20:00
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 – bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn!
We’re back to meeting upstairs – please join us in the reading room.

Come Meet the Butterfly Guy! Pollinator Presentation by Jerry Schneider
2026-06-25 15:30 - 16:30
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 or cotton-blend t-shirt (anything but black or dark blue) and go home with a work of nature art you create yourself! https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=310637634172331

Jerry Schneider is the inventor of the Butterfly Game, and has served on the steering committee of the Vermont Butterfly Atlas Project. He has been presenting about pollinators to schools and libraries across New England for many years.

Free and open to the public.

Miss Jenny's Playgroup!
2026-07-01 10:30 - 11:30
Come join Miss Jenny from KVCAP for developmentally appropriate movement, games, crafts, and FUN! This playgroup is designed for birth to age five, but everyone is welcome! Miss Jenny is here on the first Wednesday of every month at 10:30AM. This is a great way to meet families with young children the same age as yours.

Sunny Day Art Play - Nature Collages!
2026-07-01 15:30 - 16:30
Come join Miss Cassy in finding beauty in nature and then making a beautiful collage in a fun frame to take home! We’ll have an alternate activity indoors if the weather doesn’t cooperate.

Adult Board Game Night (18+)
2026-07-01 18:00 - 20:00
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, The Sheep 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 – bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn!
We’re back to meeting upstairs – please join us in the reading room.

Library CLOSED for 4th of July
2026-07-03 - 2026-07-04
The library will be CLOSED July 3rd and 4th in observance of the July 4th holiday.
Please note that we are CLOSED all Saturdays in July and August. We will resume Saturday hours on Saturday, September 12th.

Story Time Reads Lily's Garden
2026-07-06 10:30 - 11:30
Come join Miss Cassy and friends as they read Lily’s Garden, enjoy some body movement, and make a fun craft!
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Waterville Author Jeanine Deas Reads Her Book The ABC Ducks of Deering Oaks Park
2026-07-08 15:30 - 16:30
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!

Adult Board Game Night (18+)
2026-07-08 18:00 - 20:00
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 Flip 7, 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 – bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn!
We’re back to meeting upstairs – please join us in the reading room.

Story Time Reads In the Night Garden
2026-07-13 10:30 - 11:30
Come join Miss Cassy and friends as they read In the Night Garden, enjoy some body movement, and make a fun craft!

Come Decorate a Plant Pot with the Pittsfield Community Garden Club!
2026-07-15 15:30 - 16:30
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.

An Evening with Maine Author Kristen Clanton
2026-07-15 18:00 - 19:30
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 explores the town of Fullmouth, where local mothers have started dying. At first, the panicked citizens believe the deaths are suicides. Yet fifteen-year-old Pearl is unconvinced. Pearl has known visions her whole life, known the feeling of when the darkness shifts inside her, and her power comes to surface.

But having recently moved to Fullmouth, the supernatural is suddenly magnified. She now finds herself able to commune with ghosts. She sees visions of how mothers will die. Relying on these powers, Pearl faces a daunting foe and the responsibility of saving the town. The only question is … will she be too late? Built on history, folk tradition, and witchcraft, The Swallows is a horror novel that explores a small town’s connection to the spiritual world and the families that fill it.

Kristen Clanton was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. She earned a dual BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tampa, and traveled west for a while, earning her MFA from the University of Nebraska. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in numerous journals, including Arkana, BlazeVOX, South Florida Poetry Journal, and the Sugar House Review, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Kristen will have her works available for sale and signing at the event, which is free and open to the public. Come support your local authors!

Adult Board Game Night (18+)
2026-07-15 18:00 - 20:00
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 Century Spice Road, 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 – bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn!
We’re back to meeting upstairs – please join us in the reading room.

Story Time Reads The Forever Garden
2026-07-20 10:30 - 11:30
Come join Miss Cassy and her Story Time friends as they read The Forever Garden! Then enjoy a fun craft, movement and merriment.
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Fraud Awareness & Prevention Workshop
2026-07-21 15:00 - 16:00
Join the Somerset Economic Development Corporation and AARP Maine for a FREE one hour workshop on identifying and avoiding common scams – on the internet and off.

We are all bombarded with call, emails, texts and more every day, many from people and organizations we’ve never heard of. How do you sift the wheat from the chaff and identify the bad actors? How can you keep yourself and your information safe, online and off? Come to this workshop and find out!

Free and open to the public; registration is optional and attendees are welcome to just walk in. In the Warren Community room of the Pittsfield Public Library.

Learn About Bees and Make Lemonade with Local Honey!
2026-07-22 15:30 - 16:30
Come learn all about bees and their important role as pollinators – and then make some lemonade sweetened with local honey! Yum!

Adult Board Game Night (18+)
2026-07-22 18:00 - 20:00
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 Tacta, 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 – bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn!
We’re back to meeting upstairs – please join us in the reading room.

Story Time Reads The Cool Bean
2026-07-27 10:30 - 11:30
Come read The Cool Bean with Story Time! Learn what really makes you cool – and enjoy a cool craft, too.

Mr. Sean Presents Owl Be Seeing Youuuuu! Puppet Show with the Puppet Pals
2026-07-29 14:30 - 16:30
Come join Mr. Sean and his puppet pals as they learn not to judge books by their covers! Mr. Sean will be joined by community partners with crafts, giveaways and more, starting at 2:30, and then the puppet show will begin at 3:30. Come grab some great free items for your family and check out the local community organizations working with families in our area, and then cap it off with a rollicking good puppet time!

Free and open to the public.

Adult Board Game Night (18+)
2026-07-29 18:00 - 20:00
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 Harmonies, 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 – bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn!
We’re back to meeting upstairs – please join us in the reading room.

Library Book Club Reads The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
2026-07-30 13:00 - 14:00
Come join the Library book club as they discuss Erik Larson’s blockbuster work of nonfiction, The Devil in the White City. Following the lives of the man responsible for designing the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and the serial killer who lured his victims there, this exquisitely researched book reads like a work of fiction that’s almost too extraordinary to be true. The novel has won an Edgar, was shortlisted for the National Book Award, and is being developed into a mini series starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Story Time Reads The Couch Potato
2026-08-03 10:30 - 11:30
Come join Miss Cassidy and friends as they read Jory John’s The Couch Potato and then enjoy a fun craft!

Miss Jenny's Playgroup Returns!
2026-08-05 10:30 - 11:30

L.C. Bates Museum Presents Pollinators!
2026-08-05 15:30 - 16:30
Come join the educators from the LC Bates Museum as they do a deep dive into flowers and pollination! We’ll explore the flower life cycle from seed to blossom, the different pollinators, and use models to explore the function and structure of flowers. Learn why pollinators are so important to growing the foods you love.

Free and open to the public.

Summer Reading Wrap Up Party!
2026-08-12 15:30 - 16:30
Come join Miss Cassidy for the Summer Reading Wrap Up Party! It’s the last chance to turn in reading logs for prizes, and to get your SRP diploma! We’ll have snacks and free books for everyone – along with some summer fun and games outside.

Story Time Reads Hello, Lighthouse
2026-08-17 10:30 - 11:30
Come read Caldecott Medal winning Hello, Lighthouse with Miss Cassidy and friends at Story Time! Enjoy movement and a craft after the story.
