Pittsfield Public Library

Fun STEM Time Celebrates Pet Day!
2024-04-11 15:30 - 16:30 UTC | Pittsfield Public Library, 110 Library St, Pittsfield, ME, 04967, United States
Join Mr. Wes in celebrating all kinds of pets, from furry to feathery to scaly! Bring in pictures of your favorite pets – but please, leave the real animals safely at home.

LIBRARY CLOSED: Patriots Day
2024-04-15
The library is closed in observance of Patriots Day.

Culture Club Celebrates Earth Day!
2024-04-17 15:00 - 16:00
Come join Culture Club in celebrating a true international holiday – Earth Day! Earth Day is a time to celebrate our planet and how we can take care of her. We’ll read a book (that you can take home!), make and decorate plant pots, and plant some seeds.

Community Hero Day with KVCAP
2024-04-18 13:00 - 14:00
Come hear a Community Hero read a story! Celebrate the hardworking heroes that make our towns better.

Fun STEM Time Celebrates Poem in Your Pocket Day!
2024-04-18 15:30 - 16:30
Come hear Mr. Wes’ favorite poems – and maybe share your own!

Story Time Honors Earth Day
2024-04-22 10:30 - 11:30
Come learn more about Earth Day and ways to celebrate and honor Mother Earth.

Sensory Activities with KVCAP's Miss Jenny!
2024-04-24 11:00 - 12:00
Come read Where is the Green Sheep? with KVCAP’s Miss Jenny, and then explore a rainbow of sensory play activities!

Fun STEM Time Explores Telephones!
2024-04-25 15:30 - 16:30
Come learn all about telephones – their history and function.

Story Time Pays Homage to Horses!
2024-04-29 10:30 - 11:30
Come learn all about these fabulous beasts! Did you know that horses used to be tiny? Or that some modern horses can be seven feet tall at the shoulder?

Adult Contemporary Board Game Night (18+)
2024-05-01 18:00 - 20:00
Come join a great group of folks for fun with contemporary (European style) board games! We meet from six to eight (or later), and welcome players new and old. Bring a favorite game to teach or come ready to learn a new one. Adults 18+ only for this meeting – our next family game night is 5/29.

Fun STEM Time Celebrates a Day of Reason!
2024-05-02 15:30 - 16:30
Come join Mr. Wes for fun with brain teasers, logic puzzles, and more!

Team Trivia with Mr. Wes
2024-05-04 13:00 - 14:00
Come play team trivia with Mr. Wes! We will form teams and answer questions for all ages – come show your “smarts!”

Story Time with Mr. Wes Celebrates National Beverage Day
2024-05-06 10:30 - 11:30
What is your favorite beverage? A survey of Army personnel revealed that milk was their favorite! Let’s talk all things thirst-quenching!

Fiber Friends Group
2024-05-06 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-05-13 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-05-20 13:00 - 15:00
Join the Fiber Friends, a great group who enjoy all things fiber arts! Whether you’re a knitter, spinner, crocheter, felter, weaver or something entirely other, you’re welcome to come work and chat on Mondays.

Adult Seminar Series: Pathways to Living Well with HealthySV
2024-05-08 11:00 - 12:30
Melissa Parsons of HealthySV joins us to talk about a number of classes potentially available to library patrons : Living Well with Chronic Pain, Living Well with Diabetes, Living Well for Better Health, and A Matter of Balance. She’ll talk about what is involved in forming a class to be held here at the library, what each class covers, and who might benefit from each class. This event is free and open to the public.

Adult Contemporary Board Game Night (18+)
2024-05-08 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-05-15 18:00 - 20:00
Come join a fun group of people to play contemporary (European style) board games! Adults 18+ only tonight. Recent games have included Sagrada, Wingspan, Sushi Go Party and Alice’s Garden. Bring a game to share or come prepared to learn a new one!

Library Book Club
2024-05-09 13:00 - 14:00
Come join a group of spirited readers for a lively discussion of a new book each month! This month the group is reading A Star for Mrs. Blake, a novel exploring how in “The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel, April Smith breathes life into a unique moment in American history, imagining the experience of five of these women.
They are strangers at the start, but their lives will become inextricably intertwined, altered in indelible ways. These very different Gold Star Mothers travel to the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery to say final good-byes to their sons and come together along the way to face the unexpected: a death, a scandal, and a secret revealed.”

For more information about the book club, please contact Donna Laux at laux2@roadrunner.com.

Fun STEM Time Celebrates Home Town Heroes
2024-05-09 15:30 - 16:30
Fun STEM Time celebrates Home Town Heroes – who makes a difference in your life?

"Coffeehouse" Open Mike with Mr. Wes
2024-05-11 13:00 - 15:00
Do you play music? Tell a couple of jokes? Stop by to strut your stuff!

Story Time Celebrates Apple Pie
2024-05-13 08:00 - 17:00
Story Time celebrates Apple Pie! What’s not to love?

Culture Club Celebrates Cinco de Mayo
2024-05-15 15:00 - 16:00
Culture Club celebrates Cinco de Mayo and learns about Mexico! Vamos a aprender mucho!

Fun STEM Time Celebrates Sea Monkey Day
2024-05-16 16:00 - 16:30
We’ll celebrate sea monkey day and investigate other famous products that didn’t quite live up to their billing! Do you know what “caveat emptor” means?

An Evening with Maine Writer Matt Cost
2024-05-16 18:00 - 19:00
The Ann B. McGowan Maine Writers Series and the Pittsfield Public Library are proud to present at evening with local Maine author Matt Cost. Matt is the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of the Mainely Mystery series. The first book, Mainely Power, was selected as the Maine Humanities Council Read ME Fiction Book of 2020. This was followed by Mainely Fear, Mainely Money, Mainely Angst, and Mainely Wicked. His Clay Wolfe/Port Essex Mysteries include Wolfe Trap, Mind Trap, Mouse Trap, and Cosmic Trap, and now, Pirate Trap.
Cost’s love of histories and mysteries is combined in the novel, Velma Gone Awry, book one in his new series featuring private eye, 8 Ballo, set in 1920’s Brooklyn. The second book, City Gone Askew, will publish in August of 2024.
Matt will share the process of writing a book and how books evolve by discussing Pirate Trap, which is set here in Maine. Expect a lively session!

Cost lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. A chocolate Lab and a basset hound round out the mix. He now spends his days at the computer, writing.

Music Appreciation with Mr. Wes
2024-05-18 13:00 - 14:30
Bring in your favorite song(s) to share with others – Mr. Wes will, too! Music speaks truth to our souls…

Story Time Talks About Dental Care
2024-05-20 10:30 - 11:30
Story Time learns all about dental care. Take care of your teeth so that they can take care of you!

Happy 120th Birthday to the Library!
2024-05-21 14:00 - 16:00
Come enjoy cake and conversation as we celebrate the Pittsfield Public Library’s birthday – we turn 120 on May 19! We’ll have activities all month to celebrate our milestone.

Art, stories, movement and more with KVCAP's Miss Jenny!
2024-05-22 11:00 - 12:00
Join KVCAP’s Miss Jenny in reading stories, playing games, and sensory play! Lots of age appropriate activities from birth to age five, but all ages are welcome!
