“Gilded Stockbridge” takes a peek inside Mabel Choate's Naumkeag and features some of the home’s treasures, including porcelain pieces from Mabel’s world-renowned “Lowestoft” china collection, artwork by her mother and no-nonsense summer hats and garden tools used to transform Naumkeag into the beautiful public museum and gardens of today. As part of the exhibit, we also invite you to…
Twice a month the Youth Department will provide an easy-to-make Take and Make craft for children to take home. Each Take and Make contains most supplies and instructions, but you may need to provide general supplies such as materials to color/paint with, scissors, glue, or tape. Best for ages 3+
Each week there will be a simple to make craft available on a table in the children's room. Visit the Stockbridge Library any time we're open to check out some books and make a craft!
This reading will be the 100th of our Online Poetry Series! Workshop leader, tutor, and mom with roots in spoken word, Kathryn Petruccelli holds an MA in teaching English language learners. She also holds obsessions around themes of place, language and the ocean, as evident in her first poetry manuscript, “God of Sea. God…
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led by Stockbridge resident Ramelle Pulitzer, MEd., writing sessions will…
Our February Cookbook Club is going to throw it back with the classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking Volume 1 by Julia Child! Books will be available to pick up at the library. The Cookbook Club is a hybrid event. Members looking to attend in person are encouraged to bring a dish to…
CANCELLED Julian Zelizer is familiar to Sunday morning TV audiences as CNN's Political Analyst. He is also a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "Here and Now." A pioneer in the revival of American political history, Zelizer, who teaches at Princeton, is the author of Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and…
Join Youth Librarian Rachel for a weekly storytime in the children's room of the Stockbridge Library every Tuesday from 10:30 to 11:00. Each week we'll sing some songs, move around, and read a book! Children of all ages are welcome at this storytime!
Raphael Kosek’s poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines such as Southern Humanities Review, Briar Cliff Review, Poetry East, Catamaran, The Chattahoochee Review and many others. She also writes creative non-fiction and lyric essays, two of which have won first place awards at Eastern Iowa Review and Bacopa Review. Harmless Encounters won the 2021 Jesse Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest…
The February monthly Slime Squad will meet on Tuesday, February 7 from 3:45pm to 4:30pm and we’ll be making Valentine's Slime. Best for ages 4 and up. Sign-up for slime squad is required every month, email rnicholson@cwmars.org or call 413-298-5501.
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led by Stockbridge resident Ramelle Pulitzer, MEd., writing sessions will…
Join us on Thursday, February 9 at 4:00 p.m. for our monthly Book Club. This month will feature the book Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck. Books are available to pick up at the circulation desk and please feel free to call or email with any questions.
Join us to celebrate love for libraries from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 pm. on Saturday, February 11! Enjoy listening to Alison Larkin, comedienne and award-winning audiobook narrator of The Complete Novels of Jane Austen read some of Austen’s most famous love scenes, select a book to purchase for the library in honor of someone special in your…
Join us for a special Valentine's Day storytime followed by a craft at the Stockbridge Library! Children of all ages welcome!
Kim Ports Parsons’ debut collection Mayapple Forest is forthcoming from Terrapin Books. Kim grew up near Baltimore, earned degrees, taught for decades, and worked in libraries. Now, she lives next to Shenandoah National Park where she gardens, walks, and writes. Her poetry has appeared in The Galway Review, Cider Press Review, Banyan Review, and other journals. She volunteers weekly for Cultivating Voices…
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led by Stockbridge resident Ramelle Pulitzer, MEd., writing sessions will…
Join Youth Librarian Rachel once a month for a Saturday storytime in the children's room. Saturday storytime will be on the third Saturday of every month from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. We will sing some songs, move around, and read a book! Children of all ages are welcome at this storytime!
Each month we will read a different fairytale or folktale and then complete a hands-on activity based on what we read. Each activity will fit the category of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, or Mathematics. Best for ages 4-10
Theresa Wyatt is the author of Hurled Into Gettysburg, BlazeVox Books, 2018. Besides the powerful tug of history, Theresa divides her creative time between the poetry of place, ekphrasis, eulogy, and the healing aspects of medical narratives. Her poems have appeared in the W. W. Norton anthology, New Micro, A Celebration of Western New York Poets, Buffalo Legacy Publications, Pulse, Spillway, Steel Bellow,…
Join us in decorating donuts with frosting, sprinkles, and other fun toppings. Afterwards enjoy eating them! For ages 13 to 18. Sign up required, email rnicholson@cwmars.org
The Stockbridge Library invites writers and would-be-writers to take a leap into creative and skillful writing. The Stockbridge Writers will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. All writing levels are welcome. Led by Stockbridge resident Ramelle Pulitzer, MEd., writing sessions will…
Stop by the Stockbridge Library to play with some clay! We'll have all the supplies for shaping, making, and playing with clay. Ages 3+
Stop by between 2:30pm and 3:30pm to decorate a wooden tree slice with paint! For children of all ages.
Join us for the Third Annual Stockbridge Ice Festival on Saturday, February 25 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Join us on the front lawn of The Stockbridge Library, Museum & Archives to view sculptors craft solid blocks of ice into magnificent sculptures! This event is free and open to the public! The…
Perry S. Nicholas is a recently-retired English professor at SUNY Erie Community College in Buffalo, N.Y., where he was awarded the 2008 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities and the 2011 President’s Award for Classroom Instruction. He received the SGA’s Outstanding Teacher Award on two occasions. He has been a guest lecturer at Daemen College, Villa Maria…
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