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3 pm Small Meeting Room, Lower Level
This program is intended to give neurodiverse people opportunities to discuss relevant topics, share resources and think of ways to help each other. A project of the Neurodiverse Network (https://www.ndnet.org). 18+ adult.
2 pm in the Community Room, Lower Level
This round table discussion will apply the Socratic Method to help delve into philosophical discussions and give you an opportunity to share your opinions in a neutral and respectful way without interruption. Each month the group will choose a philosophical issue and everyone attending will have the opportunity to learn and discuss with others in an open and respectful environment. What a great way to expand your mind and reach further with your thoughts! Ages 18 +. The group typically meets the second Monday of each month.
4:30 pm - 8:30 pm in the Small Meeting Room
Handicap chess allows players of different experience levels to play a competitive game of chess. The more experienced player will start the game with fewer pieces. The greater the difference in experience, the greater the amount of removed pieces. Players can play regular chess if they prefer. Participants are asked to bring a chess set, if possible, but it is not required to participate. Participants who want to expand their horizons are welcome to try other games of strategy. Beginners are welcome. Feel free to drop in when you can and leave when you need to. No registration required. Ages 14+
10 am in the Community Room, Lower Level
This round table discussion will give participants an opportunity to share their life lessons in an informal, neutral, and respectful way while enjoying a favorite beverage (BYO or stop by our Coffee Corner). Each month the group will consider one or more topics and everyone attending will have the opportunity to highlight their experience with others gathered around the table – it’s a great way to gain insights and expand your mind. The group is facilitated by Jim Logue and meets the 2nd Monday of each month. No registration is required. Ages 18+.
6:30 pm Outdoors or Community Room (weather dependent)
The songs of the greats – Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits will be featured. Singing is encouraged! Bring your camp chair. Presented by guitarist, singer and West Chester University professor, Doug Morris. All are welcome!
6:30 pm in the Community Room
A celebration of Pete Seeger - the most important and influential contributor to the world of folk music in the history of the U.S. Pete was famous for inviting and encouraging audiences to sing along and we will have plenty of opportunities for singing together with presenter, guitarist, singer and West Chester University professor, Doug Morris. All are welcome!
2nd Floor Meeting Room
No Registration Required
Dawn Marron has organized experienced local coupon clippers to share their tips and techniques to cut spending and enjoy shopping. The New Cumberland Public Library will host Couponing for Extreme Savings on the third Saturdays of the month in the Meeting Room of the library building. Workshops are free and open to the public. Feel free to bring coupons to trade and share. Contact CouponerDawn@gmail.com for further information.
Come to the Library on Sunday, April 27th for the Third Annual New Cumberland Earth & Arts Festival between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM. We will have an array of activities and programs for all ages inside the Library and around our grounds. Music & entertainment, food trucks, vendors selling Earth-friendly goods, a demo garden, and alpacas from Angie's Alpaca Paradise are just a few of the things you will enjoy. Inside the Library, we will offer children's story time, crafts and activities for kids and teens, and a presentation about the Northern Lights, as well as opportunities to find out more information about the Penn-Cumberland Garden Club and the Master Watershed Steward Program.
The Friends of the New Cumberland Public Library will hold their annual plant sale on Saturday, April 26 from 8:00 AM until 2:00 PM on the lawn area of Foundation House located across the shared parking lot from the Library. The plant sale will feature annuals, vegetables, herbs, perennials, and hanging baskets at bargain basement prices! All proceeds benefit the New Cumberland Public Library. At 10:00 am, Keys to Bees will give a free presentation about Gardening with Honey Bees. Join Master Beekeeper and Honeybee Educator Tiffany Ayres as she discusses how to attract Honeybees to your yard and garden (Sponsored by Members 1st Federal Credit Union).
Come discuss "The Book of Lost Names" by Kristin Harmel, on April 11 at our monthly book club!
The book club will be held here at the Coy Public Library, Thursday, April 11th from 5:00pm-6:30pm.
This month's book is "The Book of Lost Names", written by Kristin Harmel. You can request this item through our digital catalog, or by calling the library at 717-532-4508.
"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names.
The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer—but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?
As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears." - Publisher