Community Calendar

Engage your senses with story time, a craft and a nature activity designed for younger children and their families. Each participant leaves with a free book.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 2-6, siblings welcome.

Please register in advance because space is limited. Thanks to support from the Judith H. Adams Fund for the purpose of nature literacy, we are able to offer this program series for free.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 2-6, siblings welcome.

Please register in advance because space is limited. Thanks to support from the Judith H. Adams Fund for the purpose of nature literacy, we are able to offer this program series for free.

What does it mean to be American? Join us for a hybrid community book club exploring that question through the lens of the American Revolution. The evening opens with a preview screening from Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt's PBS documentary The American Revolution, followed by an informal group discussion.

This month's featured title is Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph Ellis. In 1790, the United States was more a fragile hope than a functioning reality. Over the decade that followed, the Founding Fathers, reexamined here as Founding Brothers, worked to transform the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the framework of the Constitution into the practical workings of a new government. Ellis brings that pivotal decade to life through six compelling episodes: the deadly duel between Hamilton and Burr, Washington's precedent-setting Farewell Address, the debate over where to place the nation's capital, Franklin's bold attempt to force Congress to confront slavery, and the remarkable late-life correspondence between Jefferson and Adams.

This free program runs approximately 60 minutes and is open to the public. It will be held both in-person at the Granville Branch and virtually via Zoom. Copies of Founding Brothers are available at the Granville Branch. To register for Zoom, visit: https://t.ly/DwWjH

Engage your senses with story time, a craft and a nature activity designed for younger children and their families. Each participant leaves with a free book.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 2-6, siblings welcome.

Please register in advance because space is limited. Thanks to support from the Judith H. Adams Fund for the purpose of nature literacy, we are able to offer this program series for free.

What does it mean to be American? Join us for a hybrid community book club exploring that question through the lens of the American Revolution. The evening opens with a preview screening from the PBS documentary The American Revolution by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, followed by an informal group discussion.

This month's featured title is The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson — a National Book Award-winning young adult historical novel set in 18th-century Boston. The story follows a young Black man raised by rationalist philosophers who discovers he is the subject of a cruel experiment, all while the American Revolution brews around him. Narrated by Octavian himself, the novel explores themes of slavery, identity, and the hypocrisy of the Enlightenment.

Copies of the book are available at the McNabb Branch. This free program runs approximately 60 minutes and is held in-person at the McNabb Branch and virtually via Zoom. To register for Zoom, visit: https://t.ly/iASwE.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 2-6, siblings welcome.

Please register in advance because space is limited. Thanks to support from the Judith H. Adams Fund for the purpose of nature literacy, we are able to offer this program series for free.

Our summer story time with the South Beloit Public Library returns! Join us on Friday mornings for reading and activity time under our cottonwood tree. This series will introduce our local plant and animal friends to help build nature vocabulary, as well as American Sign Language vocabulary. Recommended for children ages 2-6, siblings welcome.

Please register in advance because space is limited. Thanks to support from the Judith H. Adams Fund for the purpose of nature literacy, we are able to offer this program series for free.