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SEPTEMBER 2025

Welcome back! Here's to a year of learning, laughter, and new adventures at school!

On Saturday, September 6, from 9:00 a.m. to noon, the Friends of the Acushnet Public Library will host a Jewelry Sale on our front lawn.

Join us to create a beaded gecko keychain on Saturday, September 20, at 12:30 p.m.

The library will be closed on Monday, September 1st for Labor Day.

~Elisabeth

*LAST DAY OF AUGUST*

Play Music on the Porch (Pavilion) Day - The Jethros
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, NOON

Celebrate Play Music on the Porch Day with us. The Jethros will perform from noon to 2 p.m. under the pavilion (not a porch, but that's OK!).

FRIENDS OF THE ACUSHNET PUBLIC LIBRARY ANNOUNCEMENT

FEATURED CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING

LEGO Club - What will you build?

Wednesday, September 24, 2 pm

Community Room
Drop by LEGO Club to show your skills, build with friends, and be creative! We supply the LEGOs. Ages 5 and up.

PACE - CFCE PLAY & LEARN

PACE - CFCE PLAY & LEARN
September 9, 11 am
Community Room
Join your local Coordinated Family and Community Engagement (CFCE) Program for a Play and Learn program with Miss Gloria in the Acushnet Public Library Community Room. Play and Learn is just what it sounds like: We play while we learn, and we learn while we play!! This free parent-child event is scheduled for Tuesday, 9/9/2025, at 11:00 am for families with children from birth to age six! We encourage you to register. For more information and to register, contact Gloria Cardona at gcardona@paceccw.org.

Story Explorers Book Club & Young Adult Survey

We need your help!

We're looking to update our Story Explorers Book Club for children (ages 6-8), and we want to know what you think!

Click here: https://forms.gle/NtDMA6kXcPu3mDZ76

We're updating our Teens Book Club for young adults (ages 13-18), and we want to know what you think!

Click here: https://forms.gle/UEiEgwdG2xoWYsmN9

Connect with Others at Your Library

Readers' Groups

Readers' Group - Morning Edition
Thursday, September 4, 11:00 am
Community Room

James describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.

--Publisher's description.

Readers' Group
Thursday, September 4, 6:00 pm
Community Room

Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north, where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier. Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown. --Amazon.com.

You can visit us to pick up a copy, place a hold, or ask a librarian to order a copy for you.

MOVIE MATINEE on Monday, September 8 @ 2 pm

A Complete Unknown

This month, we will screen A Complete Unknown, Rated R (2 hours, 20 minutes) A biographical film about Bob Dylan.

In the early 1960s, 19-year-old Bob Dylan arrives in New York with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. Forming his most intimate relationships during his rise to fame, he grows restless with the folk movement, making a controversial choice that reverberates worldwide.

Movie Matinee is for Ages 18 +. Bring a covered beverage if you like.

KNITTING & CROCHETING GROUP on Monday, September 8 @ 6 pm