The Hotchkiss Library of Sharon and Scoville Memorial Library's Summer Reading Program: All Together Now!

June 10th thru August 12th, ages 0-12

We've teamed up once again for a sensational season of summer reading! Designed to motivate children to read, maintain their reading skills during summer vacation and foster the spirit of community, this year’s program theme, “All Together Now” will provide opportunities for children ages 0-5 and 6-12 to flourish. We’ll raffle off program prizes every two weeks, and wrap things up with the grand finale on Saturday, August 12th. Let's keep our summer reading lit! Visit our online calendar for program & event details. Register today!

Join us for fun & joy on these prize drawing days!

All Together Now Family Sing-Along Saturday, July 8th@10:30
Community Day at Noble Horizons, Saturday, July 22 @ 10:00

Hotchkiss Library of Sharon weekly song & story time

Mondays & 1st Saturday of the month 10:30 am

Join us every Monday and the first Saturday of every month for stories, songs, rhymes, and more! This song and storytime is for ages 0-5 and will take place at the American Legion in Sharon, until moved back into the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon on Upper Main Street.

All Together Now Family Story Time

Wednesdays & Fridays, 10:30am starting June 14th

Join us every Wednesday and Friday morning for stories, songs, rhymes and more! This song and story is for all ages and will take place on the Scoville Memorial Library lawn next to the Buttons Garden. Stories and activities will be themed according to the summer reading program focus of the week. Get ready to spend time with friends, make new friends, and build community!

Scoville Memorial & Pine Plains Free Library (Hybrid) Teen Writing Club!

Fridays from 4:30 to 6:00PM

IN PERSON at the Pine Plains Library and ONLINE for writers further afield, of any genre. Teens in 6th-12th grade are welcome. Registration is required. To register and for additional information, please email Abbey at [email protected].

Local writer and poet, Abbey Gallagher, is continuing our adolescent writing workshop series ONLINE using written prompts, physical objects, images, and much more to spark curiosity and imagination in new or regular writers.

An All Together Now Family Sing-Along

Saturday, July 8th, 10:30am
All ages

Join us for a community sing-along with the one and only Danny Tieger! Based on the Beatles’ songs you’ve voted to hear (there is a ballad box in the children’s library and/or cast your vote using the form below,) Danny will lead us through the choruses and songs of your favorite Beatles songs. We’ll start out with this one of course:

All Together Now.  Program attendance counts towards your bingo board and there will be a raffle prize drawing to determine last weeks summer reading challenge winners! Bring your boards, stamped with four in a row to enter the drawing. Kindly register here.

All Together Now: Celebrating our Community! Saturday, July 22nd @10am
at Noble Horizons, 17 Cobble Street, Salisbury, CT

Want to add joy and bring smiles across the community? Join us for an incredibly special morning with family, friends, and residents of Noble Horizons as we come together for community yoga and story time at Noble Horizons. Kathy Voldstad will lead a yoga session for all ages and abilities starting at 10 am. Following, we'll gather refreshments and snacks and join in a story time circle for all ages, and then, middle-grade students aged 10+, who have volunteered, will break out into smaller groups to read a chapter from pre-selected favorite books. Plan on being outside unless it rains. A towel, yoga mat, blanket or chair is ideal for yoga and listening to stories. We're looking for middle grade student volunteers to read to residents. Please consider and sign-up and register here.

BIG Thank you to the FRIENDS of the Scoville Memorial Library (FSL)!
BIG Thank you to Mrs. Houck from Salisbury Central School!
BIG Thank you to our community for coming out to celebrate!
What a magical evening we enjoyed at the library!

The Friends of the Scoville Library are currently accepting donations of books for their ongoing book sales
Mondays 10 am to 12 noon

All proceeds benefit the library's programs. Donated books should be:

 - clean and in good condition so that they will be appealing to other readers
 - relatively dust free, not discolored or written in
 - structurally sound with intact binding and pages which are not ripped

Please no textbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries or travel guides older than four years. Donations can be dropped off on Mondays between 10-Noon, or contact the Friends to make other arrangements.

Check them out!

The library has passes to several area cultural institutions available for check out for up to 48 hours! Click here for a complete list and link to place a hold, or stop by the library to check out your passes today!

Support The Library!

Drop your LaBonne's shopping receipts off at the library, and they will send us a donation based on a percentage of the total. Easy as that and we greatly appreciate it!