Event List

Join Talcott Mountain Science Center for a hands-on workshop on engaging students in science. Kaitlyn Roberts, our Certified American Meteorological Society Teacher will model multiple approaches while conducting a lesson on weather.

This is a hybrid event, so you can attend from home OR come in-person to the library. Be sure to sign up so we can send you the Zoom link. 

Co-sponsored by the Simsbury Senior Center and Presented by the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History:

Join Rick Berk, Fine Art & Landscape Photographer, for a presentation exploring the process of photographing the night sky—from initial planning through capture and post-processing.

Alright rising seniors, you have a lot coming up in the next year as you navigate your college essays and applications, in addition to your regularly scheduled schoolwork & extracurriculars. 

This is a hybrid event, so you can attend from home OR come in-person to the library. Be sure to sign up so we can send you the Zoom link. 

This is a hybrid event, so you can attend from home OR come in-person to the library. Be sure to sign up so we can send you the Zoom link. 

New York Times bestselling author Kat Rosenfield will join the Friends on Wednesday, April 8 from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Friends program room to discuss How to Survive in the Woods, her soon-to-be published thriller novel.

Much of what we learn about Connecticut’s past comes from a colonized perspective that has almost entirely left out the voices of Indigenous people who have called this land home for over 12,000 years.

Benedict Arnold’s name is synonymous with being a traitor. At an important point in the Revolutionary War, he orchestrated the handover of top-secret plans about the Patriots’ most important fort, West Point, to British spy John Andre.

This is a hybrid event, so you can attend from home OR come in-person to the library. Be sure to sign up so we can send you the Zoom link. 

Co-Sponsored by the Simsbury Senior Center and Presented by the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History.

Join us for the final lecture in our To Form A More Perfect Union series as we host Andy Horowitz, Associate Professor at UCONN and CT State Historian, as he explores the relevance of the American Revolution for Co

This is a hybrid event, so you can attend from home OR come in-person to the library. Be sure to sign up so we can send you the Zoom link. 

1776 and Hamilton: two American musicals telling the story of the founding of our nation.  This lecture looks at these revolutionary musicals and their contrasting visions of an American society at a crossroads.  Note: this lecture featu

What does Thanksgiving mean to you, and how do you celebrate it? Is it a day to spend time with family and friends? Is it a time to eat lots of delicious food? Is it a time to be thankful for the positive things in your life?