“Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a 1000 years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What’s New at the Great Barrington Libraries:
| Celebrate the Chinese New Year with the Mason Children’s Room
Come celebrate the year of the dragon in the Mason Children’s Room! Our Chinese New Year Crafts will be on Saturday, January 28th. Come make good luck felt fortune cookies and traditional paper money envelopes (stuffed with gold!). On Saturday, February 4th, there will be activities for every age! At 10:30-11:45am we have a Dragon Puppet show, craft & parade for grades preschool through 3rd , and Chinese Painting for grades 4th and up. At 11:45am we will have our Good Luck New Year lunch buffet (Choose from Chinese fried rice & noodles) Head over to our calendar or see staff in the Children’s Room at Mason to register today! Gung Hay Fat Choy! |
Friends of Great Barrington Libraries Present: Gasland Thursday, February 2, 7pm at Mason Library When filmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for gas drilling, he embarks on on an exploratory cross-country odyssey and uncovers a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. The award winning film is “part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown and part showdown.” Part of the First Thursday Free Film Series at the Mason Library on Main Street in Great Barrington. The film will start at 7pm in the downstairs community room. Admission is free and open to the public. A discussion will follow. |
Jeffrey Folmer at Ramsdell
Join us for a performance by singer/songwriter Jeffrey Folmer at Ramsdell Library, Wednesday, February 8th at 6:30pm. Admission is free and open to all ages! |
