Holiday Closing

The library will be closed Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 10-12, for the Easter holiday weekend.

Children’s Programs

*Mother Goose on the Loose: A new program for children under age 2 and their parents, Mother Goose on the Loose is an award-winning early literacy program we will begin offering next month.

The 30-minute sessions include traditional rhymes, songs, music, movement, flannel board activities and simple books.

No registration is required. The program began April 1 and will meet weekly in the meeting room on Wednesday mornings at 10 through May 13.

Young Adult Programs

*Creative Writing – Fiction: Signups will open in early April for a five-week series for young people in grades 6-8, led by Wally Wood.  It will meet weekly, April 27 to June 1, with preference given to Newtown students and residents.

For Families & Adults

*Historical Society at The Diner: In those Good Old Days before fast food began to dominate the landscape, there was perhaps no more iconic symbol of American floodways than the roadside diner.

Newtown Historical Society will stop for a bite of the icon on Monday, April 13, at 7:30 pm, in the meeting room of the library. Christopher Dobbs, the executive director of The Noah Webster House, will offer a program he’s calling “Architecture and History of The American Diner: From Wagon Wheel to The 20th Century.”

*Great Fireside Reads — The Novel in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Study great authors who created tales with memorable characters, gripping plots, vividly detailed settings, and moral questions that are as relevant today as when they were first published. Programs are led by Julie Stern. The reading and book discussion series will conclude with A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving on April 21.

*Wednesday Afternoon at the Movies: Our next screening, on April 22, will be Under The Bombs, an 86-minute film in French with subtitles.

During a cease fire during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, Christian taxi driver Tony brings Zeina, a Shiite woman from Beirut, to the heart of the conflict in the country’s south. While they scour the rubble of the local towns for Zenia’s son, they discover that despite their very different backgrounds they have much in common.

*Job Search Workshops: Cheryl Schwartz, MS, MSW, LCSW, CRC, who has been a consultant and coach to individuals and organizations for over 20 years, will offer three Job Search Workshops. Each meets on a Thursday afternoon, from 3 to 4:30 pm.

The next session, April 23, will cover job search strategies, and May 21 will concern interviews.

Registration is required for each workshop, which can be taken individually or as the full series, and can be done in person or online.

C.H. Booth Library is at 25 Main Street in Newtown. Call 426-4533 or visit CHBoothLibrary.org for information on these and future programs and offerings.