Summer is in full swing and we’ve got lots of great children’s events happening at the Franklin Park branch. For questions or more information please call the Franklin Park branch directly at 732-873-8700 option 5. Make Your Own Journal (Wednesday, July 13th from 11:00 am-12:00 pm) LEGO Night for Parents […]
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Looking for something fun—and FREE—to do this summer? If you like music, be sure to check out The Franklin Township Public Library’s Free Summer Concert Series on Wednesday evenings from July 6th through August 24th. This year’s series includes 8 concerts and will feature the following artists: July 6th: Banjo […]
Join us this Saturday, June 11th for a discussion of Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Meetings take place from 11:00-12:30 in the Community Room. New members always welcome! This will be our last meeting before we break for July and August. ‘Lydia is dead. But they don’t […]
We invite you to enjoy the sounds of the season with the Syrtsova-Krivonos piano duet. Their program ‘Spring Rhapsody” features music written or transcribed for four hands by great composers – each with their own unique style and sound. Whether it’s the passionate and sublime ‘Fantasy’ by Schubert, the elegant […]
Friday, May 13th from 2:00-4:00 pm in the Community Room, join us for Concussion. Will Smith stars in a thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, and the uphill battle he faced to make public his conclusions about concussions in American […]
What is a Make & take? It’s something you make in the library and then take home. At this program, you will make something special to share with the mother, grandmother, aunt, or other special person in your life. This event will be held tonight from 7:00- 8:00 pm in […]
Come celebrate the release of the Library’s Native American artifact collection, while learning more about how to identify the artifacts you may discover on your property or during a hike or walk in the Central New Jersey area. The Library’s collection contains items that were discovered on Franklin Township farms […]
Does Spring fever have you ready to polish off your hiking books and set off on a local adventure? This program will arm you with an itinerary of hikes throughout New Jersey and Southern New York serving a broad range of abilities and interests. Hiking enthusiast and author Daniel Chazin […]
Celebrate April-the month of poetry, aquariums and zoos- with a selection of poems to amuse and enlighten. Hear Cool Women reading poems of birds and beasties, wild and tame, common and rare. Each performance has a theme. Each poet brings poems, but does not know what the others have brought. […]
This week’s staff pick, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon– and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller, focuses on three of music’s best singer-songwriters. Read how each woman was shaped by and contributed to the emerging feminist movement. “Both scholarly and dishy. A superb journalist, […]