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Athens Poetry Group

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
Small meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Adults who enjoy writing poetry are invited to share their work and comment on the work others.

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Small meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Event Details:

Adults who enjoy writing poetry are invited to share their work and comment on the work others.

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Official logo for the organization in charge of Loretta H. Law's historical legacy.

Loretta H. Law, Ohio University Class of 1906

Friday, January 3, 2025 at 9:00am - 5:00pm
Athens Public Library
Program Type:
Exhibit, History & Genealogy
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

On Display in the Glass Display Cases from January 3rd thru January 30th.A selection of photographs, historic documents, and memorabilia from the Law Reed Huss Farm Foundation Coll...

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Exhibit, History & Genealogy
Event Details:

On Display in the Glass Display Cases from January 3rd thru January 30th.

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First Friday Game Night

Friday, January 3, 2025 at 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Meeting room (Wells) at Wells (Albany) Public Library
Program Type:
Games / Gaming
Age Group:
Kids, Teens, Adults, Families, All Ages
Event Details:

Join us on the first Friday of the month. We have a variety of games available - board games, card games, Wii games, street games. Snacks provided. For all ages.

Library Branch: Wells (Albany) Public Library
Room: Meeting room (Wells)
Age Group: Kids, Teens, Adults, Families, All Ages
Program Type: Games / Gaming
Event Details:

Join us on the first Friday of the month. We have a variety of games available - board games, card games, Wii games, street games. Snacks provided. For all ages.

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A picture of the presenter, Ed Brown

Successful Gardening in a Changing Climate

Monday, January 6, 2025 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Meeting room (Coolville) at Coolville Public Library
Program Type:
Class / Workshop, Science & Nature
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

  Have you been finding it more and more challenging to get your garden to thrive as our climate shifts in SE Ohio?In this program, OSU Agriculture & Natural Resource...

Library Branch: Coolville Public Library
Room: Meeting room (Coolville)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Class / Workshop, Science & Nature
Event Details:

 

 

Have you been finding it more and more challenging to get your garden to thrive as our climate shifts in SE Ohio?

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Amish Stories Book Club

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Meeting room (Wells) at Wells (Albany) Public Library
Program Type:
Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join us for discussion of Amish stories and Amish life. We'll meet at 1:00pm every second Wednesday at the Wells (Albany) Library.  

Library Branch: Wells (Albany) Public Library
Room: Meeting room (Wells)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Event Details:

Join us for discussion of Amish stories and Amish life. We'll meet at 1:00pm every second Wednesday at the Wells (Albany) Library.
 

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A picture of the presenter, Ed Brown

Successful Gardening in a Changing Climate

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Large meeting room (Nelsonville) at Nelsonville Public Library
Program Type:
Class / Workshop, Science & Nature
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

 Have you been finding it more and more challenging to get your garden to thrive as our climate shifts in SE Ohio?In this program, OSU Agriculture & Natural Resource Educa...

Library Branch: Nelsonville Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Nelsonville)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Class / Workshop, Science & Nature
Event Details:

 

Have you been finding it more and more challenging to get your garden to thrive as our climate shifts in SE Ohio?

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Cover of featured collection song-poetry by Terry Hermsen.

Tiny Songs: Poetry and Music from Ohio Poet, Terry Hermsen

Saturday, January 11, 2025 at 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Large meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
Book Discussion / Literary Reading, Performance
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Terry Hermsen's latest collection is in conversation with the paintings of Cadine Navarro, who uses micro-sound recordings of dry, dormant prairie seeds to make...

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion / Literary Reading, Performance
Event Details:

Terry Hermsen's latest collection is in conversation with the paintings of Cadine Navarro, who uses micro-sound recordings of dry, dormant prairie seeds to make suminagashi or "floating ink" images that bring our

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A picture of the presenter, Ed Brown

Successful Gardening in a Changing Climate

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Large meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
Class / Workshop, Science & Nature
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

 Have you been finding it more and more challenging to get your garden to thrive as our climate shifts in SE Ohio?In this program, OSU Agriculture & Natural Resource Educa...

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Class / Workshop, Science & Nature
Event Details:

 

Have you been finding it more and more challenging to get your garden to thrive as our climate shifts in SE Ohio?

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At the Coolville Public Library, ACPL Assistant Director Lindsay makes a diamond dot bird. Coolville librarian Deidra is seen crafting in the background.

Diamond Dots

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Inside (Chauncey) at Chauncey Public Library
Program Type:
Arts & Creativity
Age Group:
Teens, Adults
Event Details:

Do you ever peruse the great works of Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Khalo, and O'Keeffe and wish they were a little... sparklier? Make something that would catch the critics' eyes at MoM...

Library Branch: Chauncey Public Library
Room: Inside (Chauncey)
Age Group: Teens, Adults
Program Type: Arts & Creativity
Event Details:

Do you ever peruse the great works of Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Khalo, and O'Keeffe and wish they were a little... sparklier?

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Featured author, Anton Chekhov, posing with his wife, Olga Knipper.

Storytime for Adults: Two Short Stories by Anton Chekhov

Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Athens Public Library
Program Type:
Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

A physician by profession and a keen observer of humanity, Chekhov lived and wrote fiction in the last era of Czarist Russia, but his stories speak to the eternal and universal the...

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Event Details:

A physician by profession and a keen observer of humanity, Chekhov lived and wrote fiction in the last era of Czarist Russia, but his stories speak to the eternal and universal themes of the human experience.  We will be reading and briefly d

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Image of cover of featured book, Settling Ohio.

Settling the Ohio Country: From First Peoples to the Civil War

Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Large meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
History & Genealogy
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join Ohio University Professors Timothy Anderson (historical geographer) and Brian Schoen (historian) who will discuss the impacts different ethnic groups have had on the history, ...

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History & Genealogy
Event Details:

Join Ohio University Professors Timothy Anderson (historical geographer) and Brian Schoen (historian) who will discuss the impacts different ethnic groups have had on the history, culture, and landscape of Ohio.

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Loretta H. Law as an elector in the 1930s.

Getting to Know Loretta H. Law, OU Class of 1906

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Large meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
History & Genealogy
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Guest speaker William "Bill" Huss, PhD., president & chairman of the Board for the Law Reed Huss Farm Foundation, will present a lecture on the life of Loretta H. Law, who grad...

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History & Genealogy
Event Details:

Guest speaker William "Bill" Huss, PhD., president & chairman of the Board for the Law Reed Huss Farm Foundation, will present a lecture on the life of Loretta H.

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Archival image of Black explorer and frontiersman, James P. Beckworth.

The American West & the Black Frontier (1530-1900)

Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Large meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
History & Genealogy
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Once the homelands of Indigenous peoples for 10,000 years, the West was a realm of colonial contention by Old World empires like France and Spain, and later the United States. Many...

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History & Genealogy
Event Details:

Once the homelands of Indigenous peoples for 10,000 years, the West was a realm of colonial contention by Old World empires like France and Spain, and later the United States.

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First Friday Game Night

Friday, February 7, 2025 at 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Meeting room (Wells) at Wells (Albany) Public Library
Program Type:
Games / Gaming
Age Group:
Kids, Teens, Adults, Families, All Ages
Event Details:

Join us on the first Friday of the month. We have a variety of games available - board games, card games, Wii games, street games. Snacks provided. For all ages.

Library Branch: Wells (Albany) Public Library
Room: Meeting room (Wells)
Age Group: Kids, Teens, Adults, Families, All Ages
Program Type: Games / Gaming
Event Details:

Join us on the first Friday of the month. We have a variety of games available - board games, card games, Wii games, street games. Snacks provided. For all ages.

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Amish Stories Book Club

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Meeting room (Wells) at Wells (Albany) Public Library
Program Type:
Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join us for discussion of Amish stories and Amish life. We'll meet at 1:00pm every second Wednesday at the Wells (Albany) Library.  

Library Branch: Wells (Albany) Public Library
Room: Meeting room (Wells)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Event Details:

Join us for discussion of Amish stories and Amish life. We'll meet at 1:00pm every second Wednesday at the Wells (Albany) Library.
 

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Image of featured book and author, Beloved by Toni Morrison.

Winter Book Club: Beloved by Toni Morrison (Part 1 of 3)

Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Large meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Set in nineteenth-century Cincinnati during the Reconstruction Era (with flashbacks to the Era of Slavery), this Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel employs elements of folklor...

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Event Details:

Set in nineteenth-century Cincinnati during the Reconstruction Era (with flashbacks to the Era of Slavery), this Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel employs elements of folklore and the supernatural to embody the psychological traumas carried

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Image of featured book and author, Beloved by Toni Morrison.

Winter Book Club: Beloved by Toni Morrison (Part 2 of 3)

Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Large meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Set in nineteenth-century Cincinnati during the Reconstruction Era (with flashbacks to the Era of Slavery), this Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel employs elements of folklor...

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Event Details:

Set in nineteenth-century Cincinnati during the Reconstruction Era (with flashbacks to the Era of Slavery), this Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel employs elements of folklore and the supernatural to embody the psychological traumas carried

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Archival image of family of freedmen.

The First Federal Antislavery Law: The Legacy of The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Large meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
History & Genealogy
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

The Summer of 1787 was a busy one for the newly founded United States. While the Constitution was being written in Philadelphia, the third most important document in US history was...

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: History & Genealogy
Event Details:

The Summer of 1787 was a busy one for the newly founded United States.

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Image of featured book and author, Beloved by Toni Morrison.

Winter Book Club: Beloved by Toni Morrison (Part 3 of 3)

Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Large meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Set in nineteenth-century Cincinnati during the Reconstruction Era (with flashbacks to the Era of Slavery), this Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel employs elements of folklor...

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Event Details:

Set in nineteenth-century Cincinnati during the Reconstruction Era (with flashbacks to the Era of Slavery), this Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel employs elements of folklore and the supernatural to embody the psychological traumas carried

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Philosophy Book Club

Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Large meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

More info to follow.

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Event Details:

More info to follow.

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First Friday Game Night

Friday, March 7, 2025 at 4:15pm - 5:15pm
Meeting room (Wells) at Wells (Albany) Public Library
Program Type:
Games / Gaming
Age Group:
Kids, Teens, Adults, Families, All Ages
Event Details:

Join us on the first Friday of the month. We have a variety of games available - board games, card games, Wii games, street games. Snacks provided. For all ages.

Library Branch: Wells (Albany) Public Library
Room: Meeting room (Wells)
Age Group: Kids, Teens, Adults, Families, All Ages
Program Type: Games / Gaming
Event Details:

Join us on the first Friday of the month. We have a variety of games available - board games, card games, Wii games, street games. Snacks provided. For all ages.

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Accommodations

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Amish Stories Book Club

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Meeting room (Wells) at Wells (Albany) Public Library
Program Type:
Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

Join us for discussion of Amish stories and Amish life. We'll meet at 1:00pm every second Wednesday at the Wells (Albany) Library.  

Library Branch: Wells (Albany) Public Library
Room: Meeting room (Wells)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Event Details:

Join us for discussion of Amish stories and Amish life. We'll meet at 1:00pm every second Wednesday at the Wells (Albany) Library.
 

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Archival image from greeting card celebrating St. Patrick's Day.

St. Patrick's Celebration Concert

Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Atrium (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
Performance
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

More info to follow.

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Atrium (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Performance
Event Details:

More info to follow.

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Philosophy Book Club

Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Large meeting room (Athens) at Athens Public Library
Program Type:
Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Age Group:
Adults
Event Details:

More info to follow.

Library Branch: Athens Public Library
Room: Large meeting room (Athens)
Age Group: Adults
Program Type: Book Discussion / Literary Reading
Event Details:

More info to follow.

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