Week Calendar

Stimulate and delight your child's senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play. Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read. Siblings are welcome.

Stimulate and delight your child’s senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.Siblings are welcome.

Every-other Tuesday, 10:00am - 12:00pmStarting January 5 in the Small Meeting Room
Free and open to the public.

An ongoing peer-led gathering to develop prose writing skills.

Move… Relax… Gain flexibility… Breathe… Stretch… Gain strength.Rebecca Wood (and other instructors) will teach simple yoga poses.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

Ready to finally write down that great book idea? Join course leader and writer Jesse R. Stowe as he helps you develop your ideas and writing skills. Take part in detailed discussions on craft and the specific elements of writing (i.e.

Join Deb as we read, sing, play and create together.

Join Mary onThursday mornings at 10:30 for stories, songs, art, friends, special visitors
and FUN!!

For children
ages 0-5 and their grownups.

Call
740-753-2118 for more information.

Make your own Cyanotypes exactly how AnnaAtkins did in the first-ever photography book Photographs
of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions!
Participants will expose light-sensitive paper under the sun to

Master crafterMindy King will teach us how to create perfect miniature versions of
a movie-quality prop, the old fashioned helmets worn by deep-sea
divers in former days of undersea exploration. This version can be

Join AthenianBill Omen and friends with Valley Rods and Customs on the edge of the parking lot for an outdoor
show featuring early automobiles lovingly preserved from classic eras
of our motoring heritage.

Since we'll be racing teapot roadsters, we thought we'd alsopresent the teapot in another creative guise: a teapot fashion show!
A tea cosey is a knitted covering for a teapot to keep its

Nothing betterillustrates the industrial scale of gears, pulleys and levers in
miniature as this hand-powered shooting gallery, created and designed
by 6th grade science teacher Larry King and his Warren High School

Stimulate and delight your child's senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play. Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read. Siblings are welcome.

Stimulate and delight your child’s senses. Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.Build skills that will help your child grow up ready to read.Siblings are welcome.

Join us for stories, songs and playful activities every Wednesday at 11 a.m.Designed to encourage a lifelong love of books and support early literacy skills.
Stay to play and visit with friends afterward!

Children'slibrarians Taryn Lentes & Sue Gallagher are not going to leave
the little kids out! Here is an opportunity for children and parents
to enjoy responding in group activities to steampunk lit for tots.

Pleasantlystimulating teas and light conversations plus fine munchies from the
bakery underscore a delightful time under the open-air canopy with
people in wildly elegant costumes.

The Athenia Chamber Ensemble will perform an outdoor concert on the green
for our Victorian Low Tea Social. This woodwind trio includes
master-musicians Allison Brown Sincoff on flute, Michele Fiala on oboe,

1:30pm forpurchase of tickets and photo-ops; 2:30pm departure time:
Take
a ride on a train-coach full of steampunks! Rolling across the

Do you have unfinishedsewing, quilting, crochet and knitting projects sitting in a drawer? Are you ready
for some new ideas and shortcuts? Do you

Taryn Lentes andLuke Bentley will lead participants in a hilarious series of group
participation games  where the playing pieces are yourselves,
the playing board is the floor, and your wits and senses of humor are

Librarian ToddBastin will guide us through the submarine odyssey of Jules Verne's
globe-spanning Victorian science fiction novel. The version we’ll
get to know in this presentation isn’t one of the watered-down

PatrickQuackenbush from Airship Athena returns as our recreation director of
Victorian social sports, including badminton, croquet and lawn bowls!

Drop in and play Yu-Gi-Oh!, 3DS, Pokemon, Magic, or more!Bring your cards if you have some; if you don’t, come play anyway!Now in the Young Adult Area.Saturdays, 1pm-4:30pm

Move… Relax… Gain flexibility… Breathe… Stretch… Gain strengthInstructor Linda Cochran teaches simple yoga poses.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

Larry King willteach an array of different sailor's knots, one of which you can
choose to take home and hang up for display or incorporate with your
seafaring costume.  This workshop will supply top-quality

Teapotracing?! Why yes, you heard right! The Victorians made the term
“eccentric” really come into its own, and Steampunks have really
picked up on this! Case in point: anchoring perfectly nice china

Join history buffand historical reenactor John Murray as he discusses the sub-aquatic
ironclad known as the U.S.S. Monitor that changed the
course of marine battles during the American Civil War. This ship,

Ron Luce, local historian and former director of the Athens County Historical Society, will lead our short stroll through Millfield.

Luke Bentley, ourteen librarian, is a master gamer of modern strategy board games.
Join him in the library's teen area.

Spend Monday afternoons playing this popular fantasy, tabletop role-playing
game. You do NOT have to be an experienced player -- everyone is

Share stories and recipes from home and learn about food, stories, and games from other countries as well. Plus, plan food and activities for the 4th Annual Chauncey Campfire together with a small group of Ohio University students.

Husband-wife team Mindy and Larry King willhelp us construct a fun science experiment to take home and
demonstrate to friends and family. The components of this scientific

With Lawrence Greene portraying the African American colonial astronomer and clock-maker Benjamin Banneker (who legend says invented a time-machine!) we’ll enter a journey into Banneker's past as well as his future.

Come hear Albany's newest science fiction author, Santana Young speak about her book The Arena. "Earth is gone…The galaxy is at war…But Duncan Alexander Greyson has more important things to worry about. After the death

Join us after school on Tuesdays for a variety of great programs.
For kids grades K-6.
All library programs are free and open to the public.

Every Wednesday from 5 til 8 pm.Bring a project to work on and join us for knitting and conversation.
Beginners and kids are welcome.

Come to the library in your pj’s with a stuffed animal (not your favorite), listen to stories, have a bedtime
snack and tuck your animal in for the night. Pick your animal up the

Join us for a discussion of the opiate epidemic in our community, how it has
affected all of us, and what steps we can take as individuals to
respond. We will use the book "Dreamland" by Sam Quinones as a reference

Come to the Athens Public Library for your favorite boffing games, including Zombie, Free-For-All, and Capture the Flag!

Come to the library to pick up your stuffed animal and find out what they did overnight at the library!
Friday, September 29 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.Early or next day pick up can be arranged.

Join us for a discussion of the opiate epidemic in our community, how it has
affected all of us, and what steps we can take as individuals to
respond. We will use the book "Dreamland" by Sam Quinones as a reference

Relax and stretch and be well. Open to all beginners, as well as those with more yoga experience.

Join Mary on Tuesday evenings at 6:00 for stories, songs, friends and fun!
For young children and their grownups.

Call
740-753-2118 for more information.

All Library programs are free and open to the public.

Poetry lovers in grades 7-12 are welcome to join us and talk about poetry you enjoy and poetry that you've written.

Drop by the Coolville Public Library to browse for recipes in Taste of Home's Simple & Delicious. Choose one you would like to prepare and share. Bring it the evening of the program and enjoy a potluck dinner with friendly people.

The PreventT2 program is a year-long lifestyle change program for individuals that have
pre-diabetes,  a history of gestational
diabetes, or who are at risk for Type 2 diabetes as determined by the score on

Thursday Evening is a great time to meet your friends at the library for a movie Free Popcorn and drinks provided

An OSU Master’s candidate in Public Health and a writer/communications
specialist for NAMI Ohio, Rachel Gearinger has experienced panic attacks
since early in her undergraduate career.  One of the anxiety disorders,

We meet on the last Wednesday of every month (except May, August and December) at 7pm at the Athens Public Library.  For current information
about the upcoming program, see: athensbirthcircle.com

Planet and stargaze at the new Ohio University observatory at the Ridges.