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Join us for a free cuppa to jump-start your week and visit with friends and community members.

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Join us for stories, songs and playful activities every Thursday at 10:30 a.m.Designed to encourage a lifelong love of books and support early literacy skills.
Stay to play and visit with friends afterward!

Do you work as a handyman or contractor? Would you like to start a home-based business or start a food business? If so, this series is for you!Be your own boss!

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Part of Steampunk Spectacle 2018: From the Earth to the Moon!Create a 3-dimensional, moonscape-inspired face mask out of an EVA foam floor
mat using various sculpting techniques under the tutelage of Steampunk

Knitted and crocheted, tea cozies were designed to keep teapots warm during long socials around the teacups.

The romance of the Moon has inspired humankind since prehistoric times, frequently appearing in poetry and painting from the earliest days of arts and literature.

 Join us for stories, songs and playful activities!

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

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!

Join us for stories, play, and fun-filled activities!  Free and open to the public.

Enjoy an interactive reading experience with delightful storybooks read by our engaging children's librarian Taryn Lentes. Families welcome. This takes place in the Children's Area.

Fire Nerf (TM) darts at rolling targets on a conveyor belt, all while learning more about how a cogwheel mechanical system works in live action. The engineering principles of the Industrial Revolution are still at work today!

In keeping with this year's “From the Earth to the Moon” Steampunk Spectacle theme, join us after Storytime to explore moon rocks! Recommended for young children. This event takes place in the Library Backyard.

Get to know Community Health Workers with the Athens City-County Health Department.

Noon is the time for gathering together with the local steampunks to enjoy a traditional spot of refreshment.  A “low tea” means that no meat is served. Enjoy our sweet baked goods, provided by local gourmet bakery Heaven Scent Cakes.

Get to know Community Health Workers with the Athens City-County Health Department.

A book club for adolescents and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities where we enjoy books and friendship.

Do you have unfinishedsewing, quilting, crochet and knitting projects sitting in a drawer? Are you ready
for some new ideas and shortcuts? Meet some new friends and come join us every

Bring your needlework project and enjoy work and conversation with a group of wonderful ladies.

Bring your cross-stitch, embroidery, crochet, knitting, lap quilting, lace making, spinning or any other handwork project and join us for friendship, project show-n-tell, technique discussions and skill sharing.

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Enjoy this rare opportunity to experience a live performance of music's oldest electronic instrument.

Saturday Afternoon is a great time to meet friends at the library for a movie.Snack and Drinks ProvidedFree and Open to the publicrated PG 13

Create space-related vehicles piloted by space persons, and send them from the Earth to the Moon! Recommended for Elementary School ages. This takes place in the Children's Area.

The theremin is history's first electronic musical instrument, and of all the innovations that came after it in the field of electronics, it has the most otherworldly sound.

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Get to know Community Health Workers with the Athens City-County Health Department.

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

Have fun "rolling," "bowling," and "trundling" hoops just as children did in Victorian times! Recommended for elementary school ages. This event takes place in the Library Backyard.

The stirring social music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries comes to you via skilled pianist Bob Montalto, who is one of Athens' longtime, living musical treasures. Sponsored by the Friends of the Athens Public Library.

The theme of this year's festival is largely taken from the fascination in Victorian science fiction with making an actual voyage to our closest neighbor in the Solar System.

Croquet, badminton, lawn bowls, anyone?  Righto!

Long before television, radio and movies, games were invented in Victorian times to amuse people during leisure time-- Join us in playing some of the most popular ones! Recommended for ages 5th grade upwards and teenagers.

Cometo build and launch a water rocket to the moon – or at least into
the troposphere! Using two and one liter pop bottles, we will build
moon rockets with fins and a nose cone to launch at a distant moon.

Share stories and recipes from home and learn about food, stories, and games from other places as well. Hands-on cooking (and eating!).  This fun program is led by a small group of Ohio
University students. 

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

Pick up your friend anytime between 3 pm to 5 pm.

Astronomy in the 19th and early 20th centuries was as exciting as it is now.  Their instruments and knowledge were not as advanced as ours today, but the discoveries were coming fast and furious.

Every Tuesday in the small meeting room.All are welcome!

Join us for a night of Roblox fun!  Bring your friends or just yourself!Grades 2-12Free and open to the public.

Join us at the Chauncey Public Library for fun school-age programming.  Activities will vary by week, and may include: crafts, games, cooking, science experiments, and more!

Join us for a screening of the documentary "Do Not Pass Go," followed by a facilitated discussion of the challenges of broadband Internet access in Athens County.The documentary “Do Not Pass Go” features the city of Wilson, North Carolin

Build brain power. Enjoy rhymes, songs, reading and play.
Grades 1-4.  Siblings welcome.
Parents/caregivers are expected to stay during playgroup sessions.Image source:

Hands-on experiments at the library. Expect to get messy! For school-aged children

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.

This knitting circle is free and open to all adults and is a great way to learn from one another.  It also includes crochet.  Enjoy this

Relax and stretch and be well. Open to all beginners, as well as those with more yoga experience.Join rotating instructors Annie Burnett, Jennifer Collins, Bill Fanning, and Erin Pfahler for this weekly program.

Meet each of the artists showing this month, and find out one-on-one the inspirations for their works and how they created them.  Pleasant
refreshments, savory and sweet, will be served in the Library Lobby,

Join Athens' own Professional Organizer, Aubrei Krummert, as she explores
common organizing pitfalls in the home. She'll go room to room and share
her secrets for lasting change. Come with questions and leave with a

The last thing you want friends and guests to see are water marks left by cold beverages.

Join us for a campout with your favorite stuffed animal. Sing campfire songs and roast marshmallows, rain or shine!Thursday: Bring your stuffed animal friend for their sleepover.Friday: Pick up your friend anytime between 3 and 5pm.

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affliction. Many sufferers have anosognosia – the sincere delusion that
they are not sick. Our

Venue:First Presbyterian Church, 2 N Court Street, Athens, Ohio
Time:
7:00pm till 8:00pm
Coordinators:
Mindy King and David Tadlock
Celebrate

Venue:The Central Venue, 29 East Carpenter Street, Athens, Ohio
Date:
Saturday, September 29th

Time:
7:00pm till 10:00pm
Coordinators:
Airship Athena & Southeast Ohio History Center