Week of Events
Postponed Language Exchange Cafe
Postponed Language Exchange Cafe
Looking to learn Spanish with native speakers? At the Language Exchange Cafe, native English speakers and native Spanish speakers get together to learn each other's language and have some coffee. It is a fun, immersive, interactive way to build your second language skills. No registration necessary - just show up and have a good time! [...]
Friends of the Library Meeting
Friends of the Library Meeting
This meeting of the Friends of the Library will be held in the library conference room. This meeting can also be attended via ZOOM: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89393714077?pwd=SGNId25kY2hucHREVFBTNjU2eWpaUT09 Meeting ID: 893 9371 4077 Passcode: 780592
Bring on Spring! Meditation : with Aries Moon Crystals
Bring on Spring! Meditation : with Aries Moon Crystals
Join Amanda from Aries Moon Crystals for a 60 minute group immersion meditative experience. Amanda will provide an uplifting meditative experience to connect to the light and seasons of change. Amanda will incorporate reiki into the journey. You will leave feeling restored, refreshed, empowered, and energy boosted as we transition into spring. This program is for adults [...]
The Real Will Shakespeare As They Knew Him
The Real Will Shakespeare As They Knew Him
William Shakespeare has been turned into a mythological figure and often presented as a mark of a person's advanced education. He was, in reality, a wealthy playwright known to his contemporaries and disliked by rival playwrights who could not put bodies in the seats as well as he did. Join Dr. Peter Lubrecht as he [...]
Scrabble Club
Scrabble Club
Are you looking for a place to have fun and meet new friends while keeping your mind sharp or improving your English skills? Come to the Scrabble Club! It's the original "Words with Friends!" Play the board game Scrabble with others and enjoy a morning at the library. Even if you have never played the [...]
Distracted Driving: Tips for Road Safety
Distracted Driving: Tips for Road Safety
April is Distracted Driving Awareness month. Did you know that it takes an average of 4-5 seconds to read a text; you would travel an entire football field in that amount of time at 50 MPH. Also, about 3,000 people die in crashes involving a distracted driver every year. These statistics from the National Highway [...]
Memory Cafe
Memory Cafe
Join us at the Hackettstown Free Public Library's "Memory Cafe" hosted by Johan Naranjo of House of the Good Shepherd. A "Memory Cafe" is a stigma-free social group for people experiencing memory loss and their families and caregivers. Each session includes a fun activity or presentation and time for attendees to socialize, relax, share, and [...]
Language Exchange Cafe
Language Exchange Cafe
Looking to learn Spanish with native speakers? At the Language Exchange Cafe, native English speakers and native Spanish speakers get together to learn each other's language and have some coffee. It is a fun, immersive, interactive way to build your second language skills. No registration necessary - just show up and have a good time! [...]