Winter Storytime (Tues.)
2026-02-03 10:00 - 10:30, 2026-02-10 10:00 - 10:30, 2026-02-17 10:00 - 10:30, 2026-02-24 10:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Harwinton Public Library, 80 Bentley Drive, Harwinton, CT, 06791, United States
Come join Mrs. Molly for storytime! Read a story, sing some songs, and do some fingerplays. At the end of each session there will be a craft, yoga, scarf play, or bubbles!
Please register. Ages 0-5.
Registering for one Tuesday Winter Storytime will register you for all Tuesday Winter Storytimes!

Meditation
2026-02-04 15:30 - 16:30, 2026-02-11 15:30 - 16:30, 2026-02-18 15:30 - 16:30, 2026-02-25 15:30 - 16:30
Weekly Meditation Group. All are welcome!

Winter Storytime (Thurs.)
2026-02-05 10:00 - 10:30, 2026-02-12 10:00 - 10:30, 2026-02-19 10:00 - 10:30, 2026-02-26 10:00 - 10:30

Seedy Saturday
2026-02-07 09:30 - 15:00
Join us for the opening of the Harwinton Grows Seed Library for the 2026 season.

Harwinton Library Friends
2026-02-09 17:00 - 18:00
Monthly meeting of the Harwinton Library Friends. New members always welcome. Join us!

Chess Club
2026-02-09 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-02-23 18:30 - 19:30
Come join our local Chess Club. We meet every Monday! All are welcome.

Homeschool Storytime
2026-02-11 14:00 - 15:00, 2026-02-25 14:00 - 15:00
One of our local homeschooling mom’s, Andrea Fitzpatrick, is providing a homeschooler storytime for homeschoolers in the area! All are welcome, of course, whether they are homeschooled or not!
This storytime series will be for slightly older kids than the normal story times that Mrs. Molly provides! This is a great opportunity for kids who still love being read to!
Ages 6-10 years old.
Parents must attend with their kids.
No need to register.
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Teen Zentangle Crafting
2026-02-11 18:00 - 19:00
Do you like doodling? Come to the library and learn how to make zentangles! Decorate flower pots, bookmarks, and coasters, then take home your finished products.
Ages 11+. Please register.

Afternoon Book Discussion
2026-02-12 14:00 - 15:00
This month’s selection is The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. France, 1939 – In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France … but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.
Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can … completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.
With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France–a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

Library Closed
2026-02-16
Closed for President’s Day

Learn Video Production
2026-02-18 18:00 - 19:00
Did you know that Western CT Community Television offers free production training and equipment loans? They can teach you how to create your own television show to be cablecast on channel 192. What a great way to promote your cause, organization, or event! Join us at this free program to learn more and get a hands-on introduction to some of the equipment. Please register.

Veterans' Benefits Outreach
2026-02-19 09:30 - 12:30
A Veterans’ advocate will be available to answer general questions regarding various programs and services for Veterans and make referrals to specific agencies as needed. All Veterans are welcome regardless of branch of service or character of discharge. No registration needed.

Craft & Chat
2026-02-20 15:00 - 17:00
Our Craft & Chat group meets every month. Bring whatever craft you are working on. We craft as we enjoy some tea & snacks with new friends. Drop by anytime between 3-5pm. Registration helpful, but not necessary.

Elsa Storytime Session 1
2026-02-21 11:00 - 12:00
*Please register each child separately.*
Come to the library and meet Elsa! Read some stories, sing a few songs, then do some crafts! Each family will get the change to meet Elsa, hug her, and take pictures with her, while everyone is working on their crafts.
Ages 0-8. Please register each child separately.

Elsa Storytime Session 2
2026-02-21 12:00 - 13:00

Evening Book Discussion
2026-02-23 08:00 - 17:00
This month’s selection is: Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan. The Roaring Twenties – the Jazz Age – has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. They hated Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants in equal measure, and took radical steps to keep these people from the American promise. And the man who set in motion their takeover of great swaths of America was a charismatic charlatan named D.C. Stephenson. Stephenson was a magnetic presence whose life story changed with every telling. Within two years of his arrival in Indiana, he d become the Grand Dragon of the state and the architect of the strategy that brought the group out of the shadows – their message endorsed from the pulpits of local churches, spread at family picnics and town celebrations. Judges, prosecutors, ministers, governors and senators across the country all proudly proclaimed their membership. But at the peak of his influence, it was a seemingly powerless woman – Madge Oberholtzer – who would reveal his secret cruelties, and whose deathbed testimony finally brought the Klan to their knees. A Fever in the Heartland marries a propulsive drama to a powerful and page-turning reckoning with one of the darkest threads in American history.

Valentine's Coloring Contest Ends
2026-02-28
The coloring pages will be released here as pdfs, and as physical copies at the library beginning February 1st. Return by the 28th to compete in your age category for a prize!
PDF Links:
Ages 0-5
Ages 6-10
Ages 11-17
Adults

Meet Your Monger: A Guided Tour of New England Cheeses
2026-02-28 11:00
Join Cheesemonger Kate Redin of the New Curds on the Block cheese shop in Oakville for a journey to a demystify and democratize one of the world’s oldest, simplest, and most nutritious foods: CHEESE! Come for a taste of Connecticut’s dairy history and get tips from a professional cheesemonger on selecting, storing, and serving cheese for your meals and gatherings. Samples will be served!
This free program is for ages 12 and up. Space is limited. Please register.
Sponsored by the Harwinton Library Friends – Thank You!

Chess Club
2026-03-02 18:30 - 19:30
Join out weekly chess club. All ages are welcome.
