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Children’s Programs

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Time for Tots: Join us at the library for an hour long program of stories, activities and play-time for toddlers ages one–three.

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March Movies

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 Seating is limited at 61 Ffyler Place. Please register at 860-668-3896. Bohemian Rhapsody

Tues., Mar. 5, Wed., Mar. 6 and Fri., Mar.

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KML General Programs

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For more information or to register for programs, stop by the library, call 860-668-3896, check suffield-library.org or follow us on Facebook. All of our programs are free! Most of our programs are funded by The Friends of the Kent Memorial Library. Become a member! Please register for programs.

Once a Month Programs

New members are welcome!

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Library Work Enters Home Stretch

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Interior painting at the library, which had begun with the new year, was completed in short order. Then the library rested for a few days with the external heaters removed and the new HVAC system operating normally, and on January 23, the required air quality tests were run. Samples were taken at multiple locations, and the results were taken to Fuss & O’Neill, the Town’s environmental consultant, for interpretation. Initial reports were encouraging, but final results were not in hand at press time. In the meantime, members of the library staff have shared in several walk-through examinations, learning the shelf installations and planning the specific locations where wiring for power and computer connections will be required, now that the interior layout has been significantly changed.

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Museum Passes with a Library Card

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For eons, the Kent Memorial Library had free and discounted museum passes, paid for by The Friends of the Library. The Library still has them – 16 in fact. But now you can reserve and print the majority of them from your home without coming to the library. You have to have a current Suffield library card. You have to go to the library’s website at suffield-library.org.

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Award-Winning Film Bag It Offered Free

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This documentary is the first in a series of free programs on current environmental issues presented by The Second Baptist Church in collaboration with the Kent Memorial Library and the local chapter of the Sierra Club. It will be shown on Sunday, March 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Fellowship Hall, Second Baptist Church on 100 North Main Street. Childcare services are available and there is ample parking behind the church. Popcorn will be provided. Bag It follows “everyman” Jeb Berrier as he tries to make sense of our dependence on plastic bags.

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KML Receives a Grant

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The Kent Memorial Library received a grant from the American Library Association in partnership with Citizen Film and the National Writing Project to host a series of programs which will be community conversations centered around American Creed, a PBS documentary that invites audiences to consider what America’s ideals and identity ought to be. 

Additional funding for the programs is provided by The Friends of the Kent Memorial Library. In the documentary, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy, civic entrepreneur Eric Liu, moveon.org founder Joan Blades, Tea Party Patriots founder Mark Meckler, Chicago Cubs Manager Joe Maddon and other citizen-activists come together from remarkably different perspectives to explore the idea of a unifying American creed. The library’s series of programs will start with the showing of the documentary, American Creed, on Saturday, February 16, at 2 p.m. at the Suffield Senior Center. After the showing, Lucy Nalpathanchil will facilitate a conversation centered on the film. Ms. Nalpathanchil is a public radio journalist at WNPR, Connecticut’s public radio station.