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Lego Free Play
Create your own Lego creation. The library will supply the Legos.
Category: Children Date: December 29, 2010
Children's Movie TBA
Children's Movie TBA
Category: Children Date: December 28, 2010
Library Knitting Circle
Needlecrafters of all types and experience levels welcome! Just drop in. Refreshments provided by the library. This is the date for our annual Pot Luck Brunch!
Category: Adult Date: December 18, 2010
Christmas Stories and Crafts
Christmas Stories and Crafts
Category: Children Date: December 16, 2010
Cover to Cover Book Group
book discussion
Category: Adult Date: December 16, 2010
Colonial & Victorian Christmas Customs
Decorations of holly and mistletoe, gingerbrad and caroling are just a few of the Christmas customs handed down from earlier times. Join food historian and lecturer Judith Krass-Russo for a trip back in time to holiday festivals of yore.
Category: Adult Date: December 11, 2010
One Stroke Painting Class: Angels

Join instructor Dawn Davis for a one stroke painting class. You'll make angels on a copper bell. Anyone can do it!


Category: Adult Date: December 7, 2010
Library Knitting Circle
Library Knitting Circle
Category: Adult Date: December 4, 2010
Hanukkah Stories and Craft
Hanukkah Stories and Craft
Category: Children Date: November 30, 2010
Closed for Thanksgiving
Closed for Thanksgiving
Category: Story Time Date: November 25, 2010
Closing at 3:30 for Thanksgiving
Closing at 3:30 for Thanksgiving
Category: Story Time Date: November 24, 2010
Teen Craft: Popsicle Stick Bridge
Design and make a bridge out of popsicle sticks.
Category: Teens Date: November 22, 2010
Cover to Cover Book Group
book discussion
Category: Adult Date: November 18, 2010
Teen Advisory Group
Help plan and participate in special projects and recommend new teen programs.  Snacks will be provided. 
Category: Teens Date: November 17, 2010
The First Feast

A  Historical Thanksgiving Program for Children.  Children will travel back in time and meet a pilgrim and his live turkey.  Children will learn what is was like living the life of a pilgrim and how Thanksgiving came to be.This program is presented by Quiver Farms Educational Outreach Program.


Category: Children Date: November 12, 2010
Profiles of Courage, Controversy & Sacrifice
A film presentation for Veteran's Day
Category: Adult Date: November 10, 2010
Teen Craft: Beeswax Candle
Make a candle out of beeswax.
Category: Teens Date: November 8, 2010
Live Theater at the Library
The jefferson Community Players perform 2 one-act plays.
Category: Adult Date: November 6, 2010
Mother Daughter Scrapbooking
 Scrapbooking techniques will be explained. Bring four of your favorite family photos so  you can create two beautiful scrapbooking pages. Class size is limited to 20 please register each name separately.
Category: Children Date: November 6, 2010
Library Knitting Circle
Library Knitting Circle
Category: Adult Date: November 6, 2010
Steven's Puppets presents RUMPLESTILSKIN
Professional Puppeteer Dan Raynor will present this delightful performance.
Category: Children Date: November 4, 2010
HALLOWEEN PROGRAM AND PARADE
COME IN COSTUME AND JOIN IN THE FUN!   Kurt Gallagher children's entertainer will perform a special Halloween musical  program. Following the program and weather permitting the children will parade through the municpal building.
Category: Children Date: October 29, 2010
Cover to Cover Book Group
book discussion
Category: Adult Date: October 28, 2010
Film: Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women

Presentation of the award-winning PBS American Masters film.


Category: Adult Date: October 26, 2010
Teen Craft: Spooky Food
Learn how to make bubbling punch and chocolate cockroach clusters.
Category: Teens Date: October 25, 2010
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" Movie Night
Join us for a showing of the 6th Harry Potter movie.  Harry Potter themed snacks will be provided.  Rated PG.
Category: Teens Date: October 22, 2010
Ghosthunting in NJ & NY City
Learn about the top haunted hot spots of NJ and NY City based on the books from the America's Haunted road Trip series presented by the author, L'Aura Hladik.
Category: Adult Date: October 20, 2010
Teen Craft: Duct Tape Rose or Wallet
Make a rose or a wallet out of Duct Tape.
Category: Teens Date: October 18, 2010
Louisa May Alcott: Writer, Abolitionist, Suffragette
A living history program featuring actress Pat Jordan of the Heritage Theater Guild as Louisa May Alcott
Category: Adult Date: October 17, 2010
Halloween Scrapbooking Ages 5 and Up

  What is scrapbooking?

Learn and create your own Halloween theme page. Bring 3-4 of your favorite photos to add to your personalized two page layout.


Category: Children Date: October 15, 2010
Teen Advisory Group 6pm-7pm
Help plan and particapte in special projects like creating a promotional video for the library, recommend new books and movies to add to the library colection and brainstorm new teen programs. 
Category: Teens Date: October 13, 2010
CLOSED for Columbus Day
CLOSED for Columbus Day
Category: Story Time Date: October 11, 2010
Hudson River Lighthouses
Kevin Woyce, author, photographer and speaker specializing in New Jersey and New York regional history, presents a lecture and digital slide show on the history of New Jersey Lighthouses. He'll also be signing copies of her books Jersey Shore History & Facts and Hudson River Lighthouses & History. 
Category: Adult Date: October 10, 2010
Hunters of the Sky
Natural history of New Jersey hawks and owls, presented by Weis Ecology Center. Program focuses on the animal's adaptations and survival in the environment.
Category: Adult Date: October 6, 2010
Edible Halloween House Craft
Please bring a single serving milk carton for this craft. Children will make a candy haunted house using graham crackers,and frosting. Parent supervision will be required for children under 6.
Category: Children Date: October 3, 2010
Library Knitting Circle
Library Knitting Circle
Category: Adult Date: October 2, 2010
Teen Craft: Pimp out your Pen

Decorate a pen using beads or a pennant you created.


Category: Teens Date: September 27, 2010
American Girl Stories and Plays

This session the participants will be presenting a historical program featuring fictional characters from the American Girl Series. Script reading, group participation, simple scenery making  are required. A  final costume performance will be presented at the end of the session.


Category: Story Time Date: September 27, 2010
Lanugage of the Fan
Learn the beautiful and ancient art of Ebru, better know as paper marbeling or cloud art. You'll marbelize a unique fan, and learn how to hold your fan to convey a message.
Category: Adult Date: September 25, 2010
Cover to Cover Book Group
book discussion
Category: Adult Date: September 23, 2010
Terrariums
Learn how to create a fabulour terrarium in a few short steps. This talk and hands-on demonstration includes an overview of the history of terrariums, basic materials, care and troubleshooting. Presented by Master Gardener Cynthia Percarpio.
Category: Adult Date: September 22, 2010
Jersey Hills Woodcarvers
Demonstration and display.
Category: Adult Date: September 19, 2010
Genealogy Class
Beginning to find your ancestors with the internet: local records and cemeteries
Category: Adult Date: September 17, 2010
Pajama Story Time

Children can come in pajamas. Stories, crafts and even a bedtime snack will be provided.


Category: Story Time Date: September 16, 2010
Teen Advisory Group 6pm-7pm

Plan and particapate in special projects, recommond new books and movies to add to the library and brainstorm new teen programs.  Snacks will be provided.


Category: Teens Date: September 15, 2010
Teen Craft: Decoupage Notebooks
Reuse magazine pictures to create a new and unique look for your notebook.  All supplies provided by the library.
Category: Teens Date: September 13, 2010
Lapsit & 2 1/2 Yr.Olds
Ages 2 1/2 and under. This  program requires parent and child participation. With the use of music, movement, flannel boards and stories this interactive program helps develop early literacy and language skills. 
Category: Story Time Date: September 13, 2010
Genealogy Class
Beginning to find your ancesters with the internet: census records
Category: Adult Date: September 10, 2010