Adult Summer Reading Program 2025: Through the Looking Glass click the link for details!
VIRTUAL: Creating A Tech-Healthy Family With Andrea Davis of Better Screen Time
Tuesday, June 17th 7:00—8:00 PM
For parents of elementary & middle school children: Are you tired of screens taking over? Are you wondering how to help your kids thrive in a digital world? Let us give you the confidence and tools you need to tackle tech head-on with our Tech-Healthy Family Formula. This formula provides five steps parents can take to help reduce screen time, restore family time, and finally feel peace of mind. Parents will learn how to : ● Create a family tech plan with their kids ● Take a slow-tech approach to introduce technology ● Teach their children about digital dangers and distractions.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the J.V. Fletcher Library and presented in partnership with the Groton Public Library.
Sign up directly via Zoom HERE! 
Adult Book Club: Thursday, July 10th at 6:30 p.m.
We’ll meet in person at 515 Groton Road to discuss The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner.
Copies are available at Main Desk. The ebook and audiobook are available to download from Libby.
Email Kristina Leedberg at kleedberg@westfordma.gov for more information!
Adult Nonfiction Book Club: Tuesday, July 1st at 6:30 p.m.
We’ll meet in person at 515 Groton Road to discuss Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge, from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic, by Simon Winchester.
Copies are available at Main Desk. The e-book is available to download from Libby.
Email Charles Schweppe at cschweppe@westfordma.gov for more information!
Monday Mystery Book Club: Monday, July 21st at 2:30 pm
We’ll meet in person on the 3rd floor of Roudenbush Community Center, 65 Main St, to discuss The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths.
Copies are available at Main Desk. The e-book is available to download from Libby.
Email Linda Ernick at lernick@westfordma.gov for details!
VIRTUAL: The Riddle of Thoreau’s Religion Thursday, July 24th at 6:30 p.m.
Richard Higgins will discuss his new book Thoreau’s God, which explores Thoreau’s spirituality, his perception of God in nature and his sense of the sacred in the ordinary. Thoreau was a harsh critic of the “respectable” Christianity of his day, but he was religious to the bone and had a profound sense of the holy. Richard presents Thoreau as a religious thinker who tried to separate the universal religious impulse from its 19th-century institutional context. In essence, Thoreau was a mystic who, while firmly moored to the earth, was on a quest to commune with a divine mystery that was both immanent in the natural world and transcendent. He called this illimitable presence many names, but he often called it God. Thoreau’s eclectic, experiential spirituality is resonating with spiritual seekers in America today. Register HERE.
