2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

The library will be closed on Sundays in August. All book and media drops will also be closed on Sundays in August. Overdue fines will not be charged for days the library is closed.

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Adults

The Moth

The Moth by Phyllis Francese (a Short Story Contest entry) 

 

 

A moth is trapped between the screen and glass of my patio door. It crawled in through some small hole. It flits about, landing on the glass and then the screen, not remembering how it got in. It flies from screen to glass, glass to screen casting its shadow on the drapes. Perhaps it will find its way out. Perhaps not.

Distracted, I find the moth is gone. 

Hearing Screening Day

Please stop by for the following complimentary services:

  • Hearing screening
  • Cleaning of your hearing device(s)
  • Hearing aid performance checks

HearingLife is a national hearing care company that operates nearly 700 hearing care centers across the United States. Our caring and professional licensed hearing care experts provide personalized care and custom solutions to meet your individual needs.

Memory Screening

Provided by Penn Medicine Princeton Health

Registration required

Call Information Services 732-390-6767 to register

Take this opportunity to get a memory screening, consisting of a series of questions and/or tasks designed to test memory, language skills, thinking ability, and other intellectual functions.

The 15-minute screenings and review of the results are both confidential.

Note: A memory screening is not used to diagnose any particular illness and

Eyes of a Child

He gathered them all around to show his new sculptures he just finished. After looking for sometime one said “How come you never put faces on your work?”
You can add how you feel and what each of you see in the statue, he replied. After a short time, the little one said” I see a fun and loving face.
Just like you, Grandpa.
 

The Moth

A moth is trapped between the screen and glass of my patio door. It crawled in through some small hole. It flits about, landing on the glass and then the screen, not remembering how it got in. It flies from screen to glass, glass to screen casting its shadow on the drapes. Perhaps it will find its way out. Perhaps not.
 

Film Festival

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris—UK—2022—115 minutes—PG—Comedy

A cleaning lady in 1950s London works, starves and gambles to raise the funds to travel to Paris and buy a designer dress, a purchase that will change not only her own life but the future of the House of Dior. Adapted from Paul Gallico’s novel of the same name, this heartwarming film stars Lesley Manville and Isabelle Hubert.

The Golden Couple

Avery, a maverick therapist who lost her license due to controversial methods, agrees to help golden couple Marissa and Mathew Bishop overcome Marissa's cheating, setting all three of them on a collision course because the biggest--and most dangerous--secrets have not yet been revealed.