Register your rising third, fourth and fifth graders for the 2023 Children’s Room Summer Book Camp! Camp runs this year from Monday, July 10 – Thursday, July 13, from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Each day we will read a couple of theme-related stories, do a craft, have a cool snack and go outside for some games. Our theme this summer is “Time Travel.” We will head back in time to the ancient world, the Renaissance, the American colonial period, and maybe even have a look at the future! Use the links below to register your child for book camp. You only need to sign your child up once for them to attend for the whole week! Click HERE to sign up for rising 3rd graders. Click HERE to sign up for rising 4th graders. Click HERE to sign up for rising 5th graders.
Join us for a musical time on July 11th!
Join us on the front lawn of the Winthrop School at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, July 11, for this exciting community Campfire Sing-along! It’s a musical reunion opportunity with Kitt Cox (former director of Birth to Three) with his band, The Wabi-Sabi Combo. This band has been sharing their talents throughout the pandemic to attract contributions to buy diapers for those in need. This program is free and no registration is required.
Register for Archer Mayor’s May Visit
Registration is required. Click HERE to register. The Louise & Hugh Johnson Lecture series hosts well-known regional and national authors. The library is pleased to announce that the next author for this lecture series will be… Archer Mayor On May 17, 2022, Mr. Mayor will read from and discuss his popular titles. Copies of the books will be available for purchase at the venue. This event is free and begins at 7:30 p.m. at The Mansion at the Hellenic Center (117 County Road, Ipswich, MA 01938). Book sales and cash bar start at 6:30 p.m. About the Author Archer Mayor is the author of the highly acclaimed Vermont-based mystery series featuring detective Joe Gunther, which the Chicago Tribune describes as “the best police procedurals being written in America.” His 30th book, Bomber’s Moon, was released on September 24, 2019. Protagonist Gunther once worked for the Brattleboro, Vermont, police department and is now a Special Agent for the fictional Vermont Bureau of Investigation. Books about his case-solving prowess have appeared once a year since 1988 and been published in five languages (if you count British). Mayor’s novels are rooted in actual field experience. Closely aligned to the Gunther series is the author’s own background in Vermont working variously as a police officer and a firefighter/EMT over the past thirty years. Currently, he still works as a medico-legal death investigator for the state’s medical examiner. He has been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Young Writers conference in Middlebury, Vermont, and the Colby College seminar on forensic sciences in Waterville, Maine. Archer was honored with the 2016 Robert B. Parker Award. (Parker being “The Dean of Mystery Writers.”) In 2004, he won the New England Independent Booksellers Association Award for Best Fiction—the first time a writer of crime literature has been so honored. He was inducted into Vermont’s Academy of Arts and Science, and, in 2012, was awarded the Vermont governor’s award for Excellence in the Arts. In 2011, Mayor’s 22nd Joe Gunther novel, TAG MAN, earned a place on The New York Times bestseller list for hardback fiction. About the Series The Johnson Lecture Series is made possible by a permanent endowment by Louise & Hugh Johnson. The Johnson endowment was left to and is managed by the Friends of the Library and is intended to enrich the lives of Ipswich residents. Louise and Hugh loved life. They loved books, […]
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