On Thursday, July 11th, at 10:00 am visit the Weld Public Library for this fun event!
July Wild Adventures Bees Program for Kids
June Wild Adventure Bear Kids Program
On Thursday, June 20th, starting at 10:00 am at the Weld Public Library, the first Summer Reading Adventure will be all about Bears! Starting with a reading by Bri Macdonald from Finding Winnie, The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear. A #1 New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Caldecott Medal about the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh!
Crafts will include FREE string bags for all participants to fill with bear in winter crafts, temporary tattoos, work books, word games, mazes, and more! Have fun with bear track stencils and experiment with making molds of bear paws. See the mold of an actual adult bear courtesy of Mt. Blue State Park and Ranger Jamie Cantin!
Activities will include Bear Paw Hop Scotch and going on a Bear Hunt! Kids of all ages are welcome!
Printable Flyer Here:
Read ME 2024 Participating Library
In partnership with the Maine State Library and Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, The Weld Public Library is a participating Read ME Library.
“Hosted by public libraries all across the state, Read ME connects Maine’s adult reading community through shared experiences, supports Maine libraries in their work to provide quality adult summer reading initiatives, and elevates the work of upcoming Maine authors.”
This summer’s featured books are Moon in Full by Marpheen Chann and The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring.
Summer Reading Program Wild Adventures 2024
This year the Weld Library Summer Reading Program will be about Bears, Bees and Beavers! Fun craft activities!
The 2024 Summer Reading Dates at the Weld Public Library will be: June 20th, July 11th, and August 1st, from 10:00 am to Noon at the Library.
This year there will be a Grand Finale event at the Nature Center at Mt. Blue State Park on Webb Lake on August 8th at 10:00 am! Printable flyer and Map below.
Heritage Day Book Sale
On Saturday, July 29th at the Weld Historical Society Heritage Day event, the Weld Free Public Library will be having a second summer book sale!
Recent additions as well as four boxes of first editions will be available! This a great opportunity to stock up on fiction and non-fiction!
Download Printable Flyer Here.
Pickleball Fun
At the Weld Free Library Parking Lot
Come learn how it’s played, pickup US Pickleball rule sheets, check out the rackets and balls, see the net in place and just have fun and play a little Pickleball! For more information call 585-2622
Printable Flyer Here
Lake Day Summer Book Sale
On Saturday July 15th, at the Webb Lake Association’s Lake Day, the Weld Free Public Library will be holding it’s annual Summer Book Sale. Please come to the field at the head of the lake to stock up on best selling fiction and non-fiction!
Think Local, Think Global
Readings by author RON SINGER
Thursday, August 24th, from 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Ron Singer will be reading from two books at the Weld Free Public Library. The readings will be followed by a question and answer session, refreshments, and book sales. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the library.
Norman’s Cousin & Other Writings (Unsolicited Press, Portland Oregon, June, 2023) is a selection of his writings from 1976-2023 set in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Ngongo Chronicle is a recently completed novel about an assassination plot in an imagined East-Central African Country told from the points of view of the assassin and the targeted dictator.
Ron Singer is the author of 21 published books. “Think Local, Think Global” will feature the final installments from two trilogies, one of which collects work set in New York City and elsewhere, including Maine. The other books have African political themes, e.g. governance, war and exile. Ron has been summering in Weld for more than two decades. In 2020 and 2021, Ron collected, edited and published stories by older residents: Weld Tales, Long, Short & Tall (Akorin Books, 2021).
Contact Wendy Ames, Library Director, for more information (207)585-2439
Download Printable Flyer Here
June Kids Summer Reading Program
Thursday, June 29, from 10:00 AM to Noon will be the first Kids Summer Reading Program for ages 5-12. The theme will be “All Together Now”. There will be a guest reader, and fun activities including hand painted t-shirts! Refreshments will be served. Please contact the library to register.
Printable Flyer here.
Upcoming Exhibits at Weld Free Public Library
This summer the Weld Free Public Library will be hosting Art and Craft Exhibits of local talented Artists and Craftspeople.
In partnership with the Stanley Museum in Kingfield, this Weld Free Public Library exhibition explores early photography in Franklin County at the turn of the 20th century. The library’s glass plate negatives were salvaged from an attic in Kingfield around 1980. The negatives date to the time of noted photographer Chansonetta Stanley Emmons whose family lived in Kingfield. She documented the lives of people in Maine and around the world during an era of rapid change. There are at least two scenes of Weld in the library’s collection. The longer you look at the prints made from these negatives, the more you will discover! In 2023,
Ginny Hilyard, formerly of Kingfield, graciously donated these fifteen 8×10 inch glass negative plates to the Weld Free Public Library.
There is still opportunity for local artisans to participate in displaying their Art and Crafts at the Library. Please contact the Library for details.
