Whether you’re a new high school graduate, a retiree, or any stage of life in between, your book reviews are welcomed! With weekly drawings for local gift cards and one final Grand Prize, there’s a good incentive to share your reading. Please sign up online to add your book reviews and find some reading challenges. If you prefer paper there are forms available at the Circulation Desk.
Register for Adult Summer Reading
Summer Reading has officially begun! It’s a time for balmy weather, less structured days, and oodles of reasons to keep reading. With programs for every age from birth to adult, the library has ideas, incentives, and fun events for everyone.
Check out the Summer Reading page to get started online right now, or stop by the library to learn more.
Teen Summer Reading has begun!
Check out all the details on the Summer Reading page!
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We return for a second year of smashing good fun! Teams of 1-5 people (kids, tweens, teens, and families are all welcome) build a structure to protect a falling egg, and we test the results at the library.
There’s a special Summer Reading badge for each participant!
If you don’t want to build a structure, head over for the main event just to watch.
Artist Statement:
Vera Apoorvaa Kalyanrama.
I am an artist by hobby, mostly self-taught and absolutely experimental. I like to try different art styles/mediums from time to time. I often like to add a splash of colors to my paintings that make it bold and mood uplifting. In the past I have tried mediums such as charcoal, oil, acrylic, watercolor and glass paints.
For this submission, I have a series of my recent acrylic paintings. This series is an expression of Indian women captured in vibrant colors. Each one is uses elaborate and exquisite colors in reflection of the bright culture.
Everyone entering grades 6th through 12th is invited to participate in our Teen Summer Reading Program! Read books and complete challenges to earn badges, which you can pick up at the Reference Desk, and entries into our weekly Bedford Farms gift card raffles. How many badges can you complete?
Runs from June 15th through August 24th. Full details will be available soon!
The Library will be Closed on Monday, May 28th for Memorial Day.
The Library will be closed on Friday, May 18th from 9 am to 2 pm for staff training. Library hours will be from 2 pm to 6 pm.
Following the Muse
Works by Artists: Sandra Gregg & Anne Sargent Walker
May 10-July 11
Sandra Gregg
The inspiration for Sandra’s work comes from the interaction of color, place and nature. She begins with the fabric (or paper) and a variety of techniques. She often works on a number of pieces simultaneously because she works intuitively and needing time to study the work on the design wall before deciding her next step. Text is a common element in her work, as it can provide texture and meaning. Sandra looks for a balance of light, line, color, space and form in her creations.
Anne Sargent Walker
Anne’s semi abstract paintings in oil and acrylic often combine fragments of vintage wall paper, painted birds, jumping men, and other images which explore our relationship to the natural world. Most recently Anne has been compelled to express her concerns over environmental issues. She attributes her interests in nature to childhood summers in Vermont with a naturalist father, and her continuing engagement with the rural Vermont landscape.
This exhibit would not be possible without assistance from the Friends of the Bedford Free Public Library.
The public is invited to view the exhibit during regular library hours.