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Join us for our annual Get Outdoors Challenge for all Ages! Beginning June 1 register at fredricksen.beanstack.org, and then pick up a GO Cumberland booklet (one per family) at the library. Throughout the summer, hike the chosen parks and trails in Cumberland County to find the secret codes to enter in Beanstack! Program runs thought August 15. See booklet for more details. Sponsored by WellSpan.
10 am - 12 pm in the Community Room
Join us all summer long for fun drop-in craft programs! This session we'll be making Perler Beads. For children of all ages; ages 12 & under must be accompanied by an adult. No registration necessary.
6 pm - 7:30 pm, Small Meeting Room
Plot Twisters is a dynamic teen writers group open to writers of fiction, fan fiction, manga, poetry and more. This program is for teens ages 13-18.
6 pm - 7:30 pm, Small Meeting Room
Plot Twisters is a dynamic teen writers group open to writers of fiction, fan fiction, manga, poetry and more. This program is for teens ages 13-18.
May 1 - May 31
Join this challenge to help Smokey Bear celebrate his 80th birthday by learning how to prevent wildfires and help the environment! You can select books from Smokey's Reading List at smokeybear.com, or choose your own. Register beginning May 1 at fredricksen.beanstack.org.
4:30 pm - 8:30 pm in the Small Meeting Room
Handicap chess allows players of different experience levels to play a competitive game of chess. The more experienced player will start the game with fewer pieces. The greater the difference in experience, the greater the amount of removed pieces. Players can play regular chess if they prefer. Participants are asked to bring a chess set, if possible, but it is not required to participate. Participants who want to expand their horizons are welcome to try other games of strategy. Beginners are welcome. Feel free to drop in when you can and leave when you need to. No registration required. Ages 14+
Come to the Library on Sunday, April 27th for the Third Annual New Cumberland Earth & Arts Festival between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM. We will have an array of activities and programs for all ages inside the Library and around our grounds. Music & entertainment, food trucks, vendors selling Earth-friendly goods, a demo garden, and alpacas from Angie's Alpaca Paradise are just a few of the things you will enjoy. Inside the Library, we will offer children's story time, crafts and activities for kids and teens, and a presentation about the Northern Lights, as well as opportunities to find out more information about the Penn-Cumberland Garden Club and the Master Watershed Steward Program.
Come discuss "The Book of Lost Names" by Kristin Harmel, on April 11 at our monthly book club!
The book club will be held here at the Coy Public Library, Thursday, April 11th from 5:00pm-6:30pm.
This month's book is "The Book of Lost Names", written by Kristin Harmel. You can request this item through our digital catalog, or by calling the library at 717-532-4508.
"Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes lock on a photograph in a magazine lying open nearby. She freezes; it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in sixty-five years—a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names.
The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II—an experience Eva remembers well—and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. Now housed in Berlin’s Zentral- und Landesbibliothek library, it appears to contain some sort of code, but researchers don’t know where it came from—or what the code means. Only Eva holds the answer—but will she have the strength to revisit old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?
As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember who they really are. The records they keep in The Book of Lost Names will become even more vital when the resistance cell they work for is betrayed and Rémy disappears." - Publisher
Don't miss this special opportunity to meet three local authors at once! Jan Wolfe, Willow Roots, and Laura L. Zimmerman will be here at the library on Saturday, March 9 from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm to showcase their new and latest books for children and teens!
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We are excited to offer a weekly Chair Yoga class for adults and teens of all experience levels! Register here! This class is led by Cindy Pimental. Each session is 45 minutes long. All levels are welcome and no experience is necessary to join the class.
What is Chair Yoga?
Chair yoga is a gentle practice in which postures are performed while seated and/or with the aid of a chair. Chair yoga classes typically target those who find a typical yoga session too challenging. It is also a great form of yoga for beginners or anyone who wants to focus on a gentle practice.