BELLOWS FALLS — Staff at the Rockingham Free Public Library are happily hauling books and furnishings back to Rockingham Street.
“The move back into the building is progressing nicely,” Youth Librarian Sam Maskell tells The Commons.
“Shelves are getting installed and the unpacking is really happening. I'm very excited about this; it's been a full year since the youth department has had its full collection and been in its space.”
The youth department was the first section of the library to pack up to move upstairs about a year ago.
“Once we have an actual date [for reopening], I'll announce story times, family-fun night activities, teen Friday night game nights, after-school programs, and more,” Maskell adds.
Here are some events Maskell says are already on the youth department's calendar, to which the public are more than welcome:
• Thursday, Oct. 24 - Screening of the documentary “Bully” (2011) followed by a discussion. This is in partnership with Greater Falls Connections, formerly the Greater Falls Prevention Coalition. 6 p.m.
• Monday, Oct. 28 - Annual Family Halloween Party.
• Friday, Nov. 1 - Two-Sentence Horror Stories, an all-ages post-Halloween event. 6 p.m.
As Maskell explains, the library is soliciting two-sentence horror stories from the community and presenting them in a dramatic reading with drama club students and other performers at a Scholastic book fair for the youth department during the week of Oct. 28.
For more information about that, visit rockinghamlibrary.org/2sentencehorror.html.
• November - As November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo (nanowrimo.org), the youth department, through its Young Writers Club, is encouraging youth to take on this writing challenge.