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C&C: Conversation & Camaraderie

Conversations & Camaraderie: a Farmington Valley Men’s Social GroupFocusing on friendship among men from Avon and the neighboring towns. This group is focused on in-depth, philosophical conversations on a variety of topics each meeting will have a different conversation......More

Conversations & Camaraderie: a Farmington Valley Men’s Social GroupFocusing on friendship among men from Avon and the neighboring towns. This group is focused on in-depth, philosophical conversations on a variety of topics each meeting will have a different conversation starter. As of January 2025, this group meets every two weeks. Please register, in case we need to reach you due to inclement weather. Register once, even if you can’t attend all the sessions. This group will meet in the Atrium on the first floor.

Atrium, First Floor Reference Area, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Do, Re, (You &) Me! Outside on the Library Lawn- September & October 2025

A music program with Ms. Jaimee on the library lawn! (Weather permitting*)  For Children ages 6 and under with a caregiver! *If there is bad weather on any of the following dates, the program will meet indoors, in the Children’s Department on the 2nd floor of the librar......More

A music program with Ms. Jaimee on the library lawn! (Weather permitting*)  For Children ages 6 and under with a caregiver! *If there is bad weather on any of the following dates, the program will meet indoors, in the Children’s Department on the 2nd floor of the library. Tuesday mornings at 11:00 a.m. September 2: Favorites! September 9: Ocean Fun! September 16: On the Farm! September 23: Fall Fun! September 30: Bathtime Fun! October 7:  Favorites! October 14: Colors! October 21: Count With Me! October 28: Spooky Fun! Please bring chairs or a blanket to sit on during the program.

Library Lawn, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Friends of the Avon Library Board Meeting

Board Room, 2nd Floor, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Avon Youth Hockey

Community Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Operations & Administration Meeting

Board Room, 2nd Floor, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Open Art Studio

Art experiences designed to encourage creativity for families with children of all ages Drop in between 11:00 and 12:00  Wednesdays September 3, 10, 17, 24   October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 

Children’s Art Studio, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

A/V Orientation: Encore

Community Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Teen Acting Workshop

Join us for our monthly acting workshops for teens grades 7-12!Hone your performance skills, confidence, and voice in this multi-part series over the course of the school year. This series will start with body-foundations and gradually move into text work, memorization,......More

Join us for our monthly acting workshops for teens grades 7-12!Hone your performance skills, confidence, and voice in this multi-part series over the course of the school year. This series will start with body-foundations and gradually move into text work, memorization, and characterization. Registration required, space limited.Grades 7-12.

Children’s Storytime Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story/Author Event with Rich Cohen (in-person)

~~This event has been rescheduled from its original 6/18/25 date due to a family emergency. Please join us on 9/3/25. ~~ Join us for a moderated conversation with Rich Cohen. We’ll explore the local connections of this story, and the investigative journalism techniques ......More

~~This event has been rescheduled from its original 6/18/25 date due to a family emergency. Please join us on 9/3/25. ~~ Join us for a moderated conversation with Rich Cohen. We’ll explore the local connections of this story, and the investigative journalism techniques crucial to true crime accounting. A nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat investigation into the mysterious disappearance of Jennifer Dulos and the aftershocks that rattled a wealthy suburb. Rich Cohen’s Murder in the Dollhouse is the chilling, unputdownable story of Jennifer Dulos, a beautiful, rich suburban mother who dropped her kids off at the New Canaan Country School one morning and vanished. Her body has never been found. Dulos was in the midst of an ugly divorce―one of the most contentious in Connecticut state history. The couple, a beautiful, highly connected pair, met at Brown University, had five children, and led what appeared to be a charmed life. In the wake of her disappearance, Dulos’s husband and his girlfriend were arrested. He killed himself on the day he was supposed to report to court she was tried and convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. A gripping story of status, wealth, love, and hate, Murder in the Dollhouse peers beneath the sparkling veneer of propriety that surrounded the Duloses to uncover the origins and motivations of a crime that has become a national obsession. Rich Cohen is the New York Times-bestselling author of Tough Jews, Monsters, Sweet and Low, The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones, The Chicago Cubs, and The Last Pirate of New York, and, with Jerry Weintraub, When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead. He is the cocreator of the HBO series Vinyl, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and a writer at large for Air Mail. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award, the Chicago Public Library’s 21st Century Award, and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He lives in Connecticut. Please register, so we can set the community room up with appropriate seating. Co-sponsored by the Avon and Farmington Libraries Books will be for sale at this event.

Community Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Baby Steps Support Group

This event is not sponsored by the Avon Library.

Community Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Elder Ladies Support / Discussion Group

Conference Room, 1st Floor, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Baby and Me

Baby and Me Thursdays 11:00 to 11:30 Books, rhymes, songs, baby sign language and bubbles! Currently signing up babies: newborn to 12 months with a caregiver Registration required September 4, 11, 18, 25 October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30

Children’s Storytime Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely? Author Event with Sarah McCoy (in-person)

From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy—a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun. In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood’s......More

From New York Times bestselling author Sarah McCoy—a spellbinding novel based on a true story: a beautiful young movie star of Hollywood’s Golden Age gives up her bright career to become a nun. In 1969, twenty-three-year-old starlet Lori Lovely, the apple of Hollywood’s eye, shocks the world by ditching a promising film career to take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience as a Benedictine nun. Gossip columnists and scandal sheets can’t get enough of the story. Why would such a beautiful girl take the veil? Was she hiding from someone? Did it have anything to do with the tragic death of her costar, heartthrob singer Lucas Wesley? In 1990, Lu Tibbott is under the gun to complete her senior thesis in modern American history. Instead of spending weeks in dusty archives, Lu decides to dig into a true twentieth-century mystery and write about her aunt Lori, now the Mother Abbess at a cloistered convent in rural New England. Biographers, bloggers, and media types have long speculated about her aunt Lori’s sudden departure from Hollywood. Mother Lori, however, has refused all requests for interviews—until Lu arrives at the abbey with a tape recorder in hand. To her delight, Mother Lori announces she’s finally ready to talk…but only if Lu is truly ready to listen. Lu is shocked to discover that the story of Lori Lovely’s rise in Hollywood was far more tumultuous than she’d ever expected, a fairy tale twisting with ambition, unforeseen alliances, forbidden love, and secrets. What began as a history thesis now threatens to upend all their lives with its unexpected truths, especially as the media gets wind of Lu’s project and begins to ask… Whatever happened to Lori Lovely? SARAH McCOY is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of the novels Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely?, Mustique Island, Marilla of Green Gables, The Mapmaker’s Children, The Baker’s Daughter, a 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Best Historical Fiction nominee, the novella “The Branch of Hazel” in Grand Central, The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico, and Le souffle des feuilles et des promesses (Pride and Providence).  Her work has been featured in Newsweek, Real Simple, The Millions, Literary Hub, Writer’s Digest, Huffington Post, Read It Forward, Writer Unboxed, and other publications. She hosted the NPR WSNC Radio monthly program “Bookmarked with Sarah McCoy” and served as a Board Member for the literary nonprofit Bookmarks. Sarah taught English writing at Old Dominion University and at the University of Texas at El Paso.  She lives with her husband, Dr. Brian Waterman, their dog Gilbert and cat Tularosa in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Books will be for sale at this event. Refreshments will be served. Please register, so we can set the community room up with appropriate seating.

Community Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Sing Your Stuffy to Sleep! September & October 2025

Thursday Evenings at 6:00 p.m. on the Children’s Department Main Floor For Children age 6 and under with a caregiver Join Ms. Jaimee at the piano to sing bedtime songs and listen to stories with your favorite stuffed animal! September 4, 11, 18, 25 October 2, 9 Registra......More

Thursday Evenings at 6:00 p.m. on the Children’s Department Main Floor For Children age 6 and under with a caregiver Join Ms. Jaimee at the piano to sing bedtime songs and listen to stories with your favorite stuffed animal! September 4, 11, 18, 25 October 2, 9 Registration required

Children’s Department Main Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Teen Friday Flicks

Join us every other Friday from 2:00-4:30 in the Teen Room as we chill out and watch a movie!Snacks provided! For grades 7-12.

Teen Room, 281 Country Club Rd CT, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Collage Studio Gathering

Community Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Girl Scout Troop 66837

Community Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Signing Storytime

Come hear stories, sing songs, and learn signs with Dee every Monday at 11am, starting September 8th, 2025! This program is plenty of fun for all ages! No registration required! Each storytime will involve one story, at least one new sign from American Sign Language, an......More

Come hear stories, sing songs, and learn signs with Dee every Monday at 11am, starting September 8th, 2025! This program is plenty of fun for all ages! No registration required! Each storytime will involve one story, at least one new sign from American Sign Language, and plenty of songs, dances, and movement! See you in the middle of the Children’s Department! Location: Children’s Department, Second Floor of the Avon Free Public Library Time: Mondays at 11am, starting September 8th, 2025 Audience: All ages willing to sing, dance, and learn! Registration: Not Required!  

Children’s Department Main Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Nigeria Book Discussion Series: Half of a Yellow Sun

Mon., Sept. 8, 2025 at 2 PM: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and th......More

Mon., Sept. 8, 2025 at 2 PM: Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche Re-creates the 1960s struggle of Biafra to establish an independent republic in Nigeria, following the intertwined lives of the characters through a military coup, the Biafran secession, and the resulting civil war. This is an in-person book discussion featuring fictional books set internationally led by librarian Cyndi Larsen. Copies of the book will be available behind the reference desk. For more information, contact Cyndi Larsen [email protected] 860-673-9712. Free and open to the public.

Community Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Avon Arts Association

Conference Room, 1st Floor, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Teen Anime Club

Stop by the Teen Room at 4:00pm every other Monday to join the Teen Anime Club!Weeb-out as we select new anime each week to watch, discuss, and enjoy some snacks!

Teen Room, 281 Country Club Rd CT, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Girl Scout Troop 66502

Board Room, 2nd Floor, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Such Great Heights - Virtual Author Event with Chris DeVille (Zoom)

Join us for a virtual conversation with Chris DeVille, to celebrate the release of Such Great Heights. “A comprehensive and colorful account of the rise, fall, corporatization, and partial revival of indie rock… the breadth of DeVille’s knowledge is impressive, and his ......More

Join us for a virtual conversation with Chris DeVille, to celebrate the release of Such Great Heights. “A comprehensive and colorful account of the rise, fall, corporatization, and partial revival of indie rock… the breadth of DeVille’s knowledge is impressive, and his analysis of what subcultures both lose and gain when they enter the mainstream is astute. Readers nostalgic for the days of the Postal Service and Passion Pit should take a look.” ―Publishers Weekly Maybe you caught a few exhilarating seconds of “Teen Age Riot” on a nearby college radio station while scanning the FM dial in your parents’ car. Maybe your friend invited you to a shabby local rock club and you ended up having a religious experience with Neutral Milk Hotel. Perhaps you were scandalized and tantalized upon sneaking Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville from an older sibling’s CD collection, or you vowed to download every Radiohead song you could find on LimeWire because they were the favorite band of the guy you had a major crush on. However you found your way into indie rock, once you were a listener, it felt like being part of a secret club of people who had discovered something special, something secret, something superior. SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion by music journalist Chris DeVille brilliantly captures this cultural moment, from the early aughts and the height of indie rock, until the 2010s as streaming upends the industry and changes music forever. DeVille covers the gamut of bands―like Arcade Fire, TV On The Radio, LCD Soundsystem, Haim, Pavement, and Bon Iver―and touches on staggering pop culture moments, like finding your new favorite band on MySpace and the life-changing O.C. soundtrack. Nerdy, fun, and a time machine for millennials SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS is about how subculture becomes pop culture, how capitalism consumes what’s “cool,” who gets to define what’s hip and why, and how an “underground” genre shaped our lives. It is the definitive history of 21st-century indie rock―from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent―and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a generation. Chris Deville is the managing editor at Stereogum, where he has written extensively about the full spectrum of indie music for the last twelve years. In 2014, he launched The Week In Pop, a column exploring mainstream music from an indie fan’s perspective, and he has profiled bands like Tame Impala and Run The Jewels. Chris has also been featured in outlets like The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The Ringer. He lives with his family in Columbus, Ohio.   Please register Zoom links will go out the day before the event. This event will be at 6:30pm, EST (Eastern Standard Time). To find out what time it is in your area, ask Google, “If it is 2pm in Avon, CT, USA, what time is it in (enter place)?”

Online (Zoom)

Fall Kids' Game Club

Level up your literacy through play! For Grades 2-6. Experience story & text driven games on a big screen. Use your reading, writing, & speaking skills to earn points toward fun prizes. OR bring your own handheld devices to play! Register for each event separately. Read......More

Level up your literacy through play! For Grades 2-6. Experience story & text driven games on a big screen. Use your reading, writing, & speaking skills to earn points toward fun prizes. OR bring your own handheld devices to play! Register for each event separately. Reading Points can be redeemed during our last meeting. 9/8 – Garden Story (Rated E10+) 9/15 – Retro Week – Pokemon Yellow (Rated E) 9/22 – Garden Story (Rated E10+) 9/29 – Retro Week – Pokemon Yellow (Rated E) 10/6 -Garden Story (Rated E10+) 10/20 – Retro Week – Pokemon Yellow (Rated E) 10/27 – Garden Story (Rated E10+) 11/3 – Mario Kart World Competition * Garden Story is rated E10+ for Fantasy Violence

Children’s Storytime Room, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Pine Grove School PTO

Board Room, 2nd Floor, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Do, Re, (You &) Me! Outside on the Library Lawn- September & October 2025

A music program with Ms. Jaimee on the library lawn! (Weather permitting*)  For Children ages 6 and under with a caregiver! *If there is bad weather on any of the following dates, the program will meet indoors, in the Children’s Department on the 2nd floor of the librar......More

A music program with Ms. Jaimee on the library lawn! (Weather permitting*)  For Children ages 6 and under with a caregiver! *If there is bad weather on any of the following dates, the program will meet indoors, in the Children’s Department on the 2nd floor of the library. Tuesday mornings at 11:00 a.m. September 2: Favorites! September 9: Ocean Fun! September 16: On the Farm! September 23: Fall Fun! September 30: Bathtime Fun! October 7:  Favorites! October 14: Colors! October 21: Count With Me! October 28: Spooky Fun! Please bring chairs or a blanket to sit on during the program.

Library Lawn, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Teen Writers Round Table

Join our peer to peer writing space the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 4:00 to 5:30 with feedback and assistance from fellow teens and library staff!Keep an eye out, as we may have local authors pop-in to give advice! For grades 7-12.

Board Room, 2nd Floor, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Wednesday Morning Book Club: Shelterwood

  Join the Morning Book Club to talk about Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate. Copies of the book and a reader’s guide will be available to check out ahead of time at the Reference Desk. Past participation is not required for this once-a-month book club. Everyone is welcome to......More

  Join the Morning Book Club to talk about Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate. Copies of the book and a reader’s guide will be available to check out ahead of time at the Reference Desk. Past participation is not required for this once-a-month book club. Everyone is welcome to join the low-key, no long-term commitment, friendly group. Registration is required.   USA TODAY AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER “Wingate’s stellar latest explores a centuries-long legacy of missing child cases. . . . Her portrayal of the region’s history, culture, and landscape enthralls. Wingate is at the top of her game.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes “a sweeping tale about little known history”. – People  

Atrium, First Floor Reference Area, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States

Open Art Studio

Art experiences designed to encourage creativity for families with children of all ages Drop in between 11:00 and 12:00  Wednesdays September 3, 10, 17, 24   October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 

Children’s Art Studio, 281 Country Club Road Connecticut, Avon, CT, 06001, United States