Join us for upcoming events, classes and programs at Harding Library! All events are free and open to the public. Registration required where noted.
19 Blue Mill Road
Monday, Jun. 16, 4:00 p.m. (March 24, 2025. 4:00 p.m.)
Do you have extra cards that you would like to trade? Please bring them to the library during our monthly trading event to swap cards and Poke'mon information.
There will also be space to be creative with Legos.
19 Blue Mill Road
Monday, Jun. 16, 7:00p.m.
With the year 2022 being the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses, arguably the most important book ever written, Lisa Reznik was inspired to direct a feature film surrounding the challenges to publish James Joyce’s groundbreaking novel, shining a much needed light on the unrecognized risk-taking female pioneers who brought his work to the public. Left Bank: The Women Who Rescued James Joyce’s Ulysses marks Reznik's fifth film and her first feature. This passion project is the culmination of more than a decade's worth of both scholarly and archival research.
Lisa spent her junior year at Brandies University studying international politics abroad at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. While living on the right bank, she often ventured across the Seine, particularly to the area near the Sorbonne where Sylvia Beach ran her English-language bookshop Shakespeare and Company. It was here where her now life-long interest in Beach and the work of James Joyce began. In Left Bank, Reznik reveals important new insights and facts about Joyce's life, and specifically the women who empowered his work.
The Left Bank preview version being shown had its world premiere at the International James Joyce Ulysses 100 Centennial Symposium in Dublin. It has also been shown at the Italian James Joyce Foundation conference in Rome, at the Institute of English Studies Conference at Jagiellonian University in Krakow and at The Rosenbach Library and Museum in Philadelphia.
The film is expected to be finished in 2025 and will include rare archival materials as well as interviews conducted in Trieste Italy where James Joyce lived when he started writing Ulysses.
19 Blue Mill Road
Tuesday, Jun. 17, 10:15 a.m.
Basic movement to music in a fun atmosphere is introduced to young children.
This program is intended for the enjoyment of preschoolers.
19 Blue Mill Road
Tuesday, Jun. 17, 4:00 p.m.
The New Vernon Garden Club is hosting a Sunflower planting project for the children.
We will be discussing SciStarter, The Great Sunflower Project and pollination.
19 Blue Mill Road
Wednesday, Jun. 18, 4:00 p.m.
Please join us to celebrate our wonderful friend, children's author Tara Lazar. We will be celebrating her new book release "Flat Cat 2" along with her birthday! Tara will be reading her new book. Copies will be
19 Blue Mill Road
Thursday, Jun. 19
Grandpa Ralph or Miss Kathy will read a story and sing a song.
19 Blue Mill Road
Thursday, Jun. 19, 10:15 a.m.
Young children along with their parents or caregivers can come to enjoy unstructured play and socialization.
19 Blue Mill Road
Monday, Jun. 23, 4:00 p.m.
Join us for a discussion of book 1 - "Kristy's Great Idea".
19 Blue Mill Road
Tuesday, Jun. 24, 10:15 a.m.
Basic movement to music in a fun atmosphere is introduced to young children.
This program is intended for the enjoyment of preschoolers.
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Tuesday, Jun. 24, 4:00p.m.
REGISTERJoin us as award-winning author and summer reading champion Katherine Applegate talks to viewers about her enthusiastically heartwarming novel in verse, Odder.
Katherine Applegate’s Odder, is inspired by the true story of a Monterey Bay Aquarium program that pairs orphaned otter pups with surrogate mothers. This poignant and humorous tale told in free verse examines bravery and healing through the eyes of one of nature’s most beloved and charming animals.
19 Blue Mill Road
Tuesday, Jun. 24, 4:00 p.m.
Living the Otter Life discussion on zoom with Katherine Applegate. (3rd - 6th Grade)
Please join us here at the library for a viewing party or watch at home at https://libraryc.org/hardinglibrary/77476.
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Tuesday, Jun. 24, 7:00p.m.
The Least Among Them is a most special baseball book that looks at the New York Yankees history in an original, unique, and never before written manner. Throughout their history, the New York Yankees have been defined by the legends and the successes of their most famous players. But, as part of their long history, the Yankees have also fielded players that have become lost to history. This book is those players’ story, telling the unique histories of the men whose entire major league baseball career lasted but a single game with that game being played as a New York Yankee. While these players may be forgotten, their stories are compelling. Filled with a unique Yankee history, single game stats, and a love of baseball, The Least Among Them tells the story of baseball's most successful franchise in an entirely new way.
Presented by Paul Semdinger
19 Blue Mill Road
Thursday, Jun. 26
Grandpa Ralph or Miss Kathy will read a story and sing a song.
19 Blue Mill Road
Thursday, Jun. 26, 10:15 a.m.
Young children along with their parents or caregivers can come to enjoy unstructured play and socialization.
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Thursday, Jun. 26, 7:00p.m.
" I Should be Damned in Time and in Eternity"... Abraham Lincoln's Most Difficult Decision
No president has ever faced more difficult decisions than Abraham Lincoln. Sentries fell asleep and were condemned to death; their mothers asked for presidential pardons. Boastful generals lost major battles and the public screamed for their scalps. Cabinet officials created headaches in ever more creative ways. Foreign powers sought to exploit the nation’s weakness. The list went on and on. Two choices loomed especially large: the decision to fight over Fort Sumter in April, 1861, and the decision to emancipate slaves in January, 1863. Crucial to the decision was how would the slave holding border states react and would they now secede? How would the decision be understood in basically a racist society? Contrary to what many of us believe today, Abolitionism was basically reviled.
How would this decision affect the upcoming 1864 Presidential election?
The toughest call of all may have happened in the summer of 1864, and that decision will be the focus of “’I Should Be Damned in Time and in Eternity’: The Black Soldier and Abraham Lincoln’s Most Difficult Decision.”
Presented by Richard Schwartz author and historian. Schwartz is a former high school history teacher. He is the author of The Prairies on Fire: Lincoln Debates Douglas, 1858. He writes the Substack newsletter Common Sentences. Ed. Note: Schwartz has presented Lincoln lectures before the NJCWRT several times, and I can state This is probably the best Lincoln lecture you will hear! (How’s that for going out a limb?)
19 Blue Mill Road
Monday, Jun. 30, 4:00 p.m.
Please join us this month for a colorful art project.
19 Blue Mill Road
Thursday, Jul. 3
Grandpa Ralph or Miss Kathy will read a story and sing a song.
19 Blue Mill Road
Monday, Jul. 7, 4:00 p.m. (4:15 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 4:45 p.m.)
Please register for a session - children can read independently, with siblings/friends or with parents/grandparents/caregivers. The trained animals are provided by Creature Comfort Pet Therapy to foster confidence in reading for young readers.
19 Blue Mill Road
Monday, Jul. 7, 4:15 p.m. (4:15 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 4:45 p.m.)
Please register for a session - children can read independently, with siblings/friends or with parents/grandparents/caregivers. The trained animals are provided by Creature Comfort Pet Therapy to foster confidence in reading for young readers.
19 Blue Mill Road
Monday, Jul. 7, 4:30 p.m. (4:15 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 4:45 p.m.)
Please register for a session - children can read independently, with siblings/friends or with parents/grandparents/caregivers. The trained animals are provided by Creature Comfort Pet Therapy to foster confidence in reading for young readers.
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