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Available for In-Library Use!

This collection of more than 4,000 databases and two billion names includes coverage of United States census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from countries worldwide.

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After School Homework Help

After School Homework Help

Free, drop-in Homework Help for all ages. Need a little help on an assignment? A friendly adult to help with focus? Join our volunteer Homework Helpers in the second alcove upstairs on Tuesdays and Thursdays (excluding Feb. 27) from 3:30-5:30pm for insight and encouragement. First come, first served!

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Books and Bikes Workshop with Author Christina Uss!

Books and Bikes Workshop with Author Christina Uss!

Join us for this special event, which is part of, and made possible by, the Mass Kids Lit Fest !

Christina Uss, author of A Girl Called Bicycle and many other “odd books with guaranteed happy endings” will be leading a workshop about how to fix a flat tire while talking about her own 4,000-mile bicycle trip across the United States! Recommended for school aged children; registration encouraged.

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Still Alice Book Discussion at ECOA, 9/14 at 1pm

We are partnering with the Easthampton Council on Aging to host a book discussion of Still Alice, by Lisa Genova. Still Alice is a moving and vivid depiction of life with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Check out a copy of the book AT THE LIBRARY. Read the book and drop-in for the discussion AT THE COUNCIL ON AGING on September 14th at 1pm.

Author Talk with Tim Spofford, 9/12 at 4pm

Join us as we welcome author Tim Spofford for a conversation about his new book What The Children Told Us. Tim will discuss the lives and work of Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Phipps Clark, including Clark/Phipps genealogy (guided by vintage family photos), the Doctors’ famous Doll Test, and their roles as Black activists, humanitarians and intellectualists in Springfield, MA and nationally. This event is drop-in and masks will be required.

Drop-in Voter Registration Help, 8/17 & 8/24

The deadline to register to vote in the State Primaries (9/6) is coming up quickly on August 27th and WE CAN HELP! We will be holding drop-in hours on Wednesdays 8/17, 12-2pm and 8/24, 5:30-7:30pm. We can help register, update your voter record, check your voter status, find election information and get your questions answered. Can’t make either of those? Email Stephanie at slevine@ewmlibrary.org (or call her at 527-1031) and we will find