Easton, Connecticut Library Adult Summer Reading Through Saturday, August 15 Log each book you read on our Google form for a chance to win a weekly prize! Raffle prizes will be awarded each Monday, starting on June 29. There will also be a Grand Prize for the person who reads the most books. Need ideas on what to read? Our updated Adult Recommended Reading lists by genre, compiled by the Library staff, are available on the Adult Summer Reading page. Adult Summer Reading Quick Links Your Library Card Museum Passes Friends of the Library Art Exhibits Room Rentals

Reading Takes You Places 2026 Saturday, June 13 - Friday, Aug ust 7*, 2026 Grades Pre-K-12 *You can continue to track your reading until school begins. Click on your grade range to register. Register online or in the Library to begin your Summer Reading Adventure and collect your Library Passport & a pack of Read-Along Trading Cards. Read 20 minutes a day or more! Track your reading each week on our website to be eligible for our weekly book raffle and our end-of-summer raffle prize baskets. Join us for fun events and activities throughout the summer! Pre-K-5th Grade 6th-8th Grade 9th-12th Grade Track your reading - Week 1: June 13-19 Track your reading - Week 2: June 20-26 Track your reading - Week 3: June 27-July 4 Track your reading - Week 4: July 5-July 11 Track your reading - Week 5: July 12-July 18 Track your reading - Week 6: July 19-July 25 Join us this summer and be part of the adventure! PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next are digital learning platforms for kids from grades K to 8 . " With developmentally appropriate texts in English and Spanish, read-aloud audio, rich vocabulary support, and multimodal creation and learning tools, PebbleGo empowers every student to read, learn, explore, and create independently. " Available June 1- August 31 Click here to check out PebbleGo! Check out our Suggested Reading Lists for all ages. Grades K-1 Grades 2-3 Grade 4 Grades 5-6 Grades 7-8 7th Grade 40 Book Challenge Grades 9-12 JBHS 2026 Summer Reading Brochure

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Welcome to the Patio! Have you experienced our beautiful back patio? The patio is open any time the Library is and features three tables with umbrellas. To get to the patio, you can walk around to the back of the Library, or ask the staff to guide you. The tables and chairs were purchased using funds from the ARPA (American Rescue Plan Act) grant the Library received in 2022. The Friends of the Easton Public Library provided the blue umbrellas. Sensory Garden Carts The Sensory Garden is a conservation project of the Easton Garden Club in partnership with the Easton Public Library. This mobile sensory garden is planted in two wheeled carts designed to be accessible to all. They are located on the back patio of the Easton Library. The diverse group of plantings selected and planted by our Club’s conservation committee appeal to four of the five senses (touch, smell, sight, and sound). We invite you to pause when visiting the garden to notice plant textures, structure, fragrance as part of experiencing present moment awareness (paying attention to what's happening right now, instead of thinking about what happened yesterday or what you need to do tomorrow, it is an invitation to focus on what you're experiencing now). We invite curiosity about which sense you are using (touch, smell, sight, and sound - no tasting please) as a way to anchor your experience. Visit this page often as we’ll be adding video and detailed descriptions of the plants and their role in the sensory garden! The Sensory Garden project will delight the senses through all four seasons. Each season we will offer guided discussions on the patio, introducing new sensory garden features and plants. Contact us if you are interested in attending a walkthrough of the plants and their role in the sensory garden. The Carts were built to EGC specs by Eagle Scout Candidate Toni Erian. Toni, a talented artist and designer and member of BSA Troop 306 of Redding, approached the Easton Garden Club looking for a project to earn Eagle Scout status. We were thrilled and offered Toni the opportunity to build the carts we needed for our Sensory Garden Project. We needed two outdoor wheeled carts - one accessible at walking height and one at wheelchair height - that held enough soil to sustain a robust group of plantings. Easton Library, in part, financed Toni’s project to build the cart structures dedicating them to a library donor who was a landscape designer. More about the project and Toni’s contribution. Our Easton Garden Club conservation committee designed the garden concept, planted, and donated the plant material and soil filling the carts, and plant id tags. Plants were sourced at Gilbertie’s Organics , Oliver’s Nurseries , Eco59 /Hickories, and cultivated and dug from member gardens. This is a perpetual project of the Easton Garden Club conservation committee and we’ll maintain and add new features each season to delight the senses. Stay tuned for scheduled talks! Contact us to learn more. - from the Easton Garden Club

Check out a Hotspot or a Laptop! Hotspots Access the Wi-Fi locally or while traveling with one of our three hotspots available for checkout. The service plan is provided by T-Mobile, so they will work anywhere there is T-Mobile coverage. The hotspots can be checked out for 14 days. There are no renewals or holds, and the devices must be returned inside the Library. Patrons will be required to sign a loan agreement before checking out a hotspot. Made possible by a special discount for nonprofit organizations and funding from the Friends of the Easton Public Library. Laptops Active cardholders who are at least 18 years of age will be able to borrow a laptop for up to two weeks. No renewals or holds are allowed. The borrower must sign a loan agreement and adhere to the Laptop Lending Policy. Laptops must be returned in person at the Easton Public Library Circulation Desk, not in the book drop. All components (case, charger, and mouse) must be returned as well. Laptop Policy/Loan Agreement Hotspot Policy/Loan Agreement

Welcome to Book Match! Tell us what you like to read and we'll give you three book recommendations, based on your answers. *Please use your personal email address below, as we are unable to communicate through your @er9.org email account. Who are your favorite authors? What genre(s) do you like to read? What books have you read that you really liked? Enter grade, if applicable. Submit We'll get back to you with your book recommendations as soon as we can!

Art Exhibits The Library offers the use of its Conference Room, Community Room, and Glass Display Case for artists to display their work. The Conference Room and Glass Display Case are curated by Dolly Curtis, while the Community Room features mainly exhibits in conjunction with the Easton Arts Council. If you're interested in displaying your work, contact Dolly Curtis at dollycurtis72@gmail.com, or Sheila Weaver at saweaver@optonline.net . Please read our artist guidelines below. Artist Guidelines Amy-Alison Ward Earth in Transition Through August 15 Community Room Art Reception: Saturday, July 11, 3-6 pm Amy-Alison Ward - Poster 16x20 Amy-Alison Ward, 6/27-8-15 Amy-Alison Ward, 6/27-8-15 Amy-Alison Ward - Poster 16x20 1/6 Amy-Alison Ward is an Easton, Connecticut–based mixed-media painter working in oil, acrylic, and textured materials. Her work investigates the macrocosm and microcosm of the natural world. Of particular interest to her is humanity’s relationship with nature, and how our attitudes affect Earth, via our interactions with it. Amy-Alison’s current exhibit explores planetary changes driven by climate change and human driven-development on ecosystems and others of our fellow species. She has shown her work previously in multiple group shows and solo exhibitions. Working in mixed media—including oil, acrylic, and textured materials—she is drawn to surface, gesture, and subtle shifts in color that evoke both physical and emotional landscapes. Her compositions are inspired by organic forms, shifting terrains, and the complexities of internal experience. These elements are carefully balanced between tension and harmony, where fluid movement meets moments of stillness. The resulting imagery suggests both grounding and momentum, inviting viewers into a space that feels at once expansive and intimate. Amy-Alison’s process involves building layered surfaces that reveal and conceal over time. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, her work resists singular interpretation, holding space for ambiguity and reflection. Central to her practice is a deep concern for humanity’s relationship with the natural world and how human behavior shapes—and disrupts—ecological systems. Her current exhibition, Earth in Transition, examines the profound transformations to ecosystems occurring across the planet due to climate change and humans driven to development. Through this body of work, she explores the present-day results of a disconnected relationship with Nature and the profound effects our attitudes toward the natural world have on our fellow species and how we live now. Paul Rockoff “As Seen Through My Eyes” Art from a Colorblind, Self-Taught Artist" July 1- July 30 Conference Room Art Reception: Friday, July 10, 3-6 pm Paul Rockoff, 7/1-7/30 Paul Rockoff, 7/1-7/30 Paul Rockoff, 7/1-7/30 Paul Rockoff, 7/1-7/30 1/5 Paul is a color-blind, self-taught artist whose lifelong love of creating began in kindergarten—ironically, at the very moment his color blindness was discovered. Unable to read the names on the crayon labels, he unintentionally filled his early drawings with purple skies and orange-brown grass. What might have seemed like a limitation instead opened the door to imagination, humor, and an unconventional view of the world that has shaped his art ever since. Born in Bridgeport, raised in Fairfield, Paul has been an Easton resident since 1978 and practiced Oral Surgery in the local community for fifty years. Throughout those decades, art remained a constant source of joy. As a child, he was drawn to cartooning and even created his own version of Mad Magazine in grade school, much to the dismay of his teachers who caught it circulating around the classroom. Aside from basic grade-school art classes, Paul’s only formal training came much later, in an Adult Continuing Education oil-painting class. The instructor - who happened to be a former patient -helped him navigate the challenges of color blindness with great kindness and humor. It was his wife, Maria, who suggested embracing black-and-white painting. Paul created many monochromatic pieces and displayed them in his office. One day, a patient encouraged him to exhibit his work at Framemakers Art Gallery in Black Rock. Several art pieces sold at the show, and from that moment, he was hooked. Paul’s early artworks focused on nostalgic scenes from the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. He aspired to be the “Black-and-White Norman Rockwell,” and often hid a Labrador Retriever—sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle—somewhere in each painting. As his style evolved, he gradually experimented with touches of color, then splashes, and eventually full palettes, often adding humor or observations of human nature. Acrylics joined his toolbox as he expanded into sports figures, musicians, and even commissioned pet portraits, always aiming to include details that made each subject unmistakably unique. Despite his color blindness, he never let color intimidate him. Paul relies on a supportive circle of friends and fellow artists, the steady wisdom of his wife, and a color wheel that assures him of the results of color mixing—even when he can’t see them. Paul stated “Creating art continues to be one of the great joys of my life. I hope viewers enjoy this show at least half as much as I enjoyed bringing these pieces to life.” Jerry Reece Sculpting Stories July 1- August 31 Large Glass Display Case Jerry Reece-Sculpting Stories, 7/1-8/31 Jerry Reece-Sculpting Stories, 7/1-8/31 Jerry Reece-Sculpting Stories, 7/1-8/31 Jerry Reece-Sculpting Stories, 7/1-8/31 1/4 Following a 20-year career in the telecommunications industry, Jerry Reece transitioned into the arts, where he is now a dedicated artist, author, and startup owner. A multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting, sculpture, and relief art, Jerry began his formal artistic journey during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a remarkable short period, his emotionally resonant work, grounded in storytelling and cultural reflection has garnered significant recognition. Jerry's work has been exhibited at the Ruby & Calvin Fletcher African American History Museum, where his sculptures Still Waters and the Statesman have been acquired into the museum's permanent collection. His practice explores themes of identity, history, and imagination, often bridging personal narrative with broader cultural conversations. Originally from Barbados and now based in Stratford, Connecticut, Jerry is also a writer and co-founder of Reece Creative, LLC. Through both visual art and storytelling, he continues to create work that invites reflection, dialogue, and connection.

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Welcome to Easton Public Library Dear New Easton Resident, On behalf of the Easton Public Library, I am writing to welcome you to this wonderful community! The Library offers a robust collection of books, audio-visual materials, and digital resources, as well as some non-traditional items, including cake pans, jigsaw puzzles, board games, lawn games, hot spots, and laptops. We also host a variety of programs for all ages, including baby and toddler classes, preschool story times, crafts, reading with a therapy dog, teen cooking programs, book clubs, author visits, lectures, paint nights, and much more. I hope you will stop by the Library soon to check out our offerings and get an Easton library card. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff is always available to assist with whatever you may need. In the meantime, feel free to explore our website. See you soon! Sincerely, Lynn Zaffino Director

Library to Go Easton Public Library offers a free delivery service of books, audiobooks, and magazines to any Easton adult resident who is homebound. Who? Any Easton resident who is homebound for a variety of reasons. If you have a library card that is current, please use that card for requests and holds. I f you had a library card with us, please let us know so we can check our database and issue you an updated card. To apply for a new card, Call the Easton Public Library 203-261-0134 or click here to submit your information online. If you are renewing your card, or are issued a new one, please present a photo ID at the first delivery. What may I borrow? Any of our print and audio materials that circulate: books, magazines, and audiobooks can be borrowed through the homebound service. Place holds via our catalog: https://easton.biblio.org/eg/opac/home, or by using our “Library to Go” form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1v6pwwWrZeJwq3nsIrlBvYLVgSwl_Pp-Xcd7YZBiHhzg/edit How long may I keep these items? New items and magazines must be returned after 14 days. Other items can be kept for 28 days. Items can be renewed twice, if there are no previous holds on them. Please renew before the item is due. Can I reserve material? You can make a request or reserve an item by phone or online. You will be added to the waiting list and receive your item when a copy becomes available. Are there any fines or fees? There is no charge for this service. Have questions? Want to sign up? Contact Lynn at the Easton Public Library at 203-261-0134, or via email at lzaffino@eastonlibrary.org No one there? Don't despair. Anyone at the Library can take your information and request.

Book Brigade Grades 2-3 The Book Brigade (2nd & 3rd Grade) meets on the third Monday of the month at 4:30 p.m. For more information, please call the library at 203-261-0134, or email Mary Beth Rassulo at mrassulo@eastonlibrary.org .

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