May 19th
Tour of Historic Kitchens

June 1 @ 10:00 AM
Register: In The Graveyard with the Gravestone Girls

June 4 @ 6:30 PM
Register for: Bridging Generations

June 16 @ 6 PM
Father's Day Irish Music with Cathie Ryan

September 17 @ 7 pm
Chef/author Joanne Chang

May 15 @ 10AM:
Story Time: Here Kitty Kitty!

May 17 @ 10AM:
Story Time: Here Kitty Kitty!

May 22 @ 10AM:
Story Time: Frog and Toad Stories

May 23 @ 3PM: 
Art For All: Mosaics

May 24 @10AM:
Story Time: Frog and Toad Stories

May 29 @ 10AM:
Story Time: Who lives at the Farm

May 31 @ 10AM:
Story Time: Who live at the Farm

June 5 @ 10AM:
Story Time: Monkey Business

June 7 @ 10AM:
Story Time: Monkey Business

June 12 @ 10AM:
Story Time: Father's Day

June 14 @ 10AM:
Story Time: Father's Day

June 19 @ 10AM:
Story Time: End of School and Summer

June 21 @ 10AM:
Story Time: End of School and Summer

June 25 @ 10AM:
Summer Reading Kick Off

June 26 @ 10AM:
Story Time: Digging for Dinosaurs

June 28 @ 10AM:
Story Time: Digging for Dinosaurs

Sunday, May 19th, 2013, From noon until 4pm, The Friends Of Bacon Free Library will host a tour of the kitchens of South Natick's Historic Homes with a tea included.

Tickets may be purchased for $25 with cash or check at the library or via Paypal with credit or debit card.

Kitchen Tour Tickets

One Ticket $25.00 USD Two Tickets $50.00 USD

Call 508 653 6730 for more information.

We invite you to join The Friends of Bacon Free Library. The Friends are a dynamic group of volunteers who are dedicated to supporting programs, services and building improvements at The Bacon Free Library.  They do this through membership fees and fundraising events. If you would like to become involved with the Friends, their meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month from September to June at 7:30 pm in the library. Please join us.  

Thank you for becoming a Friend of The Bacon Free Library -- your library by the falls since 1881

IRISH SINGER CATHIE RYAN IN A FREE FATHER’S DAY LAWN CONCERT SUNDAY, JUNE 16 at 6 PM.

Every Father’s Day, the Trustees of Bacon Free Library thank its current supporters and welcome a whole crop of new ones with an open house and free 6 pm concert on the lawn – the library’s lawn at 58 Eliot St. in South Natick which overlooks the spectacular waterfall on the narrowing Charles River. 

“Usually it’s been a jazz concert but this year we’re going Irish,” said Library Director John Brisbin.  “We are absolutely excited to present one of the leading voices in Celtic Music, Cathie Ryan.”  The stunning lead vocalist of Cherish the Ladies for nearly six years, Cathie has been on her own for a decade. She has released five award winning CDs including 2012’s Through the Wind and the Rain.  Listen to the critical acclaim:

Presented by the TRUSTEES OF BACON FREE LIBRARY

SIGN UP FOR BACON FREE LIBRARY KIDS SUMMER READING PROGRAM “DIG INTO READING”, featuring our popular annual Family Literacy Bingo game, will begin on Tuesday, June 25^th. Calendars listing events in the summer reading program will be available at sign up.

Kickoff event for kids summer reading program will be a visit from storyteller Diane Edgecomb on Friday, June 28^th at 10 am, when she will present: Digging Dinosaurs, a storytelling jam-packed with fun and family entertainment. The program features two original stories: Pattysaurus, selfish little Patty has the wildest collection of dinosaur things you’ve ever seen, but she refuses to share; and Egg Mountain, paleontologists Clara and George enlist the audience help and solve “The Mystery of the Missing Duckbill Dinosaur Eggs.”

Readers of all ages will explore all things underground this summer as Bacon Free Library presents “Dig Into Reading” for children; “Beneath the Surface” for teens; and “Groundbreaking Reads” for adults, during their summer library program. For more information, call Bacon Free Library at 508 653 6730. All programs are free of charge.

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Summer Reading is sponsored by Bacon Free Library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and The Boston Bruins. 

September 17, 2013 at 7 pm

Chef/author Joanne Chang will visit the Bacon Free Library!  She will sign and sell copies of both of her books: Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe written with collaborator Christie Matheson; and the brand new Flour, Too: Indispensable Recipes for the Cafe's Most Loved Sweets & Savories written with Michael Harlan Turkell. Joanne will bring along a few snacks for guests to try.

After graduating from Harvard with honors in Applied Mathematics and Economics, and embarking on a management career, Joanne followed her passion instead. She became a professional cook and baker.  She worked at Boston's renowned Biba Restaurant; then as a pastry cook at Bentonwood Bakery in Newton; and later, at Rialto Restaurant in Cambridge.

Joanne moved to New York City in the late nineties to work in the cake department of the famed Payard Patisserie and Bistro. Returning to Boston a year later with dreams of opening her own pastry shop, she became pastry chef at Mistral.

In 2000, she opened Flour, a bakery and café, in Boston's South End. Flour features breakfast pastries, breads, cakes, cookies, and tarts as well as sandwiches, soups, and salads. Over the next ten years she opened a second Flour Bakery in the Fort Point Channel area and a third branch in Cambridge near MIT and Central Square. A fourth Flour Bakery opened in Back Bay just recently.

Flour has been featured in Gourmet, Food&Wine, Bon Appetit, and the New York Times.  She has received numerous Best of Boston awards.

The real acid test was when she went head to head with Bobby Flay on Food Network’s Throwdown. When the smoke cleared, it was her sticky buns that came out on top.  Joanne Chang’s sticky buns and sumptuous lamb sandwich are but two of Flour Bakery’s “Most Loved Sweets & Savories” as the book title suggests.  Those attending the Tuesday 7 pm September 17 book signing and tasting at Bacon Free Library in South Natick, MA are advised to arrive early for best seating choices.

Tuesday, June 4, from 6:30-7:30 pm

Register for Marjorie Turner Hollman's "Bridging Generations” workshop on writing down personal and family stories.  Arrive early. Space is limited. Those interested should bring a family member.  A five year old grandchild can bring a grandparent. A teen or an adult can bring a parent. A great grandparent can bring any relation he or she wants.

"In pairs, at the workshop," Marjorie says, “we practice interviewing back and forth. We learn to ask open-ended questions. We use active listening techniques. I can give you great story-starter questions.  Expect to surprise yourself with the stories that come to mind,” she warns playfully, “the stories you hear and the stories that bridge generations.” 

When the stories are written down and done at the end of the one hour workshop, Marjorie will give the pairs the information they need to self-publish inexpensively so they can be shared with other family members. “Adding these kind of personal stories to the photo album snapshots we usually collect in families brings MANY dimensions and connections,” she said.

“When your child asks ‘Why?’ wouldn’t you like to stop the endless cycle of explanations and learn what she is really thinking? When a family member responds to ‘How was your day?’ with just that one annoying word, ‘ Fine,’  don’t you wish he’d tell you the real story?  Come to the workshop. I can help.”

Marjorie Turner Hollman is a personal historian, professional storyteller, long-time freelance writer and skilled listener. She is the Coordinator for the Southern New England Chapter of the Association of Personal Historians (APH). Increasing generational connections gives her great joy. Come join her! Call Bacon Free Library for more information 508 653 6730

The Bacon Free Library has museum passes.

They can be borrowed just like a library book and receive reduced admission for up to four people on a particular day.

The library pass to the Museum of Science in Boston gives admission to the museum’s Exhibit Halls at a reduced rate of $7 per person for up to four people. (Full price of admission as listed on the Museum of Science website is $22 each for adults, $19 each for children).
The library pass to the Boston Children’s Museum gives admission at HALF PRICE or $7 per person for up to four people. (Full price of admission as listed on the Boston Children’s Museum website is $14 for adults and $14 for children).

Call Bacon Free Library now and reserve your Museum of Science or Boston Children’s Museum pass for a particular day – 508 653 6730

The library’s museum passes are funded by the Friends of Bacon Free Library