Bacon Closed This Saturday
Bacon Free Library will be closed this Saturday, May 25, 2013 in observance of Memorial Day weekend

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

June 25th
Summer Reading Starts!

September 17 @ 7 pm
Chef/author Joanne Chang

Programs Postponed Until the Fall 
Both The Gravestone Girls field trip to local Natick Cemeteries and Marjorie Turner  Hollman's "Bridging Generations" program will NOT be run in June as originally planned. They will be rescheduled for the fall, dates to be announced.

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 @ 6:30PM:
Bed Time Stories With Anne Marie David
(Kids can come in PJs!)

June 25
Summer Reading Starts!!!

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

June 28 @ 10AM:
Summer Reading Kick Off with Diane Edgecomb

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 the library's current supporters and welcome a whole crop of new ones with a library open house and a 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:

 “…the perfect marriage of voice and verse…The stubborn beauty of her CD [The Farthest Wave] is a revelation.” — The Wall St Journal

 “…mature, masterful, at times magnificent singing…  For anyone wondering what constitutes excellence in Irish American singing today, you need only attend a Cathie Ryan concert or listen to her most recent CD.”

— The Irish Echo, NY

“Irish American vocalist Cathie Ryan has an enchanting voice, she sings with emotive power and an immaculate clarity. …..her performance is striking.” — Billboard Magazine (starred review)

“Concert of the Year Award …Cathie Ryan, our Female Vocalist of the Decade, is quite simply the best….She and her talented, versatile band give the definitive live Irish music performance.”

— Irish American News, Chicago

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.

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