Super Crafts at the Library

Wednesday, July 22 at 10:30am

Raynham Public Library

Get ready to make everything SUPER!

Create superhero crafts and costumes.

Kids 1st grade and older.

Each Wednesday morning.

Choose a date and register. 

Click here to register

Singing Group at the Raynham COA

Every Monday at 11 a.m. join Nancy Donnelly, local music director and piano in-structor, for an informal singing group.

This is a free fun program open to all who enjoy singing. 

Are You Ok Program & Ice Cream Social

Thursday, July 23 at 1pm

Raynham Senior Center

An ice cream social sponsored by Longmeadow of Taunton will be combined with a special presentation by the Bristol County Sheriff's Department on July 23 at 1 p.m.

The program is about R.U.O.K., a free service offered by the Bristol County Sheriffs Department.

 After a senior signs up, the department makes a call to a senior's home at the same time each day. If no one answers, the department calls back, and if no one answers the second time, a first re-sponder is immediately called to check on the person's status.

This longtime, free program is run in cooperation with the sheriffs department, Raynham Police Department and Council on Aging.

If you would like to learn more, please sign up at the Senior Center or by calling 508-824-2740.

This free program is open to all seniors.

Stone Church Summer Concerts
Five concerts this year!

785 South Main St, Raynham

 
 Each concert is at 7:00 PM at the Stone Church.


 

Admission is free, but an offering will be gratefully received.

Summer Adventure Books at the Library

Take a look at some of these great books our library has available for summer reading!

Lost in Shangri-la: a true story of survival, adventure and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II, by Mitchel Zuckoff, recounts the story of three American survivors of a plane crash in Dutch New Guinea and their encounters with enemy Japanese soldiers and primitive natives, all while trying to stay alive in the mountainous jungle.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place, by Aron Ralston, is one of the most extraordinary survival stories ever. Trapped by rocks for six days in one of the most remote regions of Utah, the author faced certain death until one incredible act of courage set him free.

In The Perfect Storm: a true story of men against the sea, author Sebastian Junger tells the dramatic story of the crew of the Andrea Gail, the fishing boat struck by a rogue wave in the North Atlantic during the Perfect Storm of 1991. This bestseller inspired the movie of the same name.

Into Thin Air: a personal account of the Mount Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauer, describes the author's survival of a catastrophic storm on the top of Everest that claimed the lives of eight companions. Watch for the movie adaptation to be released this September.

The Lost City of Oz, a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann, tells the story of the British explorer Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared with his son in the Amazon while looking for an ancient lost city.

Pirate Hunters: treasure, obsession, and the search for a legendary pirate ship, by Robert Kurson, is a gripping account of the hunt for the Golden Fleece, the shipwreck of the seventeenth century pirate ship captained by legendary swashbuckler Joseph Bannister.

Experience amazing adventures and travel far and wide this summer, all without leaving home. Read!

From the Raynham Library Newsletter 

Passes for Adventure!
Looking for some summer fun?

Check out all the great passes available at

your local library and through the SAILS network.

All you need is a valid library card. 

For a complete list Click here

During the long, humid weeks of summer, the youngsters with adventurous hearts seek satisfaction in one of the oldest, dirtiest and yet most satisfying of past times: they go to the local pond! Here they can find things real and unreal to stimulate their minds. They can find the reality of frogs and snakes, crayfish and turtles, cool creatures from the primeval past.  They can test speed and reflexes in the capture of these critters.  Here too, they can sometimes fall into the mire and become messier than the things they try and catch.  At the pond, the youngster can find the creations of the mind.  Is that not a goblin hiding behind that rock? Is there not a dinosaur swimming just under the water, it's eyes peering out?  Could this pond not be the landing zone for an alien invasion, bent on world conquest?  Ahh, the joys of it all!

Then there is the return home, often a mess, sometimes with 'friend' in hand.  Why does mommy scream so when we bring our 'friends' in? Why the insistence on going into the bathtub?

We had plenty of fun in the water already!

Respectfully submitted by M. Hardy

GFWC Fundraiser at Foxwoods

Tuesday, August 18