First Friday Genealogy

Fri, July 5, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

Adult Discussion and Participation Genealogy General Research

Pop-Up Cooking Classes with the Mobile Cooking Teachers

Mon, July 8, 2019 5:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library

Stop by once a month for Ree & Kei’s Pop-up Mobile Cooking classes. Bringing the fun back into the kitchen! Lessons include: knife skills, team building, cooking and baking principles, food safety, healthy choices, and how to cook with less sugar and salt.  You will enjoy a…

Adult Young Adult Health Programs Culinary Literacy Cooking & Nutrition Health

Intelligent by Design Nonfiction Book Group | The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

Mon, July 8, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Do you enjoy reading? We read critically acclaimed nonfiction old and new. All readers welcome. For additional information, please call 215- 685-1633. Mention of “The Border” stirs both imagination and emotion: what you see and feel depending on how you perceive the world. But…

Adult Other Great Programs Book Clubs

Book To Movie Night-BlackKklansman

Wed, July 10, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Literature Department at Parkway Central Library

Our first film series for 2019 asks the question: what was better, the book or the movie? BlackKklansman will be the fourth movie of this four-part series. The movie will begin promptly at 6:00 pm.  Please register at Eventbrite: https://books2moviespikelee.eventbrite.com Parkway…

Adult Film Screening Literature Movies & Television

Glitter Tattoos

Thu, July 11, 2019 2:00 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library

Join us for some fancy glitter tattoos. This program is supported with a grant from the Penn Treaty Special Services District.

Young Adult School Age Preschool Family Programs Family Summer Reading

Snake Party!

Thu, July 18, 2019 4:00 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library

Learn all about snake behavior and habitats. Scott Prior will bring some of his favorite live snakes so we can get up-close-and-personal with these fascinating creatures. If you are brave enough, you can pet one! This program is supported with a grant from the Penn…

Adult Young Adult School Age Preschool Senior Discussion and Participation Summer Reading Animals and Nature

First Friday Genealogy

Fri, August 2, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

Adult Discussion and Participation Genealogy General Research

At These Crossroads: The Legacies of Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois

Now through Sat, August 3, 2019 6:51 P.M.
First Floor Gallery West at Parkway Central Library

Like others of their generations, and ours, Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois found themselves at the crossroads of belonging and not, of loving their nation and feeling rejected by it, of being both black and American. This special exhibition, on display in the West Gallery, invites you…

Adult Young Adult School Age Exhibitions Black History Month Other Great Programs African American Biography & Autobiography History Romance

Pop-Up Cooking Classes with the Mobile Cooking Teachers

Mon, August 12, 2019 5:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library

Stop by once a month for Ree & Kei’s Pop-up Mobile Cooking classes. Bringing the fun back into the kitchen! Lessons include: knife skills, team building, cooking and baking principles, food safety, healthy choices, and how to cook with less sugar and salt.  You will enjoy a…

Adult Young Adult Health Programs Culinary Literacy Cooking & Nutrition Health

Intelligent by Design Nonfiction Book Group | Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s by Frederick Lewis Allen

Mon, August 12, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Do you enjoy reading? We read critically acclaimed nonfiction old and new. All readers welcome. For additional information, please call 215- 685-1633. Written in 1930 and published in 1931, Allen, longtime Editor-in -Chief of Harper’s Magazine and a renowned American historian…

Adult Other Great Programs Book Clubs

First Friday Genealogy

Fri, September 6, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

Adult Discussion and Participation Genealogy General Research

Pop-Up Cooking Classes with the Mobile Cooking Teachers

Mon, September 9, 2019 5:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library

Stop by once a month for Ree & Kei’s Pop-up Mobile Cooking classes. Bringing the fun back into the kitchen! Lessons include: knife skills, team building, cooking and baking principles, food safety, healthy choices, and how to cook with less sugar and salt.  You will enjoy a…

Adult Young Adult Health Programs Culinary Literacy Cooking & Nutrition Health

Intelligent by Design Nonfiction Book Group | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David Blight

Mon, September 9, 2019 6:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Do you enjoy reading? We read critically acclaimed nonfiction old and new. All readers welcome. For additional information, please call 215- 685-1633. The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave…

Adult Other Great Programs Book Clubs

First Friday Genealogy

Fri, October 4, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

Adult Discussion and Participation Genealogy General Research

Pop-Up Cooking Classes with the Mobile Cooking Teachers

Mon, October 7, 2019 5:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library

Stop by once a month for Ree & Kei’s Pop-up Mobile Cooking classes. Bringing the fun back into the kitchen! Lessons include: knife skills, team building, cooking and baking principles, food safety, healthy choices, and how to cook with less sugar and salt.  You will enjoy a…

Adult Young Adult Health Programs Culinary Literacy Cooking & Nutrition Health

First Friday Genealogy

Fri, November 1, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

Adult Discussion and Participation Genealogy General Research

Pop-Up Cooking Classes with the Mobile Cooking Teachers

Mon, November 4, 2019 5:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library

Stop by once a month for Ree & Kei’s Pop-up Mobile Cooking classes. Bringing the fun back into the kitchen! Lessons include: knife skills, team building, cooking and baking principles, food safety, healthy choices, and how to cook with less sugar and salt.  You will enjoy a…

Adult Young Adult Health Programs Culinary Literacy Cooking & Nutrition Health

Pop-Up Cooking Classes with the Mobile Cooking Teachers

Mon, December 2, 2019 5:30 P.M.
Fishtown Community Library

Stop by once a month for Ree & Kei’s Pop-up Mobile Cooking classes. Bringing the fun back into the kitchen! Lessons include: knife skills, team building, cooking and baking principles, food safety, healthy choices, and how to cook with less sugar and salt.  You will enjoy a…

Adult Young Adult Health Programs Culinary Literacy Cooking & Nutrition Health

First Friday Genealogy

Fri, December 6, 2019 12:00 P.M.
Independence Library

Our genealogy roundtable is held the first Friday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.  All are welcome regardless of experience from beginners to advanced. Bring your questions, brick walls, and successes and share with an enthusiastic group of amateur genealogists.    

Adult Discussion and Participation Genealogy General Research