Saturday, April 18
Cat Café with Paws Cat Shelter
10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Visit with cats from Paws Cat Shelter of Putnam while enjoying a snack. Please bring along a donation of cat food. Monetary donations and gift cards are also welcome. Donations may also be dropped off before the event. Fostering and adopting information will be available.
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If you need a library card, please stop by the library with an ID showing your Chaplin address. Once you have a valid card, you may check out books at any public library in CT!
FREE Resources
Free Wi-Fi is available around the clock in the library and Senior Center parking lots.
Eversource Kill A Watt Kit: If you want to measure your energy use, we have a kit available for checkout!
If you are a Chaplin resident and need a library card to access Overdrive, please call or email the library.
Poetry Corner
Chaplin's new and Second Poet Laureate is Victoria Northrop! Stay tuned for upcoming readings and poetry events. Victoria also happens to be daughter of Chaplin's First Poet Laureate, Adelaide Northrop. Read her poem Idylls of the Town. Adelaide also wrote a poem to introduce the reenactment of the first Chaplin town meeting, The Meeting, and a poem for the annual Tree Lighting, Evergreen.
Parish Hill Poets
On March , 2024, Dr. Susan Powers, Scotland, Connecticut's Inaugural Poet Laureate, joined forces with Mrs. Michelle Salvas at Parish Hill High School. The two teachers, former colleagues at Woodstock Academy, implemented a poetry project for the juniors in Mrs. Salvas' classes. Read the poems representative of the creative and delightful work produced by these imaginative students.
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for Chaplin residents. If you need assistance with access, please call or email the library.
ResearchIT CT
Resources for Connecticut Residents: newspapers, magazines, databases, genealogy, and much more.
