🚂 All aboard! Drop-in for tomorrow's model train adventure! No registration required! 🚅 The library is partnering with Valley HO Trak, a local model train club, to create an unforgettable model train experience.

🧵Sergers are multifunction sewing machines that finish edges, sew seams, and hem fabrics all at once. Learn how to set that up and get a good idea of how to thread the machine and what it can make in this month’s video! youtu.be/7F8ZNlbx4NA?... 🪡Book a training sesh: walpublib.org/EmbroideryAppt

Cool Laboratory: Serger

Have you ever wondered what our Serger machine is? Sergers are multifunction sewing machines that finish edges, sew seams, and hem fabrics all at once. Since it is a more advanced sewing machine that…

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🃏 🎲 Last week we played our way through gaming history from early games like mancala and playing cards to the Nintendo 64 and VR headsets! 🕹️ 🎮 ☀️ Summer at the Library continues through August 22nd. See what else we have planned: walpublib.org/SummerAtTheLibrary

🟩 🛸 NASA Solar System Ambassador Geoffrey McLean will discuss the search for extraterrestrial life, our ongoing efforts to find other habitable planets, and the mission to find fellow life forms both within our own solar system and beyond. 🟩 For more info and to register: walpublib.org/Aliens0826

📚 We are expecting our catalog to be down for maintenance over the next two days, but you can use our secret retro catalog to search for items here: catalog.lioninc.org ✨ Psst... Feel free to use this link whenever you need a nostalgia kick!

📼 It's about time... to pick up your prizes! If you are a member of T.I.M.E.'s Nostalgia Corps and have logged 720 mins on Beanstack you can stop by the Info Desk to pick up your completion prizes! If you haven't reached 720 mins, keep reading, you have until August 22nd to complete the challenge!

⏰ You’ve read almost as much as Miss Kristina! Now we now have enough energy to power the time machine and send Miss Kristina back to Egypt, 2,800 BC. ☀️ Help us power our time machine this summer: walpublib.org/SummerAtTheLibrary

🦖 There is still time to help the Time Explorers this summer! All the books you read this summer will help power our time machine to send our TIME Agents to retrieve objects from throughout time! (It's About Time). ⏰ ☀️ walpublib.org/SummerAtTheLibrary

👘 Thanks to the Japan Society of Greater Hartford for presenting on the history of the kimono--the best-known but least-understood Japanese traditional garment--and for letting some of our guests try on these authentic Japanese garments. ☀️ walpublib.org/SummerAtTheLibrary

🟧 🎸 New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee Marc Black and his wife Susan will be your guides during an evening of song, storytelling and laughter through two historically defining decades of music. 🟧 Register or more info: walpublib.org/Boppa0826

⏰Two of our popular shirt designs are back! 💾 🎸WPL's retro logo and Library Groupie design are now available on our Bonfire Shop in more colors and styles than before. If you missed them the first time and have been wanting to show off your WPL pride, now's your chance.✨ 💖walpublib.org/BonfireShop

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🟦Join our new Wallingford Social Justice Readers Club to explore societal issues through the lens of a fiction or nonfiction title! 📘The selection for our first meeting on will be Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng. Pick up a copy at the Info Desk. 🟦For more info: walpublib.org/OurMissingHearts

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✨ Pop-up Soda Fountain! ✨ Can you feel the nostalgia yet? 🥤 Join the Nostalgia Corps: walpublib.org/SummerAtTheLibrary youtube.com/shorts/gqMn9...

🟨 🍫 Embark on a delicious journey back to the 18th century and witness the captivating art of chocolate making! Join Robert Lecce of The Pewter Potfor a demonstration of the methods used to transform the cacao bean into a rich, indulgent treat. 🟨 walpublib.org/Chocolate0826

🛸An extraterrestrial visitor from the future! This paper lifeform was attracted to the temporal literacy energy emanating from the library this summer! 📡Learn more about Earth's search for extraterrestrial life at our upcoming event with NASA Ambassador Geoffrey McLean: walpublib.org/Aliens0826

🪩 We had a boogie blast at Baby Disco last week! See what other surprises we have planned for this summer in our monthly newsletter: walpublib.org/newsletter

💥 Whether you're new to The Investigative Minds Embassy or a new recruit, stop by the Chronological Concierge at the Check-Out Desk for a top secret mission through the library stacks! For completing this mission you will even receive a prize from the future. 👀

📼 Teens entering grades 6-12 can join the Nostalgia Corps this summer! Log your reading minutes for a chance to win a $100 Barnes & Noble Gift Card and check out out all our chill throwback programs to celebrate the power of Nostalgia! ☀️ More info: walpublib.org/SummerAtTheLibrary

🟦 Are you looking for a great place to work with co-workers who are kind, supportive, joyful, and committed to excellence? Then look no further because Wallingford Public Library is hiring a part-time Library Assistant. 🟦 For more info and to apply: walpublib.org/employment

🟩 🎲 We are travelling through time and playing games as we go! Come join us as we play some ancient or antique games and learn a little about the cultures and civilizations that played them. 🟩 For more info and to register: walpublib.org/Games0726

🟪 📋 Join us for a professional workshop led by Ahmaad Robinson, Career Development Specialist at the American Job Center! Participants will learn the basics of establishing a presence on LinkedIn. 🟪 Register and more info: walpublib.org/LinkedIn0726

⏳ This summer the lower lobby will be hosting exhibits from the past, present, and future! Some of our T.I.M.E. agents have traveled to Wallingford’s past to bring back everyday objects from throughout history!

🟦 📘 Dr. Marisa Franco is one of the world’s leading experts in human connection. Her book Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make–And Keep–Friends explores the science of different attachment styles and how they impact our relationships. 🟦 For more info: walpublib.org/Franco0726

⌛ Become a D.O.R.K. today! Read books and complete other missions for a chance to win an $80 gift card to a Wallingford business of your choice! This year features a geocache adventure throughout Wallingford! ☀️ Pick up your Travel Log at the Info Desk or download at walpublib.org/SummerAtTheLibrary

⏰ You’ve been such rock stars with your reading that we now have enough energy to power the time machine and send Mr Josh back to Abbey Road, 1969 AD! youtu.be/R2s2sK4ocyo?...

Josh Visits Abbey Road, 1969 AD

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🟩 🌿 Join Nora Toomey, Clinical Herbalist of True Bloom, for a journey into the medicine of summer. In this one-hour presentation, we will go over a variety of summertime plants and learn easy medicinal preparations 🟩 For more info and to register: walpublib.org/Medicine0726

🟠 🪚 Check out our new piece of equipment, the Chompsaw! Chompsaw is a power tool for cutting cardboard that has been engineered to be completely safe, with absolutely no chance of it cutting yourself. In this video we use it to make a giant d20 die for D&D.

🔨🎨 Submit your craft projects to our summer maker competition for a chance to win up to a $100 gift card! 🧶📸 Enter from June 29th to July 29th. Votes are collected in-person and via likes on the library's Facebook page from Aug 3rd to 16th. ☀️ More info: walpublib.org/SomeAssemblyRequired