Join us outside in the Storybook Garden for crafts, activities, and fun, celebrating a different fandom each week. No registration required. Please wear a mask.

Join us outside in the Storybook Garden for crafts, activities, and fun, celebrating a different fandom each week. No registration required. Please wear a mask.

It’s the final day of our Summer Reading program! At 2:00, we’ll announce the summer reading grand prizewinners in our kids, teen, and adult programs. Stay afterwards to make some art with us and grab a sweet treat to go.

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JUNE’s Selection: The Courier

Free movies return!

Free showing of the movie The Courier. In 1962, a British electrical engineer turned MI6 agent relays crucial intelligence about the Soviet nuclear program to the CIA. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and based on a true story. (111 min., rated PG-13, ©Lions Gate)

Robert Tabern, Director of Passenger Development at Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad, will be stopping by the Galesburg Public Library on July 17. This stop is the first on Tabern’s Mark Twain Zephyr Rebuild Outreach Tour.

During the presentation, Tabern will discuss the train renovation project currently taking place at the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad in Trego, Wisconsin. “For the past ten months, our team of experienced carpenters, renovators, and craftspeople have garnered national attention transforming the Mark Twain Zephyr from a lifeless shell into what will be the only operable train of its kind — anywhere!”

After the presentaion, Tabern will be available to sign copies of his book Mark Twain Zephyr: History, Restoration & Re-birth.

For more information about the event, check out the press release or promotional video.

JULY’s Selection: TBD

The movie group meets in the evening once a month on the third Tuesday to watch a new movie at the AMC Showplace or a newly released DVD at the library. The group sees movies based on books or otherwise connected to literature whenever possible.

A discussion at Perkins Restaurant on Henderson Street follows. Movie titles and times are announced about one week in advance, when the theater posts its upcoming schedule.

Send an email to reference@galesburglibrary.org to be added to the Movie Club’s email distribution list. Newcomers are always welcome! If you don’t find us at the theater, ask restaurant staff to help you find us. Both the movie and the restaurant are pay-your-own-way.