WAYNESBORO- The Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library has announced their September programs. The library is located at 45 East Main Street in Waynesboro. Registration is at www.AHMFL.org
AHMFL First Responder Snack Drive 2023 (September 1 – September 30, 2023)
Help us give back to our first responders. Bring in boxed or individually wrapped snacks or cases of bottled drinks (water, team, lemonade, Gatorade, etc.) anytime during the month and add them to our donation boxes. All snacks will be packed and delivered to our first responder duty stations (police, fire & ambulance). Show your appreciation and help us give something back.
ADULT PROGRAMS
A Step Back In Time: A Reflection of the History of Waynesboro, PA (Virtual)
Friday, September 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Join us as we share information from times gone by in and around Waynesboro. This month we will share parts of “A Reflection of the History of Waynesboro, PA and Vicinity” written by Carl V. Besore and Robert L. Ringer. These stories were originally published as part of the Record Herald’s “Reminiscing” series. Joining us this month to share the stories will be Chief Sourbier, Waynesboro Police Department.
Adult Story Time: Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Life
Thursday, September 7, 14, 21, 28
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Join us for our weekly virtual Adult Story Time shared on the library’s Facebook page. There are plenty of books that profess to tell you the meaning of life. But where can you go to find answers to the little mysteries of life that drive you nuts until you find their solution? During the month of September, we will be sharing from the book “Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Life”. This book looks at questions that cannot be answered by numbers or measurements or standard reference books, and provides some clues and answers to these questions. Plan to join us as we learn together.
Socrates Café
Thursday, September 7, 21
1:30 – 3:00 PM
What is Socrates Café? It’s a gathering where people thoughtfully exchange ideas about existential/philosophical questions, with maximum respect for others’ opinions. The library’s Socrates Café is only one of hundreds around the world.
The Art of Charcuterie Intermediate Class
Thursday, September 7
4:00 – 5:30 PM
You’ve completed the beginner class and now it’s time to go to the next level! We will be learning new techniques to create a beautiful board that you can take home to enjoy.
Registration is required at the library and class of $15 per person is due upon registration. Please bring your board to the class.
Gamesboro Gaming
Saturday, September 2, 16
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Come explore history through strategy board games with us. This program is the first and third Saturday of each month.
Walking Librarian Virtual Walking Program (Virtual)
Monday, September 4, 11, 18, 25
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Join the Walking Librarian on Facebook on Monday mornings for our virtual walk. Locations vary from around the area, the county, the state, and sometimes even the world.
Genealogy Club (ZOOM)
Wednesday, September 6
6:00 – 7:00 PM
Do you love genealogy? Come meet other genealogy enthusiasts in our virtual ZOOM meeting. This is an informal discussion group. Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library is inviting you to this scheduled Zoom meeting. The link for the meeting is found on the library’s website calendar.
Hooks & Needles: Making a Change Purse
Thursday, September 14
1:00 – 3:00 PM
Come join us for our Hooks & Needles Program at the library. Our program will give you the option of bringing with you what you are working on and joining in our group that talks about their current projects and shares ideas and encouragement. This is a great place to share your ideas or to learn some new stitching skills. You can also participate in our Making A Change Purse class. If you choose to do this, bring along DK/light worsted #3 yarn and a 3.5mm (F) hook OR worsted #45 yarn and a 4.25mm (G) hook. No matter which size yarn and crochet hook you choose, you will need to bring along a small decorative button as well.
Zentangle Fun
Monday, September 11
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Come join us today for a time of creativity and meditation. Registration is required at the library. Registration fee for the class is $2.00. In today’s class we will be learning 4 new tangles to add to our collection.
Civil War Soldiers
Wednesday, September 13
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Join us to see for yourself how soldiers existed during the Civil War. This program will be presented by two re-enactors who have a passion for history. Larry Korczyk is a Civil War reenactor with the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry Volunteers; and Rodney Cool
is with the 2nd Maryland CSA infantry unit. This event is free and open to the public; however, we ask that you register at the library if you plan to attend.
Coffee With A Cop
Wednesday, September 13
10:00 – 11:30 AM
Location: Christine’s Café
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library has teamed up with Christine’s Cafe and the Waynesboro Police Department for this informative Coffee With A Cop Program. Join us at Christine’s Cafe located at 81 West Main Street for a cup of coffee and conversation with officers from the Waynesboro Police Department. Bring your questions and concerns to the table. We look forward to seeing you there.
DIY Paper Flowers Craft Session
Saturday, September 23
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Stop at the library beginning Saturday, September 16th to purchase your craft bag. Then tune in on Saturday, September 23rd at 10:00 AM on our Facebook page for the accompanying video to learn how to make these beautiful paper flowers. Each kit is $3.
Walking Librarian In-Person Walk: Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve
Wednesday, September 20
9:30 – 11:00 AM
Won’t you join The Walking Librarian for this fun program geared for all ages. Come for the walk! Come with your camera (or cell phone) to participate in our photo scavenger hunt! Come to soak up nature. This month’s walk will be held at Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve located at 1537 Mount Hope Road, Fairfield, PA.
Sensational Salads (Virtual)
Wednesday, September 20
5:00 – 5:30 PM
Are you looking for some new ideas for salads for a side to your meal or for a salad that is a meal? Join Terri as she shares this month’s sensational salad recipe and shows you how to make it.
Senior Hooks & Needles
Friday, September 22
10:30 – 11:30 AM
Are you 60 or over and want to join a group of crocheters & knitters? Why not stop by Waynesboro Senior Center for the library’s Hooks & Needles Program. Bring what you are working on, or come use library supplies and work on one of our Comfort in Crisis Projects. Please note for those who plan to attend: the Senior Center location has changed to: 11359 Anthony Highway, Waynesboro, PA.
TEEN PROGRAMS
Anime Club
September 6
4:00 PM
Teens ages 12-18, do you love to watch anime, read manga, and even draw characters? Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites you to come make candy sushi with us at our first meeting of the fall. Anime Club is a regular program at the library on 1st & 3rd Wednesdays. We read & discuss our favorite / least favorite manga, choose anime shows & movies to watch together, and do various games, crafts, & other activities related to Japanese culture. This is the last Anime Club of the summer; fall dates TBA. Want to co-lead a club meeting? See Miss Gina at the library.
Anime Club
September 20
4:00 PM
Teens ages 12-18, do you love to watch anime, read manga, and even draw characters? Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites you to join us for a watch party (anime selected by club members). Anime Club is a regular program at the library on 1st & 3rd Wednesdays. We read & discuss our favorite / least favorite manga, choose anime shows & movies to watch together, and do various games, crafts, & other activities related to Japanese culture. This is the last Anime Club of the summer; fall dates TBA. Want to co-lead a club meeting? See Miss Gina at the library.
Art Saturday Kits
September 16
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Teens ages 12-18, stop by Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library to pick up your art kit!
On the 3rd Saturday of each month, we announce a new Art Saturday Kit. Art kits consist of a paper bag containing all (or most of) the supplies you’ll need to complete an art or craft project at home. The instructions are usually via a video link (also posted on our social media). Art Kits are geared towards teens ages 12-18, but older kids are welcome to give it a try, too.
Homeschool Enrichment Club
August 29
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites homeschoolers in grades K-12 to join us for art activities, STEM challenges, and more! Homeschool Enrichment Club is parent-led (hosted by AHMFL) and meets weekly August 29th – May 28th. K-5th Grades will meet 10:30-11:15 AM, and 6th – 12th Grades at 11:30 AM -12:15 PM. Please see the Programming Calendar at ahmfl.org for weekly themed activities.
Homeschool Enrichment Club
September 5
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites homeschoolers in grades K-12 to join us for art activities, STEM challenges, and more! Homeschool Enrichment Club is parent-led (hosted by AHMFL) and meets weekly August 29th – May 28th. K-5th Grades will meet 10:30-11:15 AM, and 6th – 12th Grades at 11:30 AM -12:15 PM. Please see the Programming Calendar at ahmfl.org for weekly themed activities.
Homeschool Enrichment Club
September 12
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites homeschoolers in grades K-12 to join us for art activities, STEM challenges, and more! Homeschool Enrichment Club is parent-led (hosted by AHMFL) and meets weekly August 29th – May 28th. K-5th Grades will meet 10:30-11:15 AM, and 6th – 12th Grades at 11:30 AM -12:15 PM. Please see the Programming Calendar at ahmfl.org for weekly themed activities.
Homeschool Enrichment Club
September 19
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites homeschoolers in grades K-12 to join us for art activities, STEM challenges, and more! Homeschool Enrichment Club is parent-led (hosted by AHMFL) and meets weekly August 29th – May 28th. K-5th Grades will meet 10:30-11:15 AM, and 6th – 12th Grades at 11:30 AM -12:15 PM. Please see the Programming Calendar at ahmfl.org for weekly themed activities.
Homeschool Enrichment Club
September 26
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites homeschoolers in grades K-12 to join us for art activities, STEM challenges, and more! Homeschool Enrichment Club is parent-led (hosted by AHMFL) and meets weekly August 29th – May 28th. K-5th Grades will meet 10:30-11:15 AM, and 6th – 12th Grades at 11:30 AM -12:15 PM. Please see the Programming Calendar at ahmfl.org for weekly themed activities.
MakerSpace Days
September 12
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites teens & preteens ages 10-18 to join us for our first MakerSpace activity of the fall. Participants will make & eat pizzas while learning about Louis Pasteur and why our dairy products are pasteurized. Guest teacher: Julie Diaz.
Registration Required – Please sign up at ahmfl.org on the Programming Calendar.
MakerSpace Days
September 28
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites teens & preteens ages 10-18 to make Sculpey Clay Jewelry with us! No experience necessary. Guest teacher: Gwendolyn Magras.
Registration Required – Please sign up at ahmfl.org on the Programming Calendar.
Pokemon Club
September 9
1:30 – 2:45 PM
Kids & Teens, Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites you to join us for Pokemon Club! This club is dedicated to battling via the Pokemon card game. If you don’t already know how to play, leaders Chad & Kurt Ewell will teach you everything you need to know! Feel free to bring your own deck if you have one. We will also have decks here.
Teen Game Nights (In Person)
September 12
5:45 – 6:45 PM
Teens ages 12-18, the Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites you to join us for an in-person Game Night at the library. In-person Game Nights are a regular program at the library on alternating Tuesdays, 5:45-6:45 PM. Attendees choose which games to play (we usually play Dungeons & Dragons on alternating in-person game nights). Do you have a fun game you’d like to share? Go ahead and bring it!
Teen Game Nights (In Person)
September 26
5:45 – 6:45 PM
Teens ages 12-18, the Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites you to join us for an in-person Game Night at the library. In-person Game Nights are a regular program at the library on alternating Tuesdays, 5:45-6:45 PM. Attendees choose which games to play (we usually play Dungeons & Dragons on alternating in-person game nights). Do you have a fun game you’d like to share? Go ahead and bring it!
Teen Game Nights (Online)
September 19
5:45 – 6:45 PM
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library hosts Teen Game Night via Discord. Teens ages 13-18, do you have a smartphone, tablet, PC, and/or console that you play games on? Do you have online games to play & no one to play with? Looking for a game to play but don’t know where to start? Join us on our AHMFL Teen Discord to see what games are happening! We play online multiplayer games such as Among Us, Jackbox, Unfortunate Spacemen, Gartic Phone, Minecraft, and more. Put in your vote for what you want to play! To join us, you’ll need to be a member of AHMFL’s Teen Discord, since this is how we meet up, choose games, & share codes to access our game lobbies. To become a member, teens must return a permission slip signed by a parent/guardian. Please contact AHMFL Teen Librarian Miss Gina at (717) 762-3335 to request a slip. Unfortunately, Discord has a strict age 13+ policy, so we direct 12-yr-old patrons to try our in-person Game Nights instead, until they turn 13.
Online Teen Game Nights are a regular program on alternating Tuesdays, 5:45-6:45 PM.
Teen Story Share (Online)
September 15
Join Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library on Fridays for our latest “Teen Story Share” video. This is a regular library video series on Fridays, where Teen Services Librarian Miss Gina shares a variety of reading material that is fun for teens, including short stories, & excerpts from longer books—mostly fiction, with some nonfiction thrown in. We post on the library’s YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram (we go by the library’s full name on YouTube & Facebook; on Instagram we are @AlexHamiltonLibrary and @ahmfl_teens).
Teen Story Share (Online)
September 22
Join Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library on Fridays for our latest “Teen Story Share” video. This is a regular library video series on Fridays, where Teen Services Librarian Miss Gina shares a variety of reading material that is fun for teens, including short stories, & excerpts from longer books—mostly fiction, with some nonfiction thrown in. We post on the
library’s YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram (we go by the library’s full name on YouTube & Facebook; on Instagram we are @AlexHamiltonLibrary and @ahmfl_teens).
Teen Story Share (Online)
September 29
Join Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library on Fridays for our latest “Teen Story Share” video. This is a regular library video series on Fridays, where Teen Services Librarian Miss Gina shares a variety of reading material that is fun for teens, including short stories, & excerpts from longer books—mostly fiction, with some nonfiction thrown in. We post on the library’s YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram (we go by the library’s full name on YouTube & Facebook; on Instagram we are @AlexHamiltonLibrary and @ahmfl_teens).
CHILDRENS PROGRAMS
A Bedtime Story
Sunday, September 3, 10, 17, 24
7:00 – 7:30 PM
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library will host our Bedtime Story program on Sunday evenings at 7:00 PM. A variety of stories will be shared by staff and the community.
Book Tasting
Monday, September 4, 11, 18, 25
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Join us each week as we share a chapter or two from one of the books in our Juvenile section. Staff will be choosing some of their favorite books to share with you. What a great way to get just a taste of the story that our books offer.
Music & Movement
Thursday, September 7, 14, 21, 28
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Join us for this fun energetic program geared toward children ages two through four, older siblings are invited. Come sing your heart out and move to the beat! We will be having fun with musical instruments, rhymes, songs, and dance. Snacks included.
Preschool Storytime
Tuesday, September 5
11:00 – 11:45 AM
During the month of September Preschool Storytime is celebrating our community heroes. We will be visited by our Waynesboro Police Department who will read us a story and share with us how they protect our community. They may even show us their patrol car. Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library welcomes preschoolers ages 2-4 (siblings of all ages are also welcome) for a fun time of songs, stories, and activities in the library’s Children’s Room! Preschool Story Time is a regular library program on Tuesdays at 11:00 AM.
Lego Club (Ages 5 – 11) PM
Tuesday, September 5
5:30 – 6:30 PM – New day & time
Calling all LEGO Lovers! New monthly challenges! 2nd floor in the Community Room. Bring LEGOS from home or use LEGOS supplied by the library. Snacks included.
Pokémon Club – Kids
Saturday, September 9
1:30 – 2:15 PM
Kids ages 9-11, Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library invites you to join us for Pokémon Club! This club is dedicated to battling via the Pokémon card game. If you don’t already know how to play, leaders Chad & Kurt Ewell will teach you everything you need to know! Feel free to bring your own deck if you have one. We will also have decks here. This summer, we have separate clubs for Kids and Teens, every 2nd Saturday in the 2nd floor Community Room.
Preschool Storytime
Tuesday, September 12
11:00 – 11:45 AM
During the month of September Preschool Storytime is celebrating our community heroes. We will be visited by Waynesboro’s very own Postmaster, Kane J. Miller who will read us a story about how letters get sent all over the world. He will even bring his special leather bag that is carried to deliver all our mail. Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library welcomes preschoolers ages 2-4 (siblings of all ages are also welcome) for a fun time of songs, stories, and activities in the library’s Children’s Room! Preschool Story Time is a regular library program on Tuesdays at 11:00 AM.
Block Party
Saturday, September 16
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Kids 12 and under, bring your imagination! We build farms, castles, bridges and go wherever our imagination takes us. Come have fun, we build the 3rd Saturday of each month, no registration is necessary.
Preschool Storytime
Tuesday, September 19
11:00 – 11:45 AM
During the month of September Preschool Storytime is celebrating our community heroes. September 19th we have invited someone from our Waynesboro Fire Department to come read us a story and share with us how important their role is in keeping our community safe and may even let us look inside their fire engine. Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library welcomes preschoolers ages 2-4 (siblings of all ages are also welcome) for a fun time of songs, stories, and activities in the library’s Children’s Room! Preschool Story Time is a regular library program on Tuesdays at 11:00 AM.
Children’s Book Club
Tuesday, September 19
5:30 – 6:30 PM – New day & time
For those of you who missed the August Book Club due to back to school activities, we are rehosting The Giver by Lois Lowry. Attention kids between the ages of 9-11… do you like to read and share your ideas? Join us for our Children’s Book Club which meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. This month’s book selection is The Giver by Lois Lowry. This is the 1st book in a 4-part series about a boy named Jonah who lives in a community where
everything is controlled. As he reaches his 12th birthday, he will be assigned a role in the community. Join us as we discuss what role he is given and why Jonah was selected for this very unique role in his society.
Preschool Storytime
Tuesday, September 26
11:00 – 11:45 AM
During the month of September Preschool Storytime is celebrating our community heroes. September 26 we are hoping to be joined by a very special nurse who will read us a story and share with us how she works hard every day to save lives. Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library welcomes preschoolers ages 2-4 (siblings of all ages are also welcome) for a fun time of songs, stories, and activities in the library’s Children’s Room! Preschool Story Time is a regular library program on Tuesdays at 11:00 AM
Kindly Canines
Tuesday, September 26
6:00 – 7:00 PM
Kindly Canines are back!!! Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library welcomes ages 5-11 in the library’s Children’s Room to read to a variety of therapy dogs. Children may select different books from the library and/or bring their own favorite book from home to read. Kindly Canines is a regular library program held during the school year on Tuesdays at 6:00 PM.
