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Chess Champs come and play!
Play chess to learn or strengthen your skills of the game.
Players of all ages and strengths are welcome to come and play.
We gather every week on Saturday mornings to play casual chess games.
Chess at Bowman Library is a volunteer-run program.
Chess sets and space are provided. Instructors are present when their schedule permits.
Sponsored and affiliated with the Stephens City Chess Club and the Shenandoah Valley Chess Club.
Enjoy a program perfect for preschoolers to learn through stories, rhymes, movement, and song. (Best for ages 3 & up)
This week's theme is: "Author Spotlight - Bill Martin Jr."! Come join us as we celebrate the works of renowned children's book author, Bill Martin Jr.!
Join us on as we hear stories and participate in singing, playing, reading, writing and sharing.
Books are shared and the puppets perform fun songs as we sing, play and dance along.
Bowman Library, Children's…
Join the Friends of Handley Regional Library System for their Annual Meeting Celebration. After a brief business meeting and a presentation to the library, hear author P. O'Connell Pearson speak about her historical nonfiction books for ages 10 and up. Pearson has written about women pilots during World War II, young men building and reclaiming national parks in the 1930's, segregation in Virginia in the 1950's and the national scandal Watergate. Winchester Book Gallery will be on hand selling…
Chess Champs come and play!
Play chess to learn or strengthen your skills of the game.
Players of all ages and strengths are welcome to come and play.
We gather every week on Saturday mornings to play casual chess games.
Chess at Bowman Library is a volunteer-run program.
Chess sets and space are provided. Instructors are present when their schedule permits.
Sponsored and affiliated with the Stephens City Chess Club and the Shenandoah Valley Chess Club.
Meet famous authors and illustrators as we rock out at the library for our love of reading in partnership with the Shenandoah University Children’s Literature Conference. Enjoy live music, get free gifts, and explore more fun surprises. All Ages. Authors/Illustrators attending are...Christopher Denise
Rafael Lopez
Juana MartĂnez-Neal
Join us in participating in the "All the Feels" Youth Winter Reading Challenge located on our library website and on Beanstack.
In this emoji-themed reading challenge from January 1–31, readers of all ages will explore how reading helps process and express emotions with mindfulness by logging reading, completing activities, and writing book reviews. Each completion receives a badge and fills in a space on the virtual bingo card.
From reading and listening to writing an emoji-only book review…
Come join us at the Barns of Rose Hill in Berryville for a book discussion. Bring your lunch and a friend!
May's book will be The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
Parents have been interacting with their young children through finger plays and bounces for centuries. Many of them have been handed down throughout the generations, and the pig seems to take center stage in quite a few!
Finger play is important at many different stages of child development. In addition to the rhyming sounds that help develop both language and pre-reading skills as well as counting and math skills as you count off the piggies, they offer tactile connections to the fingers…
Play chess to learn or strengthen your skills of the game.
Players of all ages and strengths are welcome to come and play.
We gather each week to play casual and blitz chess games.
Chess at Bowman Library is a student volunteer-run program.
Chess sets and space are provided. Free!
Sponsored by the Teen Advisory Board at Bowman Library; affiliated with the Stephens City Chess Club and the Shenandoah Valley Chess Club.
Chess Champs come and play!
Play chess to learn or strengthen your skills of the game.
Players of all ages and strengths are welcome to come and play.
We gather every week on Saturday mornings to play casual chess games.
Chess at Bowman Library is a volunteer-run program.
Chess sets and space are provided. Instructors are present when their schedule permits.
Sponsored and affiliated with the Stephens City Chess Club and the Shenandoah Valley Chess Club.