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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.
Get together with fellow teen arts and crafts lovers while casually exploring your creative mind and spirit. No artistic experience or ability is required, but pre-registration is a must in order to have enough materials available! Ages 12-18. *Registration required and may close up to 48 hours in advance of program. September 11 - laminated bookmarksSept. 25 - fabric/sweater pumpkinsOct. 9 - Decoupage leaf artOct. 23 - Halloween watercolor paintingNov. 13 - origami with Harry…
Read a favorite book to a reading tutor. It's Paws for Reading! These canine listeners are patient and love kids. Come meet our certified therapy dogs.
First and third Saturdays, 1:00-2:15 p.m.
Free! No registration required.
Bowman Library, Children's Room Call Donna Hughes at 540-869-9000 x215 or dhughes@handleyregional.org
When it comes to treats nothing beats, the wonderful Land of Sugar and Sweets!
This week, we'll focus on the Land of Sugar and Sweets Activity Badge and all of the virtual programs that accompany this. You will find these on Beanstack when you click on the tab for Activity Badges.
If you have an elementary, middle school, or teen reader who is logging minutes read, scroll until you see this picture:
Complete 3 activities related to the theme of Land of Sugar and Sweets to…
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…
We’re doing the Monster Mash this week here at Handley Regional Library! You can join us with some great books about some (not so scary) monsters. Type in the tag: #monstermash in the search bar above to search for your monstrous pile of books for this week’s theme.
Find some great books, such as Monster Mash by David Catrow, Hush Little Monster by Denis Markell, Monster Boogie by Laurie Berkner, Go Away, Big Green Monster! Ed Emberley, Monster Needs a Party by Paul Czajak, Ten Creepy…
Chess Champs
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 other week to play casual and blitz chess games.
Chess at Bowman Library is a volunteer-run program.
Chess sets and space are provided. Free!
Sponsored and affiliated with the Stephens City Chess Club and the Shenandoah Valley Chess Club.
1455’s Author Series at Handley Regional Library continues with Thorpe Moeckel and Jessie van Eerden.
Thorpe Moeckel is the author of the nonfiction book Down by the Eno, Down by the Haw: A Wonder Almanac, as well as a middle grade novel and four books of poems. His work has been widely anthologized and honored with NEA, Javits, Hoyns, Sustainable Arts, and Kenan Fellowships. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia (MFA) and Bowdoin College (BA). Thorpe …
There were twenty visitors to Winchester in 1777, twelve of them among the wealthiest transatlantic merchants in Philadelphia, who were sent there by the Continental Congress. Pennsylvania militia brought them against their will in open wagons. They treated them like prisoners who had colluded with the British but there had been no trial and not even a public hearing. The majority were gentlemen who were used to riding in fancy carriages and owned second homes in the countryside. They stayed in…
About the Book: Snakebit is the first novel in the Snakebit Series. It is largely told by and through the Maryland Garrett family, their friends and enemies. It is not a single, continuing story arc for it meanders across the country, North, South, East and West, it becomes more a collection of interrelated short stories that reveal engaging historical and cultural details to titillate the reader and make the conflict and the era come to life. The series covers 1859 to 1877, from the…