Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

3-5 Year Old Story Time
2025-11-20 09:30 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Lecture Hall, 2 Main St, Wakefield, MA, United States
For ages 3-5, siblings welcome. Join us for stories, songs, and rhymes for preschoolers! Stick around after for a brief craft or activity with friends. Registration is required and will open one week prior to the program.

Beginners' English with English at Large
2025-11-20 10:00 - 11:30 | Trustees Room, 2 Main St, Wakefield, MA, United States
Please Note: **Registration for this session of classes takes place between September 1 and September 12. ** If you would like to be notified when it is time to sign up, please visit the English at Large webpage and scroll down to the Wakefield class.Instruction is for complete beginners, and focuses on basic survival English skills, with an emphasis on speaking:greetings and introductionspeople in the familyplaces in the home and communitynumbers, time, money, and shopping.

Harvest Gnome Craft
2025-11-20 15:30 - 16:30 | Lecture Hall, 2 Main St, Wakefield, MA, United States
For grades K-2. It’s the perfect time to infuse your space with the cozy magic of the season. Join us as we create sweet little harvest gnomes to celebrate GNOMEvember!Registration is required and will open one week prior to the program.

Books on Tap (IN PERSON)
2025-11-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Main Street Grill, 1099 Main St, Wakefield, MA 01880, Community Locations, 345 Main Street, Wakefield, MA, 01880
Read outside the box and meet outside the library! This social, casual group will meet at local bars and restaurants to discuss books that push us out of our comfort zones. Over dinner & drinks, we’ll dive into new genres and forms while getting to know fellow Wakefield readers.

Pets of Beebe Library Scavenger Hunt
2025-11-21 00:00, 2025-11-22 00:00 | Children's Area, 2 Main St, Wakefield, MA, United States
Join in our November scavenger hunt from Nov. 17 – 22!

Crafty Crochet & Knitting Club (IN PERSON)
2025-11-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Lecture Hall, 2 Main St, Wakefield, MA, United States
This is an In-person program. If you love knitting, embroidery, crocheting and more, join Lisa’s crafty community group! This program is being held weekly in the lecture hall.

First Readers Book Club
2025-11-21 15:30 - 16:30 | Program Room, 2 Main St, Wakefield, MA, United States
For grades K-2. Budding book-lovers are invited to this book club for new and emerging readers! Listen to a story, discuss it, do a themed activity, and discover other books that fit the theme of the month!This month we will practice our spy skills and have fun sharing books that will challenge our powers of observation.

Local Geology talk with Geologist Richard Butts (IN PERSON)
2025-11-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Lecture Hall, 2 Main St, Wakefield, MA, United States
This is an in-person program. Ever been for a walk at Breakheart or in the Middlesex Fells and wondered how old those giant rocks you’re climbing over are? Or what they’re made of? Geologist Richard William Butts will have the answers for your when he joins us to discuss the local geology of our area.

1 and 2 Year Old Story Time
2025-11-24 09:30 - 10:00, 2025-11-25 09:30 - 10:00, 2025-11-25 10:45 - 11:15 | Lecture Hall, 2 Main St, Wakefield, MA, United States
For ages 1-2, siblings welcome. Sing, play, dance, and share stories, rhymes, and games just right for toddlers. Registration is required and will open one week prior to the program.

Baby Lapsit Story Time
2025-11-24 10:45 - 11:15 | Lecture Hall, 2 Main St, Wakefield, MA, United States
For babies ages 0-12 months and their caregivers. No older siblings, please. Join Ms. Holly for a short story time with songs, rhymes, and fingerplays. After the story time, stay and relax with other caregivers in the area. Registration is required and will open one week prior to the program.

Beginners' English with English at Large
2025-11-25 10:00 - 11:30 | Trustees Room, 2 Main St, Wakefield, MA, United States
Please Note: **Registration for this session of classes has closed. For more information about future sessions, Conversation Groups, and Tutoring, please visit englishatlarge. org and hover over the Learn tab on the top menu. ** Instruction is for complete beginners, and focuses on basic survival English skills, with an emphasis on speaking:greetings and introductionspeople in the familyplaces in the home and communitynumbers, time, money, and shopping.

How 500 Years of Colonialism Has Impacted the Abenaki Peoples of the Northeast (VIRTUAL)
2025-11-25 19:00 - 20:30 | ONLINE, 2 Main St, Wakefield, MA, United States
This is a Virtual Program. The “People of the Dawnland” (Abenaki/Wabanaki) of New Hampshire and the Northeast are the first Indigenous peoples in North America to have had contact with Europeans. In this presentation, Anne Jennison examines how European colonization of North America impacted generations of Abenaki/Wabanaki people and highlights the ways in which the Abenaki/Wabanaki peoples have acted as agents of their own change through education, self-advocacy, efforts to revitalize their languages and traditional arts, and by working with archeologists, anthropologists, and scientists to recover and reveal more about their history and traditional knowledge.
