Join us at Rumsey Hall School for ASAP! Summer Camp 2025! Our camps are a unique opportunity for children in grades 1-6 and 7-10 to build friendships, get creative, and discover new interests. Visit our website to see the full list of camp activities and sign up!

Join us at Rumsey Hall School for ASAP! Summer Camp 2025! Our camps are a unique opportunity for children in grades 1-6 and 7-10 to build friendships, get creative, and discover new interests. Visit our website to see the full list of camp activities and sign up!

We’re excited to offer a series of interactive bilingual story times in English and French! Each session will feature engaging stories, a literacy-focused book, and hands-on crafts that encourage creativity and a love for language. Come celebrate culture, learning, and community with us!

Mia Bitar is a rising senior at the Lycée Français de New York, a bilingual school in New York. She is fluent in both French and English and speaks both at home. She has attended programs at the Gunn Memorial Library since she was in preschool and has volunteered and worked there the past three years. She is delighted to bring this bilingual, French/English story time to the children in the Gunn Junior Library community.

*August 7 – “Bear’s Birthday”

*August 14 – “I Want My Banana”

*August 21 – “I Wish You Happiness”

Registration is required. All are welcome. Please register for each session you’d like to attend.

Celebrate the End of Summer Reading with a Book Share & Social!

Wrap up your summer reading with us at the Gunn Memorial Library! Join fellow readers for a fun and inspiring Book Share & Social as we celebrate the close of this year’s Summer Reading Program.

Bring your summer reading tracker card and come prepared to swap recommendations, share your favorite reads, and reflect on the books that have left a lasting impact. Together, we’ll compile a community list of top-rated titles and use your input to create special reading displays in September.

Plus, help us crown the Most Popular Book of the Summer with a final vote—who will take the top spot?

Snacks and refreshments will be served.

Registration is required: https://www.gunnlibrary.org/calendar/end-of-summer-reading-book-share-and-social/

Join us at Rumsey Hall School for ASAP! Summer Camp 2025! Our camps are a unique opportunity for children in grades 1-6 and 7-10 to build friendships, get creative, and discover new interests. Visit our website to see the full list of camp activities and sign up!

Our August book club is sure to generate a thoughtful discussion on Hernan Diaz’s sweeping and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Trust.

Amidst the glamour and exuberance of 1920s New York, Benjamin and Helen Rask are household names. He’s a towering figure in finance, a Wall Street titan; she’s the refined daughter of reclusive aristocrats. Together, they epitomize high society and unimaginable wealth, just as the decade’s dizzying extravagance begins to teeter on the edge of collapse. But how did they truly amass their fortune? And at what hidden cost?

This enigma lies at the heart of Gone with the Wind, a bestselling 1936 novel that captivates New York’s elite. Yet, behind this version of events are competing accounts—other voices, other truths—that complicate the story and challenge its authority.

In Trust, Hernan Diaz weaves these narratives into a masterful, layered literary puzzle. As a determined woman seeks to unravel the myths and distortions surrounding the Rasks’ legacy, the novel becomes a riveting meditation on money, power, truth, and manipulation. Spanning generations, Trust is both a gripping historical narrative and an ingenious exploration of how stories are told—and who gets to say them.

Registration is required: https://www.gunnlibrary.org/calendar/gml-friday-book-club-trust-by-hernan-diaz/

Copies of the book are available at the circulation desk.

Dear Music Lovers,

Our 2025 Summer Concert Series continues with another enchanting evening of chamber music on Friday, August 8 at 5:30 PM, featuring beloved works that radiate charm, elegance, and heart.

Featured Works:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Arguably the most iconic serenade ever written, Mozart’s “A Little Night Music” sparkles with joy, wit, and grace. A true treasure of the classical era.

Johannes Brahms – Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52

A romantic and spirited collection of love songs inspired by Viennese waltzes, brimming with lyrical beauty and emotional nuance.

Heinrich Hoffmann – Serenade

This rarely heard gem features the flute in a Mendelssohnian soundscape—light, lyrical, and full of fresh, melodic charm.

Featured Performer: Sooyun Kim, flute

Praised for her dazzling virtuosity and expressive depth, internationally acclaimed flutist Sooyun Kim brings brilliance and warmth to the stage in this elegant summer performance.

Venue:

The First Congregational Church

6 Kirby Road | Washington, Connecticut

Join us in the historic Meeting House of Washington’s First Congregational Church for a moving performance by world-class musicians. This second concert in our series promises to be an uplifting and memorable summer evening.

2025 Summer Classical Concert Series

Fridays, August 1, 8, 15, & 22 at 5:30 PM

We hope you’ll continue the musical journey with us this August—each week offering a new and inspiring experience in the heart of Litchfield County.

With warm regards,

The Washington Friends of Music Board

Bringing world-class classical music to Washington, CT

Learn the basics of computer coding and create unique video games in our summer Kids Coding Club! Each week, participants will use the block-based Scratch programming language to create characters and build different types of games, including clicker games, chase games, and interactive mazes.

Grades 3-5

Registration Required for Each Session: https://www.gunnlibrary.org/calendar/kids-coding-club-game-on-grades-3-5-2/

All participants must have a signed GML Makerspace waiver on file. Please arrive a few minutes early to complete this paperwork if this is your first Makerspace program.

Submissions now open! ASAP!’s 15th annual Celebration of Young Photographers invites students in grades 6-12 to submit their photographs for a chance to participate in a juried art exhibition. A panel of professional photographers selects 60 photos for a public exhibition, recognizing the top four photographers for their outstanding and thoughtful work based on the yearly theme.

Submissions: now - September 26, 2025

Theme: Transformation

Exhibition: Hartford Art School's Silpe Gallery. Sunday, November 2, 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm

Submissions and guidelines: visit asapct.org

The Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens is pleased to present a joint art exhibition, “Now Dark, Now Glittering,” featuring the works of Chris Barnard and Jeff Joyce. This show is on view beginning Friday, August 1.

An opening reception will be held at the park on Saturday, August 2 from 3 to 5 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.

Barnard was born in New York City and received his BA from Yale and his MFA from The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Deeply informed by the pandemic and his parents’ decline, his need to engage with the natural world and create beauty led to many nature-based paintings, echoing his love for gardening. 

Joyce’s work is a meditation on nature. The pieces in this show, selected from a time span of nearly 20 years, are engaged with the landscape. They aim to demonstrate how cultural history mediates and defines the ways we perceive nature.

This show will remain on view through Sunday, August 24. Check our social media for weekly open hours: @judyblackpark on Instagram and Facebook.

Join us at Rumsey Hall School for ASAP! Summer Camp 2025! Our camps are a unique opportunity for children in grades 1-6 and 7-10 to build friendships, get creative, and discover new interests. Visit our website to see the full list of camp activities and sign up!

Join us at Rumsey Hall School for ASAP! Summer Camp 2025! Our camps are a unique opportunity for children in grades 1-6 and 7-10 to build friendships, get creative, and discover new interests. Visit our website to see the full list of camp activities and sign up!