Second Annual Once Upon A Time BookFest!

Saturday, March 25th 10-5pm

The Second Annual Once Upon A BookFest... is a one of its kind book festival devoted to the kids, tweens, and their families. We'll be hosting authors and illustrators whose books you've loved or that you'll love discovering! The day will be spent in workshops, meeting the authors, and hanging out with fellow book lovers. It's going to be magical!

We are thrilled to welcome authors RW Alley & Zoe Alley, Janet Costa Bates, Diane deGroat, Jannie Ho, Renee Kurilla, Braden Lamb & Shelli Paroline, Rajani LaRocca, Nancy Tupper Ling, Gabriel Joy Reid, and Heidi EYStemple to Ashland for our Second Annual Once Upon A BookFest Children's Book Festival! 

We'll have a day full of hands-on workshops, author presentations, book selling and signing and so much more! We hope you can join us for this very special day. Click here for a schedule for the day! 

We are so happy to be partnering with Aesop's Fable in Holliston, which will provide books for the book sales and signings. Some authors will be bringing their own and you are welcome to bring books from home to have them signed. 

Friends of the Ashland Library Mini-Golf Fundraiser!

Exciting News! The Friends are hosting a PUTTS4PAGES Mini Golf at the Library fundraiser on Saturday, April 1st and Sunday, April 2nd! Tickets on sale now! 
"MockTails and Mini-Golf" - Friends of the Ashland Library Fundraising Event

*For Adults
Saturday, April 1 @ 6:30-8:30pm

Play Mini Golf in the Ashland Library - Friends of the Ashland Library Fundraising Event
Sunday, April 2 @ 11am-4pm

Contact the Friends with any questions, esp if you would like to help sponsor the event - we love our local organizations! 

PS:
April 1st 10-1pm is also the Friends Mini-Booksale and Donation day. They are going to be exhausted but happy! 

Adult Programs

We have in person, hybrid or virtual programs! Please click on the link to receive the zoom information if its online. Check your spam folder if you don't see the confirmation in your inbox. 

Virtual: Author Mia Mask Discusses "Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western"
Wednesday, March 29@ 7pm

African American westerns have a rich cinematic history and visual culture. Professor and author Mia Mask examines the African American western hero within the larger context of film history by considering how Black westerns evolved and approached wide-ranging goals.

Virtual: Q&A with YA Author Jenna Evans Welch! *For Teens and Adults
Thursday, March 30 @ 7pm

Join us for a conversation with author Jenna Evans Welch as we discuss her books "Love & Gelato", "Love & Luck", and her most recent, "Love & Olives". We're sure you can guess the settings from the titles!

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