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Our Community Stories
Our Community Stories is a multi-year local oral history project where we collect and organize audio stories and related photographs share from our rich social and cultural history around the Aspinwall, Blawnox, Fox Chapel, Indiana Township, O’Hara Township, and Sharpsburg communities. Check out the website to hear some of these stories and consider contributing your own!
April Book Clubs
¡ Leamos Juntos ! (We Read Together!) | Monday 04/15 @ 7:00pm
Join Diana Morales for a fun way to improve your Spanish! This group will meet virtually on Zoom for a fun book club where you’ll read bilingual picture books together. Each participant will receive a PDF of the book. Learn and chat with others from the comfort of home. Diana will choose some fun picture books with text that will gradually increase in difficulty each month. Each month, you’ll spend some time on vocabulary and verb conjugation and then have an opportunity to discuss the books. Participants should know basic Spanish. Register here
Booked for Lunch | Friday 04/12 @ 12:00pm
This group meets in person AND online in a hybrid format on the 2nd Friday of the month. We read fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, memoirs etc! In April we will be discussing Circe by Madeline Miller. We are now meeting in the Program Room in the lower level of the Library. Copies are available for you at the Front Desk (or try an eBook for your Kindle or iPad)! Register here regardless of how you’re participating, you’ll receive the Zoom link if you need it.
Horror Book Club (Sharpsburg Branch) | Wednesday 04/10 @ 7:00
This month we plan to read This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno, one of the HWA’s 2024 Summer Scares selection, in which a couple is plagued by strange occurrences after purchasing an Alexa-like device.
Copies will be available at the circulation desk. Zoom is available for those who prefer to meet virtually. Register here.
Memory (Memoir + History) | Wednesday 04/17 @ 6:30pm
DATE CHANGE! Curious? Always learning? Love hearing human stories? The new Memory (Memoir + History) Book Club is for you! Join us as we delve into the broad and weird world of nonfiction through selected memoirs and historical books. In April, we will meet a little girl named Viola in a crumbling apartment in Rhode Island who makes her way to the stage in New York City and from there, the world. A deeply reflective memoir, Finding Me will inspire you to pursue creative expression and discover who you were before the world put a label on you. This event occurs after the library is closed so please park in the back lot and use the doors on the far right. Copies are available for you at Cooper-Siegel’s Front Desk (or try an eBook for your Kindle or iPad)! The audiobook version is also available on Libby. Register here.
Evening Book Group | Monday 04/29 @ 7:00
The Evening Book Group meets in person AND online in a hybrid format on the 4th Monday of the month. Please park in the back of the library and use the doors to the far right to enter the library. This month we’re reading The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry. Please park in the back of the library and use the doors to the far right. Register here.
Sharpsburg Sleuths Book Club (Sharpsburg Branch) | Tuesday 04/30 @ 7:00
Get a clue with the Sharpsburg Sleuths! We read all mysteries, all the time. A parent dies at a school trivia night, but it may not have been the accident people believed in the domestic thriller Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. This group meets in-person in the Fiction Room at the Sharpsburg Branch. Zoom available for those who prefer to meet virtually. Register here.
Events and Programs!
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- Watson Institute Student Showcaseon April 25, 2024 at 10:34 pm
04/22/24 @ 12:00am - 04/27/24 @ 12:00am Sharpsburg Art work made by students at the Watson Institute School for Children with Autism will be on view daily during library hours through 5/3.
- Mah Jong Classon April 25, 2024 at 10:34 pm
04/26/24 @ 10:30am - 04/26/24 @ 12:30pm McLaughlin (Harry W. McLaughlin Jr Room) Cooper-Siegel Adults 18+ only please. Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL). Please remember to cancel your registration if you cannot attend so that others may enjoy this program. Registration is required. Registration starts: 04/03/2024 @ 8:00am Registration end: 04/26/2024 @ 10:30am Learn how to play Mah Jong with area pro, Dorothy Drennen. This 3-week session will include three robust classes plus a detailed handout with Mah Jong tips and tricks. Each student will need the 2024 Mah Jong card from the National Mah Jong League ($14 small, $15 large). You can buy a 2024 card directly from Dorothy or you can purchase one here. If you already have this year's card, you're good to go. Cost is $125 for the 3 sessions. Dorothy can only instruct four people at a time so if you're interested in a session but this one is full, please email coopersiegelref@einetwork.net and if there's enough interest, we can schedule another 3-week session. We also have an open game time every week on Fridays from 1-3. The library has 3 sets, but can host more games if participants can bring their own.
- Open Mah Jong Playon April 25, 2024 at 10:34 pm
04/26/24 @ 1:30pm - 04/26/24 @ 3:30pm Program Room (Verne C. Koch Program Room) Cooper-Siegel Drop-ins welcome as space permits. Please register online or call the library at 412-828-9520 (CSCL) or 412-781-0783 (SCL). Please remember to cancel your registration if you cannot attend so that others may enjoy this program. Registration is required. Registration starts: 04/26/2024 @ 8:00am Registration end: 07/19/2024 @ 1:30pm Join other Mah Jong enthusiasts for a weekly game or two! The library has 3 sets but can host more players if participants can bring their own sets. Everyone will need to own the 2024 National Mah Jong League card.
- Sharpsburg Arbor Day Celebrationon April 25, 2024 at 10:34 pm
04/26/24 @ 4:00pm - 04/26/24 @ 6:00pm Off Site Join library staff at the Sharpsburg Arbor Day Celebration & Tree Giveaway at Kennedy Park! At our activity table, learn about tree rings and make tree ring art! You can also "speak for the trees" with environmental speech bubbles! Our friends from Tree Pittsburgh will be distributing trees during the event. If you want a tree, please register!
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