We encourage you to attend your town meetings and vote to support the library’s funding request. Your vote has a direct impact on community services, including the library, and your participation makes a difference. Thank you! Woolwich: April 29 at 6pm Woolwich Central School Bath Budget Public Hearing: May 20 at 6pm Bath City […]
You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine edited and translated by Tayseer Abu Odeh & Sherah Bloor When the Palestinian-American poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha received the 2024 National Book Award for poetry, in her acceptance speech she said, “I don’t want to write anything that is a consolation. I don’t want to console.” I have read […]
The newest issue of Pharos, A Patten Free Library Literary Magazine is now available! This online publication features the winning pieces from this year’s Annual Writing Contest. Access it through the link below and join us in once again congratulating this year’s winners. The 11th Annual Writing Contest was open to writers of Fiction, Non-Fiction, […]
Tickets for our Gift Card Raffle are now on sale! We’re raffling off gift cards from a variety of local businesses all throughout June. Support the Library and treat yourself to something fun. Tickets are on sale through the end of May, and can be purchased at the front desk or at the link below. […]
The Seed Library is now open! The majority of seeds for the 2026 Seed Library were donated by Fedco Seeds and Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Additional seeds have been provided by patrons like you! We are starting the year with beans, beets, broccoli, corn, greens, herbs, peas, root vegetables, squash, and an assortment of flowers. […]
See what PFL staff are reading as we move into Spring! Historical fiction, nature observations, many audiobooks, and a lot of us were reading Lauren Groff! Place a hold on any title below by clicking the link. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback A Marriage at […]
I have not seen the movie, but odds are the book is better! It’s the story of a white Zimbabwean family during the Rhodesian Civil War, in the mid sixties-seventies. It was a brutal time to live there. Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight provides a good snapshot of the horrors of the civil […]
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Patten Free Library’s 2026 Annual Writing Contest! We can’t wait to share the winning pieces with the public in our literary magazine, Pharos, which will be published in April. The 11th Annual Writing Contest was open to writers of Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry in grades 6-12 […]
