Color Yourself Calm: Adult Coloring (Wednesdays) Every Wednesday, 12:30pm-3:00pm (drop-in) -- Pullen Room Join us for Color Yourself Calm, a relaxing, self-guided coloring session for adults of all abilities. All materials are provided—including colored pencils, crayons, markers, and a variety of coloring sheets—though you’re welcome to bring your own if you prefer. Drop in anytime during the session and stay
Reading Tracker Class: Using StoryGraph & Goodreads to Start Your Reading Year Strong Thursday, 1/8/2026, 2pm. Begin the new year with digital tools that help you track your reading, set goals, and connect with other book lovers. This class introduces you to StoryGraph and Goodreads (and maybe some other bookish social media options!), showing you how to log books, explore
Our Smithfields Library Branch’s Omnivorous Readers Book Club (ORB) provides a unique and fun book club experience. Rather than everyone reading the same book, each member chooses your OWN selection related to the month’s theme (which is chosen by the previous meeting’s attending members)! Sharing what we all read is an excellent way to find out about books you may
Chair Cardio/Movement (Fridays) Every Friday, 2:00pm (unless otherwise specified) -- Community Room January: No class 01/02, 01/23, 01/30 Join our Chair Cardio sessions for a heart-pumping, full-body movement class open to all levels. Each week features different exercises and movement styles—mixing it up between boxing, tai chi, balletone, strength/balance work and more. It will get your blood flowing and make
Sunday Sit & Stitch Sunday, January 11th, 1pm-3pm – Eisemann Room NOTE! New times for 2026: Mondays (1st and 3rd), 3:00–4:30 p.m., and Sundays (2nd Sundays), 1:00–3:00 p.m., all in the Eisemann Room. Join a friendly, come-as-you-are gathering of fellow makers where you can bring your current project, chat, share ideas, and enjoy a relaxed creative atmosphere. This is a
Drop-In Fly-Tying Demo & Practice with Trout Unlimited (Mondays) Watch fly-tying demonstrations and try your hand at this traditional craft with John from Brodhead Chapter of Trout Unlimited! Drop by the Hughes Library lobby most Mondays, 1-4pm (see calendar for dates) to admire both classic and unique examples of fly tying patterns, learn techniques, and practice tying. All flies created
Chair Yoga (Mondays) January: No class 01/19 Mondays, 2pm-Community Room Join our Chair Yoga sessions for a yoga-focused class suitable for all levels. Yoga classes include breathing exercises, movement exercises, meditation, and more. All movements are adaptable—Luz provides instructions and modifications for different abilities, so you can participate entirely on the chair, partially off, or fully off the chair if
Free Weekday Matinee Film: The Apartment (1960) Tuesday, January 13th, 2:00pm-4:15pm -- Community Room Start the new year with a classic! This month’s feature is The Apartment (1960), Billy Wilder’s bittersweet, tragi-comic tale of ambition and unexpected connection in wintertime Manhattan. Jack Lemmon stars as C.C. Baxter, an insurance clerk who lends his apartment to company executives for their secret
Color Yourself Calm: Adult Coloring (Wednesdays) Every Wednesday, 12:30pm-3:00pm (drop-in) -- Pullen Room Join us for Color Yourself Calm, a relaxing, self-guided coloring session for adults of all abilities. All materials are provided—including colored pencils, crayons, markers, and a variety of coloring sheets—though you’re welcome to bring your own if you prefer. Drop in anytime during the session and stay
This book club meets at our flagship Hughes branch on the second Wednesday of every month at 1:00 pm. Members attend in-person in our 1st-floor Board Room. This month’s selection of the BookTalk Book Club is Allison Pataki's The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post.
Genealogy Resources Class: Explore Free Library Tools for Tracing Your Family History Thursday, 1/15/2026, 2pm. Uncover your family’s story using powerful research tools—all free through the library. This class introduces resources such as Ancestry Library Edition, Newspapers.com Library Edition, and additional digital archives. Learn which tools you can access from home, which are available only in the library, and how
Kaleidoscope Book Club Thursday, January 15th, 6:00pm — Pullen Room/Zoom New book club alert! January’s Theme: Fresh Starts & First Chapters. A choose-your-own-read adult book club on third Thursdays celebrating LGBTQ+ authors, characters, and stories across all genres with a different suggested theme each month. January’s theme invites books about new beginnings—coming-of-age journeys, self-discovery, transformation, or characters stepping into a
Chair Cardio/Movement (Fridays) Every Friday, 2:00pm (unless otherwise specified) -- Community Room January: No class 01/02, 01/23, 01/30 Join our Chair Cardio sessions for a heart-pumping, full-body movement class open to all levels. Each week features different exercises and movement styles—mixing it up between boxing, tai chi, balletone, strength/balance work and more. It will get your blood flowing and make
Create Valentine’s Day Cards for Seniors: Share Some Love! Friday, January 16th, 2-4pm (drop-in) — Eisemann Room Tuesday, January 20th, 2-4pm (drop-in) – Eisemann Room Brighten a senior’s day this Valentine’s by making handmade cards (self-guided) filled with love and cheer. Your creations will be delivered along our Bookmobile route to bring smiles to local seniors. We’ll provide plenty of
Red Cross Blood Drive Saturday, January 17th, 9:30am-2:30pm -- Community Room Your lifesaving donation is needed now! Join us at Hughes Library for an American Red Cross blood drive, accepting Whole Blood and Power Red donations. Winter weather has caused a severe drop in donations, creating an emergency need for type O blood. Your Whole Blood or Power Red donation
