Upcoming Events

10/20 - 6 pm

Tai Chi Class: Find Balance, Energy, and Relaxation

Join us for a gentle and revitalizing Tai Chi Class open to all experience levels.
Learn the Yang Short Form, Tai Chi principles, and Qigong exercises for health and well-being.

🕘 When: Tuesdays | 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

📍 Where: Meriden Library – Meeting Space
✨ FREE and open to the public!
Wear comfortable clothing. No registration required.

September 2025 to June 2026

10:30 am to Noon

All are welcome!

Plainfield Democratic Committee Meeting

Fall Foliage Luncheon will be taking place on October 23rd from 12-1:30 at Willow Brook Farm.

Join us for Board Game Club at the Meriden Library every Thursday at 2 PM! Whether you're a seasoned strategist or just looking for a fun way to spend the afternoon, we have a variety of classic and modern board games for all skill levels. Bring your friends or make new ones as we roll the dice, play our cards right, and enjoy some friendly competition. No registration required—just drop in and play!

October 23, 2025: 6:00 at Philip Read Memorial Library: 

Jeff Friedman & Brinda Charry

Jeff Friedman is a poet, micro story writer, and translator based in New Hampshire. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry and prose, including Ashes in Paradise and The Marksman. His work has appeared in leading journals such as American Poetry Review, Poetry, and The New Republic, and has been widely anthologized. Known for his wit, emotional depth, and surreal imagery, Friedman’s writing often blurs the line between dream and reality. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, and his translations from Hebrew and Polish have expanded his reach as an international literary voice.

Brinda Charry is a novelist, short story writer, and scholar of Elizabethan literature. Her acclaimed debut novel, The East Indian, is inspired by the true story of the first documented Indian in colonial Virginia. Richly imagined and historically grounded, the novel explores identity, displacement, and belonging in early America. Charry brings deep literary insight and lyrical storytelling to her fiction, shaped by her background in both creative writing and early modern studies.

WINNER OF THE 2025 SOCIETY OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS PRIZE (JAMES FENIMORE COOPER PRIZE) FOR HISTORICAL FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BARNES AND NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE, THE CROSSWORD FICTION PRIZE.

LONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN VOICE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE PRIZE, THE JCB PRIZE.

Plainfield Historical Society - Sunday October 26th

JANE STEPHENSON

We’d like to have a historical society meeting there. Roger Ballou, who came last year to speak about the Zorachs, will share his research into another Cornish Colony artist, Willard Metcalf. Thanks. Jane

Sunday October 26th at 3PM. 

The Plainfield Historical Society program will be Roger Ballou speaking about Cornish Colony artist Willard Metcalf. Following his numerous visits to Plainfield and Cornish between 1909-1920, many during winter, the artist Willard Metcalf was deemed by his colleagues “The Painter Laureate of the Cornish Hills.”  Roger Ballou, Docent at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester who has studied Willard Metcalf’s career extensively, will offer a program covering Metcalf’s artistic work in and around Plainfield and Cornish. Of particular interest on October 26 are photos of present day Plainfield and Cornish locations where Metcalf created some of his most famous paintings.

All are welcome!

Mondays at 9:30 am in the meeting space!

Friends of the Meriden Library sponsored event