Adults

Selectboard Meeting

PRML

6 PM

All are welcome!

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!

Community Conversations Film Series
“Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech”

Meriden Library
April 3 6pm – 7:30pm

Come out and join your neighbors in an exploration of one of
our most precious freedoms – the Freedom of Speech.

What political guarantees must a society possess in order to truly enjoy
freedom of expression? Do Americans ever benefit by limiting the scope of
the First Amendment? The film examines those questions, focusing on
case studies that weigh free speech against other societal values and influences.
These include the backlash against University of Colorado professor Ward
Churchill’s musings on imperialism in U.S. foreign policy; principal Debbie
Almontaser’s forced resignation from New York’s first Arabic-English
public school due to her alleged terrorist sympathies; inappropriate or
excessive restraint against protesters at the 2004 Republican National
Convention; and the suspension of a San Diego high schooler for wearing
a “Homosexuality Is Shameful” T-shirt.

An HBO Production. (74 minutes) Followed by Q & A and discussion.

Community Storytelling Workshop 

Simon Brooks at the Meriden Library Community Room 

Saturday, April 5th

9:30 - 12:30

Mondays at 9:30 am in the meeting space!

Friends of the Meriden Library sponsored event

Mondays  2-3:30 PM at PRML

Mindful Mondays are designed for you to start your week with an intentional pause and practice a meditation exercise with your community. All you need to do is show up, turn your phone off, and be!

Join Jim Allen for meditation sessions. 

If you are a frequent practitioner or have never done meditation, please join us.

This is a drop-in time for you to come with your tech questions.

Please come with your device(s) and all necessary passwords. We can take this time to make sure you are
set up properly to take advantage of all the library has to offer, or to help you get up and running with your
email program, social media, and the like. If we can’t help you, we’ll find an answer or point you in the direction of finding it yourself. We hope you’ll take advantage of this new service. If the time is not right for you, just let us know and we can set up an appointment.
 

Tech Tuesdays @ PRML - 10:30-11:30 am (drop in help)
Tech Thursday @ ML - 3-4: 30 pm (drop in help)

Tuesdays at 4:30 pm.

All levels welcome.

What is cribbage?

Cribbage, or crib, is a card game, traditionally for two players, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. It can be adapted for three or four players.[1]

Cribbage has several distinctive features: the cribbage board used for score-keeping; the crib, box, or kitty (in parts of Canada and New England) two distinct scoring stages; and a unique scoring system, including points for groups of cards that total 15. It has been characterized as "Britain's national card game" and the only one legally playable in licensed pubs and clubs without requiring local authority permission.[2]

The game has relatively few rules yet many subtleties, which accounts for its ongoing appeal and popularity. Tactical play varies, depending on which cards one's opponent has played, how many cards in the remaining pack will help the hand one holds, and what one's position on the board is. A game may be decided by a single point, and the edge often goes to an experienced player who utilizes strategy, including calculating odds and making decisions based on the relative positions of players on the board.

Both cribbage and its close relative costly colours are descended from the old English card game of noddy. Cribbage added the distinctive feature of a crib and changed the scoring system for points, whereas costly colours added more combinations but retained the original noddy scoring scheme.

Meriden Library Landscape Committee Mtg Tuesday April 8, 5:30PM

All are welcome!