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Thank you to our sponsors, volunteers, library members, and 5K participants! You make Newtown great! Visit us on Facebook to check out photos from the 5K on Market Day. View the race results here. Gold Sponsors First National Bank Silver Sponsors Neil J. Brassell, Jr. Foundation Barry Isett & Associates Bronze Sponsors Always Advancing Applebees… Continue reading 5K on Market Day 2019
Who: Cool Women When: Friday, June 21, 2019 at 7:30PM Where: The Newtown Library Company, 114 E. Centre Ave. Newtown, PA Bring a friend and a poem for the open mic! Cool Women is a central New Jersey based, nine-member poetry critique and performance group, who have been meeting for 25 years. The members are widely published individually… Continue reading Poetry Night: Cool Women
Who: Steve Delia When: Friday, May 17, 2019 at 7:30PM Where: The Newtown Library Company, 114 E. Centre Ave. Newtown, PA Bring a poem and a friend! Steve Delia has been writing poetry for 41 years. He’s read at numerous coffee houses, libraries and bookstores. He read at Café Improv as one half of the Dueling… Continue reading Poetry Night: Steve Delia
A Newtown tradition since 2000 Where: Newtown Library Company When: June 14, 2019 @ 7PM The library is thrilled to be hosting PorchFest! Join us for this Newtown Borough tradition, a gathering of friends and family in our wonderful community. Each Friday in the summer, a different neighbor hosts from their porch. Bring your own… Continue reading PorchFest 2019
Newtown Library Company's Penn Chair Travel Series presents: Peg & Doug Levin and Bhutan Where: Newtown Library Company When: February 23, 2017 @ 7PM Who: Peg and Doug Levin The Kingdom of Bhutan lies in the eastern Himalayas, between Tibet to the north and the Indian territories of Assam and West Bengal to the south.… Continue reading Penn Chair Travel Series: Bhutan
Newtown Library Company's Penn Chair Travel Series presents: Dr. Rami Cobb and the Antarctic Spring Where: Newtown Library Company When: March 23, 2017 @ 7PM Who: Dr. Rami Cobb Antarctica, the seventh continent, is a land of extremes - the coldest, highest, windiest and driest land, surrounded by the stormiest ocean. The extreme climate has limited… Continue reading Penn Chair Travel Series: Antarctic Spring
Newtown Library Company's Penn Chair Travel Series presents: Irene & Arthur Rodgers, Amazon River, and Galapagos Islands Where: Newtown Library Company When: May 18, 2018 @ 7PM Who: Irene & Arthur Rodgers Where can you see pink dolphins, three-toed sloths and plum throated katingas, eat manyuk and pirhana, drink pisco sours and Iquitena while cruising on an old… Continue reading Penn Chair Travel Series: Amazon River & Galapagos Islands
Newtown Library Company's Penn Chair Travel Series presents: Peg and Doug Levin and Shanghai Where: Newtown Library Company When: February 15, 2018 @ 7PM Who: Peg and Doug Levin Shanghai is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million as… Continue reading Penn Chair Travel Series: Shanghai
250 YEARS OF BOOKS FOR YOUNG AND OLD 1760 – 2010 1760: Library Company founded August 9th First Accession, John Locke’s “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” Joseph Thornton chosen librarian; books and effects kept at his home 21 original members 1761: David Twining serves as librarian to 1789; books moved to Twining’s home 1774: After the… Continue reading 250 Years of Books for Young and Old
Newtown Library Company's Penn Chair Travel Series presents: Kevin S. Fox and Arctic Svalbard Where: Newtown Library Company When: Thursday, September 26, 2019 @ 7PM Who: Kevin S. Fox Reimagining the Arctic Embark on an expedition aboard the MS National Geographic Explorer to Arctic Svalbard with cultural geographer Kevin S. Fox. The polar north entered the popular "geographical… Continue reading Penn Chair Travel Series: Arctic Svalbard
