Shredder Day Fundraiser
Saturday, May 3rd
9:00-12pm
Gather up those confidential documents you’ve been storing and bring them to the library for shredding. $5/grocery bag full; $10/bankers box full. All proceeds will benefit the Library’s extensive community programs and services. Ours is a drive-thru service with a smile — just turn into the Township Library parking lot and we will unload for you!
Adult Yoga
Join certified yoga teacher and Mendham-local, Sarah Whitman for a morning class of stretches and poses.
Everyone can benefit from yoga – stretch your body and calm your mind.
Bring a mat. Adults Only.
* Please note our yoga classes will operate on a donation basis *
Suggested donation of $5+ per class. You will be able to donate via cash or via venmo directly to Sarah
Participants will be asked to sign a waiver.
Everyone can benefit from yoga – stretch your body and calm your mind.
Bring a mat. Adults Only.
* Please note our yoga classes will operate on a donation basis *
Suggested donation of $5+ per class. You will be able to donate via cash or via venmo directly to Sarah
Participants will be asked to sign a waiver.
Monthly Sound Bath Experience
Third Monday of Each Month, 7:00pm
Registration Required: Register Online
Join Sound Practitioner and Reiki Master, Genevieve Deely, for a unique meditative experience for adults using the healing sounds of crystal singing bowls to soothe the mind, body and soul. A sound bath is a meditative experience allowing those in attendance to be immersed in calming and healing sound waves. As half of the human body is made up of water and water is an excellent conductor of sound, there is very little effort on your part to experience the healing effects of sound.
Registration Required: Register Online
Join Sound Practitioner and Reiki Master, Genevieve Deely, for a unique meditative experience for adults using the healing sounds of crystal singing bowls to soothe the mind, body and soul. A sound bath is a meditative experience allowing those in attendance to be immersed in calming and healing sound waves. As half of the human body is made up of water and water is an excellent conductor of sound, there is very little effort on your part to experience the healing effects of sound.
Sound Baths are experiences that may help reduce stress of all kinds and induce deeper connection to one’s inner world. Genevieve will lead participants through this unique experience using the healing sounds of crystal singing bowls and chanting to soothe the mind, body and soul.
Participants can be in a seated position or lying down. If you choose to lie down, it is most important you bring a yoga mat, blanket and pillow to be comfortable during the hour.
Classes operate on a donation basis. Please consider giving up to $10 a class to go directly to the program leader (cash/check/venmo).
Please Note – Priority is given to Mendham Township Residents. Please register for each session separately.
Adult Chair Yoga with Marthe
Tuesdays 11:15am
Registration Required: Register Online
This event has separate registration lists for each session date.
Registration Required: Register Online
This event has separate registration lists for each session date.
Strengthen and stretch in an ALL seated adult chair yoga and pilates class with local instructor Marthe.
This class is donation based – please consider a donation of $5+ for Marthe’s time & expertise.
This class is donation based – please consider a donation of $5+ for Marthe’s time & expertise.
Knitting with Neighbors
Registration required. Call — or Register Online.
Join our knitting teacher, Margaret Hope for our new “Knitting with Neighbors” group.
The group will meet the 1st, 3rd & 5th Tuesday of the month at 1pm. Bring your own project, or Margaret will show you how to knit. All supplies provided, but feel free to bring your own size 5 or 5.5 needles and yarn.
Register Once and you will be on our “Knitting Club ” mailing list and will receive program updates and weather related cancellations.
Mah Jongg
Every Thursday, 1:30pm
Register Online
Join our active Mah Jongg group for weekly in-person play.
Register Once and you will be on our “Mah Jongg” mailing list and will receive program updates and weather related cancellations
Join our active Mah Jongg group for weekly in-person play.
Register Once and you will be on our “Mah Jongg” mailing list and will receive program updates and weather related cancellations
Pysanky Workshop
Thursday, March 20th, 6:30pm
Registration Required: Register Online
Meaning “to write,” Pysanky uses melted bees’ wax to write on dyed egg shells creating brightly colored and intricate designs and patterns. Participants will learn the techniques needed to create this traditional Ukrainian art form and will make a colorful egg masterpiece to take home.*Please Note – Priority is given to Mendham Township Residents.
Non Township Resident registration will open 3/10/25.
By registering, you are requesting a place at this workshop. Your place is not confirmed until you have received a confirmation email from April, our Adult Programmer.
Lit candles and clothes staining dyes will be used during this workshop.
All spots will only be held for 15 minutes once workshop begins.
Meaning “to write,” Pysanky uses melted bees’ wax to write on dyed egg shells creating brightly colored and intricate designs and patterns. Participants will learn the techniques needed to create this traditional Ukrainian art form and will make a colorful egg masterpiece to take home.*Please Note – Priority is given to Mendham Township Residents.
Non Township Resident registration will open 3/10/25.
By registering, you are requesting a place at this workshop. Your place is not confirmed until you have received a confirmation email from April, our Adult Programmer.
Lit candles and clothes staining dyes will be used during this workshop.
All spots will only be held for 15 minutes once workshop begins.
Greenwood Gardens
Monday, March 24th, 1pm
Registration Required: Register Online
Local Hidden Gems Lecture Series
Over the course of a century starting in the early 1900s, two idiosyncratic families, the Days and the Blanchards, invested major effort to turn Greenwood Gardens, a 28-acre public garden in Short Hills, NJ into an enchanted hideaway, graced with winding paths, terraced gardens, woodlands, grottoes, fountains, and Arts and Crafts follies. Join the Executive Director of Greenwood, Abby O’Neill, as she illustrates how the families’ varied interests and styles made their mark on this local property creating a peaceful haven where the public can connect with nature and the past.
Abby O’Neill was named Executive Director of Greenwood Gardens in September of 2017 and is responsible for directing the efforts of a twelve person staff to fulfill the organization’s mission of connecting people with nature in an historic garden oasis. Located in Short Hills, New Jersey, Greenwood is a 28-acre former private estate that opened to the public in 2013 and offers year-round education programs in horticulture, land conservation, history, and the arts. In 2022, NJ Family magazine voted Greenwood “the Prettiest Garden in New Jersey.”
The Battles of Rappahannock Station and Kelly’s Ford, November 7, 1863
Virtual Zoom
Thursday, March 27th, 6:45pm
Registration Required: Register Online
Join author Jeffrey William Hunt as he explores the Civil War battles of Rappahannock Station and Kelly’s Ford.
Registration Required: Register Online
Join author Jeffrey William Hunt as he explores the Civil War battles of Rappahannock Station and Kelly’s Ford.
Contrary to popular belief, the Eastern Theater during the late summer and fall of 1863 was anything but inconsequential. In September 1863 the post-Gettysburg stalemate between Lee and Meade dissolved as each transferred parts of their armies to the battlegrounds around Chattanooga. Lee’s early October offensive drove Meade backwards 46 miles toward Washington, but came to grief at Bristoe Station in a bloody clash with Meade’s rearguard. Unable to supply his troops so far north, Lee pulled back to Culpeper County, destroying the Orange & Alexandria railroad as he withdrew to slow the Union pursuit.
As the Army of the Potomac inched forward, Lee undertook a bold strategy to hold the Rappahannock line and lure Meade into a deadly trap. Pressured by Washington to fight but denied strategic flexibility, Meade launched a risky offensive to force his way over the river and bring on a decisive battle. That effort saw the Federals win a handy victory at Kelly’s Ford and a stunning triumph at Rappahannock Station—where they destroyed two entire Confederate brigades. Newly uncovered evidence shatters many of the myths surrounding Rappahannock Station, making it possible to reveal how the fight actually unfolded, the real reason for Confederate defeat, how close Lee came to winning, and why Meade failed to exploit his unexpected victory despite gaining, however briefly, the upper hand in his deadly duel with Lee.
Jeffrey William Hunt is the Director of the Texas Military Forces Museum at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas, which is the official museum of the Texas National Guard, and an Adjunct Professor of History at Austin Community College, where he has taught since 1988. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Government and a Master’s Degree in History, both from the University of Texas at Austin. Jeff is the recipient of the Chicago Civil War Round Table Edwin Cole Bearss Award for Outstanding Civil War Scholarship (2022). Mr. Hunt, a prolific author, is the author of Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign: From Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House (Savas Beatie, 2017, named Eastern Theater Book of the Year by Civil War Books & Authors)
Sponsored by North Jersey Civil War Round Table.
Book Club
Wednesday, March 26th, 1.30pm
Registration required. Register Online
Book Club Meets the last Wednesday of the month
Read the book and come ready for a lively discussion
Register Once and you will be on our “Book Club” mailing list and will receive program updates and weather related cancellations.
Cook & Connect Club
Wednesday, April 2nd, 11:00am
Registration Required: Register Online
Registration Required: Register Online
Calling all cooks! Join our new monthly cooking club where each month a different culinary item will be the theme. Using that item of the month, participants will find and make a recipe of their choice at home. Then bring the recipe and the food item (if desired) to our meeting to discuss, share and taste. This month we will share recipes using spring vegetables.
Adult Crafting -Needle Felting
Wednesday, April 2nd, 1pm
Registration required. Register Online
Join our friendly craft group with a different project each month. This month’s craft is to use needlefelting techniques to make spring animals.
Space is limited.
All supplies are provided.
Non Fiction Book Club
Wednesday April 9th
1pm
Register Online
Book Club meets the second Wednesday of each month.
Read new titles and come ready for a lively discussion.
Register Once and you will be on “Non Fiction Book Club” mailing list and will receive program updates and weather related cancellations.
