Adult Happenings
Virtual Author Talks
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders.
Registration Required: Register Online
Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
Museum Passes
Museum Passes now available to borrow.
Ask a staff member for details or call 973-543-4018
Adult Yoga
Everyone can benefit from yoga – stretch your body and calm your mind.
Bring a mat. Adults Only.
Classes will operate on a donation (cash/check/venmo) basis. Please consider giving at least $5 a class to go directly to the program’s presenter
Participants will be asked to sign a waiver.
Monthly Sound Bath Experience
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
Registration Required: Register Online
This event has separate registration lists for each session date.
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.
Canasta
2nd & 4th Tuesday of Each Month 1:00-3:00pm &
Every Friday 10:00am-Noon
Registration required: Register Online
Join Our New Canasta Group at the Library!
Love cards or just curious to learn? Come play Canasta in a fun, friendly setting. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or brand new to the game, everyone is welcome. We’ll teach beginners the ropes and offer a great time for all skill levels. Drop in, meet new people, and enjoy the classic game of strategy and laughter.
Mah Jongg
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
Mat Pilates Fusion
Fridays 9:00am -9:45am
Registration required: Register Online
A strong, flexible core is vital to performing almost any movement safely, effectively and improve
athletic performance. If you want to enhance your balance, improve your stability, and crank up your fat-burning intensity then join this muscle-sculpting and core-firming Pilates class.
Mat Pilates Fusion delivers a low impact workout and focuses on controlled, precise movements to
strengthen your core, hips and arms while improving posture, balance, mobility and stability.
Please note that this class operates on a donation-basis. Please consider a $5-$10 donation (cash or venmo) that goes directly to our instructor, Marthe.
Cook & Connect Club
Registration Required: Register Online
Adult Monthly Craft: Needle Felting Dryer Balls
Wednesday, January 7th, 1pm
Registration Required: Register Online
Join our friendly craft group with a different project each month. This month’s craft is to make useful dryer balls using the needlefelting techniques.
All supplies are provided.
Reset With Eileen
Friday, January 9th, 1pm
Registration Required: Register Online
Join local Health and Life Coach Eileen Lupo as she offers a hands-on goal setting workshop. Take the time to establish healthy habits and prioritized focus for the new year ahead. Space is limited.
The Heart Of Central America: Guatemala
Monday, January 12th, 1pm
Registration Required: Register Online
Back by popular demand! Join professional traveler, Chris McCormack as he explores colorful colonial towns, ancient Mayan ruins, active volcanoes, beautiful lakes, and lush jungles of Guatemala. Space is limited.
Virtual Author Talks: David Brooks
Tuesday, January 13th, 2pm
Registration Required: Register Online
Join us for an online discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply, in which he helps us pose essential questions: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?
Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
Non Fiction Book Club
Wednesday January 14th
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.
Virtual Author Talks: Julia Hotz
Registration Required: Register Online
Be sure to jump start your new year with us as we chat virtually with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging.
The Connection Cure combines diligent science reporting, moving patient success stories, and surprising self-discovery to help us discover the lasting and life-changing power of social prescribing. Traditionally, when we get sick, health care professionals ask, “What’s the matter with you?” But around the world, teams of doctors, nurses, therapists, and social workers have started to flip the script, asking “What matters to you?”
Science shows that social prescribing is effective for treating symptoms of the modern world’s most common ailments—depression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, anxiety, chronic pain, dementia, diabetes, and loneliness. By integrating age-old medicines like art, nature, movement, and volunteer service into patient’s daily lives, social prescriptions are radically changing health and healthcare in more than thirty countries. Julia Hotz travels around the world to survey them —sea-swimming lessons for depression, “culture vitamins” for anxiety, a fishing club for ADHD, a farm-based day-care for dementia, a phone-buddy program for social isolation, and many more.
Great Decisions Discussion Group
Starts Tuesday, January 27th, 7pm
Registration Required: Register online
Will Meet the 4th Tuesday of Each Month
Join us monthly for our newly formed Great Decisions Discussion Group, where curious minds come together to explore today’s most important global issues. Using brief readings and videos from the Great Decisions series, we’ll have a friendly, guided conversation about international affairs, foreign policy, and how world events connect to our everyday lives. No expertise required—just an interest in learning, listening, and sharing perspectives in a welcoming library setting.
Once you have signed up we will contact you about picking up the briefing book & how to watch the masterclass videos.
2026 topics are
1.America and the World: Trump 2.0 Foreign Policy
2.Trump Tariffs and the Future of the World Economy
3.U.S.-China Relations
4.Ruptured Alliances and the Risk of Nuclear Proliferation
5.Ukraine and the Future of European Security
6.Multilateral Institutions in a Changing World Order
7.U.S. Engagement of Africa
8.The Future of Human Rights and International Law
Book Club
Wednesday, January 28th, 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.
Virtual Author Talks: Liz Moore
Registration Required: Register Online
We are thrilled to welcome Liz Moore to discuss her latest work, The God of the Woods, an instant New York Times bestseller and one of NPR’s 2024 “Books We Love” highlights.
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.
Join us in conversation with Liz as we embark on a tale of thrilling twists and disturbing disappearances. Register today to “enter the woods,” if you dare!
Sourdough 101
Join Sophie Curtis of Sour Bellies, as she explores the world of sourdough bread. This hands-on workshop will offer sourdough bread education, tips, tricks and tastes. Each participant will leave with their own jar of sourdough starter. One per household. Space is limited.Registration Required. FREE
Registration Required! One Jar Per Household!
Please Note – Priority is given to Mendham Township Residents.
Registration for Mendham Township Residents will open 12/29/25.
Registration for Non-Residents will open 1/22/26.
Upcoming Adult Programs
Jan 2, 9am-9.45am
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
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Please note that this class operates on a donation-basis. Please consider a $5-$10 donation (cash or venmo) that goes directly to our instructor, Marthe. A strong, flexible core is vital to performing almost any movement safely, effectively and improve
athletic performance. If you want to enhance your balance, improve your stability, and crank up your fat-burning intensity then join this muscle-sculpting and core-firming Pilates class.
Mat Pilates Fusion delivers a low impact workout and focuses on controlled, precise movements to
strengthen your core, hips and arms while improving posture, balance, mobility and stability.
This session is a functional form of fitness supporting everyday life, rehabilitation and injury prevention.
Work your entire body with classic Pilates exercises and targeted variations to sculpt yours abs,
arms, hips and legs.
Get an ab-centric workout that hits your powerhouse from every angle to build a tight, strong, balanced and
functional core plus a stable pelvic floor and back.
Kickstart your metabolism and keep your muscles under tension for different periods of time
generating muscular endurance and metabolic changes as you lift, redefine, and tighten your
entire frontal core and back. Develop power from the inside out, stand taller with a longer, leaner silhouette.
Modifications provided so if you're new to working out you can still get your sweat on.
This 45 min. class uses light hand weights, balls, bands, rings to add resistance, enhance
muscle tone and mobility by integrating and working on Strength, Stamina, Stretch and Stability.
It includes a thorough warmup and a relaxing cool down. Get fit tone your muscles and feel great!
What You'll Need to bring:
A pair of light weights
A pair of medium/heavy weights
Pilates Mat
Towel/Drink
What to Expect:
A dynamic warmup to prepare your body for the workout.
Standing and floor Pilates exercises that target abs arms, hips and legs promoting
Use of various Pilates props to increase resistance and muscle definition.
A cool down with stretches to enhance flexibility and aid muscle recovery.
Jan 2, 10am
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Join Our New Canasta Group at the Library!Love cards? Come play Canasta in a fun, friendly setting. This session is for players who know the "classic" rules.
Drop in, meet new people, and enjoy the classic game of strategy and laughter.
If you're a beginner and would like to learn to play. Email us at programs@mendhamtwplib.org and we'll let you know when we next schedule some classes.
Jan 5, 1.30pm
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Join our active Mah Jongg group for weekly in-person play. We are not accepting beginners at this time. If you are interested in learning how to play, please register your interest by emailing programs@mendhamtwplib.org.
Jan 5, 8.30am-9.15am
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Please note that this class operates on a donation-basis. Please consider a $5-$10 donation (cash or venmo) that goes directly to our instructor, Marthe. A strong, flexible core is vital to performing almost any movement safely, effectively and improve
athletic performance. If you want to enhance your balance, improve your stability, and crank up your fat-burning intensity then join this muscle-sculpting and core-firming Pilates class.
This class delivers a low impact workout and focuses on controlled, precise movements to
strengthen your core, hips and arms while improving posture, balance, mobility and stability.
This session is a functional form of fitness supporting everyday life, rehabilitation and injury prevention.
Work your entire body with classic Pilates exercises and targeted variations to sculpt yours abs,
arms, hips and legs.
Get an ab-centric workout that hits your powerhouse from every angle to build a tight, strong, balanced and
functional core plus a stable pelvic floor and back.
Kickstart your metabolism and keep your muscles under tension for different periods of time
generating muscular endurance and metabolic changes as you lift, redefine, and tighten your
entire frontal core and back. Develop power from the inside out, stand taller with a longer, leaner silhouette.
Modifications provided so if you're new to working out you can still get your sweat on.
This 45 min. class uses light hand weights, balls, bands, rings to add resistance, enhance
muscle tone and mobility by integrating and working on Strength, Stamina, Stretch and Stability.
It includes a thorough warmup and a relaxing cool down. Get fit tone your muscles and feel great!
What You'll Need to bring:
Pilates Mat
Towel/Drink
What to Expect:
A dynamic warmup to prepare your body for the workout.
Standing and floor Pilates exercises that target abs arms, hips and legs promoting
Use of various Pilates props to increase resistance and muscle definition.
A cool down with stretches to enhance flexibility and aid muscle recovery.
Jan 6, 9am-10am
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
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Join RYT 500 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.
Jan 6, 11:15am
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
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This class is now held in the Town Hall Meeting Room - please come to the renovated library at Town Hall - 2 West Main Street, Brookside.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.
Jan 6, 1pm (January 16th/30th, February 6th & 20th, March 5th & 19th)
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
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Join our wonderful knitting teacher, Margaret for our "Knitting with Neighbors" group. This friendly group will meet every other Tuesday. Bring your own project, or Margaret will show you how to knit. If you're new to knitting please bring your own size 5 or 5.5 needles and yarn. Any questions, please email programs@mendhamtwplib.org.
Jan 7, 11am
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Calling all cooks! Join our monthly cooking club where each month a different culinary item will be the theme. Using that item/theme 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’s theme is Quick Breads.Jan 7, 1pm
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Join our friendly craft group with a different project each month. This month's craft is to make useful dryer balls using the needlefelting techniques. All supplies are provided.
Jan 7, 6:15pm - 7:15pm
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Join certified yoga teacher and Mendham-local, Marthe Boesgaard for an early evening class of stretches and poses. Everyone can benefit from yoga - stretch your body and calm your mind. Bring a mat. Adults Only.
Classes will operate on a donation (cash/check/venmo) basis. Please consider giving at least $5 a class to go directly to the program’s instructor.
Participants will be asked to sign a waiver. This class will be held downstairs in the library.
Jan 8, 1.30pm
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Join our active Mah Jongg group for weekly in-person play. We are not accepting beginners at this time. If you are interested in learning how to play, please register your interest by emailing programs@mendhamtwplib.org.
Jan 9, 9am-9.45am
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Please note that this class operates on a donation-basis. Please consider a $5-$10 donation (cash or venmo) that goes directly to our instructor, Marthe. A strong, flexible core is vital to performing almost any movement safely, effectively and improve
athletic performance. If you want to enhance your balance, improve your stability, and crank up your fat-burning intensity then join this muscle-sculpting and core-firming Pilates class.
Mat Pilates Fusion delivers a low impact workout and focuses on controlled, precise movements to
strengthen your core, hips and arms while improving posture, balance, mobility and stability.
This session is a functional form of fitness supporting everyday life, rehabilitation and injury prevention.
Work your entire body with classic Pilates exercises and targeted variations to sculpt yours abs,
arms, hips and legs.
Get an ab-centric workout that hits your powerhouse from every angle to build a tight, strong, balanced and
functional core plus a stable pelvic floor and back.
Kickstart your metabolism and keep your muscles under tension for different periods of time
generating muscular endurance and metabolic changes as you lift, redefine, and tighten your
entire frontal core and back. Develop power from the inside out, stand taller with a longer, leaner silhouette.
Modifications provided so if you're new to working out you can still get your sweat on.
This 45 min. class uses light hand weights, balls, bands, rings to add resistance, enhance
muscle tone and mobility by integrating and working on Strength, Stamina, Stretch and Stability.
It includes a thorough warmup and a relaxing cool down. Get fit tone your muscles and feel great!
What You'll Need to bring:
A pair of light weights
A pair of medium/heavy weights
Pilates Mat
Towel/Drink
What to Expect:
A dynamic warmup to prepare your body for the workout.
Standing and floor Pilates exercises that target abs arms, hips and legs promoting
Use of various Pilates props to increase resistance and muscle definition.
A cool down with stretches to enhance flexibility and aid muscle recovery.
Jan 9, 10am
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Join Our New Canasta Group at the Library!Love cards? Come play Canasta in a fun, friendly setting. This session is for players who know the "classic" rules.
Drop in, meet new people, and enjoy the classic game of strategy and laughter.
If you're a beginner and would like to learn to play. Email us at programs@mendhamtwplib.org and we'll let you know when we next schedule some classes.
Jan 9, 1pm
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Join local Health and Life Coach Eileen Lupo as she offers a hands-on goal setting workshop. Take the time to establish healthy habits and prioritized focus for the new year ahead. Space is limited. Registration Required. FREE
Jan 12, 8.30am-9.15am
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Please note that this class operates on a donation-basis. Please consider a $5-$10 donation (cash or venmo) that goes directly to our instructor, Marthe. A strong, flexible core is vital to performing almost any movement safely, effectively and improve
athletic performance. If you want to enhance your balance, improve your stability, and crank up your fat-burning intensity then join this muscle-sculpting and core-firming Pilates class.
This class delivers a low impact workout and focuses on controlled, precise movements to
strengthen your core, hips and arms while improving posture, balance, mobility and stability.
This session is a functional form of fitness supporting everyday life, rehabilitation and injury prevention.
Work your entire body with classic Pilates exercises and targeted variations to sculpt yours abs,
arms, hips and legs.
Get an ab-centric workout that hits your powerhouse from every angle to build a tight, strong, balanced and
functional core plus a stable pelvic floor and back.
Kickstart your metabolism and keep your muscles under tension for different periods of time
generating muscular endurance and metabolic changes as you lift, redefine, and tighten your
entire frontal core and back. Develop power from the inside out, stand taller with a longer, leaner silhouette.
Modifications provided so if you're new to working out you can still get your sweat on.
This 45 min. class uses light hand weights, balls, bands, rings to add resistance, enhance
muscle tone and mobility by integrating and working on Strength, Stamina, Stretch and Stability.
It includes a thorough warmup and a relaxing cool down. Get fit tone your muscles and feel great!
What You'll Need to bring:
Pilates Mat
Towel/Drink
What to Expect:
A dynamic warmup to prepare your body for the workout.
Standing and floor Pilates exercises that target abs arms, hips and legs promoting
Use of various Pilates props to increase resistance and muscle definition.
A cool down with stretches to enhance flexibility and aid muscle recovery.
Jan 12, 1pm
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
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Back by popular demand! Join professional traveler, Chris McCormack as he explores colorful colonial towns, ancient Mayan ruins, active volcanoes, beautiful lakes, and lush jungles of Guatemala. Space is limited. Registration Required. FREE
Jan 13, 9am-10am
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Join RYT 500 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.
Jan 13, 11:15am
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
This class is now held in the Town Hall Meeting Room - please come to the renovated library at Town Hall - 2 West Main Street, Brookside.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.
Jan 13, 1pm-3pm
Registration required. Call -- or Register Online.
Join Our New Canasta Group at the Library!Love cards? Come play Canasta in a fun, friendly setting. This session is for players who know the "classic" rules. Drop in, meet new people, and enjoy the classic game of strategy and laughter.
If you're a beginner and would like to learn to play. Email us at programs@mendhamtwplib.org and we'll let you know when we next schedule some classes.
Jan 13, 2pm
Join us for an online discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply, in which he helps us pose essential questions: If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
Register