Summer Reading 2025 begins today, Monday, June 23! We have programs for children, teens, and adults. Each program includes prizes for books read during the summer. We hope you’ll take part!
On the first Monday of each month, a nurse from Greenwich Hospital will be here at Perrot Library from 10 to 11 am to take free blood pressure screenings. The screenings will take place in the Rand Room, Waid Building, not the Radcliffe Children’s Library. The next screenings are scheduled for Monday, July 7th.
Join us on Tuesday, July 8, at 10 am outside the main entrance to the Library for Perrot Walks. We will walk at a leisurely pace and enjoy conversation and the beauty of Binney Park. All fitness levels are welcome.
Welcome all knitters. If you’re looking for a place to knit alongside other knitters, please join us at 10 am on Thursday, July 10th. We’ll meet in the Watt Room (our DVD room) for an hour of knitting and conversation. Registration is not required. This is a drop-in program.
Pack your picnic and grab your blankets and chairs! Our first movie of summer 2025 will be “The Wild Robot,” rated PG, running 102 minutes. The movie will be shown on Saturday, July 19, at 8:00 pm, Binney Park, Old Greenwich. Free admission.
Please join us on Wednesday, August 6, at 7 pm in our Program Room, Radcliffe Building, for a discussion of “The Light Eaters,” by Zoe Schlanger.
Pack your picnic and grab your blankets and chairs! Our second movie of summer 2025 will be Captain America: Brave New World, rated PG-13, running 118 minutes. The movie will be shown on Saturday, August 16, at 8:30 pm, Binney Park, Old Greenwich. Free admission.
Missed Part 1 of our discussion of Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “Lonesome Dove”? No problem, you have the whole summer to read Parts 1 and 2!
Join us on Wednesday, September 10, at 7 pm for a book discussion of The Broken King: A Memoir, with Author and Associate Professor at Hunter College Michael Thomas.
The September meeting of Perrot P.I.s, our drop-in mystery discussion group, will take place on Thursday, September 11th, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library. We’ll discuss “The Ice Princess,” by Camilla Lackberg. All are invited to attend.
The June meeting of the Environmental Book Group, a collaboration between Perrot Memorial Library and the Conservation Commission, will take place on Monday, June 16, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library. Rebecca Poirier, environmental analyst, Town of Greenwich, will lead a discussion of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Join us on Wednesday, June 4, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building, Perrot Memorial Library, for “LGBTQ+ 101: An Introduction to Identities & Allyship,” with Cadence Pentheny, community education manager and leader of the LGBTQ+ Training Institute, Triangle Community Center (TCC), Norwalk, Conn. Please note: This is an adults-only program; participants must be 18 or older to attend.
Perrot Memorial Library
90 Sound Beach Avenue
Old Greenwich, CT 06870
M/W/F: 9 AM-6 PM
Tu/Th: 9 AM-8 PM
Saturday: 9 AM-5 PM
Sunday: CLOSED DURING SUMMER
