Hagaman Library is currently closed due to flooding; please see the post below for the most current information.
Join us for a free screening of the 2021 animated Road Comedy film, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, starring Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, and Maya Rudolph! Open to all ages. A quirky, dysfunctional family’s road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity’s unlikeliest last hope. A Q&A session will […]
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Join Hagaman Library’s Contemporary Book Club, which meets every other month on the third Monday at 3:00 p.m. The group is facilitated by Cynthia Gwiazda, Community Services Librarian. All are welcome to join! To join the discussion, contact Cynthia at 203-468-3891 or cgwiazda@hagamanlibrary.org. On Monday, April 20 at 3pm, the Contemporary Book Club will meet at the Shoreline Trolley Museum, 17 […]
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3/09/2026 Dearest Library Readers, As we welcome the beginning of a new season in the town of East Haven, we are also looking forward to this as the season in which we welcome you back to Hagaman Library… As you know, the Library experienced a flooding event in April 2025 which caused substantial damage to our building. We have been […]
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Are you looking for advice on how to best meet your child’s mental health needs? Then join us next week for a special read-along of the book Gizmo’s Pawesome Guide to Mental Health, brought to the Hagaman by our friends at the East Shore District Health Department! During this read-along, you and your child will learn how to identify when […]
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Every afternoon during April vacation, we’ll be reading one of Laura Numeroff’s “If You Give a…” picture books at our Tales & Treats Book Club, held upstairs at the library in our Large Print Room! Each day’s story will be followed by snacks inspired by the tale, coloring pages, and an optional half hour of quiet, independent reading! No RSVP […]
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Join us this Tuesday for a family movie night at the Hagaman Memorial Library, where we’ll be watching 2024’s smash-hit animated film The Wild Robot (rated PG)! Be sure to get here on time to grab yourself a seat, and snag some freshly popped popcorn before the movie starts! No RSVP is required for this event, but comfy pajamas and […]
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Bring an open mind and join us on Monday, April 20th at 3pm on Zoom for an America250-themed discussion of The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, is a foundational text of classic economics, first published in 1776, that explains how nations become wealthy through productivity, division of labor and free markets, introducing […]
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Once a month, we invite young builders to build unique creations with our library’s LEGO collection, which then remain on display until the next club meeting. It is free and open to all – no registration required. Each month we suggest a theme, but we invite you to follow your imagination wherever it takes you! Recommended for age 4 and […]
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Join us for this month’s STEM Club meeting, where we’ll be making contraptions out of recycled and upcycled materials to protect our eggs when we drop them from the library’s third floor! STEM Club is a special collaborative event with students from East Haven High School that is held every third Wednesday of the month. Registration is not necessary, program […]
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Read & discuss classic novels. March Book: Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Walden recounts Thoreau’s experiences over a two year, two month, and two day period in which he lived by himself in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, located in an isolated stretch of woodland outside Concord, Massachusetts. For a Zoom code, please contact: chemingway@hagamanlibrary.org.
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