Event List

At Silent Book Club there's no assigned reading.  All readers are welcome—ebooks or audiobooks, poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction... it's BYOBook. We gather to read together in quiet camaraderie.

Shrikant Bhide, an origami expert, will teach students with previous origami experience how to make animals, birds, flowers, or a box by folding paper.  Paper will be provided.  Registration is required. 

Baseball enthusiasts are invited to discuss teams, players and issues of the sport with other baseball fans. Listeners are welcome too!

The Mason Room is the New Providence Historical Society’s climate-controlled archive of historical records pertaining to New Providence, which is located within the New Providence Memorial Library at 377 Elkwood Avenue.

A book club with no assigned reading! Join us for a free bagel from NP Bagel Cafe and we'll take turns speaking about the books that we're reading/ have enjoyed recently.

Knitters, crocheters and stitchers are welcome to come work on your works-in-progress.

George Aronson, a photographer and naturalist, will give a photographic lecture on landscape diversity in New Jersey. This presentation is sponsored by the New Providence Garden Club, which will hold its monthly meeting afterward.

The Mason Room is the New Providence Historical Society’s climate-controlled archive of historical records pertaining to New Providence, which is located within the New Providence Memorial Library at 377 Elkwood Avenue.

The morning book group will discuss the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss.

Dubbed "the greatest that never was," Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was Formula 1's most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career.

Join us online and be one of the first to hear from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai about her astonishing memoir, Finding My Way.

Test your knowledge at trivia night, which is hosted by quizmaster Mary Piekarski. The questions in this game are geared for people 18 and older but all ages are welcome to try.

At Silent Book Club there's no assigned reading.  All readers are welcome—ebooks or audiobooks, poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction... it's BYOBook. We gather to read together in quiet camaraderie.  

Come look through telescopes at the night sky, thanks to volunteers from the Morris Museum Astronomical Society.

The Mason Room is the New Providence Historical Society’s climate-controlled archive of historical records pertaining to New Providence, which is located within the New Providence Memorial Library at 377 Elkwood Avenue.

This month’s theme is Asian cuisine. We'll take turns discussing the recipes we chose on that topic.  

Join the Haunting Chapters Book Club!

Often called the “queen of British historical fiction,” Philippa Gregory returns to the infamous Tudor Court with a tale that is both timely and timeless.

While the origins of Thanksgiving begin with the 1621 meeting between English colonists and members of the Wampanoag peoples, there is much more to the story.

Knitters, crocheters and stitchers are welcome to come work on your works-in-progress in the Conti Room.

The Mason Room is the New Providence Historical Society’s climate-controlled archive of historical records pertaining to New Providence, which is located within the New Providence Memorial Library at 377 Elkwood Avenue.

A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex in this R-rated relationship drama from 2025.  Dakota Johnson stars as Lucy.

You’re invited to learn from journalist and author Joseph Lee as he chats online with us about his stirring memoir, Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity.