Located in eastern Connecticut, the Abington Social Library has provided library services to the communities of Abington, Pomfret and neighboring towns for over  200 years. The library is proud of the fact that it served as a women's library in the early 1800's, more than a century before American women had the right to vote. Established in 1793, we are the oldest continuously operating social library in the United States. The Abington Social Library has retained its uniquely rural character while addressing the needs of a modern society.
Our mission has always been to provide a comfortable setting in which people can gather to further their education, obtain information, share and communicate ideas, and enrich their personal lives.
Featured Events
Abington Social Library’s Annual
CONCERT IN THE PARK
ALL DAY LIVE MUSIC!
Delta Generators
(2009 International Blues Challenge Finalists)
and
♪One Nite Stand ♪ Johnny Press Mess
♪ The Wade Elliott Band ♪ Back Eddy
♪ Mindset ♪ Huxster
SATURDAY JUNE 5th
10 a.m. to dusk
Pomfret Recreation Park
576 Hampton Road, Pomfret, CT
Tickets $12 in advance or $15 at the gate
12 and under free (no drop offs)
PURCHASE TICKETS NOW:
~ TICKETS ON-LINE ~
This is an all day event, so plan to bring a blanket or chair and relax.
Food will be available as well as craft vendors.
Check back for more details.
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Abington Social Library
PRESENTS MOVIE NIGHT!
FREE to the PUBLIC
MOVIE POPCORN, CANDY & SODA!
THE LONG, LONG TRAILER!
Starring Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
at Pomfret Senior Center (Wolf Den Grange)
207 Mashamoquet Road (Route 44)
Directed by Vincente Minelli, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez play newlyweds Tacy and Nicky Collini. Nicky's job keeps him moving around the county. Tracy thinks having their own traveling home (before they were called RV’s), is a much better idea than staying in motels and rented rooms. Then the fun begins! Don’t miss this hilarious comedy! |
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Featured Book
Night
Elie Wiesel, 1958
In Brief:
Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man’s capacity for inhumanity to man.
Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.
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