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
MOVIE NIGHT!
Key Largo
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
at the newly-renovated Pomfret Senior Center (Wolf Den Grange)
207 Mashamoquet Road (Route 44)
FREE to the PUBLIC
 1948 crime film starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, auren Bacall, Lionel
Barrymore, and Claire Trevor. This was the fourth and inal film pairing of married actors
Bogart and Bacall. Trevor won the Academy Award for Best Actress
in a Supporting Role for her performance. Don't miss Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in an American classic!
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Abington Social Library Presents
CONCERT IN THE PARK
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Pomfret Recreation Fields
Mark your calendars - you won't want to miss this event!
Tickets will be going on sale in April
We are lucky enough to have:
The Delta Generators
2009 International Blues Challenge Finalists
Boston's Best Blues Band 2008
and
Back Eddy and The Wade Elliott Band
as well as a number of other bands, including
One Nite Stand!
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.
Featured Book
Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger, January 1, 1919 to January 28, 2010
In Brief:
The novel covers 48 hours in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield, who has just flunked out of his expensive boarding school in eastern Pennsylvania. This makes the fourth school from which he's been expelled from. Holden heads to New York City, his home, and puts himself up in the Edmont Hotel. Over the next two days, through a series of encounters, Holden experiences the cynicism and phoniness of adult life— his narrative voice capturing the essence of teenage angst and alienation. The novel begins:
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.”
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