July is a Time to Celebrate Real Life Heroes! Showing: Inherit the Wind (1960). Based on the 1925 court case brought against a science school teacher who taught evolution. Starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly. Popcorn will be provided! Movies sponsored by Clayton & Theresa Karambelas
July is a Time to Celebrate Real Life Heroes! Showing: The Miracle Worker (1962). This film shares the story of Anne Sullivan as she teaches a blind and deaf Helen Keller to communicate. Starring Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, and Victor Jory. Popcorn will be provided! Movies sponsored by Clayton & Theresa Karambelas.
Have fun showing off your trivia aptitude and win a prize! FREE with light refreshments.
Meet author Jo Piazza O'Mara as she discusses and reads from her book Garden of Hope, a novel which follows the seemingly perfect Agosti family as they struggle to reconcile after a harrowing secret is revealed. Free, with light refreshments. For questions or to make a reservation please call 570-821-1959.
Meet author Leslie Golding Mastroianni as she discusses and reads from her book Buying a Year. This novel follows the young divorcee Sharon as she lives frugally and does her best to balance the pressures of family and career in the midst of a group of comical and passionate characters. Free, with light refreshments. For […]
Join us for the annual Osterhout Free Library Gala from 6-11pm at the Westmoreland Club in downtown Wilkes-Barre. The gala has a Breakfast at Tiffany's theme to honor the well-known Truman Capote book and Audrey Hepburn movie. Reservations are $150 per person. That includes valet parking, open bar all night long, an exquisite dinner and […]
Discuss, listen to, and raise questions about a chosen topic with our Socrates Cafe Discussion Group every second Thursday in the Reading Room.
Join us every Friday for a themed movie selection and popcorn. Yum!
Knit and crochet club. New members welcome. Light refreshments!
Lively book discussion every month. Light refreshments served.
Join us every Friday for a themed movie selection and popcorn. Yum!
As part of Wilkes-Barre's 3rd Friday Art Walk, the members and patrons of the library will be reading poems, stories and other excerpts in the Reading Room.
Author Bonnie Bawiec introduces her depression workbook and self reflection tool. Light refreshments served.
Experience the relaxing art of coloring. Use our supplies or bring your own. Light refreshments served.
Join us every Friday for a themed movie selection and popcorn. Yum!
Join us every Friday for a themed movie selection and popcorn. Yum!
Knit and crochet club. New members welcome. Light refreshments!
Join us every Friday for a themed movie selection and popcorn. Yum!
Discuss, listen to, and raise questions about a chosen topic with our Socrates Cafe Discussion Group every second Thursday in the Reading Room.
Dr. Mark Bohn teaches the basics of realistic self-defense. Participants must sign a waiver of liability. Water available.
Dr. Mark Bohn teaches the basics of realistic self-defense. Participants must sign a waiver of liability. Water available.
Join us every Friday for a themed movie selection and popcorn. Yum!
Join the Summer Reading Club for Adults beginning at 5 pm on Friday, June 17th at the Information Services desk.
As part of June’s Third Friday event to attend the reading and book signing by Tara Laskowski author of the thriller and short story collection, Bystanders. Bystanders is a collection of tales about unexpected events which highlight the ways that fear and doubt can consume us and cause us to become obsessed– while simultaneously delving […]
The relaunch and release party for Word Fountain, the Literary Magazine of the Osterhout Free Library will feature readings from contributors to the new spring, 2016 issue. Join us in the Reading Room at 7:00 pm, directly following the author visit and book-signing for Tara Lawskowski. There will be refreshments served! For more info about […]
Knit and crochet club. New members welcome. Light refreshments!
Join knitters from around the world & celebrate knitting. Prize drawing. Light refreshments.
Kristy Rice takes the adult coloring craze a step further & introduces her watercoloring books, Painterly Days: The Watercoloring Books for Adults. Participants will watercolor a page from the books. Paint, brushes, and pages provided. Light refreshments.
Join the Summer Reading Club for Adults beginning at 5 pm on Friday, June 17th at the Information Services desk.
Lively book discussion every month. Light refreshments served.
