Join us for card making classes on the 3rd Wednesdays of the month with Kathy Freeman. Limited seats available - please register online or by calling the library!

Join us once a month to discuss a good book and share a snack.

Can you make a haunted house out of edible ingredients? We’ll take the classic gingerbread house and give it a twist with this program where we make haunted houses using graham crackers and candy. Please register online.

Join us for this interactive mystery event where everyone is a suspect! 

 Join us at the library for stories, songs, and a craft.

Join Miss Jess for Toddler Story Time! We'll have fun and encourage early literacy through stories, songs, movement, and more!

In partnership with the Adams County Community Foundation Giving Spree, the Adams County Library is pleased to present nine Donor Information Sessions in October.

Join us on the first and third Thursday of the month from 12:30 to 3:30! Bring your machine and current personal project, or work on charity quilts. Beginners welcome!

We hope to engage our readers by offering books with a variety of story lines, genres, pacing, characters, and moods. Mostly we read fiction, but may include one or two nonfiction titles over the course of the year.

Adults and Teens

Join us for some sparkly fun. Bring your own project, or once a month select a small kit from our collection!

Stop by the library and decorate your own pumpkin! Take your finished product home with you or enter it into the library’s Pumpkin Decorating Contest. Patrons will vote for their favorite pumpkin and a winner will be selected to receive a prize!

Bring your diamond painting project and join other diamond painting enthusiasts for a fun crafty afternoon! 

In Stitches
Thursday, October 17 
2PM

For Adults and Teens

Children ages 5-12 (grades K-5) are invited to the library for an afterschool snack along with some stories.

Have you noticed recently that Halloween is trending? Haunted things are all the rage!

Slime lovers join us to make spooky Halloween slime. Registration is encouraged please register online. 

Getting from Here to There: Gettysburg College’s Map Collections
Thursday, October 17
6:00PM
Special Collections and College Archives
Musselman Library, 4th Floor
Gettysburg College 

A time for teens to hang out at the library and create different crafts! Snacks and supplies will be provided. Registration required.

September: Pet Ghost Jars

Award-winning poet and flash fictionist Alba Sarria holds an all-inclusive group for adults (beginners or pros) who want to create, discuss, edit, publish, and actively do more creative writing.

Come to the library for some Halloween fun!

Make a Frankenstein pudding treat and play a few rounds of Halloween bingo! 

Ages 5-10.  Registration required.

The book character pumpkin decorating contest is back again this year. Children are invited to join us this evening to work on a pumpkin to submit for the contest. The library will provide the supplies.

Children from 0-18 months old may join us with their parent/caregiver for a few short stories and lots of singing and moving.

The goal for Twisted Sisters is to share our love of fiber arts by hand spinning. We meet monthly, the third Friday from 10-12, and welcome anyone interested in learning about spinning and spinning wheels.