Delafield Public Library

Bring your latest project and enjoy socializing with other knitters at the library.

No registration necessary.

Children in Kindergarten through Grade 5 are invited to read to our therapy dog, Gracie, for a 15-minute session.

Call or visit the children’s library to sign up for a slot!

We meet during the the third week of each month. Copies of the current book are available for checkout at the library. New members always welcome!

This month, we are reading The Library Book by Susan Orlean

On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, those who had been cleared out of the building realized it wasn’t a normal alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed 400,000 books and damaged 700,000 more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?