Events Calendar
Sunday Knitters
Join the library’s Sunday knitting circle. Every Sunday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Chess Mondays
Join us on the porch every Monday this winter to play chess with other patrons.
Friends of the Library Meeting
Join us for our monthly meeting at the Cairn Hwy Building.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Puzzle Wednesdays
Join us on the porch every Wednesday this winter to work on a community puzzle.
Story Time
New beginning this month! Ms. Kate is having storytime on Thursdays. This will be the same as the Friday morning storytime. Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and we will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Yarn Swap
Bring yarn you’re ready to pass along and trade it for something new-to-you. All yarn types welcome—just clean and in good condition. Come squish yarn, swap skeins, share ideas, and enjoy good company with fellow crafters. Relaxed, friendly, and fun!
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and we will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Sunday Knitters
Join the library’s Sunday knitting circle. Every Sunday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Island House Readers Book Club: The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog by Carly Anne York
Blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course in this captivating tale of resilience, friendship, and new love.
Story Time
New beginning this month! Ms. Kate is having storytime on Thursdays. This will be the same as the Friday morning storytime. Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and we will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and we will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Sunday Knitters
Join the library’s Sunday knitting circle. Every Sunday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Books on Tap @ Townline Ciderworks
“The Dream Hotel” is a Goodreads Choice Awards nominee for Best Science Fiction (2025). A novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.
A limited amount of copies are available for check out at the library and on Libby. Copies can also be requested through MEL.
Story Time
New beginning this month! Ms. Kate is having storytime on Thursdays. This will be the same as the Friday morning storytime. Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and we will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Elk Rapids District Library Board Meeting
Join us for our monthly board meetings! Open to the public.
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and we will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Sunday Knitters
Join the library’s Sunday knitting circle. Every Sunday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Sunday Knitters
Join the library’s Sunday knitting circle. Every Sunday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Friends of the Library Meeting
Join us for our monthly meeting at the Cairn Hwy Building.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Spring Foodie Book Club
Join us at Art and Connection for our next Foodie Book Club. Stop by the library to choose your recipe. BYOB and join us with your recipe to talk all things food and cooking.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Sunday Knitters
Join the library’s Sunday knitting circle. Every Sunday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Island House Readers Book Club: Between the Listening and the Telling by Mark Yaconelli
In the pages of Between the Listening and the Telling , storyteller, author, and activist Mark Yaconelli leads readers into an enchanting meditation on the power of storytelling in our individual and collective lives. We tell stories to remember who we are.
Books on Tap @ Art & Connection
Through a prism of what-ifs, Florence Knapp invites us to consider the "one ... precious life" we are given. This is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark.
A limited amount of copies are available for check out at the library and on Libby. Copies can also be requested through MEL.
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Island House Readers Book Club: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.
Books on Tap @ Waterfire Vineyards
A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully crafted novel about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the invisible threads of kindness that bind us to one another.
A limited amount of copies are available for check out at the library and on Libby. Copies can also be requested through MEL.
Island House Readers Book Club: The Ladies’ Midnight Swimming Club by Faith Hogan
Three women. Three different stages of life. United by one thing: the chance to start again.
Island House Readers Book Club: Klara and the Sun
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans
Island House Readers Book Club: The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019.
Island House Readers Book Club: My Friends
An unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later.
Island House Readers Book Club: Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Richard Russo is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and resurfaces fifty years later in Hollywood. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, this is a dazzling, yet deeply human roller coaster of a novel.
Island House Readers Book Club: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town's most respected gentlemen.
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and we will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Antrim Writers Series - Reading & Interview
This event will be streamed on Village Radio, 99.7 fm, from 1-2 pm on Wednesday, February 18.
Listen here: https://listen997fm.pacificaservice.org
Teresa Scollon is a poet, essayist, and educator. Her fourth collection, No Trouble Staying Awake, was published by Cornerstone Press in 2025. She is also author of Trees and Other Creatures, from Alice Greene & Co; To Embroider the Ground with Prayer, from Wayne State University Press; and a chapbook from Michigan Writers Cooperative Press. Scollon is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, alumna and former writer-in-residence at Interlochen Arts Academy, and the 2018 Moveen Prize winner. She teaches the North Ed Writers Studio at Career Tech in Traverse City, Michigan, and co-edits the literary journal Dunes Review. See teresascollon.com.
Puzzle Wednesdays
Join us on the porch every Wednesday this winter to work on a community puzzle.
Chess Mondays
Join us on the porch every Monday this winter to play chess with other patrons.
Sunday Knitters
Join the library’s Sunday knitting circle. Every Sunday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and we will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Story Time
New beginning this month! Ms. Kate is having storytime on Thursdays. This will be the same as the Friday morning storytime. Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and we will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
Puzzle Wednesdays
Join us on the porch every Wednesday this winter to work on a community puzzle.
Books on Tap @ Short’s Pull Barn
A breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond in Depression-era America.
A limited amount of copies are available for check out at the library and on Libby. Copies can also be requested through MEL.
Chess Mondays
Join us on the porch every Monday this winter to play chess with other patrons.
Sunday Knitters
Join the library’s Sunday knitting circle. Every Sunday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Island House Readers Book Club: Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure by Rhys Bowen
Blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course in this captivating tale of resilience, friendship, and new love.
Puzzle Wednesdays
Join us on the porch every Wednesday this winter to work on a community puzzle.
Chess Mondays
Join us on the porch every Monday this winter to play chess with other patrons.
Sunday Knitters
Join the library’s Sunday knitting circle. Every Sunday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Story Time
Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and we will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.
ER Knitters
Join the library knitting circle. Every Thursday we meet on the library porch. Bring your projects from home!
Tech Help @ the Library
Free tech support from our resident guru and technology coordinator, Aaron Hill. Whether you’re having trouble with your computer, phone, or anything technology-related, Aaron will do his best to help you figure it out! This is a free program for all library members.
Story Time
New beginning this month! Ms. Kate is having storytime on Thursdays. This will be the same as the Friday morning storytime. Bring your little ones for a magical morning filled with stories, creativity, and fun! It’s getting nice out and we will try to hold Storytime outside whenever possible. Bring a blanket to sit on and join the fun.
What to Expect:
Engaging story sessions
Early literacy skill-building activities
Exciting craftivity projects
A chance to make new friends!
Whether your child loves stories or is just discovering the joy of books, Storytime is the perfect place to nurture their imagination and develop essential skills.