Easton Area Public Library and District Center

Salsa is perhaps the most popular condiment, and it cannot get any better than when made fresh using your own homegrown ingredients. Presented by Master Gardener Joe Veshinfsky, this class will show how easy it is to grow your own tomatoes and peppers to make delicious, fresh homemade salsa.

Join us on Tuesday, June 30,10:30am at the Palmer Branch. Topics to be covered will include deciding whether to grow from seeds or buy transplants, recommended varieties and sources, planting and care, other salsa ingredients that can be grown, and recipes for both fresh and canned salsa. For adults 18 and up. Registration is required. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
https://eastonpl.libcal.com/event/16854793

Attention, explorers! The Base Camp is ready in our Children's Room, and reports of dinosaurs have been spotted throughout the library. Register now for Summer Reading, and join us as we set out to Unearth a Story this summer.

Mark your calendars for next Monday!! Bring your book, and join us on Monday, June 29, 5:30 - 7:30pm at The Tipsy Crow for some Good Librations. As a Silent Book Club, there’s no assigned reading. Select a book within the month’s theme or bring your current read and join us! No registration required. June’s theme is TRAVEL.

Summer Reading is off to a great start with 668 readers registered and 57,825 minutes read, just one week in! Come and join the fun!

This week at EAPL. For a list of all of our programs, visit our online calendar. Space is limited, and many programs require pre-registration. bit.ly/eastoncal

Does anyone remember this Summer Reading theme from the summer of 1969? It was the summer that Apollo 11 and the first humans landed on the moon. We have been paging through the library's memory scrapbooks and have found fun treasures from days gone by. Interesting to see the design and theme from that summer.

Celebrate Freedom! Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond.

Reminder: The Main Library and Palmer Branch are closed today.

Easton was surrounded by small but growing communities long before and during the Revolutionary era. The long-gone village of Snufftown, also known as Williamsport, stood at the base of a light limestone bluff called Mt. Washington (now known as Mt. Ida). The bluff practically hung over the settlement. The first inhabitant of the area, a Mr. Anthony Albright, was living there in 1754.

Williams Twp. had earlier been rather heavily populated compared to other areas about Easton, and a community soon collected at Snufftown. Although the community had several names, Snufftown may have come from Peter Deatz (1762-1832), a resident and great user of s***f.

Visit the Marx Room to Unearth more of Easton's story.

The Easton Area Public Library and its Palmer Branch will be closed Friday, June 19, and Saturday, June 20, in observance of Juneteenth.