HPL Current and Upcoming Events
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2022 Current and Upcoming Events
- - January 26th - Wednesday Night Out - Take the Trolley: The Trolley Age in Mercer County with Dennis Waters
- - Regular Programs - Including Book Clubs, and Children's Activities
- - BrainFuse HelpNow - Free Online Tutoring
- - Children's Storytime
- - HPL Recommended Books
- - This Year's Recent Events
- - Past Events - 2021 - Past Events - 2020 - Cancelled Events - 2020 (COVID) - Past Events - 2019
Ongoing Events (check for COVID restrictions)
Past and Additional Events
Take the Trolley: The Trolley Age in Mercer County
January 26th, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
IN PERSON or VIA ZOOM Hopewell Theater, 5 South Greenwood Ave. PROOF OF COVID VACCINATION OR A NEGATIVE COVID TEST REQUIRED BY THE VENUE FOR ENTRANCE. Free | Zoom Registration Required Registration for the ZOOM portion now closed. Join the Hopewell Public Library and Dennis Waters for a lecture on the history of Hopewell’s Trolleys. In the early decades of the 20th century, more than one million passengers rode the two trolley lines connecting Trenton and Princeton each year. But, trolley tracks extended as far as Pennington and Hopewell. The roads were bad, the automobile was not yet dominant, and for a few cents the trolley was the cheapest, fastest, and generally safest way to get from point A to point B in Mercer County. Join us on January 26th to learn more about the trolley age in all of its blue-sky ambition and rampant skulduggery, including where you can still see relics of the trolley lines that are still part of the landscape. Dennis Waters spent twelve years as Lawrence Township Historian. He serves as a trustee of the Lawrence-Hopewell Trail, where he manages the "History Along the LHT" project. He received a Ph.D. in advanced technology from the Watson Engineering School at Binghamton University. His book Behavior and Culture in One Dimension: Sequences, Affordances, and the Evolution of Complexity was published by Routledge in 2021. |
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BrainFuse HelpNow - Free Online Tutoring
Brainfuse HelpNow is now available to provide free online tutoring with your library card. Just click Brainfuse HelpNow and enter your HPL library card number. Live online tutoring is available every day from 2 PM to 11 PM. HelpNow's features include Homework Help, Skills-Building, Personalized eLearning Tools, 24-Hour Writing Lab, Homework Send Question, Adult Learning Center , and Foreign Language Lab /Spanish-Speaking Support. |
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HPL Book Club
The HPL Book Club meets in the library on the first Monday of each month. For more information on attending, call or email the library. See HPL Book Club for the 2021 book list. |
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HPL Recommended Books
Click here to browse the full list of staff suggestions, or drop by the Library to browse the Adult and Children's books!
Click here to browse the full list of staff suggestions, or drop by the Library to browse the Adult and Children's books!