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BFL Hours

The Bacon Free Library is open every Monday through Friday from 9:30am to 5:30pm, with extended hours on Tuesdays until 7:00pm. Patrons are welcome to come into the library and browse. Curbside pickup is available during all open hours as well as Saturday mornings from 10am to noon.

For programs that require registration, please call the library (508-653-6730) or register on our website, baconfreelibrary.org 

New Services

Devices to Loan

The BFL has 4 iPads and 4 Wifi hotspots that are available for loan.

Museum Passes

These passes allow for free or reduced admission to the following museums:

The Discovery Museum in Acton

The Gardens at Elm Bank

Mass Audobon Trails and Wildlife Sanctuaries

The Museum of Science, Boston

The Natick Seed Library

The Natick Seed Library is now available at the BFL!  Here’s how it works: come into the library and select seeds to borrow (limit: 2 packets per patron); start your seeds indoors or wait until the ground warms up to plant them outside; during the spring and summer, enjoy the bounty of your garden; at the end of the season, allow 1-2 of your plants to go to seed; harvest those seeds and return them to the BFL in a labeled envelope.  More details are available at the library. 

The Natick Seed Library is a collaboration between Natick Community Gardens, the Morse Institute Library, and the Bacon Free Library.

Kids Programs

In-person, personal story times: Monday and Tuesday mornings in March from 10:00-12:00.  

The BFL is happy to offer you a personal, indoor story time: just you, your kiddos, and a librarian.   We’ll gather in the children’s area to read stories for about 20 minutes.  We will choose the books–feel free to make requests!–or you are welcome to select your own.  Registration is required. 

Virtual story time on Zoom: Wednesdays in March at 6:30pm. Registration is required. 

Adult Special Program

 Focus on Photos

Monday, March 21st at 7pm or Thursday, April 21st at 7pm; Zoom; Registration is required

If you enjoy taking photos & sharing them with others, this program is for you.  Each person will share three photos with the group.  You may choose any photos — your favorite spot in Natick, your beloved grandparent, a beautiful setting out West, a memorable spot on vacation — as long as it captures something special to you.  

Each session is limited to four people to allow each person ample time to talk; we offer two sessions to allow more people to participate. Registration is required.

Adult Clubs 

The BFL offers 5 monthly book clubs and 1 film discussion club. These clubs meet virtually, over Zoom meeting.  Copies of the books (normal, large print, and audio) as well as eBooks are available from the library.  Check the BFL website, baconfreelibrary.org, in order to register for a book or film club. 

Mystery book club - the first Thursday of each month at 1:00pm

March 3rd: The House on Vesper Sands by Paraic O’Donnell

April 7th: Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano

History book club - the second Thursday of each month at 11:00am

March 10th: The Warmth of Other Suns : The epic story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (nonfiction)

April 14th: The Perfect Horse: The daring U.S. mission to rescue the priceless stallions kidnapped by the Nazis by Elizabeth Letts (nonfiction)

Environmental book club - the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm

March 15th: Entangled life: how fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures by Merlin Sheldrake

April 19th: Land: how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world  by Simon Winchester

Fiction book club - the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm

March 22nd: The Vanishing Half  by Brit Bennett

April 26th: The Henna Artist  by Alka Joshi

Nonfiction book club - the fourth Saturday of each month at 10:00am

March 26th:  You Don’t Belong Here: how 3 women rewrote the story of war by Elizabeth Baker.

April 23rd: The Day the World Stops Shopping: how ending consumerism saves the environment and ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon  

Cinephile Mondays (film discussion club) - the last Monday of each month at 4:00pm

The films are accessible through Kanopy or DVD. 

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