Volume 63 | December 2024

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Holiday Wishes & Closings

We wish everyone the most joyful of holiday seasons!

The library will be closed Tuesday, December 24 and 25

and close early on Tuesday, December 31 at 5 pm

to celebrate the holidays.

Holiday Happenings

Enjoy the sounds of the season at the Wagnalls Memorial on December 13 at 7 pm. The concert is by donation and donations will be shared between the performing ensembles:

  • Bloom Carroll Chamber Singers
  • David's UCC Handbell Choir
  • Gender Rd. CC Sisters in Song
  • Winchester Voices, CW Community Choir
  • Winchester Winds, CW Community Brass Ensemble


Doors open at 6:45 pm.

We appreciate our partnership with CW Performing Arts Collective.

Join us for our annual holiday open house during Simply Christmas in Lithopolis on Saturday, December 14 from 9 am to 3 pm. The day is filled with shopping, food and drink, visits with Santa, and live music. For a full list of activities at Wagnalls and in town, Click here. Brochures are also available in the library.


We are thankful for our community partners; Friends of the Wagnalls Memorial Library, St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lithopolis UMC, Believers Bible Church, Bloom Twp. Fire Dept., Scout Troops 241 & 7241, 88-Keys Music Studio, Flutasia, and Red1Realty-Gilmore Group.

Join us in the Children's Library during the Holiday Open House on December 14 at 10:30 am for a Christmas Story time! Wear your favorite Christmas PJ's for all the fun!

Come to the Children’s Library in your favorite pajamas for a sensory-friendly story time on December 14, 12:30-1 pm. We’ll have Christmas stories, gentle activities, and an appearance by quiet Santa!

Support the programs and activities of the Wagnalls Memorial Library! Auction bid sheets are out and tickets are on sale now through the holiday open house on December 14. Maybe you'll find that special gift.


Basket Raffle winners will be announced at the After Party following the open house at 2pm. $10 tickets to the after party are available in the library or

Online here! Tickets include three additional basket raffle tickets and refreshments by Lithopolis UMC.

A self-taught watercolor artist,

Pamela Montgomery creatively displays life as it once was. The visual images she creates with watercolors give new life to structures which she considers monuments to our past.


See Pamela's artwork in the Gallery in the Loft December 7 thru January 4 during normal library hours and during the holiday open house on Dec. 14.

Visit with Mabel


Mabel will be visiting with guests at our Holiday Open House on December 14 from 10 am to 2 pm. Be sure to look for her to ask about The Wagnalls Memorial and her family!


The monthly Mabel Tour on the first Tuesday of the month is cancelled.

Adult/Teen Library Programs

Children's Programs

January Sneak Peek

The Wagnalls Memorial

150 E. Columbus Street

Lithopolis, Ohio 43136

(614) 837-4765

wagnalls.org

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