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Oil Region Library Association

5 hours ago

Oil Region Library Association
Adult Craft Club is getting messy! Join us for our April sessions to make Ocean Slime. All sessions are free to attend & all materials will be provided. 🐳April 15 - Franklin Public Library - 4:00PM🐠April 27 - Oil City Library - 5:00PM🦀April 29 - Oil City Library - 5:00PMRegistration is OPEN NOW! Visit or call the Franklin Public Library (814-432-5062) or the Oil City Library (814-678-3072) to register today! ... See MoreSee Less

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Oil Region Library Association

20 hours ago

Oil Region Library Association
Celebrate National Library Week at your library this April! 🤩✨📖 April 19-25, 2026 is NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK! We've got events & programs happening every day during National Library Week & we want YOU to join us for the fun!✨MONDAY 4/20 - National Library Week - Littles & Big Yoga 🧘‍♀️🙆‍♂ | Franklin Public Library | 4:30 - 5:00 PM | FREELittles! Grab your grown-up and join us for a fun, beginner-friendly yoga workshop where you’ll stretch, laugh, and connect while discovering the joy of movement together.✨TUESDAY 4/21 - National Library Week - Cheers Day at Bella Cucina 🥂🍝 | Bella Cucina Restaurant | All Day10% of all proceeds from meals & drinks at Bella Cucina Restaurant in Franklin will be donated to Oil Region Libraries. Grab a meal with a friend while supporting your library! Bella Cucina is located at 1234 Liberty St., Franklin.✨WEDNESDAY 4/22 - @National Library Week - Family Movie Night "Dog Man" 🎬🍿🎞 | Oil City's Library Hall | 6:30 - 8:00 PM | FREEFamilies are invited to join us in Oil City’s Library Hall for a free screening of the canine crime-fighting film adaptation of Dav Pilkey's literary phenomenon: Dog Man. Part dog, part man, all hero! Free popcorn provided to all participants.✨THURSDAY 4/23 - National Library Week - Family Nerf Night 🔫💥 | Oil City Library | 6:30 - 8:00 PM | FREEThe library transforms into a Nerf Battleground for this all-ages, after-hours event! Drop in anytime from 6:30 - 8:00 PM. The library will have one section dedicated to freeplay (best for littles!) & one section for strategy play (best for those looking for a challenge!). You can bring your own Nerf gun, or we can provide you with one. ⚠️No Rival or Mega Guns – only guns that require normal-sized darts, please!✨FRIDAY 4/24 - @National Library Week - Library Attic Sale 🛍🛒💵 | Franklin Public Library | 1:00 - 5:00 PMScore amazing deals on hidden treasures at our Library Attic Sale! Browse furniture & more in the library’s unfinished third-floor space. Arrive early so you don’t miss any great finds, while also catching a glimpse of the potential in this unique area of the library. *Please note: elevator access to the third floor is not available.✨SATURDAY 4/25 - National Library Week - Open Mic Poetry Reading + Jazz Band Catro 🎤🎶🎷| Oil City's Library Hall | 6:00 - 9:00 PM | $5 CoverPoets of all experience levels are invited to step up to the mic & share their work. The evening will also feature live music from the jazz band Catro, light refreshments, & raffles. Join us for an inspiring evening of poetry & jazz! ... See MoreSee Less

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Oil Region Library Association

2 days ago

Oil Region Library Association
Join us at the Oil City Library for an Author Talk with Joe Taylor on Wednesday, May 6th, at 5:00 PM. Joe will be discussing his latest book, Eating My Own Words. Joe will also be providing a specialty Italian pasta dish, charcuterie & wine to share during this event! 🍷🍝🧀Joe Taylor’s Eating My Own Words isn’t just about food; it’s about people, memory, and what happens when you pull up a chair and listen. The meals in these pages, including his grandmother’s meatballs, lox and bagels from a favorite Pittsburgh deli, country cooking in the Pennsylvania Wilds, or something simple from his own kitchen table, aren’t the real story. They’re the thread that ties everything together, the open door that lets Joe explore where he’s been, who he’s known, and what it’s all meant.There’s plenty of humor here, too, much of it at Joe’s own expense. The delight of discovering potato chips neatly packed in a can, his refusal to eat boiled eggs while happily devouring egg salad, and his evolution into a grill master, as his family and friends acknowledged, all offer a glimpse of growth and self-understanding. Between stories, he slips in recipes for such favorites as paella, fettuccine with shrimp, and baked chicken, each one part memory, part meditation.These varied episodes show Joe’s journalistic eye for detail and his genuine regard for the people behind these meals. He looks past the menus and recipes to the hands that cook and the hearts that gather. In doing so, he reminds us that the real nourishment in life doesn’t just come from the food; it’s how we find our place in the world, one meal at a time.ABOUT THE AUTHORJoe Taylor retired in 2020 after six decades in radio, including hosting talk and music shows, and newscasts in markets from Brattleboro, Vermont, to Pittsburgh, programming management in Detroit, and general management in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Warren, and Springfield, Ohio. He then consulted stations in Ohio and Pennsylvania, including Clarion, Oil City, St. Marys, Coudersport, and DuBois. Since his retirement, Joe Taylor has published five books, “In The Twist Of The Dial...What happened to radio, 1960 to 2020?” “I’m Just Lucky To Own My Own Car,” a collection of observations and musings. A third, “A Pepper and Egg Sandwich on American Bread,” depicted his early life: as an Italian-American boy growing up in a non-ethnic neighborhood and school, then spending the rest of his time with his very Italian family. “One More Then I’ve Really Gotta Go” looked at aging from various perspectives, ranging from sentimental to sardonic. His latest, “Eating My Own Words,” is a culinary memoir, an appreciation of food at our table and in our lives. Joe resides in DuBois, PA. ... See MoreSee Less

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