Check out what’s happening at Bacon Free Library in January.

Children’s Programs

All Together Preschool Storytime, Mondays and Tuesdays at 10 a.m. Enjoy stories and songs. The historic nature of the building limits accessibility. This program is also offered in an accessible location at the Morse Institute Library.

Lapsit Storytime, Wednesdays at 10 a.m. Stories, bounces, and songs for babies up to 24 months and their grownups.

Jammin with You, Friday, Jan. 9 at 10:30 a.m. at the library and  Friday, Jan. 16 at 10:30 a.m. at the Common Street Spiritual Center. Be prepared to laugh, dance, sing, and jam through 30 minutes of non-stop family fun. Registration is required due to space limitations.

All Ages Programs 

Featured Art Exhibit: Tom Doran: “Ease Your Eyes’’ through Jan. 28. Doran creates his unique digital compositions by layering photography and previous artworks. Informed by years of jazz improvisation and the tactile nature of paper collage, his process embraces spontaneity and a pursuit of balance between order and disorder.

Adult Programs

Virtual: Gorgeous Gardens of New England, part 5, Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 6 p.m. on Zoom. Take a virtual tour of 10 gorgeous gardens from Mount Desert Island in Maine, down through Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, to Weir Farm in Connecticut and Enders Island in Mystic, Conn.

Landscape photographer Joanne Pearson will also guide viewers through Buttrick Gardens in Concord, the John Hay Estate in Newbury, N.H., and the Tracy Memorial Library garden in New London, N.H.

Virtual: “Love and Loss after Wounded Knee: a Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage’’, Wednesday, Jan. 7 on Zoom. Listen in as author Julie Dobrow shares the story of Elaine Goodale, a white woman from the Berkshires who moved to the Dakota Territory in 1884 to teach Native American children, and Ohiye S’a, or Charles Eastman, a Santee Sioux, born in Minnesota and educated at Dartmouth and Boston University who became a reservation physician.

Virtual: In Conversation with Heather B. Moore, Author of “Julia’’, Monday, Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Join in on a conversation with author Heather B. Moore about her recent release “Julia: a novel inspired by the extraordinary life of Julia Child.’’ Chat with the author about the book, her writing and research process, and if she found any surprises when researching the iconic Julia Child.

At the library: Winter Sowing, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 5:30 p.m. Winter sowing is a simple way to start seeds outdoors during the wintertime. All you need is a milk jug, potting soil, seeds, and a sunny, protected location. Once you’ve sown your seeds, you can practically forget about them until it is time to transplant the seedlings into a spring garden bed. At this in-person workshop, learn all about this process while creating a winter sowing jug. All supplies will be provided in the workshop including locally harvested native seeds. Registration is required. 

Virtual: Poisoning the Well: How forever chemicals contaminated America, Wednesday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. on Zoom.  Author Sharon Udasin will discuss her new book, “Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America.’’ Learn how PFAS, a set of toxic chemicals many people have never heard of, poisoned the entire country. Based on original, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contaminated towns and damning documents from the polluters’ own files, the book traces a history of corporate greed and devastation of human lives. 

Virtual: How Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, Wednesday Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Author Elyse Graham will discuss her new book, “Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II’’, the true untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war to defeat the Nazis.

Virtual: Creating a Modern Homestead with Author Victoria Pruett, Monday, Jan. 26 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Chat with modern day homesteader, blogger, and author Victoria Pruett about her book “Creating a Modern Homestead: Traditional Skills for Real, Everyday Life.’’ She will walk viewers through many aspects of homesteading, such as cooking from scratch, food preservation, backyard chickens, gardening, natural pest control, and other topics. Gain some understanding of what it takes to get closer to nature and less dependent on large, commercial corporations. 

Virtual: Armchair Tour of the Faroe Islands with Joanne Pearson, Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 6 p.m. The rugged and remote Faroe Islands, an archipelago of 18 islands located in the North Atlantic between Iceland, Norway, and the Hebrides, have a long and rich history. Settled by Irish monks around 600 AD, colonized by Vikings in the ninth century, and Christianized around 1000, the Faroe Islands are now an autonomous territory of the kingdom of Denmark. Formed by volcanic activity and reshaped by ice age glaciers, mountains rise steeply and sharply from the sea. Landscape photographer Pearson will be our guide through this virtual tour of the Faroe Islands.

Virtual: Agents of Change: the Women Who Transformed the CIA, Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. Author Christina Hillsberg will discuss her new bestselling book “Agents of Change: the Women Who Transformed the CIA.’’ Explore the pioneering women who changed the insulated world of international espionage, from the barrier-crashing challenges of the 1960s to the present-day reckoning, told through the eyes of a former intelligence operative herself. 

Adult book & film clubs 

Registration is required for all clubs; visit baconfreelibrary.org/clubs-programs/

Mystery Book Club, Thursday, Jan. 8 at 1 p.m. on Zoom. “The Moonstone’’ by Wilkie Collins.

History Book Club, Thursday, Jan. 8 at 11 a.m. on Zoom. “Into Siberia: George Kennan’s epic journey through the brutal, frozen heart of Russia’’ by Gregory J. Wallance.

Environmental Book Club, Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. “Arctic Dreams: imagination and desire in a Northern Landscape’’ by Barry Lopez.

Tuesday Book Club, Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 6:30 p.m. at the library. “The Guest Book’’ by Sarah Blake.

Nonfiction Book Club, Saturday, Jan. 31 at 10 a.m. on Zoom. “The Monk of Mokha; by Dave Eggers. 

Cinephile Mondays, Monday, Jan. 26 at 4 p.m. on Zoom. Check the website for the film of the month and registration details.

For more information about the library programs, including registration information, visit baconfreelibrary.org.