Porter Memorial Library

The second ice cream social & story time of the summer is happening at 1pm at the library next week Wednesday!

Join us this Wednesday, January 8th at 10:30am at the library for our first Meet The Author event of 2025! Local writer Edward Weingold will be discussing his works, which include the novel A Map of the World (With All Faults), and shorter works in The Porter Gulch Review, Santa Cruz Weird, and Santa Cruz Ghost Stories. With over a 30-year career in the theatre, he has also written numerous play and staged productions in the U.S and England. Currently, he is writing a novel about jobs the main character holds to support a life in the theatre arts, with the working title, Abel’s Grit.

The Meet The Author series is an informal coffee hours where local authors discuss their works and answer questions from the audience. They are free of charge and open to the public. Coffee will be provided by The Ugly Mug. The Porter Memorial Library is located at 3050 Porter Street, Soquel, and parking is available behind The Bagelry or behind the Post Office.

Tomorrow is the second Ice Cream & Reading Social of the summer! Kids ages 3-8 are invited to join for stories all about life in the garden starting at 1pm. See you there!

This week is the first of our ice cream & reading socials! Kids ages 3-8 are invited to come for an afternoon of stories on June 12th at 1pm all about life on the farm, and July 17th at 1pm for garden tales. See you there!

A week ago Joaquin Barreto was the featured author at The Library’s Meet The Author Series. He shared his memoir, El Otro Lado (The Other Side) to many of The Library’s regulars and new attendees. On Wednesday, March 13th at 10:30 am, Lisa Jensen will share her book “Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge.”

Special StoryTime on Friday, June 29th 🐶📚
11am-12am parking in the back... enter from Soquel drive into the Bagelry parking lot and follow to the left 🚗

The Porter Memorial Library welcomes you to join its Summer Program Ribbit, Ribbit, Croak! Tales about frogs and toads tomorrow June 20th. Ice cream sundaes will be served at 1:00 pm with stories, rhymes, songs and a craft following. Share with friends😊🐸🍦

Join us this Wednesday for our 2nd story hour/ ice cream social. We will celebrate our "four footed friends".
The event is appropriate for ages 3 to 7 share with friends 🐶

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, June 21, for stories, songs and ice cream! Please share with friends. Appropriate for ages 3 to 7. Theme: Sharks! Fun tales from the deep 🐬

Thank you Susan Samuels Drake for candidly sharing your experiences while working with Cesar Chavez and The National Farm Worker Ministry. Please join us on Wednesday, April 13th for our final author of this year's series. Trami Nguyen Cron will discuss her book Vietnam Easy.

Join us this Wednesday for our third 2017 Meet the Author event at 10:30 a.m. Susan Samuels Drake will talk about her book Fields of Courage... Remembering Cesar Chavez and the People Whose Labor Feeds Us.

Thank you Dan Haifley for a very informative presentation about our beautiful Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Especially, since the Sanctuary will celebrate its 25th year this September. Santa Cruz county is fortunate to have such an amazing educator and advocate in its community