Events & Activities – Seneca Free Library

Restoration Work has Begun on Our Stained Glass Windows

When was the last time you looked at, really looked at, the stained glass windows in the ‘Old Stone Church’ that is our Community Room?

If you look today, you will notice that one of the windows is absent from the library. It isn’t broken! We are having the windows repaired with new lead and steel reinforcements. The old plexi-glass will be replaced with plate glass in bronze tone steel frames to match the windows in the library building. After 113 years the lead in the windows has softened and can no longer support the weight of the glass, it is time for some serious repair work.

We are very excited for our first window to return and the rest to be completed.

012 — The crew came in on Tuesday February 21st to remove the southeast window, just one this time.

stained glass window 002 — They came back Wednesday evening to load it up and take it to their shop in Hutchinson, KS.

CALLING ALL PATRONS

Our STEM {Science-Technology-Engineering-Math} group needs your help.

We would like to study electronics with the students later this spring.

So we are needing old keyboards and phones, cell or landline, to deconstruct.

If you have items to donate, bring them by the library, if we are closed, leave them in the drop box.

Thank you!

STEM 2017: How’s the Weather?

March STEM Meeting was All About Weather

Great satisfaction was had by our budding scientists creating weather gauges.

2017April iPad pictures 022 — The students are so proud of their completed BAROMETERS!

2017April iPad pictures 023 — Concentration and finesse….

2017April iPad pictures 026 — Caution and determination…

2017April iPad pictures 024 — Working ANEMOMETERS test the wind speed of our fans.

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The January meeting of our STEM group studied eyeballs from cows.

Although some were leery to touch and cut into the eyeball, we had a great adventure discovering what makes up an eyeball.

Next month: How do eyes work? How do we see?

009 — Each young scientist was provided with a work space, tools and 1 cows eyeball.

006 — “Do I really have to touch it to dissect it?”

010 — Here we go.

005 — Some “dig” right in and tentative scientists begin dissecting the eyeball.

011 — “I got the lens out of mine.”

012 — Sharing the ‘fun’ of learning!