Doors will open at 5:45 p.m., and there will be festive dessert offerings, including frozen pops from The Blue Chill, and cookies. A raffle will feature unique prizes, and there will be a cash bar, stocked with your favorite brews from Fogtown Brewery, along with savory treats from El El Frijoles. Movies upstairs—with popcorn!—will be offered for the young and young at heart and some of the library staff will be on hand to keep kids company. 

This is a family-friendly event, and costumes are not only welcome but encouraged! Come dressed as a groundhog, don a top hat, or put on your best winter or spring finery. Everyone is invited to add to their costumes with special groundhog-themed props in the photobooth and take selfies (photos can be emailed or texted). Celebrate the early arrival of spring—or brace yourself for six more weeks of snow, ice, and hibernation—at the library!

Admission is $20 per person, or $50 per household. Optional benefactor tickets are also available for $50 per person and $100 per household and will help make this fundraising event a success, as well as guarantee those ticketholders a place in Groundhog Heaven (you’ll even get a certificate!). Tickets will be available for purchase in advance at the circulation desk or online—or at the door for $5 more (limited quantity). All proceeds benefit the library.

For more information, please call the library at 374-5515.