Week Calendar

Nappanee Public Library Board of Trustees meeting

We will have books, crafts, and projects available for little ones. This storytime teaches kids age 3-5 preschool skills like using scissors, learning colors, counting, and more in a social setting.

Yoga instructor Angie Stillson is back for more! Join us for a yoga practice doing animal poses. 

Nappanee was built on the foundation of trailblazers. If not for those pioneers who happened to be entrepreneurs too, Nappanee would not be what it is today. Entrepreneurs, Pioneers and Trailblazers explores those pioneers.

This will be an in-person, interactive music performance for kids of all ages! Plan to have fun!

You are visiting the Historic John Hartman House and all of a sudden the doors close. You are transported back to 1897. Can you piece together all the clues and beat the clock before the Hartman family comes home? 

The 1935 Nappanee High School Basketball team has made it to the State Tourney! But oh no! The team is stuck in an elevator and have fallen nine stories right before their first game.

This fun and punny escape room will help you learn more about Nappanee’s cartooning past. The Nappanee 6 are the men that called Nappanee home and went on to be funny men in the newspapers. What if there was supposed to be a seventh cartoonist?

The Lunar Rover has developed a problem on the moon. Help Nappanee Native Lee Weaver find the instructions to fix the kick-up of moon dust to relay to Houston who can relay it to the moon.

"Storytelling is a complete theme designed to be completed over eight 60 minute sessions.

Make a hand salve and after-sun spray. 

John Dillinger’s gang has locked Nappanee’s Constable in the Jail. You need to piece together the clues to help the scared Constable before the gang comes back. You only have 45 minutes.

John Fisher is on his way to deliver a Coppes Kitchen to Camp David and hopes to meet President and Mrs. Kennedy. He realizes one thing. He has forgotten his camera to document this event.

It’s 1874 and Nappanee has just been settled. Locke to the North wants to help this young village and name it. Piece together the clues and claim the name Nappanee before the businessmen of Locke can give it another name.

It’s 1890 and John Keller is busy going around the bustling town of Nappanee to photograph all its people, businesses, and homes. He needs your help though. He’s lost his trusty camera and cannot remember where he left it. Mr.

Cut and sew a zippered wristlet purse. Working knowledge of sewing machine required. Cost is $18.00. All materials provided..
*Provide your own sewing machine, rentals available for $10.00

Join a group of creative artists who leave traditional kitchen table art in the dust and have fun with color like never before. Some months, programs will be outside. Always: dress for mess.

Stop by to make extra Pinterest Night crafts. Projects will vary. 

Nappanee was built on the foundation of trailblazers. If not for those pioneers who happened to be entrepreneurs too, Nappanee would not be what it is today. Entrepreneurs, Pioneers and Trailblazers explores those pioneers.