Canton Public Library's 62 Days of Summer season wraps up this weekend with a backyard blowout on Saturday, Aug. 15, featuring live music, a bounce house, live animals and face painting.
The library's Best Life Team, a staff group known internally as the BLT, spent nearly a year building the 2026 lineup. The team meets twice a month starting each fall to choose a theme, design graphics and map out experiences for patrons of all ages, according to a blog post published on the library's website. Once the calendar is set, librarians schedule events and a call goes out across all departments for volunteers to staff them.
The library noted it takes a village to run the program, with every department pitching in to keep activities running smoothly through mid-August.
The result: something on the calendar almost every day since mid-June.
This summer's highlights included Wings of Wonder Storytimes built around flowers and pollinators, tie-dye sessions, a Hobby Horse Workshop, Plein Air Painting, Dance Your Fanny Off, Pint Size Polkas with a polka musician who traveled from Wisconsin, and Lemonade on the Front Porch. The library also launched its first-ever Summer Adult Meetup series this year, including a Saturday Morning Cartoons session and an End of Summer Celebration on Aug. 13, giving grown-ups dedicated programming without kid logistics.
A World Language Storytime series reflected Canton's diversity, rotating through Spanish, Tamil, Mandarin, Arabic, Kannada and Portuguese across the summer.
One event left
All events are free. The season's final event takes place at 1200 S. Canton Center Road. No registration is required:
- Saturday, Aug. 15 — 62 Days of Summer Final Party, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., Library Backyard. Live music by Benjammin and Emily as the Best Day Ever Band, jump rope by the Jumpin' Allstars, photo booth, live animals, bounce house and face painting. Open to all ages.
The library's full events calendar is available at cantonpl.librarycalendar.com. Canton Public Library is open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.–9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m.–6 p.m.; and Sunday, noon–6 p.m.
