There are many great reasons to join FOWL. Your membership helps us provide:

• Books for children and adults

• Audiobooks, CD’s, DVD’s and electronic resources

• Funding for programs, music and speakers

• Activities and programs for young people, including the Summer Reading Program

• Passes for area zoo and museums

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In 2025:

• donations from memberships and book sale proceeds helped us fund  90% of the Westport Library's collection materials and resources including picture books, fiction and nonfiction children's and young adult books, adult fiction and nonfiction books, magazines and newspapers as well as Ancestry.com library access.

• FOWL dollars also purchased a bench for the entrance to the Library and furniture for the children, adult and teen reading areas as well as additional play sets and materials for children's programs.

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FOWL funded the purchase of seeds for the Library's Seed Catelog:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOWL sponsored the following 2025 - 2026 programs:​​​​​​​

• Art For Your Mind - Early New England Seascapes

• Art For Your Mind - Why So Famous?

• Art for Your Mind - Celebrate America's 250th​             And upcoming events:

• A Revolution of Her Own - Deborah Sampson

• New Bedford Symphony Orchestra Quartet

• Reading is Magic with Ed The Wizard​

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​In 2026 the following museum passes were purchased by FOWL for use by Library patrons:​​​​

• Buttonwood Park Zoo

• Children's Museum of Greater Fall River

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

• New Bedford Whaling Museum​

• New England Aquarium, Boston

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