Cabot Public Library Summer Reading Program in the Willey Building (come at 10:15 for a free breakfast Courtesy of the Cabot School and Hunger Free Vermont’s Summer Food Program.)

We’ll look at many different optical illusions and make your own thaumatrope (what?!?). Answer: A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in Victorian times. A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to the phi** phenomenon and persistence of vision.

**The phi phenomenon is the optical illusion of perceiving continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession.

Jan 26, 2025, 11 AM to 1 PM

Jan 26, 2025, 3 PM

Jan 31, 2025, 6 to 9 PM