Putney Public Library

Stuffed Animal Sleepover
2024-02-14 09:30 - 2024-02-15 17:00 (America/New_York)
Bring your stuffed animal to the library for a bedtime story and sleepover party. What kind of mischief will they get into when the library closes?
Animals may be dropped off anytime on Wednesday, February 14th and may be picked up anytime on Thursday, February 15th. Each animal will go home with a photo book of their crazy overnight antics in the library. Stay for Storytime with Susan Hessey on Thursday at 11 am.
*Library staff promise to take very special care of your animals overnight.*

Storytime With Susan Hessey
2024-02-15 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-02-22 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-02-29 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-07 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-14 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-21 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-28 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-04-04 10:00 - 11:00 and 1 more date
Join Susan Hessey for stories, songs and crafts. Preschoolers and their siblings and caretakers are welcome to attend. Thursdays at 11 am.

CLOSED for Presidents' Day
2024-02-18 - 2024-02-19

Read With A Dog
2024-02-20 14:30 - 15:30, 2024-03-19 14:30 - 15:30
Practice your reading skills with Virgil, our therapy dog volunteer and his human Abigail. All ages welcome
Virgil loves to listen!

Sticker Palooza
2024-02-21 09:30 - 17:00
Kids preK to teen are invited to drop in and sift through our collection of stickers and to create your own sticker journal.
If you have stickers you want to share, bring them!

Cultivating Community Book Group : Together by Vivek H Murthy M.D.
2024-02-28 17:30 - 19:00

CLOSED for Town Meeting Day
2024-03-04 - 2024-03-05

Reading the River: A Poetry Workshop
2024-03-06 17:30 - 19:30
Walk ins welcome or register here: https://vermontriverconservancy.org/news

Comics & Queerness in Vermont & Beyond with Tillie Walden
2024-03-12 17:30 - 19:00
From Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home to Charles Schulz’s Peanuts, comics have been a part of American culture since print first began. But comics are no longer relegated just to the newspaper, and as books like Maus or Persepolis have proven, this is a golden age for graphic novel storytelling. What is even more exciting is how the comics industry is currently championing narratives for all identities and ages.
Vermont Cartoonist Laureate Tillie Walden presents a look at the intersection of indie comics with queer identity through her many graphic novels—from science fiction to memoir to historical retelling. Explore process and power through visual narrative and learn why comics are relevant to Vermonters and beyond.
This event is part of the Vermont Reads program through the Vermont Humanities Council.

Silent Reading Club
2024-03-14 17:30 - 19:30

Putney Library Chapbook Book Binding
2024-03-21 17:30 - 19:30, 2024-04-06 12:00 - 14:00
email request@putneylibrary.org to sign up for this community workshop!
In 2019, Putney Public Library began to assemble a chapbook of poetry by writers with creative ties to Vermont. The original goal was to hand bind and release the book in early summer of 2020. While the project was unexpectedly delayed, the chapbook has made progress behind the scenes and we’re now in a position to gather and bind the book as originally intended!
The book, appropriately titled Time Capsule, features the work of 18 poets, pages marbled in community workshops in 2021, and a beautiful letterpress cover.
Join letterpress artist and writer, Candace Jensen, and artist and library board member, Amber Paris for a bookbinding workshop that will contribute to the finished books. We will use the Japanese stab binding process to complete the final steps in the book’s production.

Cultivating Community Book Group Discusses Belonging
2024-03-27 17:30 - 19:30
Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides by Geoffrey L. Cohen

Drop off Peeps Dioramas
2024-04-01 09:00 - 2024-04-06 12:00
More details here!

“For Blood and Money” Reading Group with Norman Paradis
2024-04-01 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-04-08 17:30 - 19:00
Mondays at 6:30pm April 1-June 17

Breaking Silence: A Literary Journey with Women who Spoke Truth to Power with Elayne Clift
2024-04-02 17:30 - 19:00
Breaking Silence: A Literary Journey with Women who Spoke Truth to Power with Elayne Clift at Putney Public Library
Tuesday, April 2nd at 6:30pm
Award-winning writer Elayne Clift offers a presentation on women writers who were courageous enough to tell truth about their lives at Putney Public Library on Tuesday, April 2nd at 6:30pm.
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” Poet Muriel Rukeyser famously asked more than 50 years ago. Her answer? “The world would split apart.”
This presentation in honor of International Women’s Day offers a historical review of women writers who told the truth about their lives and created social change in important ways through courageous writing in various genres. Their insightful works changed women’s lives in the home, the marketplace, academia, institutions, and government. It’s an opportunity to learn from selected women writers who affected social history and progress in ways that affect us all through truth telling diaries, autobiographies, poems, short stories and essays that helped shape a more enlightened world with respect to gender, race, class, and caste. Please join us for a journey into Gender, Literature, and “good trouble!”

Closing at 3pm due to Weather
2024-04-03 07:00 - 16:00

Closed Due to Weather, Thursday 4/4
2024-04-04 07:00 - 16:00

Peeps Diorama Display and Voting
2024-04-08 09:30 - 2024-04-13 12:00

**AT PUTNEY CENTRAL SCHOOL** Solar Eclipse Viewing
2024-04-08 13:45 - 14:45
Join us to watch the near-total solar eclipse at Putney Central School!
2:45-3:45pm
The library only has enough eclipse glasses for the event and will not be distributing any before the event.
