Summer Reading Closing Party - Story Teller & Free Books
2021-08-04 07:00 - 08:00 (America/New_York)
See the full schedule: http://putneylibrary.org/youth-services/summer-reading/

Closed for Labor Day
2021-09-05 - 2021-09-06

Mending Bee
2021-09-12 09:00 - 12:00
In-person, outside! Wear your mask!

Book Group--The Beginning of Spring
2021-09-19 14:30 - 16:00
In person, Outdoors under the large canopy tent behind the library
Sunday, September 19th at 6:30pm
This month’s selection is The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald –please contact emily@putneylibrary.org to reserve a copy.

Becoming More Resilient, Happy, and Relaxed in Just One Minute A Day with Rob Koegel
2021-09-22 10:00 - 11:30, 2021-09-29 10:00 - 11:30, 2021-10-06 10:00 - 11:30, 2021-10-13 10:00 - 11:30
Meeting Wednesday Afternoons September 22nd – October 13th
2-3:30pm
Outdoors and IN PERSON at Putney Public Library

These are uncertain times. Since Covid began and insecurity became the new normal, we often feel anxious and overwhelmed. All too often, we find ourselves at a crucial crossroad and don’t know what our next step is or where it will take us.
Designed to nourish resilience, well-being, and safety (we’ll meet outside the library, under a tent, 6 feet apart), this program invites you:

To choose a chapter, each week, from Rick Hanson’s extraordinary book Just One Thing: Developing A Buddha Brain One Simple Practice At A Time.
To engage, in less time than it takes to brew a hot drink, in fun-to-do practices that fuel resilience, relaxation, and the ability to rise to challenge.
To celebrate and invigorate your efforts to strengthen your inner resources in a supportive setting.
Registration is required for this event: email Rob at koegelr@merrimack.edu to enroll, get a free book link for Just One Thing, or ask questions.

Poetry from a Pandemic Reading via Zoom
2021-10-07 15:00 - 16:30
Please subscribe to our weekly events newsletter at: http://putneylibrary.org/sign-up-for-our-email-newsletter/
Or email Emily at emily[at]putneylibrary.org for the link to this Zoom event.

Marbled Mulberry End Papers Workshop --in person, outdoors behind the library
2021-10-16 07:00 - 09:00
Saturday, October 16th from 11am-1pm

Read To A Dog
2021-10-20 11:30 - 12:30, 2021-10-27 11:30 - 12:30, 2021-11-03 11:30 - 12:30, 2021-11-10 10:30 - 11:30, 2021-11-17 10:30 - 11:30
We are excited to welcome therapy dog, Keeper and his owner Abigail to the Library on Wednesdays from October 20th – November 17th, 3:30 – 4:30. Sign up for 15 minute slots by emailing julia@putneylibrary.org or drop in when space is available.
Therapy dogs can help emerging and struggling readers by lending a nonjudgmental ear to listen. They can also help in lowering heart rates and stress hormones while stimulating parts of the brain that encourage social-emotional learning.
Keeper is a two-year-old Labrador Retriever who is a certified therapy dog (with the Alliance of Therapy Dogs). To become certified, he had to pass an initial obedience test as well as complete three supervised visits at several facilities. Besides listening to stories read out loud his favorite activities are swimming, rolling in mud puddles, chasing squirrels and wrestling with his sister.
Abigail Littlefield is Keeper’s owner/chauffeur, who will always be found at the other end of his leash. Keeper is her forth certified therapy dog; some of the places she has visited with past dogs are elementary schools, hospitals, nursing homes and colleges. She is a retired college professor who lives in Westminster West where, in addition to Keeper, she has two more dogs, a cat, chickens and bees!

Amber Paris Artist's Talk via Zoom
2021-10-20 15:00 - 16:30

In Person, Outdoor Book Club: Independence Square by A.D. Miller
2021-10-24 14:30 - 16:00
Or email Emily at emily[at]putneylibrary.org to request a book for this event.
Sunday, October 24th at 6:30pm

In Person, Outdoor Story Time with Susan Hessey
2021-10-28 07:00 - 08:00
A special Halloween story time with Susan Hessey. Story time will be held
under the tent behind the library. Crafts and treats will be available. Be
sure to wear your costume and a mask!

THE GRAND RE-OPENING creativity workshop with Michelle Blake
2021-11-06 07:00 - 09:00
**registration required**
Saturday, November 6, 11 AM to 1 PM
Tent Behind Putney Public Library (unless it’s dismal weather; in which case we meet on ZOOM)

Early in the pandemic, one of my meditation teachers used the term “aversive filter” to describe the lens through which we had come to view the world around us–a world filled with virus germs covered in deadly spikes. I also began to notice that many of my friends had stopped making things–books, paintings, songs. How do we remove that aversive filter and re-open to the world, our source of meaning and inspiration?
Join us for a workshop–outside, we hope, on receptivity, creativity and ways to access the mystery. Please bring your masks, hats and scarves and what you need to stay warm, including thermoses of cider. We will experiment with meditation, free-writing, reading out loud and exploring how other artists and writers become receptive.
If you have ANY interest in joining us, please let me know. If the weather is bad, we will have to move to ZOOM, and I want to be able to notify folks as soon as we make that decision. Please send an email with subject line INTERESTED IN LIBRARY CLASS, to michelleblake09@gmail.com. This is in no way a commitment to attend.

Putney Public Library Writers Salon via Zoom
2021-12-02 14:00 - 15:00
First Thursday of Each Month–Next Date: December 2nd
7pm-8pm
via Zoom
Please sign up for our newsletter(click this text even though it doesn’t look like a link!) or email Emily for the link: emily@putneylibrary.org

Putney Public Library Writers Salon will run the first Thursday
evening of each month from November through March from 7-8 pm and
will feature writers of fiction and poetry from Vermont and other parts of
the United States.The host for the series is Toni Ortner who lives in Putney,
Vermont. She has had 26 books published by small presses. Most recent are
Daybooks I and II by Deerbrook Editions and Daybooks III by Ardent Writer
Press. Blue Lyrics will be published by Adelaide Books next year. Toni is
Vice President of Write Action which is a nonprofit group that supports
writers in Southern Vermont, specifically the Brattleboro area.
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On Thursday December 2, 2021 from 7- 8 p.m. The Putney Library Writers Salon will present an evening of poetry.We will feature J. R. Solonche who was nominated for the National Book Award and twice-nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of 26 books of poetry and coauthor of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley. His most recent book is Selected Poems 2002-2021 by Adelaide Books.
Peter Davies will read poems by John Whitworth the late British poet who died in 2019. Peter is the copy editor for Kelsay Books that published Joy in the Morning which was John Whitworth’s last book. John was born in India in l945 and began writing poetry at Merton College, Oxford. He won numerous prizes and was published in highly regarded literary magazines. He published l2 books of poetry, a textbook on writing poetry, and edited an anthology.

Board of Trustees Meeting--6:30pm
2021-12-14 13:30 - 15:00
Please email Emily for the Zoom link, or attend in person: emily@putneylibrary.org

Putney Public Library Writers Salon
2022-01-06 02:00 - 15:00
First Thursday of Each Month
via Zoom
Please sign up for our newsletter(click this text even though it doesn’t look like a link!) or email Emily for the link: emily@putneylibrary.org

Putney Public Library Writers Salon will run the first Thursday
evening of each month from November through March from 7-8 pm and
will feature writers of fiction and poetry from Vermont and other parts of
the United States. The host for the series is Toni Ortner who lives in Putney,
Vermont. She has had 26 books published by small presses. Most recent are
Daybooks I and II by Deerbrook Editions and Daybooks III by Ardent Writer
Press. Blue Lyrics will be published by Adelaide Books next year. Toni is
Vice President of Write Action which is a nonprofit group that supports
writers in Southern Vermont, specifically the Brattleboro area.
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Caroline Ailanthus author talk: Ecological Memory via Zoom
2022-01-11 14:00 - 15:30
7pm
via Zoom
Please sign up for our newsletter(click this text even though it doesn’t look like a link!) or email Emily for the link: emily@putneylibrary.org

Library Closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
2022-01-16 - 2022-01-17

Library Board Meeting
2022-01-25 13:30 - 15:00
In person at library or by Zoom–email for link: emily@putneylibrary.org

Frederick Law Olmsted, New England’s Beloved Son with Ann McEntee via Zoom
2022-01-26 14:00 - 15:30
via Zoom
Please sign up for our newsletter(click this text even though it doesn’t look like a link!) or email Emily for the link: emily@putneylibrary.org

Putney Public Library Writers Salon
2022-02-03 14:00 - 15:00
First Thursday of Each Month
via Zoom
Please sign up for our newsletter (click this text even though it doesn’t look like a link!) or email Emily for the link: emily@putneylibrary.org

Putney Public Library Writers Salon will run the first Thursday
evening of each month from November through March from 7-8 pm and
will feature writers of fiction and poetry from Vermont and other parts of
the United States.The host for the series is Toni Ortner who lives in Putney,
Vermont. She has had 26 books published by small presses. Most recent are
Daybooks I and II by Deerbrook Editions and Daybooks III by Ardent Writer
Press. Blue Lyrics will be published by Adelaide Books next year. Toni is
Vice President of Write Action which is a nonprofit group that supports
writers in Southern Vermont, specifically the Brattleboro area.

Library Closed Due to Weather and Road Conditions
2022-02-03 - 2022-02-04

Stuffed Animal Sleepover
2022-02-10 19:00

Library Closed for Presidents' Day
2022-02-20 19:00
