Read To A Dog
2022-07-12 07:00 - 08:00, 2022-08-09 07:00 - 08:00 (America/New_York)
Keeper is a two-year-old Labrador Retriever certified therapy dog. He is an excellent listener and companion for anyone practicing their reading skills or just needing a friend. Email julia@putneylibrary.org to reserve a 15 minute time slot to read with Keeper. All ages and reading abilities welcome!

Summer Reading - Watershed Wildlife
2022-07-13 07:00 - 08:00
The Southern Vermont Natural History Museum will introduce us to live animals found in and around our own backyards and teach us how each one shares an important connection to the watershed from Vermont to the ocean.

Dungeons & Dragons
2022-07-13 14:30 - 17:00, 2022-07-20 14:30 - 17:00, 2022-07-27 14:30 - 17:00, 2022-08-03 14:30 - 17:00, 2022-08-10 14:30 - 17:00, 2022-08-17 14:30 - 17:00, 2022-08-24 14:30 - 17:00, 2022-08-31 14:30 - 17:00 and 2 more dates
Dungeons & Dragons, Ghosts of Salty Marsh – Wednesday July 13th – September 14th, 6:30 – 9 pm
Explore the waves above and the fathoms below in these watery adventures for the world’s greatest roleplaying game. Limited to 6 players, ages 12-16, registration required. Email Julia@putneylibrary.org to register.

Summer Reading Story Time
2022-07-18 07:00 - 08:00, 2022-07-25 07:00 - 08:00
Join story time reader, Susan Hessey for read aloud stories and activities.

THE GRAND RE-OPENING 2022: Reconnect with yourself, your meditation practice and the world
2022-07-18 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-07-25 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-08-01 14:00 - 15:30
Once again, we’ve weathered a long winter of frost and Covid. After all the shutting down and closing off, it’s time to open up and reconnect with ourselves and the plentiful world around us, so we can get back to making and imagining. Join us for a 4-session workshop and discussion group to explore the use of Mindfulness Meditation and various practices that enhance inspiration and presence. We’ll meet four times, three Monday evenings in July, beginning Monday, July 11, from 6:00-7:30 at the library–and the first Monday of August. If weather is good, we’ll meet out back on the patio. If not, we’ll meet inside the library or on Zoom, depending on Covid numbers.
Michelle Blake is a writer and poet who has published three novels with Putnam Penguin; poems and essays in the NY Times, Tin House, Ploughshares and many others; and a collaboration with visual artist Fran Forman. Together with Emily Zervas, she developed the Writer in Residence program at the library (on Covid hold). Currently, she is working in the Mindfulness Meditation Training Program to explore the relationship between meditation, inspiration and creativity.
Please register for this event by emailing Michelle at: michelleblake09@gmail.com

POSTPONED--Post-Roe deliberation with Meg Mott: Are the People up the Task?
2022-07-19 15:00 - 16:30

Summer Reading - Pirate Ship Building
2022-07-20 07:00 - 08:00
Build a pirate ship from recycled materials and sail it across the sea (kiddie pools) at the library. Prepare to get wet!

Sumnmer Reading - Rock'n Ron The Friendly Pirate
2022-07-27 11:00 - 12:00
Ron’s original songs have lots of interaction and boatloads of wordplay. Sing along to tunes including “Give Me an RRR!, Pirate PaRRRty!, Talk Like a Pirate, and Captains & Sea Monsters. It will be a swashbuckling good time!

Summer Reading - Closing Party
2022-08-01 07:00 - 08:00
Come together to celebrate our time reading and learning together. We will share a frozen treat and you can take home a scuttling crab puppet craft.

Artist's reception for Linda Rubinstein and Poetry Reading by Toni Ortner
2022-08-16 14:00 - 16:00
Artist’s reception for Linda Rubinstein’s work on Tuesday, August 16th starting at 6pm. This event also celebrates Linda’s illustration of Toni Ortner’s new book of poems, Daybook V, published by Ardent Writer Press. Toni will read her poetry at 7pm.

Library Closed for Labor Day
2022-09-04 20:00

Putney Big Tree Quest
2022-09-12 14:00 - 15:00
Come to the Putney Big Tree Quest Kickoff event at the Putney Library on Monday, Sept. 12, 6-7 pm.
Trees for Good, the Putney Public Library, the Putney Conservation Committee and members of the Putney education, forestry, and art communities are partnering to host a Big Tree Quest in Putney, Vermont Sept. 15 – Nov. 1, 2022, inspired by a similar contest in Tunbridge in 2019.
Why a Big Tree Quest? To get us outside seeing the trees in our community, to honor the big trees that play such an important role in the forest ecosystem, in climate change mitigation, in the nurturing of young trees, and in the storage of carbon. And maybe even to put a Putney tree on the Vermont Big Tree list!
What do you do for a Big Tree Quest? You head out and search for the largest tree you can find of the many species in Putney. If biggest isn’t your thing, how about searching for Best Tree Pose, Best Tree Face, Tree Superhost, or submitting your TreeTrek story (the longest or most interesting single-day human-powered tree discovery expedition). There’s also a category for Tree Art!
Submit online at https://form.jotform.com/222408380354048. Find submission forms on the Putney Library website http://putneylibrary.org/events-and-classes/putney-big-tree-quest/. Or just go out find a big tree, measure the circumference at 4.5 feet off the ground, and submit circumference, tree species, tree location, your name, email and phone #, and, if possible, a photo of the tree to putneybigtree@gmail.com.
At the Sept.12 Kickoff event, local forester Andrew Morrison will demonstrate tree measuring technique, Michael Clough will visit with live forest animals from the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum, Ines Zeller Bass from Sandglass Theater will introduce a tree spirit art-making workshop for those aged 10 and up to be held on Sept. 24, 2-4 at Sandglass Theater, and Putney School faculty member Dawn Zwieg will offer hands-on fun ecology activities. Tree-themed treats will be available. Activities are appropriate for all ages.
Contest judges are forester Andrew Morrison and Putney Public Library Youth Services Librarian Julia von Ransom, in collaboration with students from The Putney School and Putney Central School. These distinguished community members will head out into backyards and sugar bushes after November 1 to confirm the entries. Interested parties are invited to accompany the judges on these measurement visits. Prizes–items made with or inspired by local tree species–will be awarded at the Putney Big Tree Quest Wrap-up on November 15, from 6-7 pm at the Putney Public Library.
Find more information about Putney Big Tree Quest events–tree identification walks, exploring our relationship with trees through art, and more–on the Putney Public Library website (www.putneylibrary.org), or contact Evie Lovett and Paul Levasseur at putneybigtree@gmail.com.

7pm-Susan Mills Reading
2022-09-14 15:00 - 16:30
Susan Mills Reads from On the Wings of a Hummingbird
Wednesday, September 14th at 7pm
Join Newfane author, Susan Mills, for a reading of her new novel On the Wings of a Hummingbird on Wednesday, September 14th at 7pm at Putney Public Library. Masks will be required for this indoor, in-person event. As a Spanish-speaking immigration attorney for twenty years, Mills prepared asylum cases for thousands of immigrants from Central America, with a focus on unaccompanied minors. Some of her family members journeyed from the war-torn countryside of El Salvador to the U.S.
Wings of a Hummingbird, her first novel, is the story of 15-year-old Petra, who must grow into the lessons of the Mayan hummingbird as she carves her future out of a childhood scarred by violence.
Petra’s life has been upended by local gang violence in her small Guatemalan village. Her childhood friend Emilio had a hand in their friend Justina’s murder, and his father is the local gang leader’s right-hand man. Betrayed by Emilio and abandoned by her mother who has fled to the U.S., Petra now fears for her own life. Petra ultimately flees to the U.S., but the pressures follow her there. As she attempts to reconcile with her mother over the abandonment, Petra is alarmed that her mother disregards the danger when Emilio shows up near their home. The novel explores forgiveness and redemption, how to heal oneself and find a future of integrity with friends and community who have participated in atrocities.
Nancy Braus from Everyone’s Books says: ” On the Wings of a Hummingbird is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand more deeply the reasons people leave their ancestral homes in Central America, in this case Guatemala, and make the dangerous journey north. The main character, Petra, is a smart, thoughtful teen living with her caring indigenous grandparents in a small town in rural Guatemala where brutal gangs have been terrorizing residents, especially young women. It becomes clear over time that her refusal to give in to gang demands is endangering her grandparents, so she needs to flee to join her mother in the United States. The process of eluding the gangs and making a new life is a challenge, but Petra’s insights into her experience will stay with the reader for a long time.”
Putney Public Library is located at 55 Main St. in Putney, VT. This event, like all library programs, is free and open to the public. Masks are required for this in-person, indoor event.

1pm--Growing a Pollinator Garden: Restoring Habitat to Your Own Backyard and Community
2022-10-01 09:00 - 10:30

Library Closed for Indigenous People's Day
2022-10-09 - 2022-10-10

Read To A Dog
2022-10-25 11:30 - 12:30
Sign up for a 15 minute session to read with Keeper, our certified therapy dog volunteer and his human Abigail. Email julia@putneylibrar.org to reserve your spot!

Library Board Meeting (on atypical Tuesday)
2022-10-25 14:30 - 16:00
