Putney Public Library Celebrates 20th Birthday On Sunday, February 2nd from 1:00pm-4:00pm, the Putney Public Library will kick off a year of activities and programming to celebrate the 20th birthday of the library’s beautiful building and honor two decades of community engagement in this space. Appropriately, the year will open with a birthday party- complete […]

All programs canceled.

Join us for stories, songs and crafts. For young children and their siblings and caretakers are welcome to attend.

Join Sarah & Stu for a fun, playful, and participatory song circle for children ages 0-5! In this dynamic class, children (and their caregivers) will be invited to sing, play, and move their bodies to the sounds of uplifting American and world folk songs accompanied by guitar, ukulele & mandolin.

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 12th and may be picked up anytime on Thursday, February 13th. Each animal will go home with a photo book […]

Join us for stories, songs and crafts. For young children and their siblings and caretakers are welcome to attend.

Do you have a pile of nice wool socks with holes, favorite jeans that would be perfect if not for a rip in the knee, or sweaters with moth holes? Bring your ailing fabric items to Putney Library. Advice and support are always available, but you’ll be the mender of your own items. Sewing machines […]

Practice your reading skills with Virgil, our therapy dog volunteer and his human Abigail. All ages and abilities welcome Virgil loves to listen!

Putney resident William Homestead is an associate professor and is also the author of An Ecology of Communication: Response and Responsibility in an Age of Ecocrisis , and The Active Soul: Emerson and Thoreau on Reform and Civil Disobedience (forthcoming from Mercer University Press in May 2025). He had a long association with the Ometeca […]