Putney Public Library

Library Book Sale
2025-05-17 08:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)

Book Sale--Half Price!
2025-05-18 10:00 - 12:00

Putney Amblers Walking Group
2025-05-21 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-05-28 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-06-04 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-06-11 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-06-18 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-06-25 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-07-02 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-07-09 14:00 - 15:00
Would you like to get outside and walk in the company of others? The Putney Amblers is a casual walking group sponsored by Putney Public Library. Moseying with others is a great way to get out and be a part of a community group.
The Putney Amblers meet for walks at 3:00 pm on Wednesdays, changing spots and routes each week. Please feel free to join us on an impromptu basis, or email Susan Heimer to register to get weekly location and weather-related updates: heimer.susan@gmail.com Walks will last from 60-90 minutes depending on the will of the group.

Stitch Together
2025-05-21 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-04 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-06-18 17:00 - 19:00
Stitch Together
A new fiber arts group is forming at Putney Library and you’re invited! Come knit, crochet, embroider, mend or work on any handwork craft in the company of others. The library is cozy and the lighting is perfect for needlework of all kinds! Beginners are welcome!
The group will meet twice monthly on Wednesday evenings from 6pm-8pm.

Storytime
2025-05-22 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-05-29 10:00 - 11:00
Join us for stories, songs and crafts. For young children and their siblings and caretakers are welcome to attend.

Hands-On Magic Workshop with Artist Phina Pipia
2025-05-22 17:30 - 19:00
Hands-On Magic Workshop with Artist Phina Pipia at Putney Library
Thursday, May 22nd at 6:30pm
Join visiting artist, Phina Pipia at Putney Public Library on Thursday, May 22nd for a magical and inspiring experience! Participants young and old learn a magic trick they can perform themselves, and then discover the secret to the biggest magic trick of all; how to take your own ideas and make them a reality.
Inspired by the ingenuity seen in the Italian Renaissance, this inspiring, hands-on workshop is both unforgettable fun and a game-changing life lesson in self-actualization. Led by performer and artist, Phina Pipia, students come away laughing, energized, and with the power to unlock their own creative potential. This workshop is appropriate for ages 6 and up.
Called “terrific,” by the New York Times, “imaginative, intelligent, and strangely mesmerizing,” by the San Diego Union Tribune, and “impossible to resist,” by the Montreal Gazette, Phina Pipia’s performances combine illusion, music, puppetry, and dance to captivate audiences around the globe. Phina will be performing Ha Ha Da Vinci as part of Sandglass Theater’s Summer Series and the Putney Library is pleased to have her join us while she’s in town!

Library Closed for Memorial Day
2025-05-25 - 2025-05-26

Smores and Stories
2025-06-05 17:00 - 19:00
Join Storyteller Trish Roberts to toast marshmallows and make smores around the fire in the library’s stone seating area on Thursday, June 5th at 6pm. Smores supplies will be provided, but bring a story you might like to share with the group! This is an all-ages program, so bring your friends and family.
Since this program is weather-dependent, please check on the library’s website (putneylibrary.org) or call 802-387-4407 for cancellation information if the weather is poor.
Putney Public Library is located at 55 Main St. in Putney, VT. This event is free and open to the public.

Mending Bee
2025-06-08 12:00 - 15:00
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 and darning tools are available to use during the Bee.

Presentation on Schoolgirl Samplers in 19th Century New England
2025-06-10 17:30 - 19:00
Presentation on Schoolgirl Samplers in 19th Century New England
Tuesday, June 10th at 6:30pm at Putney Library
This summer, Putney Public Library, in partnership with the VT Sampler Initiative and Putney Historical Society, is part of a state-wide Sampler Driving Tour, to view schoolgirl needlework samplers, from the post-Revolutionary War period.
These pieces of 19th century needlework were an essential part of education during the Revolutionary and federal period of our history. This is how girls learned to read, write, and spell their own names. Families often framed them and hung them on a parlor wall, to announce to visitors that they valued education enough to pay for their daughters to become educated citizens – and marriageable young women, to any aspiring suitors. Putney Library will host a display of 6 embroidered samplers from private collections and photographs of many more local examples which will be displayed from June 2nd-August 30th.
Michele Pagan, Vermont native, textile conservator and Vermont Sampler Tour coordinator, will help open our exhibit by giving a presentation contextualizing the role of schoolgirl samplers in educating young women in the new American republic. She will also reveal some of the histories behind many of these samplers: Who were the families that produced these girls, and what role, if any, did they play during the American revolution? What were their lives like, after the Revolution, and their families’ move to Vermont? A discussion of the socioeconomic clues which can be read from the samplers will also be presented.
This program and summer-long display is co-sponsored by the Putney Historical Society.

Music & Movement
2025-06-14 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-06-28 08:00 - 09:00
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.

NO June Board Meeting--Moved to July 8th
2025-06-17 17:30 - 19:00

Library Closed for Juneteenth
2025-06-19 07:00 - 16:00

Once upon a page: a fantasy fiction book club
2025-06-23 17:30 - 19:00
Once upon a page: a fantasy fiction book club
We invite you to join us at the Putney Library as we explore other worlds. Meet new people and read cozy fantasy novels with fellow book addicts.
The first session, at 6:30 on June 23rd, will be a preliminary discussion. We’ll be voting on what book to escape into first. Reading options will be presented, but feel free to bring your own suggestions.

Stitch Together
2025-07-02 07:00 - 16:00
Stitch Together
A vibrant fiber arts group is gathering at Putney Library and you’re invited! Come knit, crochet, embroider, mend or work on any handwork craft in the company of others. The library is cozy and the lighting is perfect for needlework of all kinds! Beginners are welcome!
The group will meet twice monthly on Wednesday evenings from 6pm-8pm.

Library Closed for Fourth of July
2025-07-04 07:00 - 16:00

Library Closed
2025-07-04 - 2025-07-05

Library Board Meeting on Atypical Date
2025-07-08 17:30 - 19:00

Summer Reading Program - Suminagashi Marbling for Teens
2025-07-09 15:00 - 16:00
Westminster-based artist, Candace Jensen will demonstrate simple Suminagashi marbling techniques, which involve sumi ink and water. Patterns will emerge on the water surface by carefully adding ink in small dips with brush, and can be captured on mulberry papers for use as decorative paper, wrapping paper, in bookmaking or collage. The process is fun, low-mess and produces really beautiful results!
Ages 12+
