Alice Freeman Artist Reception
2024-01-20 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York)

Cultivating Community Book Group with Trish Roberts --discusses We Should Get Together
2024-01-24 17:30 - 19:00
Cultivating Community Book Group with Trish Roberts at Putney Public Library
Let’s get together to talk about how to build stronger connections in our lives and cultivate a deeper sense of belonging in our community.
Each month we will read a book, published within the last three years, that offers inspiring, actionable advice on how to grow a more connected world. We’ll gather once a month to discuss the various tips, strategies and activities offered in each book and brainstorm ways to put these ideas into practice in our lives. Our first meeting, on Wednesday, January 24 from 6:30-8 PM at Putney Library, we’ll discuss the book We Should Get Together by Kat Vellos. Putney Library cardholders can pick up a copy at the library.
According to the publisher, We Should Get Together is, “the handbook for anyone who’s ready for better friendships, now. Millions of adults struggle with an uncomfortable and persistent ache: platonic longing, which is the unfulfilled wish for authentic, resilient, close friendships. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Making and maintaining friendships during adulthood can be hard—or, with a bit of intention and creativity, joyful. Combining expert research and personal stories pulled from conversations with hundreds of adults, We Should Get Together is the modern handbook for making and maintaining stronger friendships.”
Facilitator Trish has lived in the Putney area for 7 years and has a background in education with experience teaching French and English literature at the high school level and directing theater programs and performances for youth of all ages. She recently founded Wildbrook Forest Theater, a nature-based theater project in Westminster, and currently runs the Main Street Arts After-School drama program. She is a library board member with a passion for wild places, live music, storytelling and community.

Storytime With Susan Hessey
2024-01-25 10:00 - 11:00
Join Susan Hessey for stories, songs and crafts. Preschoolers and their siblings and caretakers are welcome to attend. Thursdays in January at 11 am.

Storytime With Susan Hessey
2024-02-01 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-02-08 10:00 - 11:00, 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 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.

LEGO Club
2024-02-01 15:00 - 16:00
Build a creation based on a theme or your own imagination!

I Draw You, You Draw Me
2024-02-03 10:00 - 11:30

Silent Reading Club
2024-02-07 17:30 - 19:30, 2024-03-14 17:30 - 19:30

Mending Bee
2024-02-11 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.

Stuffed Animal Sleepover
2024-02-14 09:30 - 2024-02-15 17:00
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.*

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.

Putney Library Chapbook Book Binding
2024-03-21 17:30 - 19:30
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
Mondays at 6:30pm April 1-June 17
