**AT PUTNEY CENTRAL SCHOOL** Solar Eclipse Viewing
2024-04-08 13:45 - 14:45 (America/New_York)
Join us to watch the near-total solar eclipse at Putney Central School!
2:45-3:45pm
The library only has enough eclipse glasses for the event and will not be distributing any before the event.

“For Blood and Money” Reading Group with Norman Paradis
2024-04-08 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-04-15 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-04-22 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-04-29 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-05-13 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-05-20 17:30 - 19:00
Mondays at 6:30pm April 1-June 17

Storytime With Susan Hessey
2024-04-11 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-04-18 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-04-25 10:00 - 11:00
Join Susan Hessey for stories, songs and crafts. Preschoolers and their siblings and caretakers are welcome to attend. Thursdays at 11 am.

Silent Reading Club
2024-04-11 17:30 - 19:30, 2024-05-16 17:30 - 19:30

Mending Bee
2024-04-14 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.

Peeps Diorama Party and Awards Ceremony
2024-04-16 16:00 - 17:00

Read With A Dog
2024-04-23 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!

Putney Library Chapbook Book Binding
2024-04-25 15:30 - 17:00
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.

Metal Detecting with Rob Phillips
2024-04-30 17:30 - 19:00

Cultivating Community Book Group
2024-05-01 17:30 - 19:30
Discussing Belonging by Geoffrey L. Cohen, but please come even if you haven’t read the book.

Storytime
2024-05-02 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-05-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-05-16 10:00 - 11:00

Expert Material Makers and Crafters: Theresa Emmerich Kamper & Caroline Ross
2024-05-03 17:30 - 19:00
Meet the two visiting faculty from the ‘Making the Materials’ series of workshops at In Situ Polyculture (Westminster, VT). Theresa Emmerich Kamper is an expert in leather and tanning ancestral skills, as well as a beloved former contestant on the TV show ‘Alone’ who excels at ‘using the whole animal’ and careful, beautiful designs for buckskin clothing and more. Caroline Ross, also known by her art moniker ‘Found and Ground’, is a pigment and drawing materials expert with a great knowledge of bushcraft as it applies to creativity and art. They will give a short talk, answer questions about their work and materials, and enjoy conversation with attendees. They will have a few copies of their books on hand as well.
Light refreshments, Q&A, fabulous materials like ink, quills, buckskin, traditionally tanned furs, and more. Please join us!

Puzzle Race
2024-05-04 12:00 - 14:00
Can you complete a jigsaw puzzle faster than your friends and neighbors? Putney Public Library will be hosting out first ever Puzzle Race on Saturday, May 4th at 1 pm. Register a team of 3-5 puzzlers HERE by Saturday, April 27th for a friendly competition to see who can complete a 750 piece puzzle the fastest. Each team will receive the same 750 piece puzzle. The team that finishes first wins!

Mending Bee
2024-05-05 12:00 - 15:00

Tracking Lynx with Bob Etzweiler
2024-05-07 17:30 - 19:00

"What is Away?" with Windham Solid Waste Management District
2024-05-14 17:30 - 19:00

Library Closes at 1pm
2024-05-17 12:00 - 17:00
We are closing early for book sale setup! Join us Saturday 9am-1pm and Sunday 11am-1pm for the library’s annual book sale fundraiser!

Library Book Sale
2024-05-18 08:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-19 10:00 - 12:00

Read With Virgil
2024-05-21 14:30 - 15:30
