PETER GOULD TO READ FROM HORSE-DRAWN YOGURT at Putney Public Library Peter Gould will read from his new non-fiction book about the Vermont back-to-the-land movement, _Horse-Drawn Yogurt: Stories from Total Loss Farm, _at Putney Public Library on Thursday, July 13th at 7pm. Marlboro musician Dan MacArthur will also be present at this very special event […]

Fri, July 14—Comic book artist Marek Bennett will run a workshop on BUILDING A WORLD with drawings and writing. This special workshop will be sign-up only and is for children ages 7-12. Please contact Emily to sign up: emily@putneylibrary.org or call 387-4407.  

Wed, July 19th 2pm—Build a Reading Fort Get ready to build an amazing fort out of huge boxes to sit in for story time!  

Fri, July 21st at 2pm—Hannah Pick from the Putney Foodshelf will come by to help us BUILD AN AMAZING FRUIT SALAD, which we will then eat.  

Wed, July 26th 2pm—Pompom Launcher You’ll get all the materials you need to build a contraption that can fire a pompom across the library!  

At the Putney Public Library, ordinary citizens are deliberating matters normally relegated to the Supreme Court justices. In June, they tackled the monumental issue of free speech, considering the pluses and minuses of criminalizing hate speech and whether Charles Murray should have been invited to speak at Middlebury College. While the issues themselves were not […]

Special Event!! At Putney Central School Gym Fri, July 28 at 2pm! Storyteller Marv Klassen-Landis will be joining us for an amazing children’s program courtesy of the Children's Literacy Foundation’s Summer Readers Grant. Every child who participates chooses two books to keep from a wide selection of brand-new children’s books. Putney Central School is located at […]

Wrap Up Party—Wednesday, August 2nd at 2pm  Come wrap up the Summer Reading Program with a fun ice cream social. Pick up your summer reading certificate, claim the last raffle prizes, and enjoy a make-your-own sundae party! This event is co-sponsored by the Putney Food Co-op with ice cream from Strafford Organic Creamery. The rain […]

In the last of our series on The Bill of Rights, we will be discussing the Fourth Amendment, “the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects.”

THE ART OF THE ESSAY: A WRITING WORKSHOP WITH ELAYNE CLIFT AT PUTNEY LIBRARY Join author Elayne Clift for a writing workshop on Wednesday, September 6th at 7pm at Putney Public Library. This workshop explores what an essay is and why we write them. It includes the necessary elements of writing good creative non-fiction pieces […]

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