Library Closed for Presidents Day
2025-02-16 - 2025-02-17

Read With A Dog
2025-02-18 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
Practice your reading skills with Virgil, our therapy dog volunteer and his human Abigail. All ages and abilities welcome
Virgil loves to listen!

William Homestead Reads from New Book
2025-02-18 17:30 - 19:00
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 Institute, an education nonprofit devoted to the integration of the sciences and the humanities and dialogue among scholars from diverse countries, especially the US and within Latin America. His work with Ometeca, along with his interdisciplinary degrees (MS in Environmental Studies, MA in Communication Studies, and MFA in Creative Writing), study with a spiritual teacher, and hiking experiences, informs his writing and teaching.

Stickerpalooza
2025-02-18 - 2025-02-19
Everyone (all ages!) is 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!

Stitch Together
2025-02-19 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-03-12 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-03-26 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
2025-02-20 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-02-27 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-13 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-20 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-03-27 10:00 - 11:00
Join us for stories, songs and crafts. For young children and their siblings and caretakers are welcome to attend.

Music & Movement
2025-02-22 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-03-08 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-03-22 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.

Mending Bee
2025-02-23 12:00 - 15:00, 2025-03-16 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.

Board Meeting on Atypical Day
2025-02-25 17:30 - 19:00

Putney Palette Workshop--require registration
2025-02-26 17:30 - 19:00
Imagine a watercolor kit in which all the colors came from the plants, rocks and clay that surround us. Join us at Putney Library where we’ll use simple methods and everyday equipment to make watercolor paints from a variety of urban, rural and repurposed materials from our locale to make a completely idiosyncratic hyper-local paint set reflecting the history, people, land and ecology of our area. This workshop will produce watercolor kits that will be available for checkout at the library.
This workshop is co-presented with In Situ Polyculture.
Ages 12 and up welcome—register by email to request@putneylibrary.org or by calling 802-387-4407.

Library Closed for Town Meeting Day
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-04

You Draw Me, I Draw You
2025-03-08 10:00 - 11:30

Bob Etzweiler Presents Getting to Know our Wild Neighbors: Learning about the world around us through wildlife tracking
2025-03-10 17:30 - 19:00
Bob Etzweiler Presents Getting to Know our Wild Neighbors: Learning about the world around us through wildlife tracking
Monday, March 10th at 6:30pm
Join Bob Etzweiler for Getting to Know our Wild Neighbors: Learning about the world around us through wildlife tracking on Monday, March 10th at 6:30pm at Putney Public Library. Bob will share stories and photos of local wildlife tracking adventures, and give participants pointers on identifying tracks for themselves. He’ll also bring plaster track casts, skulls, bones, and other related items for folks to interact with. Species touched on will include white-tailed deer, coyotes, moose, bobcats, beavers, red & gray foxes, river otters, humans, black bears, domestic dogs, and more.
Bob Etzweiler is a longtime teacher at the Vermont Wilderness School, leading both youth and adult programs. He runs our Lynx Tracking Expedition, Hunting Apprenticeship and Summer Tracking Intensive. Bob has over a decade of experience in Wildlife Tracking, has been hired on wildlife track surveys, and is CyberTracker Specialist certified. He’s a skilled and passionate tracker and teacher.
Putney Library is located at 55 Main Street in Putney, VT. This program is free and open to the public.

Poet Chard deNiord Reads
2025-03-11 17:30 - 19:00
Tuesday, March 11th at 6:30pm
Join local poet, Chard deNiord for a reading of his two most recent books, One As Other and In My Unknowing at Putney Public Library on Tuesday, March 11th at 6:30pm.
Chard deNiord is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Westmister West (forthcoming in May, 15 2025), One As Other (Green Writers Press, 2024), and In My Unknowing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2020). He is also the author of two books of interviews with American poets titled Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs, Conversations and Reflections on 20th Century Poetry (Marick Press, 2011) and I Would Lie To You If I Could (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in numerous poetry anthologies and literary Journals, including The Paris Review, Poetry, APR, The Kenyon Review and others. He is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Providence College where he taught for twenty-two years. He serves as the essay editor for Plume Poetry. From 2015 to 2019 he served as Poet Laureate of Vermont. He lives in Westminster West, Vermont with his wife, Liz.
Putney Library is located at 55 Main Street in Putney, VT. This program is free and open to the public.

Putney Amblers Walking Group
2025-03-19 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-03-26 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.

Helping Our Community To Help Their Animals - WCHS
2025-03-19 17:30 - 19:00
Windham County Humane Society will share information about services and resources to support Vermont’s animals and their people.

VT Reads Author Visit - M.T. Anderson
2025-03-25 16:00 - 17:00
Author M. T. Anderson will discuss how living alone with a dog in the midst of the Covid shutdown in Vermont led to the writing of his Newbery Honor-winning fantasy Elf Dog & Owl Head. He’ll talk about the bond between human and animal—and how it might be different in Vermont than in some other places. Kids are encouraged to bring and tell their own stories of the extraordinary animals they’ve known. This presentation is part of VT Reads with support of Vermont Humanities Council. To learn more about M.T. Anderson and his book Elf Dog & Owl Head read his essay here: https://afuse8production.slj.com/2023/08/08/elf-dog-larue-a-guest-post-by-m-t-anderson/

Putney Public Library Writers Salon featuring Diane Frank, Mary Kay Rummel, and Prartho Sereno via Zoom
2025-03-25 17:30 - 19:00
Putney Public Library Writers Salon featuring Diane Frank, Mary Kay Rummel, and Prartho Sereno via Zoom
Tuesday, March 25th at 6:30pm at
(link: https://tinyurl.com/5996rjvd or on at putneylibrary.org on Calendar)
Putney Public Library Writers Salon is a Zoom series that brings writers across the country together with an enthusiastic audience.
Toni Ortner, the host of this series, has had 33 books published by small presses. The most recent is The Girl in the Yellow Dress by Kelsay Books. In 2025 Passing Through by Deerbrook Editions and The Van Gogh Notebook by the Dancing Girl Press will be published. She was Vice President of Write Action Inc. for many years and taught in the English Department of the University of Connecticut. Her work can be found at toniortner.com
Diane Frank is a poet, musician, author of eight books of poems, three novels, and a photo memoir of her 400-mile trek in the Nepalese Himalayas. She is the editor of Blue Light Press. While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems won the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry. Diane plays the cello with the College of Marin Symphony Orchestra. She teaches poetry, flash fiction, and memoir workshops at San Francisco State University and Dominican University.
Mary Kay Rummel’s 10th book of poetry, titled Little River of Amazement, was recently published by Blue Light Press and explores the meaning of different stages of life. Previous books won awards form New Rivers Press, Bright Hill Press and Blue Light Press. She is professor emerita from the University of Minnesota and taught at the California State University, Channel Islands. She divides her time between St. Paul, MN and Venrura, CA where she was Poet Laureate.
Prartho Sereno’s most recent collection, Starfall in the Temple, was published by Blue Light Press in the Fall of 2023. Her four other full-length books- Indian Rope Trick, Elephant Raga, Call from Paris, and her illustrated Causing a Stir: The Secret Lives of Kitchen Utensils, won national prizes. Poet Laureate Emerita of Marin County (2015- 2017), MFA from Syracuse University(2013) and Radio Disney Super Teacher(2005), she was a Poet in the Schools for 21 years and currently teaches The Poetry Pilgrimage: Poem Making as a Spiritual Practice online. https://www.prarthosereno.com

Teen Book Talk - Gather
2025-03-26 15:00 - 16:00
Discuss this year’s VT Reads book, Gather with special guest, Virgil the therapy dog.
