Putney Public Library

Expert Material Makers and Crafters: Theresa Emmerich Kamper & Caroline Ross
2024-05-03 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
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!

Storytime
2024-05-02 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.

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.

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

“For Blood and Money” Reading Group with Norman Paradis
2024-04-29 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-04-22 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-04-15 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-04-08 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-04-01 17:30 - 19:00
Mondays at 6:30pm April 1-June 17

Putney Library Chapbook Book Binding
2024-04-25 15:30 - 17:00, 2024-04-06 12:00 - 14:00, 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.

Storytime With Susan Hessey
2024-04-25 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-04-18 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-04-11 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-04-04 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-28 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-03-21 10:00 - 11:00

Read With A Dog
2024-04-23 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!

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

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.

Silent Reading Club
2024-04-11 17:30 - 19:30

**AT PUTNEY CENTRAL SCHOOL** Solar Eclipse Viewing
2024-04-08 13:45 - 14:45
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.

Peeps Diorama Display and Voting
2024-04-08 09:30 - 2024-04-13 12:00
More details here!

Closed Due to Weather, Thursday 4/4
2024-04-04 07:00 - 16:00

Closing at 3pm due to Weather
2024-04-03 07:00 - 16:00

Breaking Silence: A Literary Journey with Women who Spoke Truth to Power with Elayne Clift
2024-04-02 17:30 - 19:00
Breaking Silence: A Literary Journey with Women who Spoke Truth to Power with Elayne Clift at Putney Public Library
Tuesday, April 2nd at 6:30pm
Award-winning writer Elayne Clift offers a presentation on women writers who were courageous enough to tell truth about their lives at Putney Public Library on Tuesday, April 2nd at 6:30pm.
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?” Poet Muriel Rukeyser famously asked more than 50 years ago. Her answer? “The world would split apart.”
This presentation in honor of International Women’s Day offers a historical review of women writers who told the truth about their lives and created social change in important ways through courageous writing in various genres. Their insightful works changed women’s lives in the home, the marketplace, academia, institutions, and government. It’s an opportunity to learn from selected women writers who affected social history and progress in ways that affect us all through truth telling diaries, autobiographies, poems, short stories and essays that helped shape a more enlightened world with respect to gender, race, class, and caste. Please join us for a journey into Gender, Literature, and “good trouble!”

Drop off Peeps Dioramas
2024-04-01 09:00 - 2024-04-06 12:00

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
