Putney Public Library

Putney Amblers Walking Group
2025-06-11 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-18 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-25 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-02 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-09 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-16 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-23 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-30 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Halifax)
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.

Music & Movement
2025-06-14 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-06-28 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-07-12 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-07-19 09:00 - 10:00
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.

NO June Board Meeting--Moved to July 8th
2025-06-17 18:30 - 20:00

Stitch Together
2025-06-18 18:00 - 20:00
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.

Library Closed for Juneteenth
2025-06-19 08:00 - 17:00

Once upon a page: a fantasy fiction book club
2025-06-23 18:30 - 20:00
Once upon a page: a fantasy fiction book club
We invite you to join us at the Putney Library as we explore other worlds. Meet new people and read cozy fantasy novels with fellow book addicts.
The first session, at 6:30 on June 23rd, will be a preliminary discussion. We’ll be voting on what book to escape into first. Reading options will be presented, but feel free to bring your own suggestions.

Stitch Together
2025-07-02 08:00 - 17:00
Stitch Together
A vibrant fiber arts group is gathering 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.

Library Closed for Fourth of July
2025-07-04 08:00 - 17:00

Library Closed
2025-07-05

Library Board Meeting on Atypical Date
2025-07-08 18:30 - 20:00

Summer Reading Program - Suminagashi Marbling for Teens
2025-07-09 16:00 - 17:00
Westminster-based artist, Candace Jensen will demonstrate simple Suminagashi marbling techniques, which involve sumi ink and water. Patterns will emerge on the water surface by carefully adding ink in small dips with brush, and can be captured on mulberry papers for use as decorative paper, wrapping paper, in bookmaking or collage. The process is fun, low-mess and produces really beautiful results!
Ages 12+

Summer Reading Program - Ann Braden Author Visit, Free Book Give Away & Ice Cream Social
2025-07-10 16:00 - 17:00
Author Ann Braden will share about her books and how her characters demonstrate the ways they *do* have power in their lives — the power of their inner strength, connection, the power of a question, and the power to live fully.
Readers can take TWO free books home.
Stay for ice cream and socialize with friends and neighbors.

Mending Bee
2025-07-13 13:00 - 16:00
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.

Summer Reading Program - Colorful World Of Butterflies & T-Shirt Craft
2025-07-14 16:00 - 17:00
Butterfly expert, Jerry Schneider, will help us learn about butterflies. When, how, and why do Monarch butterflies go to Mexico? Did you know that butterflies taste with their feet? Jerry brings displays of butterflies and moths, cocoons, and sometimes caterpillars.
We will make a colorful butterfly T-shirt for you to take home!!

Summer Reading Program - Shaving Cream Marbling
2025-07-16 16:00 - 17:00
Susan Hessey will lead us in getting artistic, scientific and messy! We will make marbled art with shaving cream and food coloring. This is a tactile activity, wear clothes you can get messy.

Summer Reading Program - Adorn Yourself with Color!
2025-07-21 16:00 - 17:00
Emily Dolfus will share with us ways humans have adorned themselves with color for centuries. Come decorate your face, body, and accessorize! We will make joyful medallions and headbands and will have temporary tattoos, face paint and body glitter available. Everyone welcome.

Once Upon a Page Book Group
2025-07-21 18:30 - 20:00
This month’s choice: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Contact Putney Library for a copy: request@putneylibrary.org or 802-387-4407

Summer Reading Program - Cupcake Decorating
2025-07-23 16:00 - 17:00
Learn how to decorate cupcakes! Make your own beautiful buttercream frosting. For flavor and color, add freeze-dried fruit, courtesy of Edible Brattleboro’s food preservation experts. Then, spread or pipe it on your cupcake! Yum! Vegan and gluten-free options are available; for other dietary restrictions email education@bfc.coop

Summer Reading Program - Color Play, Make Sun Catchers
2025-07-28 16:00 - 17:00
Join Susan Hessey & Amber Paris to explore how the colors mix and create new colors! We will make beautiful sun catchers while playing with shapes to learn how all the beautiful hues we see are made.

CREATING GREAT CHARACTERS: A reading a discussion with Michelle Blake and Dennis McFarland
2025-07-29 18:30 - 20:00
CREATING GREAT CHARACTERS: A reading a discussion with Michelle Blake and Dennis McFarland
Tuesday, July 29th at 6:30 pm at Putney Public Library
Writers and husband-wife team Michelle Blake and Dennis McFarland will read from their books and then open a discussion about the process of finding a persona voice in poetry or creating a character in fiction writing. If you’re writing a novel or short story, or you’re an avid reader who wants to know more about writers’ work behind the scenes, join the discussion, ask some questions, pitch some ideas. Books they will be reading from are in the library, also, so if you want a deep dive, read one of these ahead of time:
Blake books:
HOW TO ENTER THE PALACE, poems and THE TENTMAKER, mystery
McFarland books:
NOSTALGIA, novel and LETTER FROM POINT CLEAR, novel
Michelle Blake wrote a trilogy of mysteries, with Lily Connor, and her chapbook, Into the Wide and Startling World, was selected for the New Women’s Voices Series at Finishing Line Press. In 2014, she published a collaboration with visual artist Fran Forman, in which she wrote a series of poems and a fable. She has published poems and essays in MORE Magazine, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Banyan Press Anthology, Cedar Creek Review, Prairie Schooner, Solstice Lit Journal, Cider Press Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Asheville Poetry Review, and many other magazines and anthologies. Her latest book of poems, How We Enter the Palace, was published this year by Green Writers Press.
Dennis McFarland is the bestselling author of seven novels: Nostalgia, Letter from Point Clear, Prince Edward, Singing Boy, A Face at the Window, School for the Blind, and The Music Room. His short fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, The New Yorker, Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, where he has also taught creative writing.
Putney Public Library is located at 55 Main St in Putney, VT. This event is free and open to the public.
