Putney Public Library

Library Closed for Independence Day
2017-07-03 - 2017-07-04

Summer Reading Program: Building Gnome Homes and Fairy Houses
2017-07-05 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York)
Wed, July 5 2pm—Gnome Homes and Fairy Houses If you put a birdhouse in your yard, birds will move in. What will happen if you build fairy house or gnome home?? Tiny boxes, moss, and bark will be our construction materials for this fabulous building activity!

Summer Reading Program Special Guest: Town of Putney Road Crew
2017-07-07 10:00 - 11:00
Fri, July 7 2pm—One of Putney’s very own ROAD CREW will visit with a HUGE TRUCK and tell us all about building the roads we use every day! Story time will follow!

Summer Reading Program: Build a Better Bridge
2017-07-12 10:00 - 11:00
Wed, July 12th 2pm—Build a Better Bridge Can you build a bridge that is the longest, holds the most weight, or is the most beautiful? Come and find out!

PETER GOULD TO READ FROM HORSE-DRAWN YOGURT
2017-07-13 15:00 - 16:30
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 to play some songs with Peter. Admission is free. There
will be a donation
basket, and baked goods by donation: for the benefit of Cynthia
Payne-Meyer, a beloved Putney resident and storyteller friend of
Peter’s, who sustained a very serious injury in April. Half of Peter’s
book sales for the evening will also go to Cynthia. Peter will also
auction a complete set of all his published books, from _Burnt Toast_ to
_Horse-Drawn Yogurt!_
Gould was a founding member of the 1970’s “Back-to-the-Land”
commune movement in Vermont, a story he has told in various ways in his
two nationally-known novels, _Burnt Toast _(Alfred A. Knopf, 1971) and
_Write Naked_ (Farrar Straus, 2008), which won the 2009 National Green
Earth Book Award.
_Horse-Drawn Yogurt, _from Green Writers Press, is his first
published non-fiction book. It’s a collection of true-life stories of a
young man’s life on a Vermont farm commune at the height of the utopian
movement.
In _Horse-Drawn Yogurt,_ you’ll learn how locals and
newcomers helped each other out in a pivotal moment of U.S. history, and
how young people, new to the land, learned to cut wood, clear fields,
tend organic gardens, and raise animals, while still belonging to a
national movement against the Vietnam war and for peace and justice
around the world.
“But, this book is _not_ a memoir,” Gould says. “It’s a
comforter. I didn’t throw all those old clothes away. I cut and pieced
them and sewed them together. Now they keep me warm.”
The Vermont Historical Society​ says, “​Peter Gould’s voice
and personality shine through all the stories with wit and incisive
insight.​ His perspective on life in Vermont’s 1970s counterculture is
an invaluable one…incredibly helpful, ​personal and emotional,”
Local timber-framer Dan MacArthur writes, “I read every last
word of every last page, and now I sit here dewy-eyed at your honesty,
insight, and superb use of the language of story. You got me!”
Vermont author and National Book Award Finalist Howard
Norman says, “Gould is the dramaturge of our wordly problems and sense
of wondrous possibility–he is a national treasure.”
The Putney performance is free, accessible, and open to the
public. Gould will read from the book, and will have copies for sale.
They are also available at Everyone’s Books, and at bookstores
throughout the country.
Across Vermont, Gould is known for more than his writing.
Peter received the 2016 Arts Education Award from the Vermont Arts
Council. In the 1970’s he was one of five growers who started the
Brattleboro Farmers Market, now a centerpiece of our community. He
founded and still runs the “Get Thee to the Funnery” youth Shakespeare
camp in the Northeast Kingdom, directs at the New England Youth Theatre,
and he will always be the smaller half of the legendary physical comedy
team of Gould & Stearns.
Putney Library is located at 55 Main Street in Putney, VT. This program
is free and open to the public.

Summer Reading Program Special Guest: Comic book artist Marek Bennett
2017-07-14 10:00 - 13:00
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.

Summer Reading Program: Build a Reading Fort
2017-07-19 10:00 - 11:00
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!

Summer Reading Special Guest: Hannah Pick from the Putney Foodshelf
2017-07-21 10:00 - 11:00
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.

Summer Reading Program: Building Pompom Launchers
2017-07-26 10:00 - 11:00
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!

Debating Our Rights, Part II: The Pressures on Citizenship in a Constitutional Democracy with Meg Mott
2017-07-26 15:00 - 16:30
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 settled, attendees found the experience of deliberation invigorating.
On Wednesday, July 26th at 7 PM the focus will be on the Second Amendment, an Amendment without much Supreme Court jurisprudence. As with the discussion on free speech, the focus will be on practicing deliberation, not necessarily determining an outcome. Arguments in favor of strong protections to bear Arms will be considered (most notably from Machiavelli and the Black Panthers) as well as arguments to protect the population from gun violence, much of which is self-inflicted.
Meg Mott, who teaches politics at Marlboro College and is also Putney’s Town Moderator, was asked by Library Director Emily Zervas, and Library Trustee Janice Baldwin, to set up a series of talks on the Bill of Rights. Rather than bring in a series of experts, Mott wanted to give participants a chance to deliberate.
“It’s ironic,” Mott explained, “that in a constitutional democracy, citizens often relinquish the most important questions to the Supreme Court. Sure, the Supreme Court is helpful in framing the issues, but that doesn’t mean the public should be silent. Deliberation is to democracy what speech is to humanity. When a democracy doesn’t deliberate, it basically becomes a zombie.”
The Fourth Amendment, “the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,” will be discussed on Wednesday August 30th at 7PM. All three of these “Last Wednesdays” series are free and open to the public.

Putney Library is located at 55 Main Street in Putney, VT. This program is free and open to the public.

Summer Reading Program Special Event!! At Putney Central School Gym Fri, July 28 at 2pm! Storyteller Marv Klassen-Landis
2017-07-28 10:00 - 11:00
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 182 Westminster Rd, Putney, VT. Free and open to the public!

Summer Reading: Wrap Up Party
2017-08-02 10:00 - 11:30
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 location for this event is under the large tent across from the Putney Food Co-op.

Debating Our Rights, Part III: The Pressures on Citizenship in a Constitutional Democracy with Meg Mott
2017-08-30 15:00 - 16:30
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.”

Library Closed for Labor Day
2017-09-03 - 2017-09-04

The Art of the Essay with Elayne Clift
2017-09-06 15:00 - 16:30
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 that can range from political commentary to humorous 1st Person
accounts – and anything else that is based on truth or opinion. We will
explore tone and “voice,” style, structure, point of view, use of
dialogue, researching facts, and more. And we’ll be hands-on, doing a
practice piece to share and discuss (voluntarily) in the spirit of
mutual learning. Come prepared to ruminate, rant, and reflect!
This workshop is presented in partnership with The Commons through their
Media Mentoring Project.
Putney Public Library is located at 55 Main St in Putney, VT. This event
is free and open to the public.

Virtual Story Time 11am
2020-03-26 07:00 - 08:00
Join us at:
https://zoom.us/j/558246911

Chapter Book Story Time with Susan Hessey for ages 6-11
2020-04-14 08:00 - 09:00, 2020-04-21 08:00 - 09:00, 2020-04-28 08:00 - 09:00, 2020-05-05 08:00 - 09:00
Hi folks–these programs are all happening through Zoom while the library is closed. For security, the only way to access the links for these programs is through our weekly newsletter. Please subscribe here: https://putneylibrary.org/sign-up-for-our-email-newsletter/
Or email Emily Zervas for a link to any individual program (please state specifically which program and date you would like to attend): emily@putneylibrary.org

Online Story Time with Susan Hessey
2020-04-16 07:00 - 08:00, 2020-04-23 07:00 - 08:00, 2020-04-30 07:00 - 08:00

Debating Our Rights with Meg Mott
2020-04-21 15:00 - 16:30, 2020-04-28 15:00 - 16:30

Online Knit Night
2020-04-22 14:30 - 16:00

Blank Verse, Prose Poems and Everything In Between: Rhythm, Meter and the Ghosts of Rhythm in Poetry with Michelle Blake
2020-04-23 14:30 - 16:00, 2020-04-30 14:30 - 16:00
Hi folks–these programs are all happening through Zoom while the library is closed. For security, the only way to access the links for these programs is through our weekly newsletter. Please subscribe here: https://putneylibrary.org/sign-up-for-our-email-newsletter/ Or email Emily Zervas for a link to any individual program (please state specifically which program you’d like to “attend” when you write.)

Virtual Mending Bee
2020-04-26 09:00 - 12:00

Exotic Glamour: The History of the Caftan in Western Fashion Wednesday, April 29th at 7pm
2020-04-29 15:00 - 16:30
Hi folks–these programs are all happening through Zoom while the library is closed. For security, the only way to access the links for these programs is through our weekly newsletter. Please subscribe here: https://putneylibrary.org/sign-up-for-our-email-newsletter/ Or email Emily Zervas for a link to any individual program (please state specifically which program and date you would like to “attend”)
