Stitch Together
2025-12-03 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-12-17 18:00 - 20:00, 2026-01-14 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Halifax)
Stitch Together at Putney Library
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. The next meetings are:
Putney Library is located at 55 Main Street in Putney, VT. This program is free and open to the public.

Author Talk: Katie Fricas
2025-12-04 18:30 - 20:00
In this illustrated book talk, Katie Fricas will share images from her five-year process of hand-drawing and writing this graphic novel.
Katie Fricas is a cartoonist and editor in New York City. Her comics have been in The New Yorker, The Guardian, the LA Review of Books, and lots of other shiny places. Her first book, Checked Out, was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2025.

Putney Amblers Walking Group
2025-12-10 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-17 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-31 14:00 - 15:00, 2026-01-07 14:00 - 15:00, 2026-01-14 14:00 - 15:00, 2026-01-21 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.

Music & Movement
2025-12-13 09:30 - 10:30, 2026-01-10 09:30 - 10:30
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
2025-12-14 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-01-18 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 the Putney Public Library once a month on Sundays 1-4pm to work on them in the company of others. 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.

Once Upon a Page: a Fantasy Fiction Book Club
2025-12-15 18:30 - 20:00
Once Upon a Page: a Fantasy Fiction Book Club invites 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.

Read With A Dog!
2025-12-16 15:30 - 16:30, 2026-01-13 15:00 - 16:00
Practice your reading skills with Virgil, our therapy dog volunteer and his human Abigail. All ages and abilities welcome
Virgil loves to listen!

Shortest Days Celebration
2025-12-19 16:00 - 18:00
Join us for treats, singing and a fire in our stone seating area to bring light to the shortest days of the year.

Library Closes at 3pm for Christmas Eve
2025-12-24 10:30 - 15:00

Cancelled for Christmas Eve--Putney Amblers Walking Group
2025-12-24 14:00 - 15:00

Library Closed For Christmas
2025-12-25

Game Night
2025-12-29 18:00 - 19:30
Play a variety of board games with friends, neighbors and family during one of the darkest nights of the year.

Library Closes at 3pm for New Years Eve
2025-12-31 10:30 - 15:00

Library Closes Early for New Years Eve
2025-12-31 15:00 - 18:00

Library Closed for New Years Day
2026-01-01

Public Reading of Ursula K Le Guin’s Unlocking the Air
2026-01-06 18:30 - 20:00
Public Reading of Ursula K Le Guin’s Unlocking the Air
Tuesday, January 6th at 6:30pm
Imagine a dramatic story about people in a city trying for hundreds of years to overthrow various tyrannical governments, only to be crushed by soldiers, again and again… Imagine after many generations, your great great grandchildren succeed.
Ursula K Le Guin is primarily known as an award-winning science fiction writer, but she also wrote award winning essays, and poetry. Join local poets and other gifted readers who will come together for a public reading of her story, Unlocking the Air. While this tale of revolution, set in a mythical Eastern European nation of Orsinia, is a work of fiction, it also interweaves stirring poetry with the prose in unexpected bursts of language that has to be heard to be understood.
This public reading is lead by Rolf Parker. Rolf lives in Southern Vermont, where he runs “The University of Brattleboro,” a benefit corporation that creates free community events (including the excavation of fake UFO crash sites and free writing contests). He is a poet and has also worked as a newspaper reporter, a math teacher and a college writing instructor.

Walking the Voie de Vezelay with Howie Peterson
2026-01-08 18:30 - 20:00
Walking the Voie de Vezelay with Howie Peterson
Thursday, January 8th at 6:30pm at Putney Library
Howie Peterson is a 76-year-old resident of Putney, VT who loves to travel and explore, so far visiting 6 continents and 44 countries.
This fall Howie walked about 434 miles on the Voie de Vezelay, one of the Camino de Santiago routes through France. He hiked through lovely rolling countryside, stopping in quaint villages and impressive cities along the way. He’ll be sharing his photos and stories from the adventure. Howie’s previous library presentations about his walking treks were exciting, engaging and enjoyed by all.

Library Closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
2026-01-19

Tiny Art Show Reception
2026-01-21 17:00 - 18:00

Artists Reception--Chronicles in Wood: an exhibition of prints of tree ring cross sections by Abigail Littlefield
2026-01-22 18:30 - 20:00
Chronicles in Wood: an exhibition of prints of tree ring cross sections by Abigail Littlefield
Artist Reception on THURSDAY, January 22nd at 6:30pm
Chronicles in Wood: an exhibition of prints of tree ring cross sections by Abigail Littlefield will be on view at The Putney Public Library, December 1 – February 28, 2026.
Abigail Littlefield is an artist and longtime science educator whose work bridges botanical study and environmental observation. For more than thirty years, she was a science professor, cultivating a personal fascination with the structures and life histories of plants. A significant head injury reshaped her life, leading her to incorporate art into her rehabilitation process. During recovery, she began creating illustrated field guides to local trees and plants – watercolor was a means to rebuild.
What began as therapy evolved into a dedicated artistic practice. Littlefield’s early field guide studies developed into highly detailed botanical watercolors that reflect both scientific precision and a renewed intimacy with the natural world.
Most recently, she has begun printing tree rings, a process that merges her background in science with her artistic sensibilities. By translating the temporal records embedded in wood into visual form, she continues to explore the complex stories that trees carry – and the ways art can illuminate them.
Abigail lives in Westminster West, Vermont with her partner, four labrador retrievers, a cat, several ducks, a flock of chickens and lots of honey bees.
