Putney Public Library

Sing & Dance with Robin
2023-08-16 04:00 - 13:00, 2023-08-23 04:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Saturdays: July 1st, July 8th, July 15th
Wednesdays: July 19th, July 26th, Aug. 2nd, Aug. 16th, Aug. 23rd
9 am outside behind the library under the big tent
This class is an enriching musical experience for toddlers and preschoolers, designed to support healthy cognitive, physical, and social development. Children will sing, clap, stomp, dance, and play. Parents are encouraged to participate with their child. Created and taught by Robin Morgan.

Keeper's Retirement Party
2023-08-17 12:00 - 12:30
There will be a party for Keeper at the library at 4:00 pm on Thursday, August 17 if you want to stop by to wish him well.
Unfortunately, he will need to take a break from his listening duties due to a health issue. He has been diagnosed with a seizure condition and is in the process of figuring out how best to manage it. He is doing very well and feels great, but his doctor recommends that he stop his therapy dog activities and enjoy an early retirement.
For the past couple of years Keeper has immensely enjoyed listening to the readers at the Putney Library. He particularly enjoyed all the cuddles and hugs he got!

Putney Community Sing Along
2023-08-17 15:00 - 16:00
Outdoors behind the library!
These community sing-alongs will feature a printed songbook of well-known songs from many traditions: folk, golden oldies, gospel, Beatles, old pop and rock and show tunes. Participants will take turns choosing what to sing; binders with lyrics will be provided. Putney resident Rich Grumbine will lead the singing and provide guitar accompaniment.
For more information, please contact Rich Grumbine at richgrumbine1@gmail.com

**at Next Stage** We Should Get Together with Kat Vellos
2023-08-29 15:00 - 16:30
***PLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS FREE EVENT: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MTg2NjI5
Join us for an interactive fireside with Kat Vellos all about friendship in adulthood. What are the biggest challenges of adult friendship and how can we overcome them? How do we “make new friends and keep the old”? What is social wellness and how does it factor into our overall health and wellbeing? And how can we create more meaningful connections with coworkers, who are often the primary source of new friends in adulthood? We’ll dig into all this and more. The fireside chat will be followed by a Q&A so come with your questions too.
Kat’s bio:
Kat Vellos is a trusted expert on the power of cultivating meaningful friendships. She’s a speaker and author of the book, We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships. She’s also the creator of the Better than Small Talk conversation cards and the Better Conversations Calendar. In her former career as a UX designer and researcher, she made software more user-friendly at large companies you’ve heard of, but she’s a lot happier now making life more friendly for the thousands of people and work teams who use her guidance to cultivate fulfilling friendships and colleagueships. Kat’s writing is read in over 100 countries and she’s been interviewed by The New York Times, NPR, Communication Arts, The Good Life Project, and many more.
Connect with Kat online:
Kat’s books, newsletter, shop, and events: weshouldgettogether.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katvellos_author
This discussion is co-presented with Putney Community Cares, Putney Community Center, Putney Foodshelf, Putney Public Library, and Senior Solutions.

Closed for Labor Day
2023-09-03 - 2023-09-04

Storytime with Susan Hessey!
2023-09-07 07:00 - 08:00, 2023-09-14 07:00 - 08:00, 2023-09-21 07:00 - 08:00, 2023-09-28 07:00 - 08:00
Join Susan Hessey for stories, songs and crafts. Preschoolers and their siblings and caretakers are welcome to attend. Thursdays in September at 11 am.

LEGO Club
2023-09-07 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-10-05 12:00 - 13:00
Build a creation based on a theme or your own imagination!

Autumn Mending Bee
2023-09-10 09:00 - 12:00

Read To A Dog
2023-09-19 11:30 - 12:30
Practice your reading skills with Virgil, our therapy dog volunteer and his human Abigail. All ages welcome
Virgil loves to listen!

Artist's Reception for Portals, Paintings by Liz Hawkes deNiord
2023-09-23 09:00 - 11:00
Putney Public Library Exhibits: Portals, Paintings by Liz Hawkes deNiord
Portals, a series of abstract paintings by Liz Hawkes deNiord, is on exhibit at The Putney Putney Library, September 4 – December 2, 2023.
Liz’s dynamic paintings reflect her immersion in the physical process as well as her love of saturated, radiant color and luminosity. The paintings are both dreamlike and grounded. Her process is one of multiple layering, scraping, covering up, and building up heavily textured surfaces with palette knife and paint. The paintings emerge layered with pure colors creating an iridescent quality.
She says, “What lies beneath each one is essential to what one sees on the surface. Working mostly on large vertical canvases, the vertical alignment resonates as a physical presence…..The paintings evolve through layers, through rotation of the canvas and through a suspended trust in the outcome to ‘pay attention’ consciously and unconsciously.”
Liz Hawkes deNiord is a painter, ceramic artist, and educator – having taught for 38 years in Vermont, Connecticut, Iowa and Virginia. Locally, she taught Ceramics at The Putney School, Drawing at Landmark College. For over two decades she taught Foundations in Art, Sculpture and Ceramics at Brattleboro Union High School. A Studio Art major and Asian Studies minor in college, Liz took two masters degrees in Education, one in Learning Disabilities, which enabled her to tutor and or teach in schools, prisons or psych hospitals, and the other in Art Education.
Liz works in her Westminster West studio and currently shows her work regionally in Manchester and Burlington, Vermont. For more information on Liz and her work see: www.lizhawkesdeniord.com
Liz will have a reception for her show on Saturday, September 23rd from 1pm-3pm at the library.
Putney Public Library is located at 55 Main St. in Putney, VT. This exhibit is free and open to the public Monday-Friday 10:30am-6pm, Saturday in September and October 10am-1pm and Saturdays in November 10am-3pm.

Understanding Medicare
2023-09-25 17:30 - 19:00
6:30pm on 9/25/23 at the Putney Public Library
Do you have questions about Medicare? Particularly in advance of the annual enrollment period, which starts October 15, 2023? Come to this FREE event on Understanding Medicare — 6:30pm on 9/25/23 at the Putney Public Library.
Senior Solutions will offer this free workshop discussing the various options for Medicare enrollment, and the differences between original Medicare and Medicare Advantage. This workshop will provide information and include a question & answer period. Though the workshop presenter will join us via zoom, folks are welcomed to gather at the Putney Public Library for this event. Local facilitation will be managed by Ruby McAdoo (Putney Community Cares Coordinator) and Jane Katz Field, M.D. (Vermont Physicians for a National Health Program).

Come and join us at the library on Monday, 9/25/23! Or if you prefer to join via zoom, please email coordinator@putneycommunitycares.org for login info. Zoom participants will be asked to send questions via chat which will be shared by the facilitator.

Exploring Europe - Familiar Sights & Hidden Gems with Shana Frank
2023-09-28 14:30 - 16:00
Exploring Europe – Familiar Sights & Hidden Gems with Shana Frank
Thursday, September 28th 6:30pm
In summer of 2023, Shana Frank traveled to eight cities in a self-designed tour of Europe. Join her for a slide show and presentation at Putney Public Library on Thursday, September 28th at 6:30pm where she will share portraits from cities including Zurich, Paris, Amsterdam, and Reykjavik. Her narrative will focus on the history and architecture of places she visited, as well as art exhibits and street scenes that inspired her.
Shana is an educator known for helping students make sense of mathematics. She is a lifelong learner whose interests range from culture and crafts to the environment and simple living. Her previous presentation, “The Amazing Golden Ratio: Art, Math, Nature,” was well-received at the Putney Public Library.
Putney Public Library is located at 55 Main St. in Putney, VT. This program is free and open to the public.

Storytime with Susan Hessey!
2023-10-05 07:00 - 08:00, 2023-10-12 07:00 - 08:00, 2023-10-19 07:00 - 08:00
Join Susan Hessey for stories, songs and crafts. Preschoolers and their siblings and caretakers are welcome to attend. Thursdays in October at 11 am.

Closed for Indigenous Peoples' Day
2023-10-08 - 2023-10-09

The Putney Mountain Hawkwatch: 50 Years Counting Hawks
2023-10-11 18:00 - 19:30
The Putney Mountain Hawkwatch: 50 Years Counting Hawks
Wednesday, October 11th at 7pm at Putney Public Library
Each Fall, an intrepid bunch of people heads up Putney Mountain with one goal in mind – count as many hawks and vultures as they can, regardless of the weather. For 50 years, volunteers have made this trek, enjoying the view, the company, but most importantly, the drama of the hawk migration. Join members of the group on Wednesday, October 11th at 7pm at Putney Public Library to hear about the Hawkwatch’s history, the data it gathers, and how you can get more involved!
In 1974, volunteers counted 519 birds on just four days. But this count represented 21% of all birds seen at the 10 statewide lookout sites in Vermont that year. Fifty years later someone is counting birds on Putney Mountain every day from late August to November 10th , rivaling the coverage in nearby sites with paid watchers. And the birds keep coming, thrilling the watchers with their sheer numbers, ambition, and aerial antics. It has to be experienced.
The data collected on Putney Mountain is added to that from approximately 200 affiliated raptor monitoring sites and organized by the Hawk Migration Association of North America, providing a near-real-time international database of hawk counts across the continent. The year-to-year data can be accessed by anyone on hawkcount.org .
Putney Public Library is located at 55 Main St. in Putney, VT. This program is free and open to the public.

Partial Solar Eclipse Viewing
2023-10-14 08:00 - 10:00
View outdoors at the Putney Library. The eclipse will also be live streamed indoors.

Craft Night
2023-10-18 16:00 - 18:00
Bring a craft and hang out in the company of others!
Wednesday, Oct 18th 5pm-7pm
Wednesday, Nov 15, 5pm-7pm
Wednesday, Dec 6, 5pm-7pm

**note date change**Tim Stevenson Reading-- Transformative Activism: A Values Revolution in Everyday Life in a Time of Societal Collapse
2023-10-19 14:30 - 16:00

Peeps Ghost Houses
2023-10-25 12:00 - 13:00
For ages 10 +, Come build a spooky candy house for the ghost peeps!
Please register at www.putneylibrary.org

Must Free Speech Endure Hate Speech? with Meg Mott
2023-10-25 14:30 - 16:00
The First Amendment prevents Congress from passing any laws that abridge the freedom of speech. But what does that actually mean? In this presentation, professor Meg Mott considers the history of speech laws in the United States, how states and municipalities have tried to curb offensive speech, and how the Supreme Court has ruled on those efforts.
She’ll also discuss how speech fits into the life cycle of our democracy. While some argue that limits on speech are necessary for marginalized persons to feel welcome in the public sphere, others argue that the criminalization of speech serves the needs of the penal state more than the general public.
All arguments are welcome as we make full use of our reasoning powers to bring the First Amendment to life!

NO STORYTIME October 26th
2023-10-26 07:00 - 08:00

NO STORYTIME November 2
2023-11-02 10:00 - 11:00

T-Rex Tea Party
2023-11-04 10:00 - 11:00
You are invited to an elegant tea party with a T-Rex! Learn tea party etiquette, nibble some dino-riffic snacks, listen to dino-tacular dinosaur stories, make dino-mite crafts and greet a very special guest.
Proper attire is encouraged including your fanciest or dinosauriest.
Please register all kids in attendance.
https://tinyurl.com/54cwpmrv
