Storytime
2024-05-02 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-09 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-16 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-23 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-05-30 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Halifax)
Join Susan Hessey for stories, songs and crafts. Preschoolers and their siblings and caretakers are welcome to attend. Thursdays at 11 am.

Expert Material Makers and Crafters: Theresa Emmerich Kamper & Caroline Ross
2024-05-03 18:30 - 20:00
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!

Puzzle Race
2024-05-04 13:00 - 15:00
Can you complete a jigsaw puzzle faster than your friends and neighbors? Putney Public Library will be hosting out first ever Puzzle Race on Saturday, May 4th at 1 pm. Register a team of 3-5 puzzlers HERE by Saturday, April 27th for a friendly competition to see who can complete a 750 piece puzzle the fastest. Each team will receive the same 750 piece puzzle. The team that finishes first wins!

Mending Bee
2024-05-05 13:00 - 16:00

Tracking Lynx with Bob Etzweiler
2024-05-07 18:30 - 20:00

“For Blood and Money” Reading Group with Norman Paradis
2024-05-13 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-05-20 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-06-03 18:30 - 20:00
Mondays at 6:30pm April 1-June 17

"What is Away?" with Windham Solid Waste Management District
2024-05-14 18:30 - 20:00

Silent Reading Club
2024-05-16 18:30 - 20:30, 2024-06-27 18:30 - 20:30

Library Closes at 1pm
2024-05-17 13:00 - 18:00
We are closing early for book sale setup! Join us Saturday 9am-1pm and Sunday 11am-1pm for the library’s annual book sale fundraiser!

Library Book Sale
2024-05-18 09:00 - 13:00, 2024-05-19 11:00 - 13:00

Read With Virgil
2024-05-21 15:30 - 16:30
Practice your reading skills with Virgil, our therapy dog volunteer and his human Abigail. All ages welcome
Virgil loves to listen!

CLOSED for Memorial Day
2024-05-27

Cultivating Community Book Group
2024-05-29 18:30 - 20:30
Discussing Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make–and Keep–Friends by Marisa G. Franco PhD

Mending Bee
2024-06-02 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.

The Power of Dignity: A Community Conversation on Substance Use, Stigma, Harm Reduction, Narcan Training
2024-06-04 18:30 - 20:00
The Power of Dignity: A Community Conversation on Substance Use, Stigma, Harm Reduction, Narcan Training at Putney Public Library
Tuesday, June 4th at 6:30 PM Location: Putney Public Library
Substance use impacts everyone. Join a free community discussion about:
• Understanding addiction & treatment
• Supporting those struggling
• Harm reduction strategies
• Importance of compassion & accountability
Even though no individual or organization has all the answers, community conversations grounded in mutual respect help generate dignified solutions to challenges related to substance use. Guest presenters include Dr. Geoff Kane from Meetinghouse Solutions and Dakota Roberts, Outreach Worker for the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont.
Light snacks provided.
For those interested in learning about overdose prevention, free naloxone (Narcan) and training will be available.
Let’s work together to address this challenge. For more information, please contact: CSUR802VT@gmail.com or (802) 275-7232
CSUR (Community Substance Use Response) is a collaborative effort that includes Voices of Hope, Turning Point of Windham County, the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont, Building a Positive Community, West River Valley Thrives, Grace Cottage Hospital, Meetinghouse Solutions and others in the community working together throughout the continuum of care to ensure that substance use prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services reach our rural communities in Windham County. Funding for this event is provided by the VT Dept. of Health Division of Substance Use.

What is Somatic Experiencing (SE)? with Daniel Lang
2024-06-12 18:30 - 20:00
What is Somatic Experiencing (SE)?
Wednesday, June 12th at 6:30PM
Join Daniel Lang at Putney Public Library on Wednesday, June 12th at 6:30PM to learn more about Somatic Experiencing. SE is a gentle, intuitive, body-based approach developed by Peter Levine, PhD, used to resolve trauma and reactivate our birthright of vitality. It works from the ground up, from sensation and awareness rather than from the top down, from cognition and ego. By increasing contact with our felt sense—what we are physically feeling in the here and now– we open an entry point to discovery and resolution in a way that can be truly transformative.
Daniel will discuss the origins of SE and what first attracted him to it. He will make connections between polyvagal theory, animal/human instincts, and how these relate to feelings of calmness, aggression, and discomfort. While not offering SE as a panacea or cure-all, Daniel will illustrate how this approach can be an effective tool for realigning our nervous system (and therefore ourselves) when it has been deeply impacted by trauma or chronic stress. Daniel will share how this work has positively affected him, and the kind of results he has seen. An exercise will be included to give attendees first-hand experience with this approach.
Daniel Lang, Occupational Therapist, recently opened The Body Knows The Way in Putney, VT. He combines extensive mental health experience across the lifespan with Somatic Experiencing (SE), an integrative and intuitive body-based approach rooted in polyvagal theory and physiology. A lifelong creative, he is passionate about education and empowerment, and enjoys sharing this powerful work with others.

Community Sing Along with Rich Grumbine
2024-06-13 19:00 - 20:30

Poetry Chapbook Release Reading
2024-06-15 13:00 - 14:30
Poetry Chapbook Release Readings
Saturdays at 1pm, June 15th and July 13th
In 2019, Putney Public Library began to assemble a chapbook of poetry by writers with creative ties to Vermont. While the project was unexpectedly delayed by Covid, the chapbook is now complete and ready to be released into the world! The book, appropriately titled Time Capsule, was hand bound in community workshops with marbled endpapers and a beautiful letterpress cover.
The contributing poets are Emma Paris, Michelle Blake, Dede Cummings, Candace Jensen, Ben Pease, Bianca Stone (Current Vermont Poet Laureate), Chard deNiord (Past Vermont Poet Laureate), Em Peake, Nancy Storrow, Rita Banerjee, Robin Myers, Kate Gleason, Amanda Galvan Huynh, Claire Gieringer, Mary Ruefle (Past Vermont Poet Laureate), Didi Jackson, Major Jackson, and Megan Buchanan.
Join us for two readings this summer where you can hear some of the contributing poets read past and new work and purchase a chapbook of your own. Readings will be Saturday, June 15th at 1pm and Saturday, July 13th at 1pm at Putney Public Library. Chapbooks will be sold as a fundraiser for the Putney Public Library at $50 each, payable by cash or check. Chapbooks will also be offered to each library in Windham County for their circulating collections and a digital file of the book will be available to view or download at the Putney Public Library website.

CLOSED for Juneteenth
2024-06-19

Library Closed for Internet Upgrade
2024-06-24

Walking Romania with Howie Peterson
2024-06-25 18:30 - 20:00

Cultivating Community Book Group discusses The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
2024-06-26 18:30 - 20:30
