Holiday Closings

12/24 - Closed

12/26 - Closed

1/2/2012 Closed

Ongoing Events

  Story Time

Every Monday at 11:00 AM in the Children's Library. All ages are welcome.

  Drop-in Knitting Club

Every Tuesday at 3:0o PM in the Children's Library. Supplies and snacks provided.

  Games Day

Every Saturday from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM, lunch provided. Bring your own games or use the library's games.

  Scrabble Club

Meets the 1st Saturday of the month from 12:00 to 4:00 PM.

January

Open house celebrating the re-opening of the Art Gallery.

February

First Wednesdays: The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: Listening to Noise

Author Garret Keizer examines the relation between noise pollution and issues of social justice, public health, and environmental sustainability. 

Sponsor: Gil Steil Associates

March

First Wednesdays: The Soul Selects Her Own Society: The Life and Work of Emily Dickinson

Reclusive poet Emily Dickinson published only a fraction of her poetry during her lifetime. Dartmouth professor Colleen Boggs looks at Dickinson’s life and at how we should consider her writings in our highly public modern age.

Sponsor: Sharon and Bill Biddle

April

First Wednesdays: The Supreme Court Argument that Saved the Union

President Lincoln justified the Emancipation Proclamation as a “necessary war measure.” But was the Civil War, in point of law, a war? Former Vermont Chief Justice Jeffrey Amestoy tells the thrilling story of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.’s oral argument before the Court in the Prize Cases.

Sponsor: Vermont Bar Association

Arts and Culture Series - New England Stage Curtains. Lecture by Christine Hadsel (at the St. Johnsbury School).

May

First Wednesdays: Speak to Me-A Program of Words and Chamber Music

A piano quartet from the acclaimed ensemble the Craftsbury Chamber Players performs music inspired by literature.

First Wednesdays programs are sponsored in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Vermont Department of Libraries. All programs start at 7 PM.

June

Arts and Culture Series - “Intimate Landscapes”: Paintings of Thomas Worthington Whittredge. Illustrated talk by Jeff Gold.

July

Arts and Culture Series - “En Plein Air Painting”. Presentation & workshop by Rodney Reis.

October

Arts and Culture Series - Hiding in the Oak: Country Children in Art, The Works of J.G. Brown. Presentation by Martha Hoppin.