Color Our World: Daily Doodle Challenge

Our theme for Summer Reading this year is Color Our World so let your creative juices flow with us all summer long in a variety of hands-on crafternoons, presentations, and…

Summer Reading Program 2025: Color Our World

Join us this summer as we celebrate art, culture, fun, and the joy of reading! Our 2025 Summer Reading Program, Color Our World, invites readers of all ages to explore…

Musical Story Time with G-Raph!

By popular request, Musician extraordinaire G-Raph (a.k.a. Raphael Groten) brings weekly kids concerts to the Pierson Library! Raphael's exuberant music and radiating kindness bring sunshine to every event, as he plays a variety of original music and familiar classics on a variety of musical instruments! These fun, high energy mornings are sure to get you…

Coffee & Conversation: Little Green Men

Find community and share ideas in this monthly conversation group! Our topic for July is Little Green Men. With the declassification of documents and confirmation of unknown flying phenomena by the CIA, and the weirdness in the skies experienced by so many, the question is begged anew, are aliens and UFOs real? Have you had…

Thinking Outside the Box: Cardboard Creations with Pete Boardman

Join SCS art teacher Peter Board and explore the endless possibilities of cardboard as an artistic medium. From sculptural forms and architectural models to wearable creations, kids will learn how to transform everyday cardboard into striking works of art. Perfect for those who love to create with their hands and think outside the box (literally)!…

Tech Help Tuesday

Have a tech problem you just can't figure out? Have an app that's giving you trouble? Does your smartphone leave you flummoxed? We can help. Book a 30-minute appointment with one of our tech-savvy librarians who can help you tame that tech problem! To register, please call the library at 802-985-5124.

Tuesday Night Book Club: The Beekeeper of Allepo

Join us for a discussion of The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri. Nuri is a beekeeper and his wife, Afra, is an artist. They live a peaceful life in the hills of Aleppo until war tears everything apart. Forced to flee their home, the couple embarks on a harrowing journey through Turkey and Greece…

Noontime Poetry Reading Society

Get a heaping helping of poetics this poetry month and join the hippest happening in Chittenden County--the Noontime Poetry Reading Society! Yes, every hump day at the lunch hour, the hip cats of  the NPRS gather to lend their voices to wonderful poetry collections and anthologies, cold-reading aloud through whole books for the first half…

Tiny Paintings

Big vibes, small canvas. Come flex your creative muscles and paint something tiny but mighty. We’ll hook you up with all the supplies and you bring the creativity. Your mini masterpiece will hang out in the library all summer, looking cooler than that one painting you did in 5th grade (you know the one). To…

Choose Your Own Adventure Writing Group

It’s back! For six sessions this summer we will gather to plan, construct, write and illustrate together a Choose Your Own Adventure style novella using R.A. Montgomery's Journey Under the Sea as a story map. For this first meeting we will detail the scope of the project, write the first chapter, answer any questions, and…