Events for April 5, 2025
Spring Cut-Back and Pruning at the Pierson Library Gardens (Session 1)
It takes a community to keep our library gardens thriving and looking beautiful for the town, and we’re deeply grateful for your support! Join us as we marvel at the new growth and lend a hand for the spring cutback and pruning in the gardens. Feel free to bring your secateurs, garden shears, hand sickle,…
Pierson Library & The Flying Pig Bookstore present: Author Kari Percival
Amphibians are on the move! Author Kari Percival and Environmental Resources Coordinator Chris Slesar visit to share everything you need to know about how to help frogs and salamanders cross our roads safely, and to celebrate the release of Kari's new book, Safe Crossing.
Read to a Dog
Celebrate the joy of reading with Taffy, our certified therapy dog! Join our Read to a Dog program to enhance literacy skills in the delightful company of this furry friend. Taffy provides a supportive and non-judgmental environment, making reading a rewarding experience for emerging readers. Boost confidence and fluency with Taffy by your side! Space…
Creative Writing Support Group
Whether you write poems, comics, lyric essays, memoirs, short fiction, micro-fiction, dissertations, novels, philosophy, plays, screenplays, YouTube content, vacuum-cleaner manuals, or are just looking to get started finding your creative writing voice, this group is for you! Offering careful consideration of your writing babies, support, and space to write. Every session begins with a generative…
Public Philosophy Week: The Tao of Ethics
We will explore the "easy" Taoist approach to natural ethics—an elegant morality without supernatural authority. Taoist “worship of nature” is really veneration of the natural way of things and emphasizes living in harmony with the flow of existence. In our discussion, we will start to uncover an ethical system that is intuitive, adaptive, and rooted…