Little Artists
Join us for a fun series where toddlers show their creativity with art! For our October session, we'll create a cute fall art project.
Haunted House Planning Committee
Are you a teen or tween that loves getting spooky, planning scares, and creating experiences? Join like-minded peers in the planning and orchestrating of a haunted house, right here in the library! We'll plan and devise how to build it, what we need and where all the monsters will go. Parents are welcome too!
Autumn Concert: Skylark String Quartet
A beloved musical act at the Pierson Library, the Skylark Quartet returns! This eclectic string ensemble challenges the boundaries between classical and folk traditions with innovative, melody-driven works influenced by…
Noontime Poetry Society
The Poetry Society meets and reads its way systematically through whole books of poetry. Participants take turns at the lectern and read aloud the words of poets dead, distant, and near alike. In this way, the air is filled with visions, the words enlivened to play their magic upon us. The second half hour is…
Ghostbusters Slime Factory!
Create Ghostbusters themed slimes! Join us for a goopy afternoon concocting icky ectoplasm Slimer slime, and Stay Puffed giant puffy slime. To register please call the library at 802-985-5124.
After-school Hangout
Join us on early release day to game, snack, and chill with friends! Appropriate for tweens and teens. No advanced registration is necessary.
Exhibitionists Book Club: Poor Things
The Exhibitionists are back, and this time they're taking on Alasdair Gray's post-modern pastiche of Victorian literature: Poor Things. Heavily influenced by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (also influencing some artists in the New England Now exhibition), Poor Things is a delightfully playful novel written as a series of letters between the fictional characters. Gray was a…
Musical Storytime with Liz
Experience the magic of music and storytelling with Liz at our weekly Musical Storytime! Join us for a unique adventure where captivating stories come to life with the enchanting power of music. Liz will transport young minds into the world of rhythm, melody, and imagination. No advance registration is necessary.
Comic Book Club
Love to read and create comics? Join us to discuss some of your favorite graphic novels over snacks and share your comic creations with fellow fans! Recommended for ages 8 and up.
Second Thursday Lecture Series: Dazed, Seduced and Transfixed: The Monster Through Time, in Literature, and in Our Lives with Shanta Lee
From Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein to Pu Songling’s The Painted Skin, to Jordan Peele’s Us, to Lovecraft Country, to Monsterland, and to nearly countless vampire tales, our culture is filled with manifestations of the monster. These figures span genres from mythology to oral tradition to poetry. Alongside this legacy, moments of history have sometimes raised the…