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  • After-school Hangout

    Join us on early release day to game, snack, and chill with friends! Appropriate for tweens and teens.

  • Musical Storytime with Liz

    Experience the magic of music and storytelling at our weekly musical storytime! Join us for an adventure where stories come to life with the power of music. Musician and storyteller Liz Buchanan transports young minds into the world of rhythm, melody, and imagination.

  • Mahjong Playing Society

    Join us for a new way to have fun, make friends, and build community! Mahjong is a tile-based game of skill, luck, and strategy akin to Gin Rummy. Players draw tiles and form melds. We will be joined by Pauline Nolte, who can instruct players in both Chinese and American mahjong (following the hands and…

  • Create Your Summer Book Bag

    Hey kids! Read more books than you can carry? Use fabric markers and other fun materials to create a personalized cotton tote bag to carry home all of those great summer reads! To register, please call the library at 802-985-5124.

  • Group Beginner Guitar Workshop

    Time to dust off that guitar that's bit sitting around the house for months, maybe years! Join Connor Lin Frost, professional musician, producer, guitarist, and songwriter for a 75-min crash course on how to play your first few chords on guitar, so you can learn any song and maybe even write your own someday. Bring…

  • Read to a Dog

    Celebrate the joy of reading with Kieran (5/16) or Taffy (5/23), our certified therapy dogs! Join our Read to a Dog program to enhance literacy in the delightful company of an attentive pup. Hone those reading skills in a nonjudgmental environment and boost confidence and fluency with a furry friend by your side! Space is…

  • Teddy Bears Picnic

    Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic. Bring your favorite stuffie to the library to enjoy music, teddy bear– themed crafts, bubbles, and sweet treats. It's the perfect cozy and fun spring morning for kids and their cuddly stuffies! To register, please call the library at 802-985-5124.

  • Music & Movement with G’Raph

    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 and your crew singing,…

  • 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.

  • Exhibitionists Book Club: St. Lucy’s Home for Girl’s Raised by Wolves

    When Karen Russel's debut short story collection fell onto our collective psyches in 2006, it made some lasting alterations to the landscape of literature. A singularly weird and raucous vision. Come with us as we check in on it on its twentieth anniversary and reflect with it in conjunction with Shelburne Museum's exhibit of On…