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  • Noontime Poetry Society

    Everyone is welcome at the Noontime Poetry Society. Each Wednesday we meet to read aloud together, taking turns at the lectern to make our way through entire poetry collections and anthologies, one half hour at a time. We're currently reading Women Poets from Antiquity to Now. The second half of the session is devoted to…

  • Teen Advisory Group

    Love to read? Help us build a library collection that truly reflects the interests and ambitions of our community! Assist Katie in finding exciting new publications and recent releases, identify gaps in our collection, create eye-catching displays, and plan events! Snacks provided. Recommended ages 11–15.

  • After-school Hangout

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

  • Stephen Kiernan Author Talk: Pollock’s Last Lover

    The Pierson Library and The Flying Pig Bookstore invite you to an author talk with Vermont writer Stephen P. Kiernan, celebrating his new novel, Pollock’s Last Lover: A Novel of Art and Deception. Set in New York City across the 1950s and early 2000s, the novel follows two women whose lives intersect through the legacy…

  • 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…

  • Gardeners’ Gathering

    Love gardening? Come be part of our new monthly meetup for local gardeners. We’ll chat about what we’re growing, exchange tips and ideas, and get excited for the season ahead.

  • E-Waste Recycling

    Join us for the second big recycling event this month. Good Point Recycling will be onsite taking all your electronic waste. If it's got a cord, they'll take it! They cannot accept large items such as appliances, hazardous waste materials, light bulbs, and batteries. Drive up or walk and get those old and nonworking electronics…

  • Creative Writing Support Group

    We interrupt your regularly scheduled creative writing support group for an extra-special creative writing support group! What makes it so? Why, we'll be joined by Pamela Powell, a generative writing leader for more than 30 years. Time to share, time to write, time to discuss this thorny business of wordsmithery with other creators at varying…

  • Philosophy Book Club: The Second Sex

    This month our coterie of lay philosophers is tackling a classic work of feminist theory, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. Won't you join us? Copies available at the first-floor circulation desk.