Democracy in Our Time: A Discussion of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Join us for a community discussion of Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Anne Applebaum. A national bestseller praised for its sharp insight, this timely work explores why democracies around the world are faltering and why many political elites are embracing authoritarianism. Drawing from her experience as a journalist…
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! Every Wednesday during 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…
After School Hangout
Join us on early release day to game, snack, and chill with friends! Appropriate for tweens and teens.
Teen Advisory Group: Haunted House Planning
This month, the library’s Teen Advisory Group is hard at work planning our annual haunted house and everyone’s invited to join the fun! Are you a teen or tween who loves scary vibes, scare tactics, and bringing creepy ideas to life? Team up with like-minded peers to help design, build, and orchestrate a haunted house…
Haunted Town Hall
Brave kids (ages 8+), teens, and adults—kick off your Halloween early with a spine-chilling haunted house experience! Designed, built, and brought to life entirely by our talented teen and tween patrons, this eerie adventure is sure to thrill and delight. Do you have what it takes to make it through?
Thursday Morning Story Time
Experience the magic of music and storytelling at our weekly musical story time! 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.
The 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…
Spanish Language Conversation Group
Welcome to the Pierson Library's weekly Spanish Conversation Group! Whether you're a native Spanish speaker, an expert talker, or a beginning speaker, find community and conversation with group leader Martha Stegner of Colombia. ¡Bienvenido al grupo semanal de conversación en español de la Biblioteca Pierson! Ya seas hablante nativo de español, un experto en la…
Exhibitionist’s Book Club: A Council of Dolls
The Exhibitionists are excited to pair the museum’s interactive Indigenous textile art exhibit, Make a Noise, with a powerful historical and magical-realist family saga. The Council of Dolls explores the devastating effects of settler colonialism through multiple perspectives, including the voices of dolls passed down through generations of Yanktonai Dakota women. Written by Standing Rock…
Zentangle Workshop
Julia Davenport is back at the Pierson Library to share the relaxing, forgiving art form that is Zentangle. With few tools and a small scale, she will guide us in a 90-minute tangle to find creativity and calm our neural networks! Call to register at 802-985-5124.