Summer Playdate
Pierson Library 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT, United StatesLooking for a place for where your little one can play and you can find community with other parents and caretakers? Join us each Wednesday for fun, frolic, friendship, and play! Appropriate for ages 2 to 5. No advanced registration is necessary.
After School Hangout
Pierson Library 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT, United StatesJoin us on early release day to game, snack, and chill with friends!
Thursday Morning Musical Storytime with Liz
Pierson Library 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT, United StatesExperience 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. Don't miss this harmonious journey! No advanced registration necessary.
Second Thursday Lecture Series: “For Enduring Peace We Need Civil Rights”: Vermont and the Civil Rights Movement
Pierson Library 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT, United StatesPamela Walker is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Vermont. Her work examines motherhood, activism, benevolence, and political consciousness in 1960s-era social movement networks. Her talk will illuminate the overlooked role of pacifist Vermont women in the civil rights movement and the connections they forged across race, class and distance with rural Black…
Queer Excellence in Cinema: But I’m a Cheerleader
Pierson Library 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT, United StatesNext in our series celebrating queer artistry is Jamie Babbit's But I'm a Cheerleader, the campy sleeper hit of 1999, whose cult appeal has only grown overtime. Made from a femme lesbian perspective, deeply satirizing the church, and featuring an all-star cast of character-actors including RuPaul, Mink Stole, Bud Cort and Natasha Lyonne in an…
Summer Reading Kick Off Party
Pierson Library 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT, United StatesCaldecott winning Author/ Illustrator Jason Chin celebrates the release of his new book "Life After Whale"! Be the first to see this new title (which already has 4 starred reviews!), meet the Illustrator, and enjoy FREE ice cream from Shelburne's own SCOOP truck!
Pierson Library Knitting Group
Pierson Library 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT, United StatesMonday is knitting day here at the Pierson! Join other crafters as they sit around the fireplace to knit and socialize.
Adventures Then and Now Book Club: Treasure Island (Summer Reading Program)
Pierson Library 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT, United StatesIn Adventures Book Club we meet to discuss classic adventure literature and contemporary literary reimagining’s. Come for one or come for all! First up is Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 swashbuckling yarn or buccaneers and buried gold! Copies available at the main floor circulation desk.
Little Artists: No Mess Finger Painting
Pierson Library 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT, United StatesJoin us for a new summer series where toddlers show their creativity with art! For our first session, we'll create no mess finger paintings using Ziplock bags, cardstock, and paints. No advanced registration is required.
Noontime Poetry Reading Society
Pierson Library 5376 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne, VT, United StatesIt’s back! All our welcome for a group that cold reads whole poetry collections aloud half an hour at a time, getting their mouths a-moving, and affecting the air with the rhythms of poets across time. For the first half hour we will do that and only that, in the second half hour members may…