Events
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Live Performance: The Hokum Brothers
Kick off your long holiday weekend with a live musical performance with The Hokum Brothers! This band offers up an eclectic mix of original satire, show tunes, ballads, rockabilly, and levity (with a pinch of nostalgia thrown in) guaranteeing you’ll be wearing your happy face long after the show is over. Blending tight three-part harmonies…
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Closed for Independence Day
The library will be closed in observance of Independence Day.
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Fiber Arts Crafting Circle
Have you got a fiber arts project you're working on and would enjoy the company of other crafters? Join this informal group that meets for two hours every Wednesday to knit, crochet, weave, felt, embroider, and socialize! On occasion special guest presenters attend, but mostly this is an opportunity to share company (and perhaps even…
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Little Artists
Join us for a fun series where toddlers show their creativity with fun and simple art projects.
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Musical Storytime with G-Raph!
By popular request, 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…
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Thinking Outside the Box: Cardboard Creations with Pete Boardman
These art workshops explore the endless possibilities of cardboard as an artistic medium. From sculptural forms and architectural models to wearable creations. Kids will learn how to transform everyday cardboard…
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Expressive Beads Necklace Crafting
Another hands-on craft for the summer reading enthusiast! Express yourself with colorful beads in a necklace making circle. Peaceful tunes and community await you as you join other necklace crafters…
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Minecraft Meet-Up
Minecraft players ages 7-12 and their adults meet up to share their Minecraft knowledge and play together! Attendees should bring their laptop or tablet with Minecraft installed and account created.…
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Penelope Lifestone Author Talk
Penelope Lifestone returns to Vermont with a new book! Before her current iteration as author, Lifestone spent over thirty years as teacher, entrepreneur and business leader in Burlington. Her novel Trusting the Weather is a suspenseful page-turner about resilience, healing, and the unpredictability of life's journey. Tonight, she will share from the work and offer…
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Noontime Poetry Reading Society
Our regularly scheduled poetics continue these subsequent Wednesdays as we gather to lend our voices to wonderful poetry collections and anthologies, cold reading aloud through whole books for the first half hour, then sharing works in progress, poetic reflections, and beloved bits of verse for the second. Always, we end with take-home writing prompt. Drop-ins…