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  • Author Talk With Ned McMahon: Wisdom and the Baobab Tree

    Shelburne resident and UVM professor Ned McMahon, who is also an international development consultant and former diplomat, is sharing his first work of fiction with us tonight! Wisdom and the Baobab Tree is about the life, love and challenges of a somewhat intelligent, somewhat handsome, and slightly naïve young American who is drawn into the…

  • Lego Afternoon

    Love to build? Stop in on Friday afternoons to rummage through our terrific collection of Legos and build with friends. We'll display all creations in the library for visitors to see and enter each creation in a weekly prize drawing for a Lego set! 

  • Valentine’s Day Chocolate Tasting Jamboree

    A quirky adventure in taste for the lay connoisseur! We're back with another Valentine's tasting wherein we sample an inclusive variety of local, corporate, specialty, and homespun chocolates; discerning what tastes earthy, fruity, milk weedy, vegetal; sharing our experiences with chocolate, our Proustian sense memories; ranking and deciding, once and for all, what chocolate reigns…

  • Tuesday Night Book Club: The Art Thief

    Join us for a discussion of The Art Thief, a fascinating true-crime narrative by Michael Finkel. The book tells the story of Stéphane Breitwieser, the world’s most prolific art thief,…

  • Folk Concert with Colin Cutler

    North Carolina folksinger and songwriter Colin Cutler is making town hall his Vermont stop on a North American tour! An independent musician, Army veteran, and banjo-and guitar-slinging storyteller, his latest…

  • Pierson Playdate

    Looking for a place for your little one to play on chilly winter days? Join us in Town Hall for fun, frolic, and friendship for both littles and their parents/caretakers.…

  • Noontime Poetry Reading Society

    If gathering at high noon and cold reading poetry collections aloud with other thoughtful adults sounds like your jam, then have we got the society for you! In addition to…

  • After School Hangout

    Join us on early release day to game, snack, and chill with friends! Appropriate for tweens and teens. No advanced registration is necessary.