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Living with Climate Chaos: Philosophical Considerations with Mike Ashooh
Living with Climate Chaos: Philosophical Considerations with Mike Ashooh
For the next several months, the Pierson Library is teaming up with the Shelburne Climate and Energy Committee on a new series of programs called Living with Climate Chaos. Each event will focus on a different component of our unique existential crisis--an earth with rapidly swaying climate changes and extreme weather conditions. To kick things…
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Musical Storytime with Liz
Musical Storytime with Liz
Experience 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. No advanced registration is necessary.
Living with Climate Chaos: Ethan Tapper Author Talk–How to Love a Forest
Living with Climate Chaos: Ethan Tapper Author Talk–How to Love a Forest
The second program in our Living with Climate Chaos series is an evening with Ethan Tapper, forester and author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World. Tapper will discuss his thought-provoking new book, which reexamines forest management and highlights the delicate balance between action and restraint in environmental…
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Fall Art Opening
Fall Art Opening
Take in a world of art at our Fall Art Opening. Our fall exhibit includes works by award-winning author and illustrator Jason Chin, Erica Sloan, the artist Druppas, and fiber artists from across Shelburne. Explore a diverse array of artistry while enjoying music and snacks in the ambiance of the Pierson after hours.
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Spooktacular Film Fest: Bride of Frankenstein
Spooktacular Film Fest: Bride of Frankenstein
It's the season of ghouls and ghosts, when the viscous membrane between worlds gets really thin! To get us in the autumnal mood, we're screening major works of spooky cinema all month. For our first film we're traveling back to 1935 for James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein, a film that upped the tongue-in-cheek ante of…
Exhibitionists Book Club: Poor Things Screening
Exhibitionists Book Club: Poor Things Screening
It's a Spooktacular Film Fest & Exhibitionists Book Club crossover event as we screen last year's Poor Things in anticipation of our discussion of the novel the movie is based on. Directed by Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Favourite, The Lobster) and featuring an all-in, Oscar-winning performance from Emma Stone, Poor Things is, depending…
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Pierson Fiber Arts Crafting Circle
Pierson Fiber Arts Crafting Circle
Have you got a fiber arts project you're working on and would relish the company of other crafters? Join this informal group that meets for two hours every Monday to knit, crochet, weave, felt, embroider, and socialize. On occasion there will be special guest presenters, but mostly this is an opportunity to share company (and…
Public Update from the Bike and Pedestrian Path Committee
Public Update from the Bike and Pedestrian Path Committee
Come learn about Shelburne's walking and biking project priorities with members of the Bike and Pedestrian Path Committee (BPPC). They're one of four groups working to improve walking and biking in Shelburne, the others being the Shelburne Forward Walk/Bike Group, the Village Pedestrian Safety Group, and the Falls Road Working Group. With so much attention…
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Little Artists
Little Artists
Join us for a fun series where toddlers show their creativity with art! For our October session, we'll create a cute fall art project.
Haunted House Planning Committee
Haunted House Planning Committee
Are you a teen or tween that loves getting spooky, planning scares, and creating experiences? Join like-minded peers in the planning and orchestrating of a haunted house, right here in the library! We'll plan and devise how to build it, what we need and where all the monsters will go. Parents are welcome too!
Autumn Concert: Skylark String Quartet
Autumn Concert: Skylark String Quartet
A beloved musical act at the Pierson Library, the Skylark Quartet returns! This eclectic string ensemble challenges the boundaries between classical and folk traditions with innovative, melody-driven works influenced by the Nordic, Celtic, and American regions. The sound, however, is utterly their own. Come enjoy the unique energy, irresistible flair, and undeniable beauty of Skylark. …
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Noontime Poetry Society
Noontime Poetry Society
The Poetry Society meets and reads its way systematically through whole books of poetry. Participants take turns at the lectern and read aloud the words of poets dead, distant, and near alike. In this way, the air is filled with visions, the words enlivened to play their magic upon us. The second half hour is…
After-school Hangout
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.
Ghostbusters Slime Factory!
Ghostbusters Slime Factory!
Create Ghostbusters themed slimes! Join us for a goopy afternoon concocting icky ectoplasm Slimer slime, and Stay Puffed giant puffy slime. To register please call the library at 802-985-5124.
Exhibitionists Book Club: Poor Things
Exhibitionists Book Club: Poor Things
The Exhibitionists are back, and this time they're taking on Alasdair Gray's post-modern pastiche of Victorian literature: Poor Things. Heavily influenced by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (also influencing some artists in the New England Now exhibition), Poor Things is a delightfully playful novel written as a series of letters between the fictional characters. Gray was a…
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Musical Storytime with Liz
Musical Storytime with Liz
Experience 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. No advance registration is necessary.
Comic Book Club
Comic Book Club
Love to read and create comics? Join us to discuss some of your favorite graphic novels over snacks and share your comic creations with fellow fans! Recommended for ages 8 and up.
Second Thursday Lecture Series: Dazed, Seduced and Transfixed: The Monster Through Time, in Literature, and in Our Lives with Shanta Lee
Second Thursday Lecture Series: Dazed, Seduced and Transfixed: The Monster Through Time, in Literature, and in Our Lives with Shanta Lee
From Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein to Pu Songling’s The Painted Skin, to Jordan Peele’s Us, to Lovecraft Country, to Monsterland, and to nearly countless vampire tales, our culture is filled with manifestations of the monster. These figures span genres from mythology to oral tradition to poetry. Alongside this legacy, moments of history have sometimes raised the…
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Spooktacular Film Fest: The Haunting
Spooktacular Film Fest: The Haunting
One of the greatest ghost movies ever made, 1963's The Haunting (based on Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House) is a masterclass of unease and ratcheting suspense. Paranormal researchers and specially selected psychics converge on Hill House, a bad place like none other. While the film features little in the way of onscreen…
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Haunted House Planning Committee
Haunted House Planning Committee
Are you a teen or tween that loves getting spooky, planning scares, and creating experiences? Join like-minded peers in the planning and orchestrating of a haunted house, right here in…
Tuesday Night Book Group: The House in the Cerulean Sea
Tuesday Night Book Group: The House in the Cerulean Sea
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is an unlikely story of finding a family in an unlikely place--and realizing that the family is your own. Limited copies…
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Noontime Poetry Society
Noontime Poetry Society
The Poetry Society meets and reads its way systematically through whole books of poetry. Participants take turns at the lectern and read aloud the words of poets dead, distant, and…
After-school Hangout
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.
Youth Advisory
Youth Advisory
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…
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Musical Storytime with Liz
Musical Storytime with Liz
Experience 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…
Shelburne Acoustic Jam
Shelburne Acoustic Jam
Be ye a fiddle player? A banjo strummer? A guitar twanger or zither enthusiast? Whatever your acoustic instrument of choice, join other local musicians in an epic jam session! Bluegrass,…
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Not-So-Scary Storytime
Not-So-Scary Storytime
Follow the candlelit path to the library patio, where we'll read not-too-scary stories, roast s'mores ,and create a haunted house craft to bring home!
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Monday Morning Book Club: The Secret Life of Sunflowers
Monday Morning Book Club: The Secret Life of Sunflowers
Based on the true story of Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law, this novel is sure to pull you in. Copies are available at the front desk, and new members…
Pierson Fiber Arts Crafting Circle
Pierson Fiber Arts Crafting Circle
Have you got a fiber arts project you're working on and would relish the company of other crafters? Join this informal group that meets for two hours every Monday to knit, crochet, weave, felt, embroider, and socialize. On occasion there will be special guest presenters, but mostly this is an opportunity to share company (and…
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Tech Help Tuesday
Tech Help Tuesday
Have a tech problem you just can't figure out? Have an app that's giving you trouble? Does your smartphone leave you flummoxed? We can help. Make an appointment for a 30-minute session with one of our tech-savvy librarians, who can help you tame that tech problem! To register, please call the library at 802-985-5124.
Haunted House Planning Committee
Haunted House Planning Committee
Are you a teen or tween that loves getting spooky, planning scares, and creating experiences? Join like-minded peers in the planning and orchestrating of a haunted house, right here in the library! We'll plan and devise how to build it, what we need and where all the monsters will go. Parents are welcome too!
Lili Fior Author Talk: Lili’s Caregiving Guide
Lili Fior Author Talk: Lili’s Caregiving Guide
One of the hardest things ever to do is face a loved one's end of life: mitigating pain, providing care, foreseeing challenges (practical, legal, emotional, and more), leading to and then living with loss. Author, caregiver, and death doula Lili Fior shares lessons learned and wisdom gained from missteps along her journey as a caregiver,…
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Noontime Poetry Society
Noontime Poetry Society
The Poetry Society meets and reads its way systematically through whole books of poetry. Participants take turns at the lectern and read aloud the words of poets dead, distant, and near alike. In this way, the air is filled with visions, the words enlivened to play their magic upon us. The second half hour is…
After-school Hangout
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.
Kids Pumpkin Painting & Cider Taste Test
Kids Pumpkin Painting & Cider Taste Test
Stop in to taste test our local brands of cider and paint a great big pumpkin to bring home! Call to register for this fun afternoon at 802-985-5124
Peter Camman Author Talk: The Flies Are Too Damn Small: Adventures of a Deeply Flawed Angler
Peter Camman Author Talk: The Flies Are Too Damn Small: Adventures of a Deeply Flawed Angler
Author and fisherman Peter Camman sets his sights on the art of storytelling, revealing how fishing tales are their own unique form of folklore, what makes a great story, and how the universal appeal of the great outdoors is the perfect subject for a good yarn. Along the way he might tell a tale or…
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Musical Storytime with Liz
Musical Storytime with Liz
Experience 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. No advance registration is necessary.
Jack-o’-Lantern Carving Fun
Jack-o’-Lantern Carving Fun
Legend has it that old Jack tricked the great goat of the underworld a time or two, and as a result his mortal soul can never find rest, roaming…
Comic Book Club
Comic Book Club
Love to read and create comics? Join us to discuss some of your favorite graphic novels over snacks and share your comic creations with fellow fans! Recommended for ages 8 and up.
Living with Climate Chaos: Gardening with Native Plants with Charlotte Albers
Living with Climate Chaos: Gardening with Native Plants with Charlotte Albers
The next talk in our Climate Chaos series sees us exploring regional gardening in the face of increasingly extreme weather fluctuations. Flooding, erosion, drought--little is off the table any longer for the local green thumbs. Come learn about tough, resilient native plants that can help solve problems at your home and enhance local biodiversity. Charlotte…
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Fall Book Sale (Preview Sale for Friends Members and Their Guests)
Fall Book Sale (Preview Sale for Friends Members and Their Guests)
Join us for the ultimate book lover's paradise at our Friends of the Library Fall Book Sale! With thousands of titles to choose from, you're sure to find your next favorite read. Plus, indulge your sweet tooth with delicious homemade pies available for purchase. Don't miss this opportunity to stock up on books and treats…
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Fall Book Sale
Fall Book Sale
Join us for the ultimate book lover's paradise at our Friends of the Library Fall Book Sale! With thousands of titles to choose from, you're sure to find your next favorite read. Plus, indulge your sweet tooth with delicious homemade pies available for purchase. Don't miss this opportunity to stock up on books and treats…
Spooktacular Film Fest: The Witches
Spooktacular Film Fest: The Witches
Get a jump start on Halloween with this family friendly spooky flick about a coven of kiddo-hating witches! From the bizarre mind of Roald Dahl and the inventive helming of Nicolas Roeg, it's the 1990 The Witches (the only one that will suffice). Some material may be too scary for littles. Rated PG.
Death Cafe
Death Cafe
Death Cafes are opportunities to gather and increase awareness of death so that we might make the most of our finite lives. Shelburne resident and optometrist Nick Marconi has been leading local death cafes for more than 10 years (most recently at Village Wine and Coffee). Now he's here with us at the Pierson Library…
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Fall Book Sale
Fall Book Sale
Join us for the ultimate book lover's paradise at our Friends of the Library Fall Book Sale! With thousands of titles to choose from, you're sure to find your next favorite read. Plus, indulge your sweet tooth with delicious homemade pies available for purchase. Don't miss this opportunity to stock up on books and treats…
Halloween Parade Crafts & Festivities
Halloween Parade Crafts & Festivities
Attending the annual town Halloween parade? Join the festivites aftwerwards, and stop by the Pierson pumpkin patch, where we'll create light up paper pumpkin lanterns to bring home!
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Pierson Fiber Arts Crafting Circle
Pierson Fiber Arts Crafting Circle
Have you got a fiber arts project you're working on and would relish the company of other crafters? Join this informal group that meets for two hours every Monday to knit, crochet, weave, felt, embroider, and socialize. On occasion there will be special guest presenters, but mostly this is an opportunity to share company (and…
1 event,
Haunted House Planning Committee
Haunted House Planning Committee
Are you a teen or tween that loves getting spooky, planning scares, and creating experiences? Join like-minded peers in the planning and orchestrating of a haunted house, right here in the library! We'll plan and devise how to build it, what we need and where all the monsters will go. Parents are welcome too!
3 events,
Noontime Poetry Society
Noontime Poetry Society
The Poetry Society meets and reads its way systematically through whole books of poetry. Participants take turns at the lectern and read aloud the words of poets dead, distant, and…
After School Hangout
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.
Haunted Town Hall
Haunted Town Hall
Brave kiddos (8+), teens, and adults! Come get a head start on trick-or-treating with this scary haunted house completely planned, devised, and orchestrated by our teen and tween patrons. Will…
3 events,
Musical Storytime with Liz
Musical Storytime with Liz
Experience 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…
Samhain Oracle Drawing and Ancestor Luncheon
Samhain Oracle Drawing and Ancestor Luncheon
Before the Catholics and the candy companies made it the Halloween we know today, Oct. 31st was Samhain (pronounced SAH-win), a Gaelic festival marking the end of harvest time and…
Halloween Poetry Salon and Open Mic
Halloween Poetry Salon and Open Mic
Monster mash your way on over to the Pierson Library this Halloween for our monthly poetry salon and open mic. Tonight's featured poets are photographer and master wordsmith Curtis Johnson…
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Velveteen Rabbit Rescue
Have a beloved stuffie in need of repair? The Velveteen Rabbit is in residence at the library! Bring your damaged stuffed animal into the library, and the Velveteen Rabbit will stop in to pick it up, mend it, and return it here to the library to be retrieved!
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Read to a Dog
Read to a Dog
Celebrate the joy of reading with Taffy, our certified therapy dog! Join our 'Read to a Dog' program to enhance literacy skills in the delightful company of this furry friend.…
Zentangle Workshop
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…