Hours:
Tuesday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday: 1:00 pm- 7:00 pm
Thursday & Friday: 1:00 pm- 5:00 pm
Saturday: 9:00 am-12:00 pm
THANK YOU!
-Beth & The Board of Trustees
Tuesday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday: 1:00 pm- 7:00 pm
Thursday & Friday: 1:00 pm- 5:00 pm
Saturday: 9:00 am-12:00 pm
THANK YOU!
-Beth & The Board of Trustees
Congratulations to all of our winners!!
Congratulations to the Voyagers, they read a combined total of 27, 575 minutes. Which works out to be a little it over 19 days. Each of the participating members of that team will be able to celebrate their victory with a gift card from Broken Heart Burger. Amazing!!
Overall we had 23 prize winners this year. Prizes ranged from gift cards to Chapman’s and Red Kite Candy, to design your own t-shirt and pick 5 graphic novels to add to our collection. The coveted prize though was our Pokemon set, and I think it made a few people very happy. As a community we were just shy of 125,000 minutes collectively. That right there is utterly stupendous! A big high five to everyone who contributed.
Congratulations to the Voyagers, they read a combined total of 27, 575 minutes. Which works out to be a little it over 19 days. Each of the participating members of that team will be able to celebrate their victory with a gift card from Broken Heart Burger. Amazing!!
Overall we had 23 prize winners this year. Prizes ranged from gift cards to Chapman’s and Red Kite Candy, to design your own t-shirt and pick 5 graphic novels to add to our collection. The coveted prize though was our Pokemon set, and I think it made a few people very happy. As a community we were just shy of 125,000 minutes collectively. That right there is utterly stupendous! A big high five to everyone who contributed.
This Month's Take-and-Make: Binoculars and Scavenger Hunt
As the days turn cooler, the light changes and it feels like an invitation to get outside and explore the arrival of a new season. This month's craft includes two different nature scavenger hunts and all the supplies to make some paper binoculars. Inside each bag is an array of stickers and tape to customize your specs to make the truly one of a kind. Stop in and pick up a bag, and then once you're done crafting, you can step outside and see what new discoveries and treasures await you. 
Poetry Event - Tuesday September 17 at Town Hall
Enjoy a night of original musical compositions set to spoken word poetry. Sam and Aaron have been setting the words of many of our local poets to music since Aaron's award-winning release of Men Don't Cry in 2018. They found the emotional embodied power of poetry-music compositions on that album to be so moving that Aaron and Sam focus entirely on the intermingling of poetry and music for Garden Dreams in 2021. In these compositions, Aaron says, "...the poetry takes us on journeys, and the partly improvised music is the vehicle of receiving the poetry that can allow us to feel through our whole bodies." Sam will be reading original poetry as well as poems of Vermont authors. 
Sharing Food From Our Garden
Right now the tomatoes are coming in, there are some peppers and the beans are busting out all over! If we're lucky we'll get a few more eggplants, and we definitely have basil to share. Whatever food we harvest we'll put on the table near the entrance to the Library. If you have any surplus of foods from your own gardens, you can bring it to the table on Wednesdays, so that others may enjoy it. Here's hoping that the weather will cooperate and that the plants just keep growing and producing before the frosts set in. |
NASA Europa Clipper Model Display & Poetry Challenge
Europa is the smallest moon of Jupiter and a watery world with potential for supporting life. In mid October NASA will be launching the Europa Clipper spacecraft that will orbit Europa and send back information about the little moon. For the month of September the Fairlee Public Library will display a model of the spacecraft and Europa. The public is invited to learn more about this mission, and wax poetic about distant celestial bodies as inspired by the generous and lyrical work of US Poet Laureate Ada Limón. 
Come Celebrate Dot Day - Tuesday September 17, Drop-In Between 3:00--5:00
Come and make some circle art with us. We'll have supplies out, which will include punchouts, rubber stamps, ink, markers, crayons and some fun patterned papers. It's a day to celebrate circles of all sorts and we'll have several M&M flavors on hand for you to sample some of the new flavors. Why not make it a circle sort of crafternoon? This is an all-ages event, everyone is welcome. Get ready to leave your creative mark at the Library. 
Vermont Granite Museum Pass
With a generous donation from The Friends of The Fairlee Public Library we have purchased a pass to the Vermont Granite Museum. The Friends have also renewed our passes to VINS and The Fairbanks Museum. The Rondo gave us the funds for a pass to The Billings farm and ECHO in Burlington gives a pass to all of the Vermont libraries. We have a pass for Vermont parks and historic sites as well. The passes can be checked out for three days at a time and are the perfect way to see some cool things before school starts at the end of the month. Passes can be checked out to Fairlee residents and families can have only one pass at a time. A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy." E. Powys Mathers, The Arabian Nights |
