Week of Events
Sunday, October 9, 2022
No events on this day.
Monday, October 10, 2022
No events on this day.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
No events on this day.
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
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Featured October 12, 2022 -Featured Rhyme Time
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October 12, 2022 -Scrabble
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Featured October 12, 2022 -Featured William Mundell: Life and Poetry – Brattleboro Literary Festival
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Featured October 12, 2022 -Featured Parenting 4 Social Justice Reading-Discussion Group
Rhyme Time
Join us on Wednesday mornings @ 10:30 am for 30 minutes of stories, songs, and fun! Rhyme Time is for kids 5 & under and their caregivers. Here is a handout featuring the different songs, fingerplays and movement games we use!
Scrabble
Scrabble is back! Join the fun on Wednesday evenings, 6-8pm in the Quiet Reading Room on the mezzanine.
William Mundell: Life and Poetry – Brattleboro Literary Festival
William Mundell (1912-1997) is one of Vermont’s finest native-born poets. He lived his entire life in South Newfane, unusually combining his career as a poet with work as a carpenter, stone mason, and State highway foreman. He served on the town selectboard, as an auditor, and justice of the peace, and was also editor of […]
Parenting 4 Social Justice Reading-Discussion Group
Join Brattleboro’s Brooks Memorial Library for a monthly book group Reading and Discussing the pivotal book Parenting 4 Social Justice facilitated by Abby Mnookin What: Dive deep into the topics of Social Justice, Parenting for Social Justice, Parenting for Racial Justice, Parenting for Economic Justice, Parenting for Disability Justice, Parenting for Gender Justice, and Parenting […]
Thursday, October 13, 2022
No events on this day.
Friday, October 14, 2022
No events on this day.
Saturday, October 15, 2022
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Featured October 15, 2022 -Featured Melany Kahn – Brattleboro Literary Festival
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Featured October 15, 2022 -Featured Maria Scrivan – Brattleboro Literary Festival
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Featured October 15, 2022 -Featured Sofi Thanhauser – Brattleboro Literary Festival
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October 15, 2022 -Game Cafe!
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Featured October 15, 2022 -Featured David Sipress and Tad Friend – Brattleboro Literary Festival
Melany Kahn – Brattleboro Literary Festival
Mason Goes Mushrooming This first-of-its kind foraging story from Melany Kahn and Ellen Korbonski, Mason Goes Mushrooming takes us on a woodland treasure hunt. Join Melany Kahn for an interactive kid -friendly activities about mushrooms. Examine and identify real local mushrooms. Grab provided materials to make your own wooden, paper or model mushrooms to take home. […]
Maria Scrivan – Brattleboro Literary Festival
Maria Scrivan is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning syndicated cartoonist, and speaker based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her laugh-out-loud comic, Half Full, appears daily in newspapers nationwide and on gocomics.com. Maria licenses her work for greeting cards, and her cartoons have appeared in MAD Magazine, Parade, and many other publications. Nat Enough, her debut graphic […]
Sofi Thanhauser – Brattleboro Literary Festival
Sofi Thanhauser teaches in the writing department at Pratt Institute. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell, and Ucross Foundation. Her writing has appeared in Vox, The Guardian, Observer Magazine, and Dame among other publications. Her new book is Worn: A People's History of Clothing. She lives in Brooklyn.
Game Cafe!
Come join game enthusiasts in playing Magic the Gathering in various formats (including Commander/EDH) as well as other fun and creative board & card games. Bring your favorite games- All Ages Welcome!
David Sipress and Tad Friend – Brattleboro Literary Festival
David Sipress was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Williams College in 1968 and went on to study Russian History in the Department of Soviet Studies at Harvard University. He left Harvard before completing his degree to pursue a career as a cartoonist and has been staff cartoonist since 1998 for […]