All are welcome to this book launch with authors Don Carson and Susan Murphy, as part of the Vermont Circus Festival. The Vermont Circus Festival and Brooks Memorial Library are hosting this special literary event launching the newly published book by one of the original trapeze dancers Susan Murphy and her husband photographer Don Carson. […]
Want to list your group in the ABC Directory? Drop into a session at your convenience and enjoy some treats! ABC staff members will answer questions, assist with sign-up, and help you finalize a listing. Group leaders: If you like “body doubling” when working on a task, or if you could use some simple fun […]
It's that time of year, again! World Singing Day!* Come together with friends and neighbors to raise your voices and raise your spirits by singing a wide variety of favorite songs. Lyrics will be projected on a big screen by George Carvill, so we will all know the words. Live guitar accompaniment will be provided […]
In efforts to promote both awareness of and preparedness for responding to issues that have raised questions about this November’s midterm election, Defend Our Vote (DOV) is facilitating a series of community conversations in the final weeks leading up to "the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States." (Timothy Snyder, American […]
Josie is sure her brain has to be right: that she needs to be perfect or something terrible will happen. Her distress, in Ann Braden’s Hijacked by Goats, leads to a hospitalization. When she’s diagnosed with OCD, her therapist calls it a bully in her brain. Once back home, Josie realizes that the bully in […]
As part of a recurring series, Senator Welch is traveling around Vermont with an open invitation to community members to join him for coffee and conversation. His next listening session will be at Brooks Memorial Library in the Main Reading Room on Monday, Oct. 5, from 2:00 - 3:00 PM. All are welcome to attend, […]
Join us for this special Vermont Humanities presentation about the Appalachia Comics Project and the creation of the graphic novel Islands in the Sky. Through this project, award winning artists were paired with community members to capture the oral histories of these people grappling with the effects of Hurricane Helene. Listen to writer, activist, and founder of this […]
Author Deborah Lee Luskin will be joined by Representative Emilie Kornheiser, Chair of the House Committee of Ways and Means, to discuss what we have to learn from the past, through the lens of Luskin’s novel, Into the Wilderness, an unlikely love story between a New York Democrat and born and bred Vermonter set in […]
The Brattleboro Selectboard will hold a special meeting on Monday, September 14, at 6:00 p.m. to discuss U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Members of the public may attend and participate in the discussion either in person or by zoom. For Zoom link and agenda details, please see Selectboard Agenda for September 14.
All are welcome to the formal roll-out of Joyce Marcel's new book, Joyriding: Sex, Drugs and Adventure on the 1970s Gringo Trail, being held in the Main Reading Room at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 9th. Marcel, one of Vermont's best-known journalists, will be interviewed by someone who knows her well, her husband, The Commons […]
Fractured, Not Broken, is a collaborative quilt project connecting people inside and outside prison walls. We invite you to join in the hand-stitching of Interaction’s Prison Quilt in the Main Reading Room from 5-7 PM on Monday, August 10th -- poignantly on International Prisoners’ Justice Day. This project had an initial goal to provide a […]
What did 65 million years of evolution turn the dinosaurs into? Birds! Celebrating “Unearth a Story,” the Vermont Institute of Natural Science is excited to introduce you to some live birds of prey and learn all about their dinosaur ancestry together. We’ll explore the ways modern birds became masters of the air, and understand the […]
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