5 posts tagged “community”
Our July Pot Luck community picnic became a pot luck dinner, but in spite of the rain we had a great turn out. Several of us came home with Amish Friendship Bread starter (thanks Shari). If you loved Angelique's cole slaw, the recipe can be found here (Angelique suggests cutting the oil in half).
It was a great honor to have "Children Gather Round" and their huge drum here in our little town hall. Here are a few photos.
Join us Wednesday the 23rd at 6pm for a nature scavenger hunt, and every Saturday morning for stories and crafts.
See our whole summer programming list here.
CHILDREN GATHER ROUND Drumming from the Heart has performed at schools, libraries, camps, festivals and 1st Night celebrations in Vermont and New England.
Gather with us around the drum and celebrate the heartbeat of Mother Earth.
Children and adults alike...everyone gets to drum, dance and sing with us!
The picnic is by the playground next to the Pittsfield Roger Clark Memorial Library on the green on route 100. The picnic starts at 4pm and the drumming program will be at 6pm. The event is rain or shine and will be held in the Town Hall next door in the event of rain. Please join us and bring your friends and neighbors to this free community event.
Read about the rest of our library summer programs here.
Summer has started! Please join us Sunday for our first Library Community Picnic of the summer. This is a chance to reconnect with friends and neighbors after a long snowy winter and see the MANY new books we've added to our collection. Invite a neighbor you've always wanted to talk to. Mention it to friends. We welcome anyone of any age.
The details:
June 29 - Sunday, 4pm - 7pm
Pot Luck Community Picnic next to Pittsfield's Roger Clark Memorial Library on the Green off Rt 100
Featuring Outdoor Games for Everyone and Summer Reading Program Kick-Off.
KIDS - Come pick up your FREE Summer Reading Program T-Shirt,
and learn how to earn a free pizza donated by Picarello's and a pass to the Champlain Valley Fair!
The library will be open and our volunteers are shelving hundreds of new books for adults, kids, and young adults, great summer reading is ahead.
For information on programs look here.
For dates and times of summer programs here.
To get regular e mail updates about library activities send a note to pittsfieldvtlibrary@gmail.com.
Here is a report on last night's dinner and more by Angelique Lee whose help has been invaluable in organizing our after school program.
It is so nice to sit down and visit with neighbors and friends! Over 60 adults and children attended the Spaghetti Dinner, prepared by the After School Program, with the help of Joyce Stevens and many parents. Joyce kept everyone so well directed that she even had time to go outside and play a game with the kids before the guests arrived. Two feet of snow in the playground didn't stop anyone from enjoying the play structures, maybe spring has finally started.
This spring's After School Program has consistently drawn over twenty-five children and parents for each program, and sometimes many more than that, to a wide variety of programming:
A live raptor visit from VINS
Snowshoeing with Joe Desena
Printmaking using waterbase inks with Angelique Lee
Travel the World with community members including Saskia Groom and John Teoh
Wonderful Worms with educator Heather Behrens
Dessert Making and the Spaghetti Dinner with Joyce Stevens
If you have a special talent or interest, or idea to share with the community, please contact us, we LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU. We will start planning summer programming during the month of April, and grant writing for next year's After School Programming will start soon as well, when everyone pitches in our programs truly are amazing for a community of our size. Look for programs for young adults, adult programming, and of course fun literacy programs for our youngest community members.
Join us Saturday April 12th for Music and Stories for kids age 0 to 5 with siblings. More here.
We'll be having a booksale at this year's Pittsfield Bazaar. If you have books to donate, bring them to the library during open hours (Tuesday 3 to 5, Thursday 5 to 7 and Saturday 9 to 11am).
Special Saturday's for kids have started. 9:30 am every Saturday in the Pittsfield Library. Our book club is reading Animal Vegetable Miracle, the next meeting is the 19th of July at 6:30 in the library. It's not too late to join in.
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You can view the Pittsfield Library's collection of books on tape here.
You can check Pittsfield Library's volunteer schedule here.
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