Whiting Library

Closed for Thanksgiving
2021-11-26 | VT
Whiting Library will be closed on Friday, November 26th for a Thanksgiving break. We will reopen on Saturday, November 27th from 10am to 2pm. See you then!
Happy Thanksgiving!

2pm Early Closure for Thanksgiving
2021-11-25 14:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | VT
The library will close at 2pm on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, November 24th, 2021.
Happy Thanksgiving!

Outdoor Story Time
2021-11-19 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-11-12 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-11-05 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-10-22 11:00 - 12:00 | VT
Story Time is being held outside in the library backyard! Youth Services Librarian Carrie King will read awesome books, crafts ideas will be shared, and booties will be shaken. All children who enjoy picture books will love this time together. It is aimed at kids 3-5 years old, but all are welcome. Come join us at the library every Friday at 11am for Story Time!
We encourage parents of little ones who may not be quite ready to sit through Story Time to come at 10:30am to socialize with other parents of children in the 0-3 age range. Carrie will share some books, other resources, and give everyone time to connect!
Everyone, please wear a mask and practice social distancing to keep our young patrons safe and healthy! We will have some drop clothes for you to use if you’d like, or feel free to bring your own chairs or blankets and spread out in our nice sunny (or shady) backyard.
In the event of rain, please come back next Friday for Outdoor Story Time otherwise please dress accordingly for the weather!

November 2021 Book Club
2021-11-17 15:00 - 16:00 | VT
The Whiting Library Book Club monthly discussion for November is being held in person at the library AND simultaneously live on Zoom. The discussion will take place at 3pm on Wednesday, November 17th, 2021. The book pick for November is Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac.
Please feel free to join the book club group any month, all are welcome! If you need a copy to read, Whiting Library has copies ready to lend. Just give us a call or shoot us an email to reserve your copy.
If you have any questions or would like to get on the email list for the Book Club, please contact Deirdre at the library. You can email whitinglibrary1@gmail.com or call 875-2277.
The Zoom Meeting login information is here:
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About the book from Goodreads:
Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years.
Joseph Bruchac brings their stories to life for young adults through the riveting fictional tale of Ned Begay, a sixteen-year-old Navajo boy who becomes a code talker. His grueling journey is eye-opening and inspiring. This deeply affecting novel honors all of those young men, like Ned, who dared to serve, and it honors the culture and language of the Navajo Indians.

Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting
2021-11-09 08:30 - 09:30 | Zoom Online
The public is welcome to attend Whiting Library Board of Trustees Meetings. They are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 8:30am. The meeting takes place in the Whiting Library community room and on Zoom.
Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89626526721?pwd=[REDACTED]

Start Writing, Keep Writing: A Writing Workshop for Teens
2021-11-03 16:30 - 17:45 | VT
Chester, VT- High school students with an interest in creative writing are invited to attend a Teen Writers Workshop at Whiting Library on Wednesday, November 3, 2021 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. at 117 Main Street in Chester. Whiting Library is hosting this writer’s workshop for youth in grades 9 through 12. Do you write for fun or want to start? This workshop is for you!
A mix of free-writing and sharing, the workshop will develop writing skills and practices in a supportive and welcoming environment. Participants should bring a notebook and a written piece they are currently working on, or planning to start. Teen writers of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry are invited to attend.
“The Teen Writing Workshop is a chance for young writers to develop their voice in a fun and low-key environment. Being around other people who like to write can be really motivating and encourage your creative process. Don’t be shy—sign up!” said Rosamund Conroy, the workshop instructor. Ms. Conroy is a Whiting Library Trustee, writer and former director of Summer Ink, a youth writing program.
Young writers may choose to submit a piece to the Vermont High School Writing Contest following the workshop. Register by contacting Carrie King, Youth Librarian, by 11/3/21 for this free workshop by calling the library at 875-2277 or emailing whitinglibrary3@gmail.com. A minimum number of four participants is required for this workshop to run.

Outdoor Halloween Story Time
2021-10-29 11:00 - 12:00 | VT
Come in your Halloween costume! There will be candy and Halloween crafts and books!
Story Time is being held outside in the library backyard! Youth Services Librarian Carrie King will read awesome books, crafts ideas will be shared, and booties will be shaken. All children who enjoy picture books will love this time together. It is aimed at kids 3-5 years old, but all are welcome. Come join us at the library every Friday at 11am for Story Time!
We encourage parents of little ones who may not be quite ready to sit through Story Time to come at 10:30am to socialize with other parents of children in the 0-3 age range. Carrie will share some books, other resources, and give everyone time to connect!
Everyone, please wear a mask and practice social distancing to keep our young patrons safe and healthy! We will have some drop clothes for you to use if you’d like, or feel free to bring your own chairs or blankets and spread out in our nice sunny (or shady) backyard.
In the event of rain, please come back next Friday for Outdoor Story Time otherwise please dress accordingly for the weather!

Great Vermont Dragon Egg Hunt!
2021-10-22 | VT
Join the Great Vermont Dragon Egg Hunt!
This fall, Whiting Library is excited to take part in the Great Vermont Dragon Egg Hunt! Everyone is invited to join in this fun, outdoor library game. A magic dragon has built a nest on the disc golf course in Chester and laid her eggs in it. Now she challenges you to take a hike and try to collect one of her eggs! You will visit unique locations by following picture clues that lead you around the disc golf course starting at the ice rink parking area at the Pinnacle on Lover’s Lane.
Find the dragon’s nest and bring 1 paper egg back to the library to be entered in a raffle to win a Dragon Puppet and her real egg! Participants must be 16 or younger to win the raffle. Come to the library to pick up the treasure hunt guide and ask Carrie any questions you have about the hunt.
You can find a link to the treasure hunt guide here!
You can read more about the Dragon Egg Hunt here!

October 2021 Book Club
2021-10-20 15:00 - 16:00 | VT
The Whiting Library Book Club monthly discussion for October is being held in person at the library AND simultaneously live on Zoom. The discussion will take place at 3pm on Wednesday, October 20th, 2021. The book pick for October is Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson.
Please feel free to join the book club group any month, all are welcome! If you need a copy to read, Whiting Library has copies ready to lend. Just give us a call or shoot us an email to reserve your copy.
If you have any questions or would like to get on the email list for the Book Club, please contact Deirdre at the library. You can email whitinglibrary1@gmail.com or call 875-2277.

About the book from Goodreads:
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book’s categorization to be sure that ‘The Devil in the White City’ is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair’s construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor.
Burnham’s challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous “White City” around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair’s incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison.
The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World’s Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims.
Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson’s skillful writing. – John Moe

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Outdoor Story Time
2021-10-15 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-10-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-10-01 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-09-24 10:30 - 12:00, 2021-09-17 10:30 - 12:00, 2021-09-10 10:30 - 12:00, 2021-09-03 10:30 - 12:00 | VT
Story Time is being held outside in the library backyard! Youth Services Librarian Carrie King will read awesome books, crafts ideas will be shared, and booties will be shaken. All children who enjoy picture books will love this time together. It is aimed at kids 3-5 years old, but all are welcome. Come join us at the library every Friday at 11am for Story Time!
We encourage parents of little ones who may not be quite ready to sit through Story Time to come at 10:30am to socialize with other parents of children in the 0-3 age range. Carrie will share some books, other resources, and give everyone time to connect!
Everyone, please wear a mask and practice social distancing to keep our young patrons safe and healthy! We will have drop clothes for you to use if you’d like, or feel free to bring your own chairs or blankets and spread out in our nice sunny (or shady) backyard.
This a nice weather only event! In the event of rain, please come back next Friday for Outdoor Story Time.

Whiting Library Book Sale
2021-09-18 - 2021-09-19 | VT
Whiting Library’s Annual Book Sale will take place on the library lawn at 117 Main St. on Saturday, September 18th and Sunday, September 19th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., or until all the books are sold! The Book Sale will take place in collaboration with the Chester Festival on the Green, making this event an incredible time to come to Main St. to experience heaps of Chester fun.
The Book Sale is comprised of donated materials and books withdrawn from the library collection. We have a little bit of everything: from adult fiction to non-fiction, biographies to gardening, art books to histories, picture books to activity books. Everyone will find something to read and entertain! All sales are by donation, with your generous contributions going directly to benefit the library. We use this fundraiser for the purchase of new books and materials, arts and crafts supplies for our weekly kid’s activities, to upgrade library technology, and so much more. Please come out and support the library and attend this great event.
If you would like to donate books for the sale, please read the donation policy on our website first. We are looking for clean, new books and are accepting donations during our regular open hours until September 10th. Please no musty, moldy, old, or damaged books. We do not take encyclopedias, dictionaries, travel guides, textbooks, workbooks, tapes or cassettes. Thank you so much for following these guidelines, we appreciation your support.
We are also looking for volunteers to help out during the sale! We need help with set up on Saturday morning at 9 a.m., restocking throughout the day, and also to take the remainders back into the building on Sunday at 4 p.m. If you are interested in volunteering, please get in touch with Deirdre at the library at 875-2277 or by email at whitinglibrary1@gmail.com
You can find out more about book donations on the Whiting Library website www.whitinglibrary.org/book-donations and more about the Chester Festival on the Green at www.chesterfallfestival.org. See you at the festival!

September 2021 Book Club
2021-09-15 15:00 - 16:00 | VT
The Whiting Library Book Club monthly discussion for September is being held in person at the library AND simultaneously live on Zoom. The discussion will take place at 3pm on Wednesday, September 15th, 2021. The book pick for September is Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell.
Please feel free to join the book club group any month, all are welcome! If you need a copy to read, Whiting Library has copies ready to lend. Just give us a call or shoot us an email to reserve your copy.
If you have any questions or would like to get on the email list for the Book Club, please contact Deirdre at the library. You can email whitinglibrary1@gmail.com or call 875-2277.
About Hamnet from Amazon:
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
“Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life… here is a novel … so gorgeously written that it transports you.” —The Boston Globe
In 1580’s England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel” (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.

The Zoom Meeting login information is here:
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Whiting Library Board of Trustees Meeting
2021-09-14 08:30 - 10:00 | VT

August 2021 Book Club
2021-08-18 15:00 - 16:00 | VT
The Whiting Library Book Club monthly discussion for August is being held in person at the library AND live on Zoom. The discussion will take place at 3pm on Wednesday, August 18th, 2021. The book pick for August is The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes. From Wikipedia:
The Giver of Stars is a 2019 historical fiction novel by Jojo Moyes about packhorse librarians in a remote area of Kentucky. Set in Depression-era America, The Giver of Stars is the story of five extraordinary women and their journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. The women deliver library books to people in the mountains of Kentucky during the Great Depression, a real-life program launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor. Universal Pictures has acquired the movie rights to The Giver of Stars, and the feature film is in the early stages of production.
The Giver of Stars received USA Today’s top 100 books to read while stuck at home social distancing and was a Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick by Reese Witherspoon. The Giver of Stars spent 33 weeks on the New York Times best-selling list.

Please feel free to join the book club group any month, all are welcome! If you need a copy to read, Whiting Library has copies ready to lend. Just give us a call or shoot us an email to reserve your copy.
If you have any questions or would like to get on the email list for the Book Club, please contact Deirdre at the library. You can email whitinglibrary1@gmail.com or call 875-2277.

The Zoom Meeting login information is here:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81900041488
Meeting ID: 819 0004 1488

Whiting Library Board of Trustees Meeting
2021-08-10 08:30 - 10:00 | Zoom Online
The public is welcome to attend Whiting Library Board of Trustee meetings. Currently, all meetings are held virtually using the Zoom online platform.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/72916171499?pwd=[REDACTED]

Outdoor Story Time
2021-07-30 11:00 - 12:00, 2021-07-16 11:00 - 12:00 | VT
Story Time moves outside to the library backyard for summer 2021! Youth Services Librarian Carrie King will read awesome books, crafts ideas will be shared, booties will be shaken. All children who enjoy picture books will love this time together. Come join us at the library every Friday at 11am for Story Time!
Everyone, please wear a mask and practice social distancing to keep our young patrons safe and healthy! We will have drop clothes for you to use if you’d like, or feel free to bring your own chairs or blankets and spread out in our nice sunny (or shady) backyard.
This a nice weather only event! In the event of rain, please come back next Friday. If you’d like to come into the library, please call ahead to make an appointment and we’d love for you to come on in.

Summer Unplugged with The Nature Museum- Fairy Houses!
2021-07-27 11:30 - 12:30 | VT
Fairy House Building
Calling all Fairies, Elves & Imps! Fire up your imaginations by creating your own Fairy Village. We inspire students by teaching them some building basics, showing them some inspiring examples and reading a fairy story. Then, students take to the outdoors to create fairy houses, parks, gardens, or whatever they’re inspired to build! We will take a look at each other’s magical creations, hear what inspired each creator, and explore what they learned in their building process. This collaborative outdoor experience encourages creativity, problem solving, and taking a fresh look at nature’s small wonders. Some materials may be provided but bringing your own is encouraged! Note: Fairy houses will be built to remain where they are with natural materials that you bring and we provide. Please only bring biodegradable and native materials.
This will be an outdoor event, rain date TBD. Please wear a mask and practice social distancing to keep kids safe!
The Nature Museum is a regional resource for nature, science, and environmental education in the Vermont and New Hampshire communities of the Connecticut River Valley. The Museum provides information and experiences that engage and enlighten our audiences and inspire stewardship of the natural world. Thanks to the generous support from Great River Hydro, The Nature Museum is excited to once again bring free environmental education programming to public libraries throughout the Middle Connecticut River Valley and the Bellows Falls Fish Ladder and Visitor Center during the summer of 2021. These programs aim to be engaging and highlight topics related to the unique ecology and landscape of Northern New England. Unplug, discover, and learn!

No Story Time
2021-07-23 11:00 - 12:00 | VT
There will be no Story Time on July 23rd, 2021. See you next week!

July 2021 Book Club
2021-07-21 15:00 - 16:30 | Zoom Online
The Whiting Library Book Club monthly discussion for July is being held in person at the library AND live on Zoom. The discussion will take place at 3pm on Wednesday, July 21st, 2021. The book pick for July is The Martian by Andy Weir. This book was nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Here’s a blurb:

“Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.
Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first.
But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?”
Please feel free to join the group, all are welcome! If you need a copy to read, Whiting Library has copies ready to lend. Just give us a call or shoot us an email to reserve your copy.
If you have any questions or would like to get on the email list for the Book Club, please contact Deirdre at the library. You can email whitinglibrary1@gmail.com or call 875-2277.

The Zoom Meeting login information is here:
Topic: Whiting Library Book Club
Time: April 20 2021 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Summer Unplugged with The Nature Museum- Animals on the Move!
2021-07-20 11:30 - 12:30 | VT
Animals On The Move
Animals move in all kinds of ways. Walking, trotting, running, jumping, flying, swimming, crawling and slithering. How do you move? Can you walk like a bear or fly like an eagle? We’ll take a closer look at animal tracks and much more to discover the different types of animals and their movements.
This will be an outdoor event, rain date TBD. Please wear a mask and practice social distancing to keep kids safe!
The Nature Museum is a regional resource for nature, science, and environmental education in the Vermont and New Hampshire communities of the Connecticut River Valley. The Museum provides information and experiences that engage and enlighten our audiences and inspire stewardship of the natural world. Thanks to the generous support from Great River Hydro, The Nature Museum is excited to once again bring free environmental education programming to public libraries throughout the Middle Connecticut River Valley and the Bellows Falls Fish Ladder and Visitor Center during the summer of 2021. These programs aim to be engaging and highlight topics related to the unique ecology and landscape of Northern New England. Unplug, discover, and learn!
