Kids explore science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics activities. Ages 5-11.

Young birders learn through crafts, storytime, and some bird watching around the Library.  Ages 5-11 and their caregivers.

Please pre-register here.

Celebrate Pi Day (3/14) by tasting local pies in the Pi-ckering Room!

All ages. 

No registration required. 

For more details, call either the youth desk at 802-865-7216 or the teen desk at 802-540-2546. 

Tuesday, March 14 is Pi Day!

Do you like math? Do you love dessert? Come celebrate with us! We will have family-friendly pi-themed activities AND plenty of pie to share!

Telling A People's Story Opening Reception : Ekua Holmes Keynote Speaker

The Fletcher Free Library welcomes the exhibit Telling A People's Story: African-American Children's Illustrated Literature.  The Traveling Panel Exhibition, curated by Miami University Art Museum (Oxford, OH) and featuring 12 panels with 120 reproduced illustrations, will be on display in the Main Reading Room of the Main Library  at 235 College Street from April 3-30, 2023.  Please join us for the opening of this exhibit.

Families are invited to talk, play, read, write and sing while exploring a range of themes and rotating activities designed to promote school readiness, encourage creativity, and healthy development. 

Ages 0-5 with adult

Kids explore science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics activities. Ages 5-11.

Drawing Down the Generations: Memoir, Family and Self
Panelists: Amy Kurtzweil, Glynnis Fawkes, Elise Dietrich, Elisa Järnefelt
Moderator: Dan Barlow

The most personal genre of nonfiction comics, memoir fosters empathetic engagement through frankness and intimacy, bringing into focus our shared humanity. In this panel, four accomplished cartoonists, Elise Dietrich, Glynnis Fawkes, Elisa Järnefelt and Amy Kurtzweil explore the interplay of identity, self and family in their intergenerational work.

Seven Days Cartoonists Speak!
Panelists: Rachel Lindsay, Keith Knight, James K, Julianna Brazil
Moderator: Chris Farnsworth

Join Seven Days Music Editor (and lifelong comics fan!) Chris Farnsworth and a panel of cartoonists featured in the pages of Vermont’s favorite free weekly, including local artists Julianna Brazil, James Kochalka and Rachel Lindsay and special guest, Keith Knight of the nationally-syndicated K Chronicles.