All summer long, we have been busy traveling the cosmos through our books and now its time to make a safe landing and celebrate our accomplishments! Join the Varnum with cupcakes to decorate and a presentation by NASA Ambassador Caleigh Cross about life on the International Space Station!

The Varnum Memorial Library is located at 194 Main Street, Jeffersonville. 644-2117.

The library is a warm, cheery place for children to meet other children! Join us for stories read by people who enjoy sharing books and a craft, too!

Where: Varnum Memorial Library, 194 Main Street, Jeffersonville, VT

When: Thursdays, 10-11am

Who is this for: Young children

This event is free to the public and everyone is invited!

Baby Got Books at the Varnum Memorial Library is a story time for our littlest visitors! Join us for songs, Nursery Rhymes, stories, finger plays, and social time. The story time is structured for babies 0-18 months old, though all are welcome to attend, including older siblings.

The Varnum Memorial Library is located at 194 Main Street in Jeffersonville. For more information, please check our Facebook Page and website at varnumlibrary.org.

Come explore some of the games the Varnum has to offer, including STEM-based toys like ball mazes, K'Nex, and legos. Young and old can participate!

Listen to selections for violin, piano, and cello by young classical artists and twin brothers Henry and Nathan Wu. The Wu brothers love to share their passion for classical music. They are members of the Vermont Youth Orchestra and are committed to both performance and community. They founded Classical Music Encounters with the objective of introducing a diverse audience to classical music through performance and commentary. Come see them perform selections by Bach, Beethoven, Elgar, and more.

Sunday, August 18, 7pm at the Varnum Memorial Library, 194 Main Street in Jeffersonville, 644-2117.

Emoji Nightmare and Nikki Champagne, two of Vermont's favorite drag queens, are returning to Lamoille County for another edition of Drag Queen Story Hour at Cambridge/Jeffersonville's Varnum Memorial Library! The queens will be sure to delight and captivate audience members of all ages as they share stories focused on individuality, activism, gender, creativity, expression, and social responsibility.

Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish, where dress up is real.

DQSH was created by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions in San Francisco. DQSH events occur regularly in SF, NY, and LA. For more information on DQSH, visit DragQueenStoryHour.org. To watch episodes of The T or to learn more about Emoji & Nikki, visit NightPagne.com.

The library is a warm, cheery place for children to meet other children! Join us for stories read by people who enjoy sharing books and a craft, too!

Where: Varnum Memorial Library, 194 Main Street, Jeffersonville, VT

When: Thursdays, 10-11am

Who is this for: Young children

This event is free to the public and everyone is invited!

Gonna make this

Short and sweet

Tuesday night,

August 13th

7 to 8:30

At the Varnum Memorial Library

Is when we will next meet.

Not much more needs to be said

Everyone is welcomed.

Bring a friend

Hope to see you then

Celebrate poetry

And enjoy-

Laurie's Chocolate Bread!

Writing In Our Heads,

Laurie and LN

What gives our world color, creates our weather and seasons, and provides us with water to drink and food to eat? The sun of course! Join the Lamoille County Nature Center as we celebrate our favorite star in the universe and explore the many ways that the sun powers our planet. Together we will build an easy solar oven from materials you can find at home and observe the sun’s power by attempting some sun-cooked goodies.

Stories of the Stars: Myths of the Zodiac with AstroMythologist Kelley Hunter

The starry sky is a library of mythic stories from around the world. Come hear classic and unusual tales about the twelve Zodiac signs, plus the magical 13th constellation! The Zodiac is the path of constellations that the Sun, Moon and planets move through across the sky. Which story is yours?

Baby Got Books at the Varnum Memorial Library is a story time for our littlest visitors! Join us for songs, Nursery Rhymes, stories, finger plays, and social time. The story time is structured for babies 0-18 months old, though all are welcome to attend, including older siblings.

The Varnum Memorial Library is located at 194 Main Street in Jeffersonville. For more information, please check our Facebook Page and website at varnumlibrary.org.

Come explore some of the games the Varnum has to offer, including STEM-based toys like ball mazes, K'Nex, and legos. Young and old can participate!

The library is a warm, cheery place for children to meet other children! Join us for stories read by people who enjoy sharing books and a craft, too!

Where: Varnum Memorial Library, 194 Main Street, Jeffersonville, VT

When: Thursdays, 10-11am

Who is this for: Young children

This event is free to the public and everyone is invited!

Hunter: The Reckoning is a role-playing game based on White Wolf Game Studio’s World of Darkness. Players will take on the roles of hunters (or Imbued)—humans who are given powers by unknown entities to fight the supernatural. This event recommended for adults only.

If you enjoy the Varnum’s collection and programming, we would enjoy having you join the CCLA! Join us for just a few hours each month and support the library.

Baby Got Books at the Varnum Memorial Library is a story time for our littlest visitors! Join us for songs, Nursery Rhymes, stories, finger plays, and social time. The story time is structured for babies 0-18 months old, though all are welcome to attend, including older siblings.

The Varnum Memorial Library is located at 194 Main Street in Jeffersonville. For more information, please check our Facebook Page and website at varnumlibrary.org.

Bring your blankets, telescopes or binoculars and explore the night sky from the Varnum's backyard. This family friendly event will start off with a cookie tasting to help us learn about the phases of the moon and then we will all enjoy popcorn and snacks under the stars.

The library is a warm, cheery place for children to meet other children! Join us for stories read by people who enjoy sharing books and a craft, too!

Where: Varnum Memorial Library, 194 Main Street, Jeffersonville, VT

When: Thursdays, 10-11am

Who is this for: Young children

This event is free to the public and everyone is invited!

Baby Got Books at the Varnum Memorial Library is a story time for our littlest visitors! Join us for songs, Nursery Rhymes, stories, finger plays, and social time. The story time is structured for babies 0-18 months old, though all are welcome to attend, including older siblings.

The Varnum Memorial Library is located at 194 Main Street in Jeffersonville. For more information, please check our Facebook Page and website at varnumlibrary.org.

The library is a warm, cheery place for children to meet other children! Join us for stories read by people who enjoy sharing books and a craft, too!

Where: Varnum Memorial Library, 194 Main Street, Jeffersonville, VT

When: Thursdays, 10-11am

Who is this for: Young children

This event is free to the public and everyone is invited!

Hunter: The Reckoning is a role-playing game based on White Wolf Game Studio’s World of Darkness. Players will take on the roles of hunters (or Imbued)—humans who are given powers by unknown entities to fight the supernatural. This event recommended for adults only.

All warm sunshine
Not a snowflake insight
T-shirts and sandals
Sheets hung on the line
Hummingbirds, Creemees
Summer is so bright!

Continue the fun
With Poetry People night
At the Varnum Library
7 to 8:30, the 9th of July.

Whether you come to listen
Or you dare to recite
You'll have lots of fun
The evening will be a delight
Some poems can be memorized
While others will be read
All poetry served with
Of Laurie's Chocolate Bread!

Summer Reading Ice Cream Party & Constellation Challenge

Join us for an out of this world treat and decorate the sidewalks of the Varnum will constellations and space-themed chalk drawings!

Baby Got Books at the Varnum Memorial Library is a story time for our littlest visitors! Join us for songs, Nursery Rhymes, stories, finger plays, and social time. The story time is structured for babies 0-18 months old, though all are welcome to attend, including older siblings.

The Varnum Memorial Library is located at 194 Main Street in Jeffersonville. For more information, please check our Facebook Page and website at varnumlibrary.org.

American Girl Doll 2019 Girl of the Year, Blaire Wilson

The Varnum Memorial Library is raffling off American Girl Doll 2019 Girl of the Year, Blaire Wilson, with proceeds benefiting our library! The drawing for Blaire will be on July 4 at 3pm. Tickets are available at the Varnum Memorial Library and online via PayPal: http://www.varnumlibrary.org/donate/. Please type a comment in the notes for online raffle ticket purchase that it is for the American Girl Doll. Tickets are $5 apiece.

Blaire, her garden and accessories are valued at $225.00.

For any questions regarding the raffle, please contact the Varnum at 644-2117 or email us at thevarnum@gmail.com. The Varnum is located at 194 Main Street in Jeffersonville.

Join us for our annual 4th of July Book Sale.

This year, we will be changing our prices; hardcovers will be $2 and softcovers will be $1. Come and take a look at our wide selection and find your next read.

The library is a warm, cheery place for children to meet other children! Join us for stories read by people who enjoy sharing books and a craft, too!

Where: Varnum Memorial Library, 194 Main Street, Jeffersonville, VT

When: Thursdays, 10-11am

Who is this for: Young children

This event is free to the public and everyone is invited!

The library is a warm, cheery place for children to meet other children! Join us for stories read by people who enjoy sharing books and a craft, too!

Where: Varnum Memorial Library, 194 Main Street, Jeffersonville, VT

When: Thursdays, 10-11am

Who is this for: Young children

This event is free to the public and everyone is invited!

Cynthia Hurd was a librarian. She once said, "Your whole reason for being there is to help people. I like helping people find answers." Cynthia Hurd was shot and killed, along with eight fellow members of Mother Emanuel, on June 17th, 2015. They were killed because of the color of their skin.

Catherine, a Varnum patron, will share a personal connection to the Charleston Shooting and will lead a discussion on privilege, power, racism, and ally-ship - especially what that might look like in our own community. We will read excerpts from books about the Charleston massacre, as well as read one of Cynthia’s recommended children’s books. We will look at what the Cynthia Graham Hurd foundation is doing for literacy and how we can best support our children to read and end racism.

Catherine Cadden is an author and educator working locally and worldwide in the field of nonviolence, mindfulness, and education. When not working on the frontlines, Catherine can be found farming at Wild! Heart Farm in the beautiful green mountains of N’dakinna, the unceded territory of the Abenaki Nation.

See you later (we won’t say goodbye), Amber!

Come wish Amber Johns, the Varnum’s Youth Services Librarian for the past three years, happy travels as she moves to central Massachusetts. The Varnum is hosting a party on June 15 at 3:30 for the community to come and wish her well. Sweets and snacks will be provided.

Amber will be the Director of the Petersham Memorial Library. Cari Varner will be serving as the Interim Youth Services Librarian at the Varnum.

As Youth Services Librarian for the Varnum, Amber was instrumental in growing our juvenile and young adult collections. Under her leadership, the library expanded our programming for children and young adults including Harry Potter and Percy Jackson Book Clubs, started Baby Got Books! a storytime for little ones, Magic! The Gathering and game nights. She worked closely with Director Christy Liddy on events for adults as well, such as the deliciously successful Cook A Book bookclub and was the bedrock of the Crafters Circle on Thursday evenings.

The Varnum will miss her terribly and we hope that you can join us for an event in her honor.