Brownell Library

May's Daily/Ongoing Programs for Adults:
2026-05-01 - 2026-05-31 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Book Display: This month, check out books and films about, inspired by, and written during the 1920’s! This is party of the Brownell Library’s 100th programs!
Visit the KCR display! This month our display features art by the Essex Art League!
Magazine Swap: Need some new reading material? Check out the magazine swap!
Community Puzzle: Spend some time working on a puzzle in the Main Reading Room. Puzzles rotate as they are completed.
Pattern Swap: Bring in sewing, cross stitch, and knitting patters and take a few home!
Puzzle Swap: Bring a puzzle, take a puzzle. Adult and kid friendly puzzles welcome! Only puzzles that have all the pieces. Drop your puzzle off on the table next to the main desk.
Red Cards: Informational cards are available in different languages.
Coupon Swap: Do you have extra coupons that aren’t useful to you? Bring them in and take a few!
Battery Recycling Station: Do you have old batteries? Drop them off at our recycling station (no exploded batteries please!)
Lion’s Club Eyeglasses Drop Off Station. Do you have old glasses you no longer need? Drop them off at our recycling station!
Seed Swap: Have extra seeds you don’t need? Drop them off at our seed swap and take home seeds you want for your garden!

Adult Take and Make Kits - Painted Bird Houses
2026-05-01 - 2026-05-31 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Kits can be found on a cart to the left of the main circulation desk and are available while supplies last. Instructions will be included in each kit. 1 kit per family please. Share pictures of your making experience by emailing them to: frontdesk@brownelllibrary.org or tag @brownellvt on social media.

Mah Jongg
2026-05-22 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-05-29 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-06-05 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Kolvoord Community Room
Mah Jongg takes place every Friday from 10am-12pm and it’s FREE!
If you know how to play, drop by and enjoy the great game of (American) Mah Jongg!
This is an EJRP/Essex Senior Center program. Questions? Please contact Julie: jshorter@ejrp.org or 802-878-1375 EXT 1553

The Library is closed for Memorial Day
2026-05-25 09:00 - 20:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
The Brownell Library is closed for Memorial Day. Monday, May 5th 2026.

Tech Help with Clif
2026-05-25 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-06-01 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-06-08 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-06-15 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-06-22 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-06-29 10:30 - 11:30 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Offering one on one technology help. Reservation required. Please call 802-878-6955 at least 48 hours in advance.

Current Events
2026-05-26 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-06-02 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-06-16 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-06-23 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-06-30 10:00 - 11:30 | Kolvoord Community Room
In an age of instant news reporting from every corner of our world, sometimes the sheer volume of information can feel overwhelming. This current events discussion group will attempt to quiet the noise and step back to reflect on what the news means, what is its context, and what the ramifications are. We will look at, reflect on, and analyze daily events and try to discern trends and understand the national picture and the larger world basing the discussion on factual information in a non-judgmental framework. This discussion group is free and open to all. Registration is not required.

100th Anniversary 1920's Style party!
2026-05-30 12:00 - 14:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
1920’s inspired party! Games, music, and crafts inspired by the 1920’s when the library was founded. This is a Brownell libraray 100th anniversary celebration!

Daily and ongoing programs for adults:
2026-06-01 - 2026-06-30 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Book Display: This month we are celebrating the country’s 250th birthday! Stop by the library and check out a book, documentary, film, or magazine about the United States!
Visit the KCR display! This month our display features art by the Essex Art League!
Magazine Swap: Need some new reading material? Check out the magazine swap!
Community Puzzle: Spend some time working on a puzzle in the Main Reading Room. Puzzles rotate as they are completed.
Pattern Swap: Bring in sewing/cross stitch/knitting etc. patterns and take a few!
Puzzle Swap: Bring a puzzle, take a puzzle. Adult and kid friendly puzzles welcome! Only puzzles that have all the pieces. Drop your puzzle off on the table next to the main desk.
Red Cards: Informational cards are available in different languages.
Coupon Swap: Do you have extra coupons that aren’t useful to you? Bring them in and take a few!
Battery Recycling Station: Do you have old batteries? Drop them off at our recycling station (no exploded batteries please!)
Lion’s Club Eyeglasses Drop Off Station. Do you have old glasses you no longer need? Drop them off at our recycling station!
Seed Swap: Have extra seeds you don’t need? Drop them off at our seed swap and take home seeds you want for your garden!

Library Closed
2026-06-01 09:00 - 20:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
The library will be closed Monday, June 1st for the Vermont Library Conference.

Grief Group
2026-06-03 18:30 - 19:30 | Kolvoord Community Room
Join a compassionate community of others who are grieving. In this safe and supportive space, we come together to share, validate, and navigate the complexities of grief. Guided by certified death doula Karen Hergesheimer, our conversations offer understanding, education, and valuable resources to help you through this journey. Hot tea is provided.

Library Closed!
2026-06-09 09:00 - 13:30 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
The Brownell Library will be closed on Tuesday June 9th, from 9am to 1:30pm for a city-wide employee gathering.

Author Talk: "Asa James" by Jodi Lew-Smith
2026-06-10 17:30 - 18:30 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Asa James, Winner of the 2025 prize for Historical Fiction in the American Legacy Book Awards.

Jodi Lew-Smith lives on a hill farm in Hardwick with her husband, dog, chickens, and 250 apple trees. She has always been a writer but also enjoys biology, which comes out in her fiction.

Brownell Library Trustees Meeting
2026-06-16 19:00 - 20:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Brownell Library is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Brownell Library Trustees Meeting
Time: Dec 16, 2025 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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The Library is closed for Juneteenth
2026-06-19 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
The Library is closed all day for Juneteenth

Spanish Toddler Storytime
2026-06-21 08:00 - 17:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Hola amigos! Bring your toddlers to listen to stories and learn some Spanish words.

Must Read Mondays - Audition by Katie Kitamura
2026-06-22 06:30 - 19:30 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.

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Dino-Mite Story Time
2026-06-25 10:00 - 10:30 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Unearth stories, rhymes and songs at this dinosaur themed story time series.

Librarian's Choice Book Discussion
2026-06-27 14:00 - 15:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. He is visited by a man called The Other who enlists Piranesi’s help in uncovering A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

Daily and ongoing programs for adults:
2026-07-01 - 2026-07-31 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Book display: For the month of July, check out books and movies about, inspired by, or related to Dinosaurs and/or Paleontology!
Visit the KCR display! In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Brownell Library, the Essex Community Historical Society will have on display pictures of what Essex Junction looked like in the early 1900’s
Magazine Swap: Need some new reading material? Check out the magazine swap!
Community Puzzle: Spend some time working on a puzzle in the Main Reading Room. Puzzles rotate as they are completed.
Pattern Swap: Bring in sewing/cross stitch/knitting etc. patterns and take a few!
Puzzle Swap: Bring a puzzle, take a puzzle. Adult and kid friendly puzzles welcome! Only puzzles that have all the pieces. Drop your puzzle off on the table next to the main desk.
Red Cards: Informational cards are available in different languages.
Coupon Swap: Do you have extra coupons that aren’t useful to you? Bring them in and take a few!
Battery Recycling Station: Do you have old batteries? Drop them off at our recycling station (no exploded batteries please!)
Lion’s Club Eyeglasses Drop Off Station. Do you have old glasses you no longer need? Drop them off at our recycling station!
Seed Swap: Have extra seeds you don’t need? Drop them off at our seed swap and take home seeds you want for your garden
Adult Take and Make : Mini dinosaur painting!
Kits can be found on a cart to the left of the main circulation desk and are available while supplies last. Instructions will be included in each kit. 1 kit per family please. Share pictures of your making experience by emailing them to: frontdesk@brownelllibrary.org or tag @brownellvt on social media.

Adult Summer Reading Program! Pick up your summer reading passport and start reading! The program lasts through July and August. The winner will be announced at the start of September.
