Tech Help with Clif
2026-08-12 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-12 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-08-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-10 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-08-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-05 10:30 - 11:30, 2026-08-03 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-03 10:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | 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.

Read with Sammy
2026-08-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Read with Sammy! Sammy loves belly rubs, carrots, and listening to kids read! His owner is Kim Nowlan, an educator at Thomas Fleming School. They are a certified team with Therapy Dogs of Vermont. Repeats every 1st Tuesday of the month. For all ages.

Current Events
2026-08-11 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-08-04 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-07-28 10:00 - 11:30, 2026-07-21 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.

Celebrate Erna's 20 year career!
2026-08-07 19:00 - 19:30 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Celebrate Erna’s 20 year career as an assistant youth librarian and her upcoming retirement. Light refreshments snacks and refreshments available.

Summer Celebration with No Strings Marionette Company
2026-08-07 17:30 - 19:30 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Celebrate this summer’s accomplishments with the ever amazing No Strings Marionette Company in the Main Reading Room. Then stay to celebrate Erna’s 20 year career as an assistant youth librarian with refreshments.

Music Time
2026-08-07 10:30 - 11:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Come sing and dance in the Main Reading Room with Linda Bassick!

Teen Summer Party!
2026-08-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
It’s time to celebrate! Teens are invited to join us for an after-hours party at Brownell Library. We will be playing hide and seek in the stacks, eating snacks, and finding out who will win the teen summer reading raffle prizes! Looking for a chance to win? Registered teens can earn raffle tickets by showing us their reading log, attending programs, and volunteering at the library. This program is open to teens in grades 6 and up.

Dino-Mite Story Time
2026-08-06 10:00 - 10:30, 2026-07-30 10:00 - 10:30, 2026-07-23 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.

A Visit to Public Works
2026-08-05 10:00 - 11:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Meet up at the library at 10am and walk over to the public works facility (about 0.3 miles) to check out their earth moving equipment! We will walk back together. Or meet us at 11 Jackson Street at 10:15am.

VT Astronomical Society
2026-08-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Free and Open to the Public

In-person and via Zoom
Ask for the Zoom link from paulwaav@together.net or theresamarie11@GMAIL.COM
VAS Members will be emailed the Zoom link

The in-person will be at the Brownell Library on 2A near 5-Corners in Essex Junction.
If you attend via Zoom please get on-line before 7:30. If you don’t have Zoom installed, the application will automatically download and install when you click the meeting link. This may take a couple minutes.
PRESENTATION:
A Gentle Introduction To Mirror Making
By Bob Horton
In this talk we will explore the tools, techniques and tests that have evolved over the years to produce a telescope mirror (or lens) whose surface is thousands of times smoother and more accurate than the best machinist’s work, all the while using simple and inexpensive devices and procedures that even a caveman can handle. We will start with a short history of the art of mirror making and the role our own state of Vermont played in that timeline. This is followed by a description of the ten basic steps a mirror maker will take to transform a raw disk of glass into an optically perfect mirror that will reside the heart of their telescope. For each step, we will describe the procedure to get to the desired result and a set of simple tests that prove that you have completed that task. In the end, you will know how thousands of folks have crafted their own telescopes using the most basic tools to produce research quality optics.
Following the main presentation, our recurring monthly presentations will include Constellation of the Month by Terri Zittritsch.

Estimation Jar
2026-08-03 - 2026-08-28 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Estimate the amount of candy rocks in the jar and win the contents! Winners will be called after Aug. 30th.

STEM Challenge: Chomp Saw Dinos
2026-08-03 - 2026-08-17 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Build your own cardboard dinosaur using the library’s chomp saw, a template will be provided, or you can design your own at the Winnie Bell Maker Space in Youth Non Fiction. This program is made possible with support from the Winnie Bell Learned Fund, and it is open to all ages.

Daily and ongoing programs for adults:
2026-08-01 - 2026-08-31 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Book Display: For the month of August, check out books and materials about Essex Junction history. This display is inspired by the Brownell Library’s 100th anniversary!
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!
Adult Take and Make : Dinosaur suncatchers
Kits can be found on a cart to the left of the main circulation desk and are available while supplies last.

Produce swap: Do you have extra veggies from your garden that you don’t need? Drop them off at the library to share them with your community!

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

Dino Stomp & Roar Outdoor Activity Walk
2026-07-29 - 2026-08-10 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Follow the signs around the library building and move like a dinosaur!

Must Read Mondays - Berry Pickers, by Amanda Peters
2026-07-27 18:30 - 19:30 | Kolvoord Community Room
July 1962. Following in the tradition of Indigenous workers from Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaq family arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister’s disappearance for years to come.
In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren’t telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret.

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Breakout Box: The Earth's Break Up
2026-07-27 - 2026-08-07 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
Stop by the youth desk to pick up our newest Breakout Box and unravel the clues by yourself or with friends. This time: Congratulations! You have been invited to a FREE movie night to learn about Pangaea and how the Earth’s plates split! But, wait. There’s a catch. When you get there, you find out that you’re actually traveling back in time and have to use survival skills and your knowledge of the location of the plates in order to survive and return to current time. You only have 40 minutes to use your knowledge and the clues provided to return to the current time or you will be stuck in the time of the dinosaurs…forever.

Brownell Library Trustees Meeting
2026-07-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln St, Essex Junction, VT, 05450, United States
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