On Saturday, May 11th, our favorite art teacher stopped by to do a special Mother's Day program for the kids. Each child received the book "What's inside a Flower?" by Rachel Ignotofsky and went home with a specially designed flower pot, flower, and card for a mother in their life.
The next session with Casey will be June 8th to kick off our Summer Reading Challenge! Participants will receive the book "Going Places" by and will do a project to make travel trucks!

Today the a group of 10 students from Burr and Burton Academy spent their day at the library. Although they were supposed to do trail maintenance, it was raining buckets when they arrived. Instead they did some dusting and outdoor cleaning along with a lot of collection maintenance, aka making room on the shelves for new books! It is a huge job that usually takes months to complete but they did 3/4 of the library in one day, saving me hours and hours of work. We are super grateful to BBA and their students. Thank you to Jillian Joyce for arranging the day.

Pictured below: Tanner Alexopoulos, Anna Carson, Sophia Cochran, John Davis, Jason Giejda, Gavin Roberts, Ryder Scott, Peyton Sheldon, Morgan Taylor-Spano, Caleb Williams, and their teacher Matthew Kujovsky.

After 3 years as our little library's caretaker, Lauren Roppolo passed the keys to Madeline Helser. She brought joy, laughter, and so many great memories for our patrons and community. She will be greatly missed, but we wish her all the best on her future adventures. 

Madeline joins us from Jamaica, Vermont. She is the director of the library in Jamaica, opening up opportunities for collaboration and sharing between our two libraries. She moved to Vermont in June of 2023, having traveled here from Beaufort, South Carolina. She has her master's degree in library science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and joins us with more than 10 years of experience in library management and youth services. Most recently she worked in the non-profit sector as a coordinator for Second Helpings, a 3-county food rescue, and previous to that as an executive director for Neighborhood Outreach Connection, a non-profit that provides opportunities for families in poverty. Previous to that she served as a library branch manager and the county wide coordinator for youth services for the Beaufort County Library System, which encompassed 5 branches and 2 bookmobiles.

When Madeline's not at the library, she enjoys playing the oboe with the Windham Philharmonic and going on hikes with her partner Vera and their dog Lottie. She loves to read (and write) queer fiction, especially graphic novels, and will never turn down fruit or dark chocolate. Come say hello and welcome her to the community!

Generous thanks to Wendy Dutton from the Dutton Farm Stand and Sugar House
& The Londonderry Village Market for sponsoring this event!

​Thank you to the Green Mountain Gardeners for the donation to purchase children’s horticulture books!