Category: Notes from the Library

  • QuiRky Clues Village Treasure Hunt

    QuiRky Clues Village Treasure Hunt

    The QuiRky Clues Village Treasure Hunt encourages everyone – visitors and locals alike – to explore and learn about our town. Use your cunning, clever wit, observations, and perhaps a little digging on the internet to solve the puzzle and enter to win the “treasure.”

  • Trivia Night was a blast!

    Trivia Night was a blast!

    Fun was had by all at our first Trivia Night!  Great thanks to a generous patron who sponsored the evening’s trivia expert and Woodstock Farmers Market for a selection of […]

  • Library After Hours: Trivia & more!

    Library After Hours: Trivia & more!

    Time to bone up on your trivia knowledge! The next Library After Hours event at Norman Williams Public Library is an evening of Trivia moderated by the popular Vermont-based Pub […]

  • Library After Hours: Game Night

    Library After Hours: Game Night

    Time to unplug and play! Has it been a while since you met your match on a board game? Do you enjoy playing cards? Are you curious to learn new […]

  • Read, Cook, Eat!: A Cookbook Club

    Read, Cook, Eat!: A Cookbook Club

    Do you like to read about cooking, experiment with recipes, share stories about food with others, and eat good food? If so, we invite you to help us launch “Read, […]

  • NWPL Staff Training

    NWPL Staff Training

    Do you ever wonder what goes on behind closed doors at staff meetings and training sessions? With many part-time librarians at the Norman Williams Public Library, schedules rarely overlap so […]

  • Repointing the Norman Williams Public Library

    Repointing the Norman Williams Public Library

    We are excited to have the exterior of the library building repointed this summer and fall. Repointing is the craft of removing deteriorated mortar from the joint between the stones and placing new, sound mortar.

  • A Donation of Fine Art

    A Donation of Fine Art

    A generous Norman Williams Public Library supporter and former Trustee, William Chorske, has recently donated four large landscapes for visitors to enjoy. Three oils spanning the seasons by Albertus Eugene […]

  • Pruning Words to Make a Poem!

    Pruning Words to Make a Poem!

    April is National Poetry Month! Stop by and try your hand at “Pruned Poetry” a local variety of Found Poetry.

  • SBOOKY LIBRARY 2023

    SBOOKY LIBRARY 2023

    Great thanks everyone in the community–young and old, transformers and princesses, witches and zebras–who joined us to make our 1st Annual SBOOKY LIBRARY fabulous fun! We captured just a few […]