Wassail Weekend @ NWPL
We look forward to celebrating with you!
The Norman Williams Public Library invites everyone to the third annual Enchanted Wassail Evening on Thursday, December 11, from 6-8 pm, just before the official weekend begins. Get in the spirit of the season with friends and neighbors. Tickets for this delightfully magical fundraising event are available online and at the library.
The Rare & Vintage Book Sale runs both Friday and Saturday, from 10 am to 4 pm. Discover a special book to treasure – or perhaps give to someone on your list – among the offerings that range from rare classics to illustrated children’s favorites; international art books to volumes of local history.
We welcome families after school on Friday for Children’s Stories for December Holidays, a lively reading of seasonal picture books, with the illustrations projected on the mezzanine’s big screen. We’ll gather at 3 pm and begin the stories when everyone has had a little snack and is settled.
Join us on Saturday for Ham Gillett’s traditional reading of Dylan Thomas’s Lyrical Portrait of Holidays Past: A Child’s Christmas in Wales. As in past years, he will give two performances: at noon and 1 pm. Despite the essay’s title, this program is geared toward listeners 10 and older.
Wrensong, a local a cappella group, will give a concert, “Songs of Celebration Through the Centuries,” on Saturday at 3 pm, right after the parade. This program traces the enduring human impulse to celebrate light, hope, and renewal with music honoring the winter solstice, Christmas, and Hanukkah.
Follow the links for details. We hope you will join us!
(From “Notes from NWPL” weekly column in the Vermont Standard, 12.11.25.)