Moore Free Library

Wool Crafters - October 31st
2025-10-31 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Wool Crafters meet every Friday at 10:30.
Contact the library to be added to the email list at moorefreelibrary@gmail.com

Wool Crafters - October 24th
2025-10-24 10:30 - 12:00

Office Hours -- State Representative Emily Long
2025-10-18 10:30 - 12:00
State Representative Emily Long will be holding her office hours on Saturday, October 18th from 10:30 to noon. All are welcome

Wool Crafters - October 17th
2025-10-17 10:30 - 12:00

Artist Reception - October Crowell Exhibit
2025-10-16 16:30 - 18:00 | Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, Newfane, VT, 05345, United States
October’s exhibit in the Crowell Gallery features artist Karen Becker. The artist will hold a public reception on Thursday October 16th from 4:30 – 6 pm in the gallery.

Friends of the Library Booksale
2025-10-11 10:00 - 2025-10-12 16:00
As usual our community has been generous with their donations to the Friends of the Moore Free Library book sale. All these books will be meticulously sorted and ready for your browsing pleasure on Saturday and Sunday, October 11 and 12, from 10 am to 4 pm at the Library, 23 West Street, Newfane, just a few steps from the Newfane
Common, where the Heritage Festival will be taking place. Over thirty categories of fiction, non-fiction, and young people’s books will be offered at bargain prices. Buy a Moore Free Library tote bag for $20 or fill it with books for $25.
For more information, 802-365-7948 or julielavorgna@gmail.com.

Wool Crafters - October 10th
2025-10-10 10:30 - 12:00

Medicare Presentation
2025-10-07 13:00 - 14:00
On Tuesday, October 7th at 1:00 pm, the Moore Free Library will hold an information session with Tirah Brothers, SHIP Coordinator from Senior Solutions, the Area Agency on Aging for Southeastern Vermont.
Tirah will cover everything you need to know about Medicare Open Enrollment. Whether you’re reviewing your current plan or exploring new options, this presentation will help you understand key dates, plan changes, coverage options, and common pitfalls to avoid.
Get the guidance you need to make confident, informed decisions about your healthcare coverage. We look forward to meeting you.
Questions? Email us at info@seniorsolutionsvt.org or visit our website www.seniorsolutionsvt.org

October Book Group
2025-10-06 10:30 - 11:30
The MFL Book Club will meet on Monday, the 6th to discuss Louise Erdrich’s The Beet Queen.

For more information contact Deb Barry.
debriverside@gmail.com

"Monster in a Dress" Screening and Artist Talk
2025-10-05 15:00 - 17:00
On Sunday, October 5, 3:00 pm, filmmaker Annie Weatherwax will be holding a screening and artist talk at the Williamsville Hall, 35 Dover Rd Williamsville, VT.
Monster in a Dress is semi-autobiographical story about my struggle growing up as a girl who didn’t act like one. It reimagines the relationship I had with my immigrant family and pays homage to my grandmother, a powerful matriarch who saved me.
A multimedia short story, “Monster in a Dress” was created with drawings, sound effects, kinetic typography, animation, archival imagery, and live action clips. The elements have been orchestrated not only to entertain, but also to build empathy. For that reason, I narrate the story myself.
The piece grew out of a series of character sketches that started to take on a familiar feel. It wasn’t until my fourth or fifth drawing that I realized I was drawing a version of my own extended family. (These original pencil drawings–twenty-one in all–are available to show alongside any potential screening). From these drawings, I found music; music that told me something about the characters and how to bring their dynamics to life.
Kids are resilient, but it’s difficult for some not to internalize the monstrous way the world sees them. I was one of those kids. If “Monster in a Dress” can ease the struggle of just one person, it will have served its purpose. monsterinadress.com
Sponsored by the Moore Free Library

Wool Crafters - October 3rd
2025-10-03 10:30 - 12:00

Crowell Gallery October Exhibit
2025-10-01 - 2025-10-30 | Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, Newfane, VT, 05345, United States
Karen Becker moved to Vermont in 1983 and was immediately inspired by its nature and the beauty of forms, color and light she observed in the natural world. “It is a privilege to sit and observe nature and, as a mere mortal, try and capture some of nature’s endless beauty. I enjoy the portability of watercolors and delight in translating what I see.”
Becker’s journey from receiving a BFA in Graphic Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY to Brattleboro Vermont was a natural evolution. It includes employment creating on-air-graphics and photography for Public TV in NYC, being a typographer in advertising on Madison Avenue, working at Rolling Stone Magazine in San Francisco and assisting with decorative murals for Diana Ross in Greenwich, Connecticut. After moving to Vermont she joined the Vermont Arts Council as an Artist-in-Education, working as a muralist in schools in New England. For over 20 years Becker has taught a course in her home and studio called ”No Fear Watercolors”, Her art has been exhibited in galleries in NYC, San Francisco, Boston and throughout New England.

[RESCHEDULED] Medicare Presentation
2025-09-30 13:00 - 14:00
Moore Free Library’s information session with Senior Solutions has been rescheduled to Tuesday, October 7th at 1:00 pm.

Office Hours - State Representative Emily Long
2025-09-20 10:30 - 12:00
State Representative Emily Long will be holding her office hours on Saturday, September 20th from 10:30 to noon. All are welcome.

September Book Group
2025-09-08
The Moore Free Library Book group is meeting on September 8th to discuss The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.
A short blurb about the book from his website:
“Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”
A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.”

Wool Crafters
2025-09-05 10:30 - 12:30

Artist Reception - September Crowell Exhibit
2025-09-03 08:00 - 17:00
September’s exhibit in the Crowell Gallery features artists Lesley Heathcote, Deedee Jones, Carol Corliss, Carroll Durand, Cath Stockbridge, David Brown, Matt Peake, Mathew Beck, and Lee Anne Parker, who will join on Saturday, September 13th to meet from 1-3:00 pm.

Crowell Gallery September Exhibit
2025-09-02 - 2025-09-27
The Crowell Gallery is pleased to kick off the fall with an exhibit from the artists of the SouthEast Regional Hub of the Vermont Pastel Society. The exhibit will run from September 2nd through the 27th. A public reception will be held to meet the artists on Saturday, September 13th from 1-3:00 pm.
September’s exhibit, “Painting with Pastel” features artists Lesley Heathcote, Deedee Jones, Carol Corliss, Carroll Durand, Cath Stockbridge, David Brown, Matt Peake, Matthew Beck, and Lee Anne Parker. These are folks who live and work in the area, may be your neighbors or friends, may be people you know on a professional level.
The Vermont Pastel Society (VPS) is an all-volunteer organization founded in 1999. The purpose of VPS is to build and strengthen connections among pastel artists.

Fall Book Sale Donations
2025-08-26 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-08-23 10:00 - 12:00
The Moore Free Library is accepting book donations for the Fall book sale on Saturday, August 23rd from 10 a.m. to noon, and on Tuesday, August 26th from 4-6 p.m.
We appreciate all the support!

Office Hours - State Representative Emily Long
2025-08-16 10:30 - 12:00
Vermont State representative Emily Long will be holding office hours on Saturday, August 16th from 10:30 a.m. to Noon.

Crowell Gallery Artist's Reception August 2025
2025-08-09 16:00 - 18:00 | Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, Newfane, VT, 05345, United States

Crowell Gallery August Exhibit
2025-08-09 - 2025-08-29 | Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, Newfane, VT, 05345, United States
The Crowell Gallery is pleased to welcome Nancy Calicchio to her fourth exhibit, “The Art of Illusion”

"Color our Whole World" Puppet Workshop
2025-08-08 11:00 - 12:00
A PuppetKabob workshop built around award-wining Italian picture book, “Pezzittino” by Leo Lionni. Kids will craft a unique “pezzettino” — a colorful and abstract chain puppet made of folded strips of paper, connecting to form a series of loops.

End of Summer Reading Program
2025-08-08
August 8th marks the end of our Summer Reading Program.

No August Book Group
2025-08-04
The Moore Free Library Book group will not be meeting for the month of August, but will return on September 8th for the book The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.
A short blurb about the book from his website:
“Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”
A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.”

MFL Summer Book Sale
2025-07-13 09:00 - 14:00 | Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, Newfane, VT, 05345, United States
The Friends of the Moore Free Library is holding their summer book sale.

Crowell Gallery July 2025 Artist Reception
2025-07-12 15:30 - 17:00 | Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, Newfane, VT, 05345, United States
An artist’s reception and a short poetry reading by Chard deNiord.

MFL Book Group – July 2025
2025-07-07 10:30 - 11:30 | Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, Newfane, VT, 05345, United States
The MFL Book Club will be discussing The Perfect Storm By Sebastian Junger VIA ZOOM.
From Junger’s website, a synopsis:
“The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.
The ‘perfect storm’ is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island – Sable Island – and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: Hurricane Grace.
This is the story of that storm, told through the accounts of individual fishing boats caught up in the maelstrom, their families waiting anxiously for news of their return, the rescue services scrambled to save them. It is the story of the old battle between the fisherman and the sea, between man and Nature, that awesome and capricious power which can transform the surface of the Atlantic into an impossible tumult of water walls and gaping voids, with the capacity to break an oil tanker in two.”
For more information, contact Deb Barry: debriverside@gmail.com

Crowell Gallery July 2025
2025-07-01 13:00 - 2025-07-29 17:00 | Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, Newfane, VT, 05345, United States
Visit Liz Hawkes-deNiord’s exhibit of large abstract paintings this month in the Crowell Gallery.
