The Winhall Memorial Library is a well stocked, vibrant library housed in a beautiful old schoolhouse. Stop by to see our collection of books. We are always up to date with the latest bestsellers and new books. The library has audiobook/DVD as well and offers free subscriptions for streaming eBooks, audiobooks and movies through Hoopla.
Hours
Saturdays, 9AM-12PM
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10AM-5PM
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Events:
Meet the Candidates October 8th from 5-7pm: Meet the candidates for Winhall’s Vermont State Representative. Have a question for them? Fill out the quick form below.
Art Display: Be sure to stop in and enjoy the artwork of Kathy Needell. She creates enchanting landscapes in oil. Many from right down the road from her home in Londonderry. The pieces are nicely framed and available for sale with a portion of the proceeds going to the library.
StoryWalk – Opening Soon
Our StoryWalk is in transition from summer baseball with Pete the Cat to Halloween witches and friends on a broom!
Little Free Library – 24/7
The Little Free Library is officially open and stocked with adult books for the taking anytime. It is located in front of the back parking area. Perfect for if you are on your way for a walk on Kendall Farm Road. Special thanks to the Stratton Community Foundation’s grant that purchased the library kit and the volunteers that painted and assembled it. The Little Library is for people to take books. This helps the Library make room for new books. The Little Library is NOT for dropping off books whether returns or donations. Please do that inside the Library. If you are looking for children’s books, stop at the Mountain School at Winhall where they have a Little Free Library too!
See the events calendar below for more information and links.
October Book Discussion
Thursday, October 29th from 5-6pm. We will read Whistler by Ann Patchett, a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.
Story Synopsis:
When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fateful event that changed the direction of both their lives. Meeting again, time falls away; while their relationship was brief, it had a profound impact on them both, and now that they are reunited, they have no intention of ever being separated again.
About the author:
Ann Patchett was born in 1963 in Los Angeles, to a Los Angeles police captain and a nurse/novelist. She is the younger of two daughters. Her parents divorced when she was young. Her mother remarried and when she was six years old the family moved to Nashville. She attended St. Bernard Academy, a private Catholic school for girls in Nashville. After graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers. After college, she attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was roommates with memoirist and poet Lucy Grealyand and their life-long friendship was the subject of her 2004 memoir Truth & Beauty. She married in her early twenties, but the marriage lasted only about a year.
For nine years, she worked at Seventeen magazine, where she wrote primarily non-fiction. The magazine only published one of every five articles she wrote. She won a fellowship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA in her late twenties; at which time she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, published in 1992. In 2001, she achieved a breakthrough with her fourth novel Bel Canto, winning the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010, she co-founded the bookstore Parnassus Books with Karen Hayes, in Nashville. She lives in Nashville with her husband, Karl VanDevender.
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