Sinclairville Free Library

Write Circle (Virtual)
2025-02-21 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-02-28 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-03-07 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-03-14 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | VIRTUAL EVENT
Writers in all genres meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.

Meets Virtually Dec thru March. Hybrid meetings April thru November.

This group is currently closed to new members. Please consider joining our Write Spirit group.

Sinclairville Samplers
2025-02-21 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-02-28 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-03-07 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-03-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

Homestead Library Services
2025-02-21 14:30 - 15:00, 2025-03-07 14:30 - 15:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
Help with library cards, borrowing/requesting materials, returning materials. Please bring passwords for digital assistance. Event is at the Bergquist Library at The Homestead in Gerry.
Open to the public.

Book Club @ The Homestead
2025-02-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
The First Ladies by Marie Benedict
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian .
The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist and an educator, and as her reputation grows she becomes a celebrity, revered by titans of business and recognized by U.S. Presidents. Eleanor Roosevelt herself is awestruck and eager to make her acquaintance. Initially drawn together because of their shared belief in women’s rights and the power of education, Mary and Eleanor become fast friends confiding their secrets, hopes and dreams—and holding each other’s hands through tragedy and triumph.
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected president, the two women begin to collaborate more closely, particularly as Eleanor moves toward her own agenda separate from FDR, a consequence of the devastating discovery of her husband’s secret love affair. Eleanor becomes a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness, particularly on civil rights. And when she receives threats because of her strong ties to Mary, it only fuels the women’s desire to fight together for justice and equality.
This is the story of two different, yet equally formidable, passionate, and committed women, and the way in which their singular friendship helped form the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.
Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required. Open to the public.

Baby Talk
2025-02-26 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-05 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-12 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-19 10:30 - 11:00
Babies enjoy some time playing with their peers in our Children’s Room. Babies will gain the building blocks to early literacy through talking, singing, reading and playing.

For ages birth to 2 years old.
Songs, Bounces, Stories, Read-Alongs and Play!!!

Registration
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities detailed on our monthly Facebook event and on our main website page.

Story Hour
2025-02-26 13:00 - 14:00
Children will gain the building blocks to early literacy through talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing.

For ages 2 years old to preschool.

Participate in stories, songs & fingerplays. Take away craft or activity for extended learning.

Registration is required.
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities detailed on our monthly Facebook event and on our main website page.

Library Board Meeting
2025-02-26 18:00 - 19:00
Board Meetings are open to the public.

Meetings are held at the library.

Please see Board of Trustees for more information on our board.

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-02-26 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-03-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-03-12 19:00 - 20:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Christian writers meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.

This group is meeting virtually. Contact Beth Hadley at (716) 785-9204 or director@sinclairvillelibrary.org for meeting information.

You can also register using our Event or Program Registration form.

VITA Tax Preparation Services
2025-03-03 14:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-07 10:00 - 14:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
The Sinclairville Free Library is a site for the VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) Preparation Services. This free tax preparation service requires that you make an appointment by calling 2-1-1. Information detailing the income guidelines to qualify for this service is also available by calling 2-1-1.
Complete needed forms. Returns to be prepared and quality reviewed off site. Taxpayers will pick up their completed returns the following week (3/10 or 3/14).

Story Hour
2025-03-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-12 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Walk-In Digital Assistance
2025-03-06 16:00 - 18:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Walk-In Digital Assistance:
Help with set-up/use of Libby (ebooks and audiobooks). Learn to use our online Card Catalog, Ancestry Library Edition & NOVELny. Please bring your login and device passwords. No appointment required.
Program provided using funding from the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System Adult Literacy Mini Grant: Digital Skills 2024-25

Life Story Writing
2025-03-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Join us to explore life themes together and to create a written life story for personal reflection or to share with friends and family members.

Event is held in person and online. Register to receive online link.

Life Story Writing @ The Homestead
2025-03-07 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
Join us to explore life themes together and to create a written life story for personal reflection or to share with friends and family members.

Event is at the Bergquist Library at The Homestead in Gerry. Open to the public.

CANCELLED Family Night: STEAM Challenges
2025-03-17 17:00 - 18:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
CANCELLED
FAMILY NIGHT
at the Sinclairville Free Library
STEAM Challenges
Can you build the tallest jelly bean tower?
Can you get a hole-in-one on your own Putt-Putt hole?
Parent/caregiver must stay with child(ren). For ages 6 and up. Children’s room is open for free play.
All materials provided. Registration Required.

Books Unlimited Book Club
2025-03-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In this, one of the most famous of Doyle’s mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage ghostly hound comes frighteningly to life. The gray towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor will haunt the reader as Holmes and Watson seek to unravel the many secrets of the misty English bogs.
Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required.
