Sinclairville Free Library

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-04-02 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-09 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-16 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-23 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | 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 director@sinclairvillelibrary.org for meeting information.
You can also register using our Event or Program Registration form.

Staff & Volunteer Meeting
2025-04-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Life Story Writing
2025-04-03 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.

Family Night: A Night with the Martz-Kohl Observatory
2025-04-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
A Night with the Martz-Kohl Observatory
Thursday, April 3rd 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Explore the sky with our NEW Telescope.
Create a planisphere & check out our space activities.
At 7 pm, we will head outside to observe the moon & planet Jupiter.
Free and open to the public.
The Observatory has placed telescopes in local public libraries, allowing general access to portable telescopes that can be put into circulation just like a book! The goals of the program are to help foster scientific literacy, to stimulate interest in astronomy, to enable people who have never looked through a telescope the chance to experience the excitement that comes from discovery, and to provide a valuable asset for libraries.
Marshal Martz Memorial Astronomical Association, Inc. donated this telescope to our library.
This event will be rescheduled is rain is expected. Program is for school aged children to adults.
Telescope can be borrowed using a current library card. Telescope Agreement Must Be Completed Prior to Checkout.
Thank You to the Martz-Kohl Observatory for enriching our community with such a magnificent gift!

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-04-04 09:00 - 10:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Writers in all genres meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.

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

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

Sinclairville Samplers
2025-04-04 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-04-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

Homestead Library Services
2025-04-04 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.

Life Story Writing @ The Homestead
2025-04-04 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.

Walk-In Digital Assistance & Library Information
2025-04-07 11:30 - 12:30 | Sinclairville Fire Hall, 30 Main Street, Sinclairville, NY, 14782, United States
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

Poetry Workshop with John Brantingham
2025-04-07 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-04-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-04-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Free Class for National Poetry Month

Join John Brantingham, professor emeritus of creative writing for a free, month-long poetry class in the month of April. April is National Poetry Month. This class will be both in-person at the Sinclairville Free Library and online through video lectures and Zoom-based office hours.

Each day you will be given a new prompt. He will help you write poetry and publish it in magazines if you like. His students have published in The New Yorker, McSweeneys, and The Paris Review among other places. The class is completely free to you and you can join in as little or as much as you like.

There will be an opportunity to participate in a poetry reading as the Sinclairville Free Library on Monday, April 28th at 6:00 pm.

We will meet on Mondays at the library from 4-6 pm for feedback and coaching, but you do not need to attend in order to join the class.

To register, email johnmbrantingham@gmail.com. In the subject line write, “Poetry Class”.

Baby Talk
2025-04-09 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-04-16 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-04-23 10:30 - 11:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
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 is OPEN
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities detailed on our monthly Facebook event and on our main website page.

Story Hour
2025-04-09 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-16 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
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.

Walk-In Digital Assistance
2025-04-10 16:00 - 18:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-04-11 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-04-25 09:00 - 10:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
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.

Fly Tying
2025-04-14 17:30 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Free fly tying instruction for all kids age 8 to 90.
All tools and materials provided for free.
Learn to tie flies you can use to catch the big fish.
Register here or call 716.962.5885

Fly Tying Vise Kits with all needed materials are also available to check out on a valid library card and a signed Checkout Agreement.

Closed in Observance of Good Friday and Easter Holiday
2025-04-18 - 2025-04-19 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Makerspace & LEGO STEM
2025-04-21 14:00 - 17:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
MAKERSPACE & LEGO STEM
No School…No Problem…
Our Makerspace cabinet has building & creating activities for school aged children.
LEGO STEM = “Build It, Keep It”
No registration required.

Local Author Visit: Walt Pickut
2025-04-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Walt Pickut, author of The First Counterspy, a book with local connections.
This is a “pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy and counterspy and an American family unwittingly caught in their web.”
Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were Larry Haas, a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation, and Leona Franey, head librarian at Bell’s technical library. The FBI pitted them against a Soviet agent, Andrei Ivanovich Schevchenko, operating legally as one of the highest Soviet officials in the United States during WWII, and illegally as the secret head of a wide-ranging spy network hidden within the American aviation industry.
The First Counterspy lays out this exciting story and, later, the consequences of Schevchenko’s deadly threat of vengeance against Haas, the counterspy who betrayed him. The threat was uttered in a mere fourteen seconds but generated lethal consequences that long outlived Schevchenko, tormented Larry Haas, killed his wife, and subjected his daughter, Kay (the co-author of this book), to decades of nearly fatal harassment.
And thereby hangs a tale of spy vs. spy intrigue against the backdrop of the home front during World War II.

Books Unlimited Book Club
2025-04-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
The Women by Kristin Hannah
From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah’s The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.
But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.
The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.

Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required.
