Junior Paleontologist Training Night #3
2026-08-03 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Junior Paleontologist Training Stations:Hands-On Dig: Excavation
Design a Dino Egg: Creative Interpretation
Pasta Dino: Evidence-Based Creativity
Dino Eggs & Babies: Observation

ALL ACTIVITIES START AT 5 PM
This is a drop in event – Each craft/activity should take around 15+ minutes.

Light refreshments – Dinosaur Krispies

Activities are designed for all ages. Parent/Caregiver must stay with child(ren). Event is free and open to all.

Bronto‑Be‑Registration

This program is made possible through the CCLS Summer Reading 2026 Mini Grant, provided by the Southern Chautauqua Community Foundation

All Trained Junior Paleontologist will receive a Hat, Vest & Supply Bag during our final training night on August 31st.

More information on Summer Reading and becoming a sponsor.

*Junior Paleontologist Training Nights: June 1st, July 6th, August 3rd & August 31st
*One observation journal per child for all four (4) Training Nights
*Patrons may register at anytime during our program dates (June 1st – August 31st), participation in our reading challenge not required to attend programs/events

Baby Talk
2026-08-05 11:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Each month focuses on one theme related to baby development. Sing songs, fun movements, learn baby sign language and spend time with other babies.
For ages birth to 2 years old.
Songs, Bounces, Stories, Read-Alongs and Play!!!
Registration is Required Please note that once your child is registered for our weekly Wednesday programs, they will have a spot until 1 month of no attendance.
CURRENTLY ONLY ONE SPOT AVAILABLE

PLEASE NOTE THE PROGRAM TIME CHANGE FOR JULY & AUGUST
11:30 to 12:00 pm
Each registered/attending family will take home their Dinosaur, Dinosaur: I Can Learn book box at the end of summer.
Dinosaur, Dinosaur: I Can Learn book box provided by the CCLS Summer Reading 2026 Mini Grant, provided by the Southern Chautauqua Community Foundation.

Story Hour
2026-08-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-12 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-08-26 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.
Participate in stories, songs and learning. Craft or take away activity for extended learning.
Registration is Required. Space is Limited. Please note that once your child is registered for our weekly Wednesday programs, they will have a spot until 1 month of no attendance.
For ages 2 (toddler) to Preschool.

Each registered/attending child will take home a Junior Paleontologist dress up kit: Hat, Vest & Supply Bag at the end of summer.

This program is made possible through the CCLS Summer Reading 2026 Mini Grant, provided by the Southern Chautauqua Community Foundation

Virtual Write Spirit
2026-08-05 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-08-12 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-08-19 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-08-26 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Christian writers meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to aspiring and accomplished writers.
Group meets virtually. Meeting link will be provided after registration.
Registration is Open.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2026-08-07 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-08-14 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-08-21 09:00 - 10:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Writers in all genres meet to encourage, inspire and provided reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.
Hybrid meetings April thru November. Meets Virtually December thru March.
This group is currently closed to new members. Please consider joining our Write Spirit group.

Mobile Summer Reading
2026-08-07 09:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
MOBILE SUMMER READINGFridays July 10th thru August 7th
Village of Sinclairville & Town of Charlotte Summer Recreation @ 9:30
Town of Gerry Summer Recreation @ 11:00
Travel back in time with Miss Jessica’s Mobile Summer Reading Program! Each week of the DINOLYMPICS brings new dinosaur tales and minute‑to‑win‑it challenges.
DINOLYMPICS SCHEDULE
Ready, set, RAWR! The DINOLYMPICS begin soon.
This program is made possible through the CCLS Summer Reading 2026 Mini Grant, provided by the Southern Chautauqua Community Foundation

Sinclairville Samplers
2026-08-07 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-08-14 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-08-21 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-08-28 10:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering and fun with friends.

Life Story Writing @ The Homestead
2026-08-07 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.
Open to the public.

Unearth Your Talent: Flower Pounding & Embroidery with Brenda Nickerson
2026-08-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Unearth Your Talent
Flower Pounding & Embroidery
with Brenda Nickerson
Join local artist, Brenda Nickerson, as she unearths her talent of flower pounding, embroidery and applique. Flower Pounding is a fun art that uses a hammer to smash fresh flowers and leaves onto fabric. Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric using a needle and thread. You may also incorporate other embellishments like beads. The designs are sewn directly onto the material to add texture, color, and visual appeal. Applique is a decorative needlework technique where smaller pieces of fabric are cut and fused onto a larger background fabric to form a picture.
Framed Completed Project Example
Close-up of Flower Pounding and Embroidery
This is a two-part class: Monday, July 27th & Monday, August 10th from 5 to 7 pm.
For ages 12 & up.
Each class has a fee of $10. Cash, Check, PayPal*
Registration is Required

*Framing of project is not included in the class.
*PayPal Giving Fund (no fees, visit Support Your Library )
This program is made possible through the CCLS Summer Reading 2026 Mini Grant, provided by the Southern Chautauqua Community Foundation

Baby Talk
2026-08-12 11:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Each month focuses on one theme related to baby development. Sing songs, fun movements, learn baby sign language and spend time with other babies.
For ages birth to 2 years old.
Songs, Bounces, Stories, Read-Alongs and Play!!!
Registration is Required Please note that once your child is registered for our weekly Wednesday programs, they will have a spot until 1 month of no attendance
CURRENTLY ONLY ONE SPOT AVAILABLE

PLEASE NOTE THE PROGRAM TIME CHANGE FOR JULY & AUGUST
11:30 to 12:00 pm
Each registered/attending family will take home their Dinosaur, Dinosaur: I Can Learn book box at the end of summer.
Dinosaur, Dinosaur: I Can Learn book box provided by the CCLS Summer Reading 2026 Mini Grant, provided by the Southern Chautauqua Community Foundation.

Fun with Flowers
2026-08-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Calling gardeners and flower lovers of all ages, join us for an afternoon of flower arranging and community building. We will work to create small bouquets that will be taken to the residents at Heritage Village.
Flowers will be provided, but feel free to bring extras from your garden.

Books Unlimited Book Club
2026-08-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Sister’s Choice by Emile Richards
Book #5 in series of 5 titles

“This special book is one of the best women’s contemporary novels you might read this year, and one that you will recommend to all your friends.”— Fresh Fiction
Told with remarkable depth and warmth, this heartfelt story of sisters in transition reminds us that the choices we make are the real legacy we leave behind.
Kendra and Jamie were never storybook sisters. But after a long estrangement, Jamie has offered Kendra and her husband their ultimate dream—a child of their own.
Despite some lingering misgivings about her once-wayward younger sister, Kendra agrees, and Jamie, a promising architect and single mother, becomes a gestational surrogate for Kendra and Isaac. In addition to this amazing gift of life, Jamie designs a house for the couple on Isaac’s ancestral property along the Shenandoah River. She hopes Kendra will finally see the woman she has become.
But when a medical crisis threatens Jamie’s health and her budding relationship with Kendra’s builder, the enigmatic Cash Rosslyn, Jamie learns that the most difficult choice in her life is still ahead, and its cost may be beyond calculation. (from Goodreads)

Copies are available through the library system.
Registration is requested. A copy of the book club selection can be reserved during registration.

Unearth Your Story: Life Story Writing (Hybrid)
2026-08-20 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.
All materials (scrapbooking, etc) provided. For ages 12 and up.
Event is held in person and online. Register to receive online link.

Book Club @ The Homestead
2026-08-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
Summer of ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand

Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Historical Fiction (2019)

Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the ’60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand’s #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel.
Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It’s 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother’s historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Martha’s Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. And thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, while each of them hides a troubling secret.
As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country. In her first historical novel, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again earns her title as queen of the summer novel.

(from Goodreads)

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

Unearth a LEGO Creation
2026-08-22 10:30 - 12:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
UNEARTH A LEGO CREATION
Our LEGO dig site is open for junior makers. Unearth bricks, build something brilliant, and take your creation home as a trophy of your imagination.
BUILD IT , KEEP IT
Children can also earn 25 points for their Summer Reading Challenge by attending this program.*
*Requires registration for our Summer Reading Challenge
**For ages 5 & up. Parent/Caregiver must stay with child.
**Patrons may register at anytime during our program dates (June 1st – August 31st), participation in our reading challenge not required to attend programs/events

Unearth a Story: She Sells Seashells
2026-08-24 17:00 - 18:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
She sells seashells by the seashore,
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.
So if she sells seashells on the seashore,
Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

Did you know that the famous tongue twister is based on a real story?
Come learn about the true story of Mary Anning, the first female paleontologist.
Story, self-guided craft, a tongue twister competition and a seashell to take home.

Registration Requested
Children can also earn 25 points for their Summer Reading Challenge by attending this program.*
*Requires registration for our Summer Reading Challenge

Baby Talk
2026-08-26 11:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Each month focuses on one theme related to baby development. Sing songs, fun movements, learn baby sign language and spend time with other babies
For ages birth to 2 years old.
Songs, Bounces, Stories, Read-Alongs and Play!!!
Registration is Required Please note that once your child is registered for our weekly Wednesday programs, they will have a spot until 1 month of no attendance.
CURRENTLY ONLY ONE SPOT AVAILABLE

PLEASE NOTE THE PROGRAM TIME CHANGE FOR JULY & AUGUST
11:30 to 12:00 pm
Each registered/attending family will take home their Dinosaur, Dinosaur: I Can Learn book box at the end of summer.
Dinosaur, Dinosaur: I Can Learn book box provided by the CCLS Summer Reading 2026 Mini Grant, provided by the Southern Chautauqua Community Foundation.

Library Board Meeting
2026-08-26 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Board Meetings are open to the public.

Meetings are held at the library.

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

The Last Stomp & Paleontologist Training Final Night
2026-08-31 17:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
THE LAST STOMP & PALEONTOLOGIST TRAINING FINAL NIGHT
TURN IN READING LOG FOR YOUR REWARD
Children (to age 11) Select a Croc Charm for every 360 minutes read or Trade for a Digby Drawing Entry
Digby the Dinosaur Stuffie
Teens & Adults (age 12 & up) Select a Cute Book Themed Bag Sponsored by the Ross Grange
12 Different Book Themed Designs

Junior Paleontologist Training Stations:
Hands-On Dig: Excavation
Dino Poop Detective: Dietary Analysis
Volcano Eruption: Observation
Ash Layer Charm: Artifact Creation

ALL ACTIVITIES START AT 5 PM
This is a drop in event – Each craft/activity should take around 15+ minutes.

Light refreshments – Dino Poop Detective

Activities are designed for all ages. Parent/Caregiver must stay with child(ren). Event is free and open to all.

Bronto‑Be‑Registration

Junior Paleontologist Training Program is made possible through the CCLS Summer Reading 2026 Mini Grant, provided by the Southern Chautauqua Community Foundation

All Trained Junior Paleontologist will receive a Hat, Vest & Supply Bag.

DIGBY DRAWING AT 6:45 PM

More information on Summer Reading and becoming a sponsor.

*One observation journal per child for all four (4) Training Nights
*Patrons may register at anytime during our program dates (June 1st – August 31st), participation in our reading challenge not required to attend programs/events

Baby Talk
2026-09-02 10:30 - 11:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Each month focuses on one theme related to baby development. Sing songs, fun movements, learn baby sign language and spend time with other babies
For ages birth to 2 years old.
Songs, Bounces, Stories, Read-Alongs and Play!!!
Registration is Required

Please note that once your child is registered for our weekly Wednesday programs, they will have a spot until 1 month of no attendance.
