Sinclairville Free Library

Poetry Class & Workshop with John Brantingham
2025-10-09 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Poetry Class & Workshop
Join John Brantingham, professor emeritus of creative writing for a free poetry class and workshop.
Brantingham will help you write poetry and publish it in magazines if you like. 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.

Poetry reading following the class: Poetry Reading with Poet, Sarah Freligh

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

Learn to Fly Fish
2025-10-09 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-10-16 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-10-23 17:30 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Come Tie Your Own Flies
Free fly tying instruction for all ages.
All tools and materials provided for free.
Learn to tie flies you can use to catch the big fish.
Register: Click 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.

Poetry Reading with Poet, Sarah Freligh
2025-10-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Share your poetry with other poets and writers. Open to the community.
Poet, Sarah Freligh, will share about her work and writing journey.
Presented by author/educator, John Brantingham.

Write Circle (Virtual)
2025-10-10 09:00 - 10:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
THIS MEETING (October 10th) IS COMPLETELY ONLINE.
Writers in all genres meet to encourage, inspire and provided 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.

BOOK SALE!!!
2025-10-10 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-11 10:00 - 13:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
BOOK SALE!!!
Thursday, October 9th 2 to 7 pm
Friday, October 10 am to 4 pm
Saturday, October 10 am to 1 pm ($5 Bag Sale)
Small Pre-Sale starting, Saturday, September 27th until BIG Sale (during normal hours)
Hardcover & Large Paperbacks $1.00 ea or 3 for $2.00
Paperbacks $0.50 ea or 3 for $1.00
DVDs $1.00 ea DVD Series (rubberbanded) $3.00 ea
All proceeds benefit the library. Hosted by our Ways & Means Committee.
All pricing is at the discretion of the staff/volunteers. No book donations are being taken at this time. Cash Only.

Sinclairville Samplers
2025-10-10 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-10-17 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-10-24 10:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

Baby Talk
2025-10-15 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-10-22 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-10-29 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
2025-10-15 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-10-22 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-10-29 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.
For ages 2 (toddler) to Preschool.
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities available on our Facebook event and the main website page.

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-10-15 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-22 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)
2025-10-17 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-10-24 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.
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.

Homestead Library Services
2025-10-17 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
2025-10-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children – and learned to accept them as they are. Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age. And when she discovers that her most treasured possession, her father’s painting, The Shell Seekers, is now worth a small fortune, it is Penelope who must make the decisions that will determine whether her family can continue to survive as a family, or be split apart.
Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required. Open to the public.

Anecdotes & Ancestors with Tom Jordan
2025-10-18 10:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Anecdotes & Ancestors with Tom Jordan
A discussion of a few colorful leaves from the Jordan family tree.
Former Sinclairville resident Dr. Tom Jordan will present a few anecdotes about some of the characters in his family tree as told to him by his dearly departed relatives. Penhollows, Harpers, Torreys, Edsons, and McClarans may be interested in attending.
Afterwards at Evergreen Cemetery view a few of the graves of those discussed and assist with collecting ground penetrating radar data across areas of interest.
Tom Jordan, PhD, PG Researcher & Part-Time Faculty GIS Map Tech Specialist Youngstown State University

Nighttime Story Hour
2025-10-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
“Jory John & Friends”
Experience the characters of Jory John, bestselling author of children’s books, known for the Food Group series (The Bad Seed, The Good Egg), the Critter Gang series (Penguin Problems).
Miss Jessica will be introducing her newest Jory John stuffies.
Craft your own Smart Cookie (paper craft).

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 Requested. Space is Limited.
For ages birth and up. Parent/Caregiver must stay with child(ren).
Light snacks will be available.

Books Unlimited Book Club
2025-10-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See
An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China.
According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness—is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations—looking, listening, touching, and asking—something a man can never do with a female patient.
From a young age, Yunxian learns about women’s illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship and a mutual purpose—despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it—and they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other’s joys and struggles. No mud, no lotus , they tell from adversity beauty can bloom.
But when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling and from helping the women and girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife—embroider bound-foot slippers, recite poetry, give birth to sons, and stay forever within the walls of the family compound, the Garden of Fragrant Delights.
How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later? How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts? A captivating story of women helping each other, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a triumphant reimagining of the life of one person who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today.

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

Staff & Volunteer Meeting
2025-10-23 16:00 - 17:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Poetry Class & Workshop with John Brantingham
2025-10-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Poetry Class & Workshop
Join John Brantingham, professor emeritus of creative writing for a free poetry class and workshop.
Brantingham will help you write poetry and publish it in magazines if you like. 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.

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

Library Board Meeting
2025-10-29 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.

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-10-29 19:30 - 20:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
