Poetry Reading
2025-04-28 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
To help celebrate National Poetry Month join us for our Poetry Reading. Share your poems or a Poem from Your Pocket.
Participation in Poetry Workshop with John Brantingham is not required.

Virtual Adult Book Club
2025-04-28 20:30 - 21:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Light and Air by Mindy Nichols Wendell
It’s 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness. But what happens when you actually have it?
When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned—and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from family, far from the world.
Tucked away in the woods of upstate New York, the hospital is a closed and quiet place. But it is not, Halle learns, a prison. Free of her worried and difficult father for the first time in her life, she slowly discovers joy, family, and the healing power of honey on the children’s ward, where the girls on the floor become her confidantes and sisters. But when Mama suffers a lung hemorrhage, their entire future—and recovery—is thrown into question….
Light and Air deals tenderly and insightfully with isolation, quarantine, found family, and illness. Set in the fully realized world of a 1930s hospital, it offers a tender glimpse into a historical epidemic that has become more relatable than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As Halle tries to warm her father’s coldness and learns to trust the girls and women of the hospital, and as she and her mother battle a disease that once paralyzed the country, a profound message of strength, hope, and healing emerges.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
AUTHOR BIO:
Mindy Nichols Wendell writes middle grade historical fiction. Before beginning her writing career, Mindy taught writing and literature at SUNY Fredonia for more than thirty years. In 2019, Mindy received the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. She lives in western New York with her husband, Steve, a retired elementary school teacher. Light and Air is Mindy’s debut novel. Her second novel, California or Dust, will be out in the spring of 2026.
***AUTHOR VISIT on MONDAY, MAY 19th @ 6:00 pm***

Social Media handles:
Instagram: @mnwendell
Facebook: Mindy Nichols Wendell
Bluesky: @mnwendell.bsky.social

Website:
MindyNicholsWendell.com

Publisher’s link
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738001/light-and-air-by-mindy-nichols-wendell/

Copies of book club title are available thru the library system.
Register using the Event & Program Registration.
You can request a copy be reserved during registration. Virtual link will be provided after registration.

Baby Talk
2025-04-30 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-07 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-14 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-05-21 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
2025-04-30 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-07 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-14 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-21 10:30 - 11:00 | 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.

Library Board Meeting
2025-04-30 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
2025-04-30 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Christian writers meet to encourage, inspire and provide reader feedback to both aspiring and accomplished writers.

This group meets virtually. Contact Beth Hadley at director@sinclairvillelibrary.org for meeting information.
You can also register using our Event or Program Registration form.

Walk-In Digital Assistance
2025-05-01 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
2025-05-01 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.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-05-02 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-09 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-16 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
2025-05-02 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-09 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-16 10:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

Homestead Library Services
2025-05-02 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
2025-05-02 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.

Fly Tying
2025-05-05 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.

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-05-07 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-14 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-21 19:30 - 20:30 | 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.

Walk-In Digital Assistance & Library Information
2025-05-12 11:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Fire Hall, 30 Main Street, Sinclairville, NY, 14782, United States

FlyTying
2025-05-12 17:30 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Local Author Visit: Mindy Nichols Wendell
2025-05-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Light and Air by Mindy Nichols Wendell
It’s 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness. But what happens when you actually have it?
Mindy Nichols Wendell writes middle grade historical fiction. Before beginning her writing career, Mindy taught writing and literature at SUNY Fredonia for more than thirty years. She lives in western New York with her husband. Light and Air is Mindy’s debut novel.
Light and Air published by Holiday House (2024) and is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.
mindynicholswendell.com

Books Unlimited Book Club
2025-05-19 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Everyone Here is Lying by Shari Lapena
Welcome to Stanhope – a safe neighbourhood. A place for families.
William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he’s been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter Avery unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper.
Hours later, Avery’s family declare her missing.
Suddenly Stanhope doesn’t feel so safe. And William isn’t the only one on his street who’s hiding a lie. As witnesses come forward with information that may or may not be true, Avery’s neighbours become increasingly unhinged.
Who took Avery Wooler?
Nothing will prepare you for the truth.

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