Baby Talk
2025-10-29 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-11-05 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-11-12 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | 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
2025-10-29 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-11-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-11-12 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.

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
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.

Learn to Fly Fish
2025-10-30 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.

Virtual Book Club
2025-10-30 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate?

Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed.
Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.
How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight (the bride and groom, the jittery, possibly famous woman, the giant Hemsworth-esque guy who looks like an off-duty superhero, the frazzled, gorgeous flight attendant) but none would become as famous as “The Death Lady.”
Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn’t exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn’t drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable.
A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.
If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?
Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. A modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery, Moriarty asks profound questions in her newest I-can’t-wait-to-find-out-what-happens novel.

Register using the Event & Program Registration.
You can request a copy be reserved during registration. Virtual link will be provided after registration.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-10-31 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-11-07 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-11-14 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.

Sinclairville Samplers
2025-10-31 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-11-07 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-11-14 10:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

CLSC Book Club
2025-11-01 09:00 - 10:00 | 3 Lakes Cafe, 11 S Main Street, Cassadaga, United States
CLSC BOOK CLUB
The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle is the oldest book club in the US.
This book club will meet in person at 3 Lakes Cafe (located on Main Street in Cassadaga) to discuss books from the CLSC book list.

October’s Book Selection: The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman

Hosted by Erin Gray in partnership with the Sinclairville Free Library. Copies are available for checkout through the library’s hold process.
For more information on CLSC.

Family Night: Pine Cone Bird Feeder
2025-11-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Family Night
Stories, crafts and fun geared towards families.
Pine Cone Bird Feeder
Homemade bird feeder created by coating an open pine cone with peanut butter and then rolling it in birdseed, which sticks to the peanut butter to provide food for birds.
All materials provided. Peanut Butter will be used.
Ages 3 & up. Parent/Caregiver must stay with child. Drop-in program.
Registration Required.

Valley Historical Society Monthly Meeting
2025-11-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Click for more information on the Valley Historical Society.

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-11-05 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-11-12 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT

Life Story Writing (Hybrid)
2025-11-06 18:00 - 19:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
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.

Homestead Library Services
2025-11-07 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.

Life Story Writing @ The Homestead
2025-11-07 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.

Volunteers & Veterans Soup Dinner
2025-11-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Park Church, 49 Sinclair Drive, Sinclairville, NY
Different types of soups prepared by our Library Board provided in appreciation of our wonderful volunteers and our amazing community veterans.

Poetry Class & Workshop with John Brantingham
2025-11-13 16:00 - 18:00 | 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.

Poetry reading following the class: Poetry Reading with Poets, T Anders Carson and Kendall Johnson

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

Poetry Reading with Poets, T. Anders Carson & Kendall Johnson
2025-11-13 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Share your poetry with other poets and writers. Open to the community.
Featured Poets: T Anders Carson & Kendall Johnson
T. Anders Carson has had poems published in 37 countries including translations into French, Greek, Japanese and Swedish. Carson has written 4 books of poetry and is a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fellow. Carson is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and has read his work from Los Angeles to London including stops in Cairo, Paris, Stockholm and Swansea. Carson currently resides on the outskirts of a rural village in Ontario, Canada.

Kendall Johnson, former firefighter with military experience, served as traumatic stress consultant specializing in Incident Command System Class I & II commands. Dr. Johnson has lectured in fire houses, hospitals, emergency service institutes, conferences, government training facilities, universities, here and abroad. Dr. Johnson was Adjunct Faculty member at the California State Training Institute (Governor’s Office of Emergency Services), served on the Faculty of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, and was Associate Professor in the Master’s Degree program in Emergency Services Management at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Johnson has authored a number of professional papers, seven books in the treatment of traumatic stress, school crisis management, and recovery. Recently Dr. Johnson retired from teaching to pursue painting, photography, and writing. In that capacity he has written five literary books of artwork and poetry, and one in art history.

Presented by author/educator, John Brantingham.
Featured poets will be joining via Zoom.

Library Advocacy with NYS Senator, George Borello
2025-11-14 13:00 - 15:00 | Anderson-Lee Library, 43 Main Street, Silver Creek, NY

Nighttime Story Hour
2025-11-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
“Way Up High in the Apple Tree”
Apple Painted Turkey
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
2025-11-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.
Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.
Clever, layered, and subversive, Ariel Lawhon’s newest offering introduces an unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less than justice at a time when women were considered best seen and not heard. The Frozen River is a thrilling, tense, and tender story about a remarkable woman who left an unparalleled legacy yet remains nearly forgotten to this day.
Inspired by the life of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into history.

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