Sinclairville Free Library

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-07-30 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 meets virtually. Contact Beth Hadley at director@sinclairvillelibrary.org for meeting information.
You can also register using our Event or Program Registration form.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-08-01 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-08-15 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-08-22 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.

Mobile Summer Reading
2025-08-01 09:30 - 10:30 | Sinclairville Park
Miss Jessica and Chet will be visiting our friends at Sinclairville Summer Recreation on Fridays (July 11 – Aug 1st) for some library adventures filled with fun and learning!!!

Sinclairville Samplers
2025-08-01 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-08-08 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-08-15 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-08-22 10:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

Homestead Library Services
2025-08-01 14:30 - 15:00, 2025-08-15 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
2025-08-01 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.

Flower Pounding with Brenda Nickerson
2025-08-04 17:00 - 18:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
FLOWER POUNDING with Brenda Nickerson
Flower pounding, or Tatakizome, is an ancient Japanese technique of hammering plants to create patterns on fabric. It is a very simple technique that renders gorgeous results. All you need is fresh flowers, a hammer and either paper, canvas or fabric to transfer the flower “dye”.
Learn the basics of flower pounding: which flowers and/or leaves work well and how hard to pound to get the desired results.
Cost is $10 per person. Seating is limited.
Registration Required (add payment method to comment section)
Pay at the library’s front desk or using our PayPal (select Donate, enter amount in Other, select Share My Name/Email to match to registration)
Part of program cost is funded by the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System’s Mini Summer Reading Grant 2025.

Baby Talk
2025-08-06 11:30 - 12:00, 2025-08-13 11:30 - 12:00, 2025-08-27 11:30 - 12:00 | 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
Please note TIME CHANGE for Summer Months (July & August)
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities detailed on our monthly Facebook event and on our main website page.

Story Hour
2025-08-06 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-08-13 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-08-27 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
2025-08-06 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-08-13 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-08-20 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-08-27 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.

Art in Motion with Erin Gray
2025-08-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Join us for a reading of Jackson Pollock Splashed Paint and Wasn’t Sorry by Fausto Gilberti and enjoy three interactive painting stations. We will experiment with pendulum painting, blowing crazy hair pictures with straws and rolling marble designs.
Each participant may create an art piece at each station.
All ages.
Registration Required.
Program provided using funding from the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System’s Mini Summer Reading Grant 2025.
Participants are asked to leave their art projects for our Community Art Show displaying all projects created throughout the summer. Projects will be labeled with artists first initial, last name and age. Select projects may be laminated to help preserve the piece. Projects will be on display through the 25th Building Anniversary that will be celebrated as part of the 26th Annual History Fair on Saturday, September 16th.

Walk-In Digital Assistance
2025-08-14 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

Book Club @ The Homestead
2025-08-15 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.

For the Birds with Erin Gray
2025-08-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
In this artistic adventure, we will read For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by Peggy Thomas. Roger Tory Peterson was an American naturalist, conservationist, citizen scientist ornithologist, artist and illustrator, educator, and a founder of the 20th-century environmental movement, where he was an inspiration for many. Peterson, known for his sketches and paintings of birds and nature was born in Jamestown in 1908. The Roger Tory Peterson Institute (RTPI) is located in Jamestown and is part of the library system’s Day Adventure Pass program.
Each participant can create a parrot using their handprints.
All ages.
Registration Required.
Program provided using funding from the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System’s Mini Summer Reading Grant 2025.
Participants are asked to leave their art projects for our Community Art Show displaying all projects created throughout the summer. Projects will be labeled with artists first initial, last name and age. Select projects may be laminated to help preserve the piece.
Projects will be on display through the 25th Building Anniversary that will be celebrated as part of the 26th Annual History Fair on Saturday, September 16th.

Books Unlimited Book Club
2025-08-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Switchboard Soldiers by Jennifer Chiaverini
From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I—the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory.
“An eye-opening and detailed novel about remarkable female soldiers. . . Chiaverini weaves the intersecting threads of these brave women’s lives together, highlighting their deep sense of pride and duty.”—Kirkus Reviews
In June 1917, General John Pershing arrived in France to establish American forces in Europe. He immediately found himself unable to communicate with troops in the field. Pershing needed telephone operators who could swiftly and accurately connect multiple calls, speak fluent French and English, remain steady under fire, and be utterly discreet, since the calls often conveyed classified information.
At the time, nearly all well-trained American telephone operators were women—but women were not permitted to enlist, or even to vote in most states. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army Signal Corps promptly began recruiting them.
More than 7,600 women responded, including Grace Banker of New Jersey, a switchboard instructor with AT&T and an alumna of Barnard College; Marie Miossec, a Frenchwoman and aspiring opera singer; and Valerie DeSmedt, a twenty-year-old Pacific Telephone operator from Los Angeles, determined to strike a blow for her native Belgium.
They were among the first women sworn into the U.S. Army under the Articles of War. The male soldiers they had replaced had needed one minute to connect each call. The switchboard soldiers could do it in ten seconds.
Deployed throughout France, including near the front lines, the operators endured hardships and risked death or injury from gunfire, bombardments, and the Spanish Flu. Not all of them would survive.
The women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps served with honor and played an essential role in achieving the Allied victory. Their story has never been the focus of a novel…until now.

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

Art of Succulents with Miss Jessica
2025-08-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Learn how to care for and propagate succulents. Succulents are a group of plants that store water in their leaves. The leaves tend to be thick and fleshy. Succulents tend to thrive in dry climates and don’t like a lot of humidity.
Each participant can create a small decorative hanging planter with real succulents propagated by Miss Jessica from her very own collection. Different succulents to select from along with decorative items.
All ages.
Registration Required.
Program provided using funding from the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System’s Mini Summer Reading Grant 2025.
These projects will be taken home the day of the event.

Library Board Meeting
2025-08-27 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.
