Sinclairville Free Library

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

Sinclairville Samplers
2025-05-09 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-05-02 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-04-25 10:30 - 12:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-05-09 09:00 - 10:00, 2025-05-02 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.

Virtual Write Spirit
2025-05-07 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-23 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.

Story Hour
2025-05-07 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-30 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-23 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.
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.

Baby Talk
2025-05-07 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-04-30 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-04-23 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.

Fly Tying
2025-05-05 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-04-28 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.

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.

Homestead Library Services
2025-05-02 14:30 - 15:00, 2025-04-25 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
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.

Walk-In Digital Assistance
2025-05-01 16:00 - 18:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

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.

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 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.

Poetry Reading
2025-04-28 18:00 - 19:00 | 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.

Poetry Workshop with John Brantingham
2025-04-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Free Class for National Poetry Month

Join John Brantingham, professor emeritus of creative writing for a free, month-long poetry class in the month of April. April is National Poetry Month. This class will be both in-person at the Sinclairville Free Library and online through video lectures and Zoom-based office hours.

Each day you will be given a new prompt. He will help you write poetry and publish it in magazines if you like. His 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.

There will be an opportunity to participate in a poetry reading as the Sinclairville Free Library on Monday, April 28th at 6:00 pm.

We will meet on Mondays at the library from 4-6 pm for feedback and coaching, but you do not need to attend in order to join the class.

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

Book Club @ The Homestead
2025-04-25 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide
“What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet…”
When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan.
Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.
Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.
Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required. Open to the public.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2025-04-25 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 Dec thru March. Hybrid meetings April thru November.

This group is currently closed to new members. Please consider joining our Write Spirit group.

Books Unlimited Book Club
2025-04-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
The Women by Kristin Hannah
From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah’s The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.
But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.
The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.

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

Local Author Visit: Walt Pickut
2025-04-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Walt Pickut, author of The First Counterspy, a book with local connections.
This is a “pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy and counterspy and an American family unwittingly caught in their web.”
Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were Larry Haas, a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation, and Leona Franey, head librarian at Bell’s technical library. The FBI pitted them against a Soviet agent, Andrei Ivanovich Schevchenko, operating legally as one of the highest Soviet officials in the United States during WWII, and illegally as the secret head of a wide-ranging spy network hidden within the American aviation industry.
The First Counterspy lays out this exciting story and, later, the consequences of Schevchenko’s deadly threat of vengeance against Haas, the counterspy who betrayed him. The threat was uttered in a mere fourteen seconds but generated lethal consequences that long outlived Schevchenko, tormented Larry Haas, killed his wife, and subjected his daughter, Kay (the co-author of this book), to decades of nearly fatal harassment.
And thereby hangs a tale of spy vs. spy intrigue against the backdrop of the home front during World War II.
