Story Hour
2025-12-17 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-12-31 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-01-07 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-01-14 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-01-21 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | 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
2025-12-17 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.

Virtual Book Club
2025-12-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan Henry
Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncovering the truth behind his favorite story. The answer provides hope and healing and a magical journey for anyone whose life has ever been changed by a book.
1950: Margaret Devonshire (Megs) is a seventeen-year-old student of mathematics and physics at Oxford University. When her beloved eight-year-old brother asks Megs if Narnia is real, logical Megs tells him it’s just a book for children, and certainly not true. Homebound due to his illness, and remaining fixated on his favorite books, George presses her to ask the author of the recently released novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe a question: “Where did Narnia come from?”
Despite her fear about approaching the famous author, who is a professor at her school, Megs soon finds herself taking tea with C. S. Lewis and his own brother Warnie, begging them for answers.
Rather than directly telling her where Narnia came from, Lewis encourages Megs to form her own conclusion as he slowly tells her the little-known stories from his own life that led to his inspiration. As she takes these stories home to George, the little boy travels farther in his imagination than he ever could in real life.
Lewis’s answers will reveal to Megs and her family many truths that science and math cannot, and the gift she thought she was giving to her brother—the story behind Narnia—turns out to be his gift to her, instead: hope.

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)
2025-12-19 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
2025-12-19 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-01-09 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-01-16 11:00 - 12:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering, and fun with friends.

Homestead Library Services
2025-12-19 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.

Nighttime Story Hour
2025-12-22 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
“Polar Express…”
Hot Cocoa Paper Craft
Children are invited to wear their pajamas
Hot Cocoa & Cookies
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.

Closed in Observance of Christmas Holiday
2025-12-24 - 2025-12-27 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Baby Talk
2025-12-31 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-01-07 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-01-14 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-01-21 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 Currently CLOSED Register to be added to our waiting list.
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities detailed on our monthly Facebook event and on our main website page.

Closed in Observance of New Year’s Holiday
2026-01-01 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Write Circle (Virtual)
2026-01-02 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-09 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-01-16 09:00 - 10:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT

Sinclairville Samplers
2026-01-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering and fun with friends.

Family Night: Blizzard in a Bottle
2026-01-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Family Night
Stories, crafts and fun geared towards families.
Blizzard in a Bottle
Create a winter themed sensory bottle
All materials provided.
Ages 3 & up. Parent/Caregiver must stay with child.
This is a drop-in event. Each craft/activity should take around 15 minutes..
Registration Required.

Write Spirit
2026-01-07 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-01-14 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-01-21 19:30 - 20:30 | VIRTUAL EVENT

Poetry Reading with John Brantingham
2026-01-08 18:00 - 19:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
***EVENT IS CANCELLED***
Share your poetry with other poets and writers. Open to the community
Presented by author/educator, John Brantingham.
To register, email johnmbrantingham@gmail.com. In the subject line write, “Poetry Reading”.
This event is virtual. Link will be provided after registration.

Event cancelled on 1/7/26. Please watch for more poetry programs in the late winter and spring.

Book Club @ The Homestead
2026-01-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
The Christmas Promise by Richard Paul Evans
This holiday season, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Noel Collection returns with another heartwarming story of secrets, heartbreak, forgiveness, and the true meaning of Christmas.
On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bach’s father gives her and her identical twin sister, Michelle, matching opal necklaces. “These opals look identical,” he tells them, “but the fire inside each is completely unique—just like the two of you.”
Indeed, the two sisters couldn’t be more different, and their paths diverge as they embark on adulthood. Years pass, until—at their father’s behest—they both come home for Christmas. What happens then forever damages their relationship, and Richelle vows never to see or speak to her sister again. In their father’s last days, he asks Richelle to forgive Michelle, a deathbed promise she never fulfills as her twin is killed in an accident.
Now, painfully alone and broken, caring for the sickest of children in a hospital PICU, Richelle has one last dream: to be an author. The plot of her book, The Prodigal Daughter , is a story based on her sister’s life. It’s not until she meets Justin Ek, a man who harbors his own loss, that a secret promise is revealed, and Richelle learns that the story she’s writing is not about her sister, but about herself.
Copies are available through the library system.
No registration is required. Open to the public.

Virtual Book Club
2026-01-22 18:00 - 19:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro

Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Memoir & Autobiography (2019)

The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a real-time In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history—the life she had lived—crumbled beneath her.
Inheritance is a book about secrets—secrets within families, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity, a story that has been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years, years she had spent writing brilliantly, and compulsively, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in—a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.

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