Sinclairville Free Library

Sinclairville Samplers
2026-05-08 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-05-15 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-05-22 10:30 - 12:00, 2026-05-29 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Quilting, knitting, crochet, embroidering and fun with friends.

Local Author Showcase
2026-05-09 10:30 - 13:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Local Authors from Write Circle
Published authors from our Write Circle writing group led by Library Director, Beth Hadley, on Friday mornings @ 9 am, will present their newly published titles.
Windblown by AK Coulter
One Hundred and Fifty-Four Sonnets by Paul Leone
The House of Secrets by Richard Knott Jr
authors will have books available for purchase

Baby Talk
2026-05-13 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-05-20 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-05-27 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-06-03 10:30 - 11:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Each month focuses on one theme related to baby development. Sing songs, fun movements, learn baby sign language and spend time with other babies.

For ages birth to 2 years old.
Songs, Bounces, Stories, Read-Alongs and Play!!!
Registration is Required Please note that once your child is registered for our weekly Wednesday programs, they will have a spot until 1 month of no attendance.
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities detailed on our monthly Facebook event and on our main website page.

Story Hour
2026-05-13 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-20 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-06-03 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. Please note that once your child is registered for our weekly Wednesday programs, they will have a spot until 1 month of no attendance.
For ages 2 (toddler) to Preschool.
Schedule of upcoming themes and activities available on our Facebook event and the main website page.

Roswell Park Cessation Services
2026-05-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
Roswell Park Cessation Services
Provided by Chautauqua County Office of Aging
For more information on the this program visit quitquest.roswellpark.org

Virtual Write Spirit
2026-05-13 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-05-20 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-05-27 19:30 - 20:30, 2026-06-03 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.

Write Circle (Hybrid)
2026-05-15 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-05-29 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.
Hybrid meetings April thru November. Meets Virtually December thru March.
This group is currently closed to new members. Please consider joining our Write Spirit group.

Book Club @ The Homestead
2026-05-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Bergquist Library at the Homestead in Gerry @ 4600 Route 60 Gerry NY 14740
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Book #1 in series of 3 titles

Goodreads Choice Award: Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Historical Fiction (2016), Nominee for Readers’ Favorite Debut Goodreads Author (2016)

Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredible story of love, redemption, and terrible secrets that were hidden for decades.
On the eve of a fateful war, New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France.
An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she sinks deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspect neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences.
For ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. But, once hired, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power.
The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious female-only Nazi concentration camp. The tragedy and triumph of their stories cross continents—from New York to Paris, and Germany to Poland—capturing the indomitable pull of compassion to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten.
In Lilac Girls, Martha Hall Kelly has crafted a remarkable novel of unsung women and their quest for love, happiness, and second chances. It is a story that will keep readers bonded with the characters, searching for the truth, until the final pages. (from Goodreads)

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

CLSC Book Club
2026-05-16 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.
Meets in person at 3 Lakes Cafe (located on Main Street in Cassadaga) to discuss books from the CLSC book list.
May’s Book Selection: Bog Queen by Anna North
The story of an anthropologist’s monumental discovery and the clash of civilizations it sets off over the fate of the land that holds us
When a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. But this body is not like any she has ever seen: Although its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, it is almost completely preserved.
Soon Agnes is drawn into a mystery from the distant past, called to understand and avenge the death of an Iron Age woman more like her than she knows. Along the way she must contend with peat-cutters who want to profit from the bog and activists who demand that the land be left undisturbed. Then there is the moss itself: a complex repository of artifacts and remains with its own dark stories to tell. As Agnes faces the deep history of what she has unearthed, she is also forced to question what she thought she knew about her talent, her self-reliance, and her place in the world.
Flashing between the uncertainty of post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, Bog Queen brims with contemporary urgency and ancient wisdom as it connects two young women learning to harness their strange strengths in a mysterious and complex landscape. (from Goodreads)

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.

Books Unlimited Book Club
2026-05-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
The Green Mile by Stephen King

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as ‘Billy the Kid’ Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in ‘Old Sparky’. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, prisoner or guard, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being?
There are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine and one of those wonders might just have stepped in amongst them. (from Goodreads)

Copies are available through the library system.
Registration is requested. A copy of the book club selection can be reserved during registration.

Nighttime Story Hour
2026-05-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
“Butterflies”
Painted Butterfly Craft
Sponge paint a butterfly using a stencil
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. Program is designed for ages 2 to PreK. All ages are welcome.
Registration is Required. Space is Limited.
For ages birth and up. Parent/Caregiver must stay with child(ren).
Light snacks will be available.
DUE TO T-BALL, MAY AND JUNE EVENTS HAVE BEEN MOVED TO THURSDAY

Closed in the Observance of Memorial Day
2026-05-23, 2026-05-25 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782

Story Hour
2026-05-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Sinclairville Park

Library Board Meeting
2026-05-27 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.

Virtual Book Club
2026-05-28 18:00 - 19:00 | VIRTUAL EVENT
Join the discussion from the comfort of your living room!!!
Title Selection: The Astral Library by Kate Quinn

From New York Times bestselling author Kate Quinn comes a gorgeously written fantastical adventure which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures.
Alexandria “Alix” Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike people, books will never let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-off lands. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where the desperate and the lost escape to new lives…inside their favorite books.
The Librarian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing, but before she can escape into the pages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped protect. Aided by a dashing costume-shop owner, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked parties of The Great Gatsby as danger draws inexorably closer. But who does their enemy really wish to destroy—Alix, the Librarian, or the Library itself? (from Goodreads)

Register at Event & Program Registration.
You can request a copy be reserved during registration. Virtual link (Zoom) will be provided after registration.

Summer Reading Stomp Off & Junior Paleontologist Training
2026-06-01 14:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
In celebration of National Dinosaur Day, the library will be hosting our STOMP OFF to start our annual Summer Reading Program.

For this years theme, “Unearth A Story”, the library will be traveling back in time to the era of the dinosaurs. Join us all summer long for family programs, mobile summer reading with Miss Jessica and Chet, teen & adult challenges and a roaring good time.

STOMP OFF Activities & First Junior Paleontologist Training Night*:Sign up for our Reading Challenge(s)*Hands-On Dig: Observation
Dino Stomp: Identification
Fossil Rubbing: Identification
Dino Name: Classification

ALL ACTIVITIES START AT 5 PM

Watch for our Dino friend. He’ll be stomping around with prizes.

Light refreshments.

Activities are designed for all ages. Parent/Caregiver must stay with child(ren). Event is free and open to all.

Registration is requested for the STOMP OFF.

Bronto‑Be‑Registration

More information on Summer Reading and becoming a sponsor.

*Junior Paleontologist Training Nights: July 6th, August 3rd & August 31st
*One observation journal per child for all four (4) Training Nights
*Patrons may register at anytime during our program dates (June 1st – August 31st), participation in our reading challenge not required to attend programs/events

Staff & Volunteer Meeting
2026-06-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Sinclairville Free Library @ 15 Main Street, Sinclairville NY 14782
One of the ways that you can support your library is to volunteer!!!! Our library could not function without our wonderful volunteers. Volunteers can help out in many ways, from shelving books to shoveling snow.
Would you like to volunteer? Please join us for pizza and learn about opportunities for volunteers.
Unearth a Story: Dig Into Your Talents
If you can teach it, show it, make it, or explain it, we want you.
Help enhance our community by sharing your talent or skill. Your talent could inspire the next curious mind at the library.
