Online shopping is over! Catch us Saturday, 9-3, for all your plant, book, and baked good needs!
All online orders can be picked up during the in-person plant sale on May 28. If you aren’t able to make it to the Saturday sale, contact library staff.
Graduating Into December On Wednesday, May 11, at 5pm, we will host Becki Lund of La Dimora. Becky is a certified End of Life Doula and Elder Care Consultant. The gathering, titled “Graduating into December” is an event about transitioning into the next phase of living. Talk about what the term “a good death” looks … Continue reading A Healing Library: death, dying, & grief
Slowly slowly we are building a library of things for Orwell residents. The collection is a natural evolution of the library’s lending model. The Library of Things aims to reduce barriers for by providing access to quality equipment. We offer: egg incubator projector and portable screen telescope laptops water cooler puzzles board games wood moisture … Continue reading Library of Things
What a year! Operating the library under the continued COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges. Once again, we offered little indoor programming, a real loss for our normal operating structure, and were intentional about library usage and availability. Using the extra hours normally devoted to programming at OFL, we wrote grants, created story time videos with community farmers … Continue reading 2021 Wrap
Our Harvest Sale has lots to offer this year! As always, we will have an assortment of pumpkins, gourds, and squash. Our bake sale table, stocked by library friends and trustees, will undoubtedly be full of treats. We intend to offer soups and hot dogs so come for lunch! If the weather allows, most of … Continue reading 2021 Harvest Book and Bake Sale and DRAGon egg hunt