LANPHER MEMORIAL LIBRARY
FREE FILM SCREENING Free for All: The Public Library

Sunday, April 6, 2025 1:00 p.m.
Vermont State University: Johnson Campus,
Bentley 207
Kick-off National Library Week with a free screening of the documentary, Free For All: The Public Library on Sunday, April 6th, 1:00 at Vermont State University, Johnson Campus, Bentley 207.
Sponsored by Lamoille County Public Libraries and Vermont Public
Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS, and Lamoille County Public Libraries, will host an event featuring a shortened, preview version of "Free for All: The Public Library" and a panel discussion facilitated by Amy Olsen, Library Director of the Lanpher Memorial Library with panelists including Kendra Aber-Ferri, Director of the Morristown Centennial Library; Aurora River, Director of the Varnum Memorial Library, and Mary Danko, President of the Vermont Library Association & Director fof the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.
"Free for All: The Public Library" tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.
The public library is one of America's most valued yet endangered institutions. Director Dawn Logsdon travels the United States, discovering historic and modern-day figures, especially women, who contributed to the library's integral position within democracy. "Free for All: The Public Library" chronicles the evolution of the nation's public libraries, tracing the battles over who can enter, what belongs there, and who makes these decisions, while exploring how public commons are defined and defended.
Vermont State University: Johnson Campus,
Bentley 207
Kick-off National Library Week with a free screening of the documentary, Free For All: The Public Library on Sunday, April 6th, 1:00 at Vermont State University, Johnson Campus, Bentley 207.
Sponsored by Lamoille County Public Libraries and Vermont Public
Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS, and Lamoille County Public Libraries, will host an event featuring a shortened, preview version of "Free for All: The Public Library" and a panel discussion facilitated by Amy Olsen, Library Director of the Lanpher Memorial Library with panelists including Kendra Aber-Ferri, Director of the Morristown Centennial Library; Aurora River, Director of the Varnum Memorial Library, and Mary Danko, President of the Vermont Library Association & Director fof the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington.
"Free for All: The Public Library" tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.
The public library is one of America's most valued yet endangered institutions. Director Dawn Logsdon travels the United States, discovering historic and modern-day figures, especially women, who contributed to the library's integral position within democracy. "Free for All: The Public Library" chronicles the evolution of the nation's public libraries, tracing the battles over who can enter, what belongs there, and who makes these decisions, while exploring how public commons are defined and defended.

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The Friends of the Lanpher Memorial Library are having a LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS GARDEN TOUR Fundraiser on Saturday, July 26th.
Their Reading Challenge invites you to use the Victorian Language of Flowers to choose and read a book that meets the definition for each month.
For each challenge you complete, January - June, you can enter to win prizes!
Click on the green box below to learn more!
Their Reading Challenge invites you to use the Victorian Language of Flowers to choose and read a book that meets the definition for each month.
For each challenge you complete, January - June, you can enter to win prizes!
Click on the green box below to learn more!
Ping Pong Table at the Lanpher Library!

The Lanpher Memorial Library has a PING PONG table in our Community Room! (Thank you to the Friends of the Library for choosing this item from our Wish List to sponsor!!!)
REGULAR PING PONG HOURS
Mondays 1:30-6:45
Wednesdays 3:30-4:45
Saturdays: 11:00-12:45
RULES:
Players can use the table for 30 minutes at a time.
First come/first served. A sign in will be available for the wait list.
If there is no one waiting to use the table, players may have a second 30 minute time, unless and until someone else wants to use the table, then players will forfeit the remainder of their second 30 minute game play.
Respectful and safe use of the table, paddles, balls, and space are required at all times.
The ping pong table hours end 15 minutes before the library closes. No exceptions.
The Hyde Park Community Wind Phone is Here at the Library
PHOTOS FROM OUR WIND PHONE DEDICATION May 20, 2023
Speaker, Janette Shaffer, Vermont Department of Libraries Assistant Librarian for Library Advancement.
LUHS Select Choir, the Jamtones performed.
"After the death of his cousin in 2010, a man named Itaru Sasaki built a phone booth in his garden as a way to deal with his grief. Although the phone was disconnected, Sasaki believed his words rode the wind to his loved one. A year later ,when a tsunami struck his coastal town of Otsuchi, thousands of mourners flocked to the phone booth to connect to their missing loves ones."
The idea of a wind phone resonated with people and they have begun popping up all over the world, including ours here at the Lanpher Library, which is funded by a grant from the Vermont Department of Libraries and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The Hyde Park Wind Phone is a beautiful place for those who need a silent listener.
Sometimes we have words that need to come out...we are grieving, we need to connect with our higher power, or somebody we've lost, sometimes feelings can be too much to hold...
Use this brave space to have an intentional and planned connection to a loved one or to the energy all around you. Simply pick up the phone receiver and talk. We invite you to send your words into the wind.
Please help us keep your Wind Phone safe and clean.
Speaker, Janette Shaffer, Vermont Department of Libraries Assistant Librarian for Library Advancement.
LUHS Select Choir, the Jamtones performed.
"After the death of his cousin in 2010, a man named Itaru Sasaki built a phone booth in his garden as a way to deal with his grief. Although the phone was disconnected, Sasaki believed his words rode the wind to his loved one. A year later ,when a tsunami struck his coastal town of Otsuchi, thousands of mourners flocked to the phone booth to connect to their missing loves ones."
The idea of a wind phone resonated with people and they have begun popping up all over the world, including ours here at the Lanpher Library, which is funded by a grant from the Vermont Department of Libraries and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The Hyde Park Wind Phone is a beautiful place for those who need a silent listener.
Sometimes we have words that need to come out...we are grieving, we need to connect with our higher power, or somebody we've lost, sometimes feelings can be too much to hold...
Use this brave space to have an intentional and planned connection to a loved one or to the energy all around you. Simply pick up the phone receiver and talk. We invite you to send your words into the wind.
Please help us keep your Wind Phone safe and clean.
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Lanpher Memorial Library P.O. Box 196/141 Main St., Hyde Park, VT 05655
802-888-4628 [email protected]
802-888-4628 [email protected]