FRIENDS
OF THE
LANPHER MEMORIAL LIBRARY
P.O. Box 61, Hyde Park, VT 05655       email:  lanpherfriends@gmail.com

Become a Friend

Love your library. Let’s be Friends!

Are you looking for ways to volunteer in the community? 
Do you want to work with fun and creative folks?
The Friends are a dynamic group that champions reading within our community, and supports the Lanpher Memorial Library as a community center. We’d like to increase our membership, including new voices, new viewpoints and new skills.

Contact us:  lanpherfriends@gmail.com
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            MEMBERSHIP LEVELS
            Well-Read $15             
            Bibliophile $25                 
            Publisher $50                
             
            Please make checks payable to: 
            Friends of Lanpher Memorial Library
            Mail to: P.O. Box 61, Hyde Park, VT 05655     

OUR MISSION: To promote the understanding and appreciation of Lanpher Memorial Library and its mission by supporting the freedom to read and placing books in more hands. Through volunteerism, advocacy, increasing public awareness, fundraising and creating partnerships, the Friends of Lanpher Memorial Library seeks to enhance the library’s role in the Hyde Park community.
Please join us.
The Friends of the Lanpher Memorial Library Board meets quarterly on the first Wednesdays in March, June, September and December  at 5:00 via zoom.  If you would like to attend, please contact Diane Szlachetka, President of the Friends of the Lanpher Memorial Library:  lanpherfriends@gmail.com

WHAT DO THE FRIENDS DO?
-Organize unique community programs and events
-Sponsor First Tuesday Talks
-Sponsor Library Memberships to the Shelburne Museum, Fairbanks Museum, and purchase an additional Vermont State Parks Pass for Library patrons to get reduced or free admission (learn more:  www.lanpherlibrary.org/attraction-passes-for-loan.html )
-Receive a Wish List to fund specific Library Requests:  Mobile Book Organizers, Stacking Chair Dolly, Carpet Sweeper, Fund Library Materials
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Bob Stein made the Little Free Library and is the steward, shown here with Friends of the Lanpher Memorial Library President, Diane Szlachetka.
The Friends dedicated the first registered Little Free Library in Lamoille County on May 1, 2019 at the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, Trail Head on Depot St. Hyde Park and added a second in 2021 at the Gihon Valley Hall.
Find them on the Official Little Free Library Map!
RESOURCES FROM PAST TUESDAY TALKS:
Recording of "An Everyday Cult" talk with local author, Gerette Buglion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7tUnVvYFP4
Recording of Salvation Farms April 6th talk with speaker, Theresa Snow  https://greenmountainaccess.tv/project/tuesday-talks-salvation-farms-vermonts-us-of-farm-raised-foods/
Recording of "Daylilies in our Northern Gardens" with Harold Cross June 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSgt8LChdGo
Recording of The Center for Agricultural Economy with speaker Connor Gorham, October 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iOUu-17OmQ
Recording of Studio Ghibli, A Japanese Animation Studio, with Jack Wool, November 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tVPRb2Pdzc
"Windows, Mirrors & Doors", with Jack Wool (below)

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FRIENDS OF THE LANPHER MEMORIAL LIBRARY SNOWSHOE at Green River Reservoir State Park 2020

Right after a big snowstorm, the Friends of the LML had a Sunny Sunday Snowshoe, with 17 people aged 6 months - 70 years! 
CONTACT THE FRIENDS OF THE LANPHER MEMORIAL LIBRARY:  lanpherfriends@gmail.com