This year, the Royalton Memorial Library will be a Vermont Reads Host!Since 2003, Vermont Humanities has invited students and adults across the state to read the same book and participate in a wide variety of community activities related to the book’s themes. The book selected for 2025 is The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton, which touches on topics of resilience, strength through community, and the unstoppable power of the natural world. Read more about the book here.
Free Books!
We are giving out free copies of The Light Pirate for community members to read and keep! Stop by the library to grab yours while supplies last!
Book Discussion
Join our Book Club on Tuesday, August 26th at 6:15 PM for a discussion of The Light Pirate, led by special guest and VT Humanities facilitator, Rachael Cohen.
1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816
We will also be hosting a VT Speakers Bureau talk related to the book! On September 10th, join historian Howard Coffin for a discussion on 1816, known as the year without summer. Vermonters still call it “1800 and Froze to Death,” a year of frosts every month, dark skies, and mysterious lights that caused a widespread belief that a higher power was displeased.
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