Gunnison County Library

A FREE summer kids program, for ages 5-12, at the Crested Butte Library.

Every Monday, we’ll get messy with do-it-yourself projects and explorations, that focus on science, art, and building.

Special Programs

Monday, July 9: Nature’s Educators will present a free family friendly event that will give us a bird’s eye view into the lives of our favorite birds of prey!

Monday, August 6: Magician Anne Lincoln will wow you with her mysterious magical talents!

And Gardening with Mary on June 18, July 16 & August 13.

Join us for the Crested Butte Library’s, “Coffee with the Community.” Our guests in June are Chris Hensley (Executive Director), Elizabeth Philbin (Assistant Program Director) and Allison Butcher (Development Director) from the Adaptive Sports Center.

Coffee with the Community is a monthly program that gives the public and local officials an opportunity to discuss community issues, learn more about local government, and build relationships. There are no formal presentations, just smooth coffee and candid talk. So, grab a cuppa, bring your questions and come get to know more about your local community.

Join us for an interactive program, with Caroline McLean, and learn about her spiritual journey to Bhutan–the country that boasts the highest gross national happiness. Caroline will share with us her inspiration, from this journey, to create a contemplative Crested Butte Prayer Wheel Park.

Caroline has a master’s degree in wetlands biology and worked as a field biologist and educator for the state of Colorado. Her family has had a second home in Crested Butte for the last 14 years and and became full time residents in CB last year after their youngest fledged the roost. In CB, she teaches yoga and meditation at the CB community coop, as well as teaching photography through her company, Oh Be Joyful Journeys and volunteering around the valley. For more information visit her website.

The Novel Tea Book Club will meet on Thursday, June 28 at 2 pm to discuss Runaway Girl by local author Anne Eliot. Anne will be joining us for today’s discussion!

Runaway Girl is book one in the “Runaway Rockstar Series.”

“Funny, emotional and the perfect rockstar, fairytale romance.” –Ginger Scott, Bestselling Author (The Falling Series/Like Us Series and The Hard Count)

“Fast paced, I laughed and cried all over this book. Love this series.” -Jennie Marts, USA TODAY Bestselling author

“A sweet, wonderful coming of age story. Different and fun, a real escape and a story that lets everyone fall in love with a rockstar while traveling all over Europe. You won’t be able to put it down.” –T. Reads

Books are available at the Library to borrow and for sale at Townie Books.

A FREE summer kids program, for ages 5-12, at the Crested Butte Library.

Every Monday, we’ll get messy with do-it-yourself projects and explorations, that focus on science, art, and building.

Special Programs

Monday, July 9: Nature’s Educators will present a free family friendly event that will give us a bird’s eye view into the lives of our favorite birds of prey!

Monday, August 6: Magician Anne Lincoln will wow you with her mysterious magical talents!

And Gardening with Mary on June 18, July 16 & August 13.

Calling all craftaholics!
Join us at the Crested Butte Library on the first Tuesday of EACH month at 7 PM for Community Crafters

This event is free and open to the public and to crafters of all flavors–sewing, knitting, drawing, whatever creative outlet you may enjoy.

We will work on a community craft project to make Bommerang Bags and t-shirt bags for Sustainable Crested Butte. We’ll have sewing machines, fabric, instructions and more. If you have a portable sewing machine bring it with you.

We encourage you to bring your own WIP (work in progress) and come work on your own craft or join our community crafting project at the Library.

Join the Crested Butte Library for Nature’s Educator’s Talon Talk about birds of prey on Monday, July 9! This is part of our weekly Messy Monday program.

In this program, we will dive into the characteristics that define raptors and why they are important to our ecosystems. Audiences will discover the various types of birds of prey found all over the world, what it takes to care for a bird of prey, and learn how Nature’s Educators is permitted to keep raptors. Learn about their personal histories, anatomy, hunting strategies, and habitats.

Our book of the month is a reading The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck.

“Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold… Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined–an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding.”

Please contact the Library for the location of this event.

The Virtual Pro Se Clinic (VPC), a FREE legal clinic, is offered at the Crested Butte Library, on the second Wednesday of each month by appointment from 2-5 PM.

This free legal clinic is for parties who have no attorney. This clinic will be available from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM on the second Wednesday of each month at both the Gunnison and Crested Butte Libraries. Via computer link, volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help you fill out forms, and explain the process and procedure for all areas of civil litigation, including family law, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law, small claims, veterans issues, and civil protection orders.

For flow-charts, forms and FAQs about common Colorado legal conundrums visit the Virtual Pro Se Clinic’s website: http://checkerboard.co/.

To schedule an appointment, call the Ann Zugelder Library at (970) 641-3485 in Gunnison, or the Old Rock Community Library at (970) 349-6535 in Crested Butte.

A FREE summer kids program, for ages 5-12, at the Crested Butte Library.

Every Monday, we’ll get messy with do-it-yourself projects and explorations, that focus on science, art, and building.

Special Programs

Monday, July 9: Nature’s Educators will present a free family friendly event that will give us a bird’s eye view into the lives of our favorite birds of prey!

Monday, August 6: Magician Anne Lincoln will wow you with her mysterious magical talents!

And Gardening with Mary on June 18, July 16 & August 13.

This month’s Movie that Matters is Rising from Ashes (2012, NR, 82 min) in celebration of the Tour de France.

“Rising from Ashes is a feature length documentary about the first Rwandan national cycling team in their bid to make history and represent their country at the 2012 Olympics. Competing in a white man’s sport, reserved for the privileged, a rag tag group of cyclists coached by the first American to ride in the Tour de France, are transformed into a powerful symbol of hope for a country recovering from one of the world’s most devastating genocides.” ~From IMDB

Winner for the 2013 best documentary at the CB Film Fest, among many other rewards!

A FREE summer kids program, for ages 5-12, at the Crested Butte Library.

Every Monday, we’ll get messy with do-it-yourself projects and explorations, that focus on science, art, and building.

Special Programs

Monday, July 9: Nature’s Educators will present a free family friendly event that will give us a bird’s eye view into the lives of our favorite birds of prey!

Monday, August 6: Magician Anne Lincoln will wow you with her mysterious magical talents!

And Gardening with Mary on June 18, July 16 & August 13.

The Novel Tea Book Club will meet on Thursday, July 26 at 2 pm to discuss The Last Midwife by Colorado author Sandra Dallas.

The Last Midwife

“It is 1880 and Gracy Brookens is the only midwife in a small Colorado mining town where she has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands, of babies in her lifetime. The women of Swandyke trust and depend on Gracy, and most couldn’t imagine getting through pregnancy and labor without her by their sides.

With Sandra Dallas’s incomparable gift for creating a sense of time and place and characters that capture your heart, The Last Midwife tells the story of family, community, and the secrets that can destroy and unite them.”

Books are available at the Library to borrow and for sale at Townie Books.

Led by 4 bestselling authors, Anne Eliot, Barbara Samuel, Michelle Major and Lana Williams, this highly entertaining panel discusses how to start, finish, sell, market (and get paid) for your writing. Get sage advice on the current fast-changing commercial publishing industry from four different points of view—learn how they do it, and how you might too. Understanding the many puzzle pieces that make up an ‘author’ can make all the difference in future success. In partnership with The Crested Butte Center for the Arts. At the Depot (716 Elk Ave).

Barbara Samuel (Writes as Barbara O’Neal as well as young adult/new adult under Lark O’Neal) has won the highly prestigious RITA award from Romance Writers of America 7 times and has been recently inducted into the Romance Writer’s of America Hall of Fame. In the tradition of Kristin Hannah, Susan Wiggs, Maeve Binchy, and Barbara Freethy, she writes a highly emotional stories about families, food, dogs, and love. Many of her novels include recipes, and she has been known to cook in response to any stressful situation, learning that cooking is like life–sometimes things go wrong, but if you keep trying, eventually you’ll get it right. Barbara lives in the stunningly beautiful city of Colorado Springs with her beloved, a British endurance athlete who vows he’ll never lose his accent.

Michelle Major is the best selling, RITA award winning author of over twenty sexy and sweet contemporary romances. She loves second-chances love stories, smart heroines and strong heroes. A midwesterner at heart, she’s made the Rocky Mountains her home for over twenty five years and is thrilled to share her books with readers.

Anne Eliot is the bestselling author of six (and counting) young adult and new adult books. She’s a Colorado College graduate, and had a fun web-programming career before her writing ‘Cinderella Story’ began. After years of trying to get published, her breakout novel, Almost, became an Amazon Reader’s Choice Award winner and a top selling book for 2012. Since then all of her young adult books and audio books have been on the Amazon teens top 100 lists. Her agent has sold her work in Europe for traditional print deals and translations, so when not running around the world giving away books (that does happen—and she can’t believe it) she splits her time between Crested Butte and Colorado Springs. She’s a proud member of Romance Writer’s of America as well as the Society for Children’s Writer’s and Illustrators, and she loves her husband, kids, dogs, shoveling snow and Crested Butte so very much.

Lana Williams is a bestselling and Amazon All-Star author who writes historical romance filled with mystery, adventure, and a pinch of paranormal to stir things up. Filled with a love of books from an early age, Lana put pen to paper and decided happy endings were a must in any story she created. The author of 19 published books/novellas with her latest series focusing on The Seven Curses of London. It’s set in Victorian times, and shares stories of men and women who find love while they attempt to battle the ‘ills of London’. She’s lives in Colorado Springs, has two sons, a dog named Annie, and is member of Romance Writer’s of America, and Hearts Through History. She has written for Kindle Worlds, taught workshops for Romance Writer’s of America, Pikes Peak Writers Conference as well as numerous fiction workshops for writer’s groups.

Music Rocks! with DRUM SAFARI!

This summer, Drum Safari invites you to explore the fascinating world of S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) while DISCOVERING amazing facts about our planet, DRUMMING, and DANCING to rhythms from around the world!

This high-energy, interactive program will encourage young minds to think creatively! S.T.E.A.M. concepts will be introduced through FUN and engaging rhythms… let the S.T.E.A.M. JAM begin! We’ll explore the Engineering Design Process and “experiment” with our instruments, creatively reinforce and encourage literacy skills, and strengthen our communities by connecting (and ROCKING OUT) with new friends and neighbors!

A FREE summer kids program, for ages 5-12, at the Crested Butte Library.

Every Monday, we’ll get messy with do-it-yourself projects and explorations, that focus on science, art, and building.

Special Programs

Monday, July 9: Nature’s Educators will present a free family friendly event that will give us a bird’s eye view into the lives of our favorite birds of prey!

Monday, August 6: Magician Anne Lincoln will wow you with her mysterious magical talents!

And Gardening with Mary on June 18, July 16 & August 13.

Calling all craftaholics!
Join us at the Crested Butte Library on the first Tuesday of EACH month at 7 PM for Community Crafters

This event is free and open to the public and to crafters of all flavors–sewing, knitting, drawing, whatever creative outlet you may enjoy.

We will work on a community craft project to make Bommerang Bags and t-shirt bags for Sustainable Crested Butte. We’ll have sewing machines, fabric, instructions and more. If you have a portable sewing machine bring it with you.

We encourage you to bring your own WIP (work in progress) and come work on your own craft or join our community crafting project at the Library.

The Virtual Pro Se Clinic (VPC), a FREE legal clinic, is offered at the Crested Butte Library, on the second Wednesday of each month by appointment from 2-5 PM.

This free legal clinic is for parties who have no attorney. This clinic will be available from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM on the second Wednesday of each month at both the Gunnison and Crested Butte Libraries. Via computer link, volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help you fill out forms, and explain the process and procedure for all areas of civil litigation, including family law, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law, small claims, veterans issues, and civil protection orders.

For flow-charts, forms and FAQs about common Colorado legal conundrums visit the Virtual Pro Se Clinic’s website: http://checkerboard.co/.

To schedule an appointment, call the Ann Zugelder Library at (970) 641-3485 in Gunnison, or the Old Rock Community Library at (970) 349-6535 in Crested Butte.

A FREE summer kids program, for ages 5-12, at the Crested Butte Library.

Every Monday, we’ll get messy with do-it-yourself projects and explorations, that focus on science, art, and building.

Special Programs

Monday, July 9: Nature’s Educators will present a free family friendly event that will give us a bird’s eye view into the lives of our favorite birds of prey!

Monday, August 6: Magician Anne Lincoln will wow you with her mysterious magical talents!

And Gardening with Mary on June 18, July 16 & August 13.

Our book of the month is a reading Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue.

“A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream–the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.

“Mbue [is] a deft, often lyrical observer. . . . [Her] meticulous storytelling announces a writer in command of her gifts, plumbing the desires and disappointments of our emerging global culture.” –Minneapolis Star Tribune”

Please contact the Library for the location of this event.

A FREE summer kids program, for ages 5-12, at the Crested Butte Library.

Every Monday, we’ll get messy with do-it-yourself projects and explorations, that focus on science, art, and building.

Special Programs

Monday, July 9: Nature’s Educators will present a free family friendly event that will give us a bird’s eye view into the lives of our favorite birds of prey!

Monday, August 6: Magician Anne Lincoln will wow you with her mysterious magical talents!

And Gardening with Mary on June 18, July 16 & August 13.

This month’s Movie that Matters is Minding the Gap (2018, NR, 93 min).

“Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust-Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.” ~From IMDB

Winner of the Special Jury Prize Documentary at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. As well as, The Sun Valley Film Festival “One in a Million Award” that celebrates the heart of independent film, and films made with a budget of less than a million dollars.

The Novel Tea Book Club will meet on Thursday, August 23 at 2 pm to discuss Dust Bowl Girls by Colorado author Lydia Reeder.

Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring True Story of the Team that Barnstormed Its way to Basketball Glory tells the amazing story of Coach Babb and his inspiring team of women who won two national championships during the Great Depression. They broke down barriers in women’s sports and inspired a nation!

Books are available at the Library to borrow and for sale at Townie Books.

Calling all craftaholics!
Join us at the Crested Butte Library on the first Tuesday of EACH month at 7 PM for Community Crafters

This event is free and open to the public and to crafters of all flavors–sewing, knitting, drawing, whatever creative outlet you may enjoy.

We will work on a community craft project to make Bommerang Bags and t-shirt bags for Sustainable Crested Butte. We’ll have sewing machines, fabric, instructions and more. If you have a portable sewing machine bring it with you.

We encourage you to bring your own WIP (work in progress) and come work on your own craft or join our community crafting project at the Library.