Grants enliven Bixby archives

Bixby Memorial Free Library has announced that it has been awarded two Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership (CVNHP) grants in 2024 totaling $16,934.

It’s a sesquicentennial celebration! The Bixby Library will host an exhibit and talk to honor the building of St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Vergennes.

Bixby Memorial Free Library and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes will hold their 6th annual Lego Contest and Exhibit on Saturday, Feb. 24, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.., at the library.

The fifth annual Bixby Free Memorial Library Lego Contest once again drew a large field of contestants and then a big crowd to the city landmark to celebrate the presentation of their creations and hear the announcement of the winners on Feb. 25. 

For many of Addison County’s Latin American migrant farmworkers, the road to Vermont is a difficult one. The journey is expensive, dangerous and often means leaving behind your family and community without the guarantee that you will return. 

VERGENNES — The Bixby Library is returning to lending out its collection of books on a contactless curbside basis that will require patrons to make their requests 48 hours in advance. In an email Bixby Library Director Catharine Hays said the library is h … (read more)

VERGENNES — Among many other things, Bixby Library youth services librarian Rachel Plant loves hats.  Lego hats. Santa hats. Her lobster and Dr. Seuss “Cat in the Hat” hats. The Dr. Seuss hat, with its red and white stripes piling high, is what Plant plan … (read more)

VERGENNES — From “Planet Earth” to “Star Wars: The Last Star Fire,” the main floor of the Bixby Library contained a universe of imagination on Monday evening, not to mention dozens of Lego sculptors and many more of the artists’ family members. What fille … (read more)

VERGENNES — Are you into LEGOs? First-timers to fanatics will compete in the second annual LEGO contest and exhibit at the Bixby Library in Vergennes. Online registration closed on Feb. 3, but those still interested in participating can call the library a … (read more)

VERGENNES — The Bixby Memorial Library board of trustees on Tuesday decided to move forward with a search for the Vergennes landmark’s next director.  Bixby Board Chairwoman Paula Moore on Tuesday said that advertising for a new library director will begi … (read more)

VERGENNES — Lego-mania will return to the Bixby Library in Vergennes in mid-February. The Bixby and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes have announced they are co-sponsoring their second annual Lego Contest and Exhibit, which will culminate with … (read more)

VERGENNES — The Bixby Memorial Free Library takes its history as an object and artifact collecting institution seriously. Since the Vergennes library opened in 1912, it has managed custody of items both relevant to the five-town community and items that c … (read more)

VERGENNES — Age Well is sponsoring Tai Chi for Fall Prevention classes in Vergennes beginning Tuesday, Jan. 14, and ending Tuesday, April 28. Classes are free to all participants age 55 and over. Tai Chi is an ancient Chinese movement form that uses seque … (read more)

VERGENNES — The last event on a busy Vergennes Holiday Stroll day at the Bixby is the closing of the silent auction of gift baskets. Friends of the Bixby gathered this past Sunday to assemble the baskets and display gift certificates that will be on view … (read more)

VERGENNES — On the evening of Monday, Nov. 18, a group of approximately 20 children and almost an equal number of parents came to the Bixby Library to share an evening of reading, laughter and chocolate chip cookies (made by Mrs. Merkel) with Vergennes Po … (read more)