We have a new calendar! We’re experimenting with including free cultural and educational events at other local and regional libraries, museums, and non-profits. We hope a compilation of these great events will be a valuable resource for our community. Click on the categories above the calendar to limit the results by drive time from the Bolton Free Library. Be sure to check the hosting organization’s website for schedule changes and cancellations. Note that some of the events at and within 10 minutes of our library are not free; these are denoted with a “($)” and costs are included in those descriptions.
Check back often for updates and let us know what you think!
August 17, 2025
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August 16, 2025 – August 17, 2025
Tri-County Community Days
Residents of Warren, Washington, and Saratoga Counties receive FREE admission with proof of residency and by providing an email address.
August 17, 2025
Unplug, slow down, and engage with the collections in a new way. Join us for a self-guided sketching experience in the galleries as part of a new museum initiative to foster creativity, mindfulness, and deeper observation.
On select Sundays in August, visitors are invited to pick up a sketch pad and pencil, find an easel in the designated gallery, and spend time drawing the exhibits that inspire them. Whether you’re an experienced artist or trying sketching for the first time, this relaxed, interactive program offers a new lens through which to connect with the Museum’s collections.
Upcoming Sessions:
✏️ August 10 – Bird Hall
✏️ August 17 – Elk Pond
✏️ August 31 – Fire Engine Hall
All materials are provided, and no registration is required. Just drop in, draw, and enjoy.
August 17, 2025
Registration required: Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC)
Featuring…
- Carol Jantsch– Host and Storyteller
- Socrates Villegas – Clarinetist
- Hugh Sung – Piano
Nurture your child’s passion for music! Sound All Around is a great introduction for youngsters that features a musician of The Philadelphia Orchestra and storyteller and host, Carol Jantsch. Each concert is 45 minutes long and features singing, movement, storytelling, and listening. It’s a great way for kids, families, camps, and daycares to have fun with music.
Recommended for ages 3 and up
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August 17, 2025
Saratoga National Historical Park
The American Northern Army encamped at Saratoga Battlefield in 1777 included thousands of Continental soldiers from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. These soldiers wore a variety of colorful uniforms made of wool or linen, all of which needed to be hand tailored. Their leather shoes were made by hand using a careful, painstaking process. Come to the park to see an 18th-century tailor and cordwainer (not a cobbler!) make these uniform parts using authentic period techniques.
August 17, 2025
Registration required: Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC)
Featuring…
- Carol Jantsch– Host and Storyteller
- Socrates Villegas – Clarinetist
- Hugh Sung – Piano
Nurture your child’s passion for music! Sound All Around is a great introduction for youngsters that features a musician of The Philadelphia Orchestra and storyteller and host, Carol Jantsch. Each concert is 45 minutes long and features singing, movement, storytelling, and listening. It’s a great way for kids, families, camps, and daycares to have fun with music.
Recommended for ages 3 and up
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August 17, 2025
Adirondack Interpretive Center
Need to escape from the heat or rain? Join us at the Adirondack Interpretive Center Sundays at 1pm and enjoy BBC’s mini-series, Life! Feel free to bring a comfier camp chair as well as snacks and drinks (Non-alcoholic beverages only, please)!
From the BBC and the Discovery Channel, producers of Planet Earth and The Blue Planet: Seas of Life, comes the newest landmark natural history series, Life. In Planet Earth, we brought you the world as you’ve never seen it before. Now, get closer with Life. Four years in the making, filmed over 3000 days, across every continent and in every habitat, with breathtaking new high definition filming techniques not available for Planet Earth, Life presents 130 incredible stories from the frontiers of the natural world, 54 of which have never been filmed before. Packed with excitement, revelation and entertainment, this remarkable 11-part blockbuster, narrated by Oprah Winfrey, captures unprecedented, astonishingly beautiful sequences and demonstrates the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive.
June 29th - Challenges of Life
July 6th - Reptiles and Amphibians
July 13th – Mammals
July 20th – Fish
July 27th - Hunters and Hunted
August 3rd - Creatures of the Deep
August 10th – Plants
August 17th – Primates
August 17, 2025
RSVP requested: Adirondack Interpretive Center
With the guidance of mushroom enthusiast Sandy Bureaus, head out for an afternoon of mushroom hunting along the AIC trails. Whether you are a beginner or seasoned forager these walks will help expand your knowledge into the mysteries of mycology. Walks will be held every third Sunday at 1pm starting in May and continuing through October. Registration is not required but encouraged.
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August 17, 2025
Lake George Arts Project at The Courthouse Gallery
Gallery tour of Lake George Journey illustrations and art-making opportunity for ALL ages and abilities.