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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!
Events in December 2025
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November 30, 2025
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December 1, 2025
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December 2, 2025(1 event)  |
December 3, 2025
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December 4, 2025(3 events)  This event has been CANCELLED due to unforeseen circumstances. Hillview Free Library (Diamond Point) Join us, the first Thursday each month, for a friendly game of Scrabble! We begin at 6:30pm, and play until all the tiles are done. High score takes home a prize! For teens & adults. |
December 5, 2025
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December 6, 2025(1 event) – Hillview Free Library (Diamond Point) All day fun & creative Seasonal Celebration! There will be Storytelling. We'll decorate the Library's Christmas tree! Visit three Craft tables: Pine Cone Ornament, make a Tissue Paper Window Star, & create a Marshmallow Snowman! Festive Refreshments Served. |
December 7, 2025(2 events) – Celebrate the season with music, history, and holiday cheer! Visit The Sembrich during one of the Holiday Open House times to explore our festively adorned studio, browse our exhibitions, and shop for unique gifts in our museum gift shop! We will have refreshments available at this family friendly event. –  |
December 8, 2025(1 event) – As many of you may have noticed, a new Book Shed has arrived at the Hillview Free Library! We are so excited about this generous donation and would like to thank Spencer & Tyler Junco for their contribution in making our Library campus even more inviting!
As we prepare for the final placement of the new Book Shed, which the Town of Lake George is so graciously assisting us with, we need to empty the little red one currently in use. For this, we are looking for volunteers to help us move books out of the old shed. If you are available to help on Monday, December 8th (snow date of Wednesday the 10th) between the hours of 10am and 2pm please email Board President, Tom Hall: thall3@nycap.rr.com. A big "Thank You!" to all who can help us with this effort.
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December 9, 2025(3 events)  Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance News Advisory As the region prepares for a series of events on December 12 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the heroic “Noble Artillery Train” led by Colonel Henry Knox from Ticonderoga to Boston, Warren County and municipal officials are taking time on Tuesday, December 9 to call public attention to the Knox memorials in their communities and recall the sacrifices that eventually produced America’s independence. These events are presented by the Lake George Battlefield Park Alliance and the Warren County Commission for the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution. Warren County is home to five of the 59 bronze plaques embedded in granite that were placed, beginning in 1926, along the path in upstate New York and Massachusetts taken by Knox and his teamsters to move 60 tons of artillery to General George The Warren County commemorations on December 9 are scheduled at four of the monument sites as follows, with expected participants listed: |
December 10, 2025
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December 11, 2025(3 events) – Celebrate the season with music, history, and holiday cheer! Visit The Sembrich during one of the Holiday Open House times to explore our festively adorned studio, browse our exhibitions, and shop for unique gifts in our museum gift shop! We will have refreshments available at this family friendly event. – Registration required: Hillview Free Library (Diamond Point) Gem Radio Theatre presents a holiday radio play that takes us to the night before Christmas in 1886 at the home of Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective! Directed by Anne Buckwheat. Limited seating. $8 Suggested Donation. |
December 12, 2025
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December 13, 2025(1 event) – Registration required: Up Yonda Farm Black-capped chickadees have a wonderful assortment of adaptations for winter survival. Come paint this universally considered “cute” bird on a winter branch and staying warm with its fluffed feathers. A Naturalist will share an Ojibwe story about the chickadee in winter. $17 per person in addition to Day Use Fee. Members $12. |
December 14, 2025(1 event) December 14, 2025 Registration required: Lake George Land Conservancy Help count birds for this nation-wide Audubon program, organized locally by the LGLC on Sunday, December 14. The CBC is a winter bird census with over 100 years of community science involvement. Our 15-mile circle includes Amy’s Park in Bolton south to Pilot Knob Preserve in Fort Ann, and the Schroon River in Warrensburg east to Sleeping Beauty and Black Mt in Dresden. Volunteers may choose to survey routes by foot, car, or boat, or watch a feeder, and submit bird counts as well as weather conditions and hours to the LGLC, which then provides all of the compiled information to Audubon. |
December 15, 2025
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December 16, 2025(1 event) Come join us on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. You don’t need to read the book to come to our meetings.  |
December 17, 2025(1 event) |
December 18, 2025(4 events) – Registration required: Up Yonda Farm Young Learners will be introduced to astronomy in the Up Yonda Farm planetarium. Elementary students will begin their astronomy journey by learning about their home planet. $5 per person in addition to Day Use Fee. Members Free.  – Hillview Free Library (Diamond Point) Take the Rush out of Holidays and Experience the calming benefits of Meditation. In this monthly offering we're exploring various, creative meditation techniques. No experience necessary, just a desire to push the pause button on "doing", and practicing "being" in the present moment. |
December 19, 2025
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December 20, 2025(1 event) – Registration required: Hillview Free Library (Diamond Point) Join us for a very special story & craft. We'll read "Weiwei’s Winter Solstice: A Dongzhi Story" by Michelle Jing Chan. Then children will create a beeswax candle to bring a little bit of light into the longest night! |
December 21, 2025
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December 24, 2025
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December 25, 2025
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December 26, 2025
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December 27, 2025
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December 28, 2025
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December 29, 2025
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December 30, 2025(1 event) |
December 31, 2025
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January 1, 2026(1 event) |
January 2, 2026
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January 3, 2026(1 event) – Registration required: Up Yonda Farm Join us for a winter hike! During this Naturalist-led hike, we’ll traverse about a mile over the course of an hour, observe how plants and animals prepare for winter, and stop at our scenic vista point overlooking Lake George. In the event that there is at least 5 inches of snow on our trails, we will hike on snowshoes and will have those available for use. $6 per person in addition to Day Use Fee. Members Free. |