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NOTE: Opening events is currently not working properly on some phones. We are hoping to have it fixed soon! In the meantime, check it out on a computer for full access or email aimee.e.holmes@gmail.com for information about a listed event.
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 “($)” and costs are included in those descriptions.
Check back often for updates and let us know what you think!
Events in December 2025
Creature Creator: Build Animal-Inspired Robots
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November 30, 2025
Adirondack Ballet Theater presents The Nutcracker: a Children's Workshop
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November 30, 2025
Homeschool Hangout
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December 1, 2025
Homeschool Hangout: Candy Cane Coding
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December 1, 2025
Nature on the Move
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December 1, 2025
Once Upon a Time Yoga Adventures: Little Yogis (3-4 years old)
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December 1, 2025
Art Blast: School-age Art Time
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December 1, 2025
Once Upon A Time Yoga Adventures: Yogi Explorers (5-12 years old)
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December 1, 2025
Annual Photo Show Ceremony and Holiday Reception
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December 1, 2025
Mah Jongg
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December 2, 2025
Exploring & Downloading Apps
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December 2, 2025
Online Author Talk: Sue Hincenbergs
December 2, 2025
Virtual: Scheming Wives and High-Stakes Hilarity with Author Sue Hincenbergs
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December 2, 2025
Kids’ Knit/Crochet Club
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December 2, 2025
Rainbow, Coffee, & Craft: Medieval Memery
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December 2, 2025
Sign Language Series: Winter
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December 2, 2025
OATS: AI All Around
December 2, 2025
Trivia Night ($)
December 2, 2025
Cygnus Virtual Lecture Series: Getting Started in NightScape Photography
December 2, 2025
Crafts for Uncrafty Adults and Teens Cardmaking Workshop
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December 3, 2025
Homeschool Meetup
December 3, 2025
Resume Development (Virtual)
December 3, 2025
Learn @ Lunch: Drop-in Tech Help
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December 3, 2025
Family Craft Program: Holiday Ornaments
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December 3, 2025
Holiday Potluck/Show & Share
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December 3, 2025
Virtual Presentation: Are Loons on Thin Ice With Climate Change?
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December 3, 2025
Resume Development (Virtual)
December 4, 2025
Storytime @ the Library
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December 4, 2025
Acquiring Transferable Skills (Virtual)
December 4, 2025
Genealogy Help
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December 4, 2025
Big Kid Club
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December 4, 2025
Fiber Arts Group
December 4, 2025
Holiday Pajama Party Open House
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December 4, 2025
TRL Book Club
December 4, 2025
Tween Club
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December 4, 2025
Winter Family Photos
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December 4, 2025
4-H Remote Control Club
December 4, 2025
Teen Karaoke
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December 4, 2025
Cancelled: Wreath-making with Ellie
December 4, 2025
"Let's Play" Scrabble!
December 4, 2025
Bluegrass Music Jam
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December 4, 2025
The Woes of Richard Montgomery: The Invasion of Canada, 1775
December 4, 2025
Novella Reading Group
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December 5, 2025
Storytime and Sing-A-Long
December 5, 2025
Figuring out Fossils with the State Paleontologist
December 5, 2025
A Cup of Cheer
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December 5, 2025
Slate Valley Museum Holiday Festival: Christmas in the Barn
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December 5, 2025
Town of Johnsburg Tree Lighting Ceremony
December 5, 2025
Downtown Block Party
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December 5, 2025
Winter Family Photos
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December 6, 2025
Christmas Ornament Workshop
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December 6, 2025
Adirondack Holiday Festival Family Fun Day
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December 6, 2025
Holiday Cheer Open House
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December 6, 2025
Annual Johnsburg Christmas Parade
December 6, 2025
Exploring Democracy: A Guided Tour of Voices & Votes with the Underground Railroad Education Center
December 6, 2025
Holiday Kids’ Art
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December 6, 2025
Lake George Games Expo-Winter Event!
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December 6, 2025
Winter Ornament Workshop
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December 6, 2025
Night Turns to Day Dramatic Reading
December 6, 2025
Slate Valley Museum Holiday Festival: Christmas in the Barn
December 6, 2025
A Holiday Celebration | Presented by North Country Singers
December 6, 2025
Breakfast with Santa and Olaf
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December 7, 2025
Winter Arts Festival
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December 7, 2025
Saint Nicholas Day
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December 7, 2025
The Sembrich Holiday Open House
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December 7, 2025
Festival of Trees - Public Reception
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December 7, 2025
Festival of Trees: Holiday Memories
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December 7, 2025
A Collector's Journey Through Time with the Clock Makers of Upstate New York - Reward & Risk: The Impact of the Erie Canal on Early Upstate New York Clock Makers, 1825–1845
December 7, 2025
A Holiday Celebration | Presented by North Country Singers
December 7, 2025
Town of Bolton Christmas Tree Lighting
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December 7, 2025
Handmade Holiday Cards
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December 7, 2025
Volunteer Book-moving
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December 8, 2025
The Library Writers
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December 8, 2025
Basic Computer Skills Workshop for Beginners
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December 8, 2025
AFS UFO Studio (formerly known as AFS Sewing Circle)
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December 9, 2025
Folklife Live & Local Concert: Angelina & JP
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December 9, 2025
Coffee Chat
December 9, 2025
Job Interview Preparation (Virtual)
December 9, 2025
Henry Knox Memorial Commemoration
December 9, 2025
Special Screening: The Raquette River Winter Experience
December 9, 2025
Book Discussion Group
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December 9, 2025
Adirondack Sports Acupuncture & Wellness
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December 9, 2025
Cancelled: Online Author Talk: Smithsonian Julia Child's Kitchen
December 9, 2025
Paint with Patrice: Snowy Pinecone
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December 9, 2025
Thematic Book Discussion
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December 9, 2025
Cancelled: Virtual: The Legacy of Julia Child's Kitchen with Author and Smithsonian Curator Paula J. Johnson
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December 9, 2025
A Christmas Carol, with Master Storyteller Jonathan Kruk
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December 9, 2025
Setting Employment Goals (Virtual)
December 10, 2025
Learning About Civil Service (Virtual)
December 10, 2025
Seed Library: Winter Sowing
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December 10, 2025
Wildlife of the Adirondacks
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December 10, 2025
Pop-Up Choir
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December 10, 2025
The Drawing Board: Jane Austen
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December 10, 2025
Book Club: The Christmas Bookshop
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December 10, 2025
Wild Stories from the History of Bird Migration Research
December 10, 2025
The Hyde Collection
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December 11, 2025
Essential Employment Skills (Virtual)
December 11, 2025
Responding to Dementia-Related Behaviors
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December 11, 2025
Artful Afternoon
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December 11, 2025
The Sembrich Holiday Open House
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December 11, 2025
Sewing with Sarah
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December 11, 2025
Sherlock Holmes Night Before Christmas! ($)
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December 11, 2025
Teen Group Craft Night
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December 11, 2025
Myths and Realities of Col. Henry Knox’s Mission to Lake Champlain
December 11, 2025
Favorite Poem Project
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December 11, 2025
Preschool Nature Time
December 12, 2025
Tour of the New York State Museum’s Ice Age Vertebrate Collection
December 12, 2025
Henry Knox's Noble Train of Artillery Commemoration
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December 12, 2025
Watercolor: Masters & Students Reception
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December 12, 2025
Christmas in Schroon Lake
December 12, 2025
Sing of a Merry Christmas
December 12, 2025
Christmas in Schroon Lake
December 13, 2025
Henry Knox Trail Reenactment
December 13, 2025
Froebel Star Hands-on Workshop
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December 13, 2025
Holiday Open House
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December 13, 2025
A Grand Fete: Celebrating Jane Austen's 250th Birthday
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December 13, 2025
Paint With Patrice: Chickadee in Snow ($)
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December 13, 2025
Thy Will Be Done: John Marks on George Washington, Slavery, and American Memory
December 13, 2025
Story & Art: Beautiful Oops!
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December 13, 2025
Ask Me Anything: Quantum Mechanics
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December 13, 2025
Christmas Bird Count
December 14, 2025
Festival of Lights: Dreidels & Storytime
December 14, 2025
World Awareness Children's Museum
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December 14, 2025
Johnsburg Fire Department Santa Parade
December 14, 2025
Construction Creations
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December 14, 2025
Wrapped in History: Polly Cooper, the Oneida Nation, and a Shawl of Honor
December 14, 2025
Sing of a Merry Christmas
December 14, 2025
Nature on the Move
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December 15, 2025
Crochet Class
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December 15, 2025
Completing Job Applications (Virtual)
December 16, 2025
Romp & Run
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December 16, 2025
90s Movie Night: Clueless (1995)
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December 16, 2025
Library Book Club
December 16, 2025
Family History One-to-One
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December 17, 2025
Story Time & Activity
December 17, 2025
Acrylics & More with Morgan
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December 17, 2025
Library Board Meeting
December 17, 2025
The Nature of Nature: Biodiversity in the Hudson Valley
December 17, 2025
Homeschool: Astronomy – Lesson 1 ($)
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December 18, 2025
Completing Job Applications (Virtual)
December 18, 2025
Genealogy Help
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December 18, 2025
Acquiring Transferable Skills (Virtual)
December 18, 2025
CapTel (Captioned Telephones) "Bingo"
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December 18, 2025
Paper Cricut Holiday Cards
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December 18, 2025
Paint with Patrice ($)
December 18, 2025
Teen Group Ornaments and Pet Portraits
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December 18, 2025
Creative Meditation
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December 18, 2025
It’s a Wonderful Life Film Screening at the Chapman
December 18, 2025
Networking (Virtual)
December 19, 2025
BrainFood: The Rise of New York’s Expansion Era Sports Teams—A Decade of Change
December 19, 2025
Christmas Bird Count
December 20, 2025
Winter Solstice Sunrise Walk
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December 20, 2025
The Muppet Christmas Carol Holiday Screening & Family Activities
December 20, 2025
Children's Story & Craft Hour: Winter Solstice
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December 20, 2025
Northshore Animal League
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December 20, 2025
A Visit from St. Nicholas: A Holiday Reading and Historic Treasure
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December 21, 2025
The Library Writers
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December 22, 2025
Habitat Hunters
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December 22, 2025
Story Time & Activity
December 22, 2025
Last Minute Gift Wrapping for Teens
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December 23, 2025
Overcoming Barriers to Employment (Virtual)
December 23, 2025
Special Screening: Craft in America: HOLIDAY
December 23, 2025
Setting Employment Goals (Virtual)
December 23, 2025
STEM: Origami/Paper Cricut
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December 23, 2025
Networking (Virtual)
December 24, 2025
Dice Goblins Character Lab: Workshop a D&D Character and Customized Dice Set
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December 26, 2025
Outcasts: Mary Banning’s World of Mushrooms—A Gallery Tour with a Museum Educator
December 26, 2025
Annual Capital Kwanzaa Celebration
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December 26, 2025
18th-Century Toys and Games: Play Like the Past
December 27, 2025
New Year's Snacks & Ideas with Chef Steve
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December 27, 2025
It Got Cold: Winter Animal Adaptations with Utica Zoo
December 28, 2025
Snuggle Up for 1,000 Books! Pajama Party at the Library
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December 29, 2025
Memoir Writing Group
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December 29, 2025
Teen Craft
December 29, 2025
Holiday Traditions: A Twelfth Night Celebration Preview
December 30, 2025
Mario Kart World Tournament
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December 30, 2025
Movie: The Muppets Christmas Carol
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December 30, 2025
Balloon Rockets & Color Galaxies
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December 30, 2025
Games Day
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December 30, 2025
New Year’s Midday Celebration
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December 31, 2025
Storytime at the Museum: “Shante Keys and the New Year’s Peas”
December 31, 2025
Using Social Media (Virtual)
December 31, 2025
First Day Hike
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January 1, 2026
David Engel Presents: Mr. Wonka's "WonderShow!"
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January 2, 2026
Naturalist-led Hike ($)
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January 3, 2026
Sticky Art Creations
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January 3, 2026
Full Moon Hike
January 3, 2026