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 March 2026
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March 1, 2026
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March 2, 2026(1 event) – Registration required: Adirondack Experience Museum Navigate by map and compass. Splint a broken bone. Start a fire in a rainstorm. No big deal for Samantha Wethersfield! She’s an Assistant Forest Ranger who knows the Adirondack High Peaks like the back of her hand. The people in Sam’s life are pressuring her to make tough choices about the future. All at once her work, love-life, and home address are suddenly uncertain. She goes on one last backcountry adventure before making any big decisions. Sam needs time to think, but the wilderness unexpectedly gives her the biggest challenge of her life. As Sam uses all her skills and experience to stay alive, she comes to terms with the choices she needs to make. If Sam makes it out of the woods, she might just know what to do next! About The Speaker: |
March 3, 2026(1 event) Registration required: Adirondack Sky Center & Observatory Some of the most iconic images of the night sky involve the dramatic spiral arms found in Galaxies. These structures are found all around us including our own galaxy, the Milky Way. However, even after decades of study, the nature of these spirals remains a mystery. Masha Kilibarda is currently a senior at Haverford College where she is majoring in Astrophysics. In this talk, she will discuss her personal pathway in astronomy, as well as her own research on current spiral formation. She will cover multiple possible theories as well as ways to test them observationally using different methods. |
March 4, 2026(2 events) Registration required: Warren County Career Center Your resume and cover letter are crucial components that can set you apart from other candidates when applying for a job. This workshop will present the basics of a powerful and effective cover letter including formatting, tailoring to the job, and getting through the online application process to land an interview. *Please bring a rough draft of your resume*
– Registration required: Crandall Public Library Join us in conversation with bestselling author and humorist Michael Perry, whose collection of genre-spanning works encapsulates the experiences–and the magic–of rural town communities and the everyday people who reside in them. In Michael Perry’s memoir, Population: 485, the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives, and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, Perry tells a frequently comic tale leavened with moments of heartbreaking delicacy and searing tragedy. Jesus Cow, Perry’s fiction debut, is a hilarious yet sincere exploration of faith and the foibles of modern life. Low-key Harley Jackson finds himself entangled in drama from all corners: A woman in a big red pickup has stolen his bachelor’s heart, a Hummer-driving predatory developer is threatening to pave the last vestiges of his family farm, and inside his barn is a calf bearing the image of Jesus Christ–a secret he wants to keep quiet, until the truth slips right through the barn door. Register today to hear more about Perry’s expansive collection of stories! |
March 5, 2026(2 events) Registration required: Warren County Career Center Your resume and cover letter are crucial components that can set you apart from other candidates when applying for a job. This workshop will present the basics of a powerful and effective cover letter including formatting, tailoring to the job, and getting through the online application process to land an interview. *Please bring a rough draft of your resume*
Registration required: Warren County Career Center Transferable skills are qualities you have already acquired which can be used in a different job. Make it easy for employers to see the connection between your qualities and the skillset needed to do the job and market yourself as the solution to an employer's problem. Learn ways to research the employer's needs then identify and show them that you have these skills.
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March 10, 2026(1 event) Registration required: Warren County Career Center
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March 11, 2026(3 events) Registration required: Warren County Career Center
Goals are what take us forward in life. They are the first step to every journey we take. In this workshop we will explain how goal setting works, why goals are important, and take home more helpful resources to get you started. Remember: "if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time." Find out how to reach your dreams. Registration required: Caldwell-Lake George Library Learn how to harness your dreams to improve your sleep and health with dream engineer Dr. Michelle Carr. In Nightmare Obscura, Dr. Carr unlocks the science behind the sleeping body. Register now for a conversation you don’t want to miss! |
March 12, 2026(3 events) Registration required: Warren County Career Center Join this engaging workshop to learn about the skills that are most valued by business leaders, yet are under developed in employees. Learn why these skills are critically important, how to develop them, and the influence of AI.
Registration required: Caldwell-Lake George Library Book Portals and Journeys of Literary Magic with Kate Quinn
New York Times Bestselling Author of The Alice Network and The Rose Code Thursday, March 12th at 7 PM ET via digital live-stream.
You’re invited to join us for a conversation with acclaimed author Kate Quinn about her latest fantastical work, The Astral Library, which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book?
Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures. Register now to hear more about The Astral Library, crafted for all bookworms and lovers of literature.
This program is held in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
– Registration required: Crandall Public Library You’re invited to join us for a virtual conversation with acclaimed author Kate Quinn about her latest fantastical work, The Astral Library, which poses the question: Have you ever wished you could live inside a book? Welcome to the Astral Library, where books are not just objects, but doors to new worlds, new lives, and new futures. Alexandria “Alix” Watson has learned one lesson from her barren childhood in the foster-care system: unlike people, books will never let you down. Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream, Alix takes nightly refuge in the high-vaulted reading room at the Boston Public Library, escaping into her favorite fantasy novels and dreaming of far-off lands. Until the day she stumbles through a hidden door and meets the Librarian: the ageless, acerbic guardian of a hidden library where the desperate and the lost escape to new lives...inside their favorite books. The Librarian takes a dazzled Alix under her wing, but before she can escape into the pages of her new life, a shadowy enemy emerges to threaten everyone the Astral Library has ever helped protect. Aided by a dashing costume-shop owner, Alix and the Librarian flee through the Regency drawing rooms of Jane Austen to the back alleys of Sherlock Holmes and the champagne-soaked parties of The Great Gatsby as danger draws inexorably closer. But who does their enemy really wish to destroy—Alix, the Librarian, or the Library itself? Register now to hear more about The Astral Library, crafted for all bookworms and lovers of literature. |
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March 17, 2026(1 event) Registration required: Warren County Career Center Statistics show that approximately 50% of mid-sized companies and almost all large corporations use an applicant tracking system (ATS) to screen candidates for job opportunities. Find out how you can prepare and hear suggestions for getting the most visibility out of your online application.
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March 18, 2026(1 event) – Registration required: Adirondack Experience Museum How might we account for the creative outpouring that marked Georgia O’Keeffe’s years at Lake George, an interval that stands among the most prolific of her seven-decade career? A survey of her work from this period reveals an astonishing abundance: roughly two hundred paintings on canvas and paper, accompanied by numerous sketches and pastels. Lake George functioned for O’Keeffe as a potent site of artistic stimulus. Many of the botanical subjects that would come to define her oeuvre first took shape in this site. As a retreat from New York City, it afforded not only sustained contact with the natural world but a deep sense of place, an anchoring essential to her developing modernist vision. Yet it was not solely a refuge; Lake George also operated as a social nexus, animated by a continuous circulation of visitors. Within this multifaceted setting, O’Keeffe pursued new subjects while reckoning more deliberately with thoughts of selfhood and artistic independence, including the imagined prospect of a studio of her own. This presentation examines the forces that shaped her Lake George years: her evolving subjects, the shifting social dynamics around her, and the ways in which the site itself nourished her creative practice. Yaritza Martinez Pule joined the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in 2022 as Curatorial Assistant after completing a Fulbright research grant. Previously, she was a curatorial research fellow at Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City and a curatorial assistant at 80WSE Gallery, a gallery affiliated with New York University where she co-curated and organized exhibitions with the Institute of Fine Arts, the Costume Institute, and Steinhardt’s Department of Art. In addition, she was a visiting scholar in the archives at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. She holds an MA from New York University where she concentrated her research on the historical and cultural dimensions of textiles, and a BA from Marquette University with a focus on Art History, Digital Media Studies, and Spanish and Latin American Studies, completing a part of her art history education from King’s College London. Most recently, Yaritza curated A Circle that Nothing Can Break, an exhibition examining the ways in which Georgia O’Keeffe’s unique vocabulary of round forms intersected with feeling, memory, and lived experience. |
March 19, 2026(2 events) Registration required: Warren County Career Center Statistics show that approximately 50% of mid-sized companies and almost all large corporations use an applicant tracking system (ATS) to screen candidates for job opportunities. Find out how you can prepare and hear suggestions for getting the most visibility out of your online application.
Registration required: Warren County Career Center Transferable skills are qualities you have already acquired which can be used in a different job. Make it easy for employers to see the connection between your qualities and the skillset needed to do the job and market yourself as the solution to an employer's problem. Learn ways to research the employer's needs then identify and show them that you have these skills.
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March 20, 2026(1 event) Registration required: Warren County Career Center
Beyond Job Searches: Networking is your strategic tool for cultivating lasting relationships, fostering professional growth, and unlocking opportunities. It’s more than finding jobs; it’s a pivotal force propelling higher salaries and career advancement. Networking is the workout regimen your career muscle craves. Join us for an approachable journey to networking. |
March 21, 2026
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March 24, 2026(4 events) Registration required: Warren County Career Center Join us for this informal glimpse into potential stumbling blocks to finding a job and some resources and strategies to help you meet your goals. Whether you're facing transportation needs, childcare needs, prior justice system involvement, inexperience, health concerns, or more - we're here to help connect you to resources!
Registration required: Warren County Career Center
Goals are what take us forward in life. They are the first step to every journey we take. In this workshop we will explain how goal setting works, why goals are important, and take home more helpful resources to get you started. Remember: "if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time." Find out how to reach your dreams. – Registration required: Caldwell-Lake George Library Join us for a special conversation between award-winning journalist Shoshana Walter and bestselling and award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver as they chat about Walter’s book Rehab: An American Scandal. In this work, Walter, a Pulitzer finalist, exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry. – Registration required: Crandall Public Library Join us for a special conversation between award-winning journalist Shoshana Walter and bestselling and award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver as they chat about Walter’s book Rehab: An American Scandal. In this work, Walter, a Pulitzer finalist, exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry. Today, more people have access to treatment than ever before. So why isn’t it working? The answer is that in America—where anyone can get addicted—only certain people get a real chance to recover. Despite record numbers of overdose deaths, our default response is still to punish, while rehabs across the United States fail to incorporate scientifically proven strategies and exploit patients. In this book, you’ll find the stories of four people who represent the failures of the rehab-industrial complex, and the ways our treatment system often prevents recovery. April is a black mom in Philadelphia, who witnessed firsthand how the government’s punitive response to the crack epidemic impeded her mother’s recovery—and then her own. Chris, a young middle-class white man from Louisiana, received more opportunities in his addiction than April, including the chance to go to treatment instead of prison. Yet the only program the judge permitted was one that forced him to perform unpaid back-breaking labor at for-profit companies. Wendy is a mother from a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles, whose son died in a sober living home. She began investigating for-profit treatment programs—yet law enforcement and regulators routinely ignored her warnings, allowing rehab patients to die, again and again. Larry is a surgeon who himself struggled with addiction, and would eventually become one of the first Suboxone prescribers in the nation, drawing the scrutiny of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Be sure to register now to participate in this urgent conversation and learn insight on how we might fix the system to save lives. |
March 25, 2026(1 event) Registration required: Warren County Career Center
Beyond Job Searches: Networking is your strategic tool for cultivating lasting relationships, fostering professional growth, and unlocking opportunities. It’s more than finding jobs; it’s a pivotal force propelling higher salaries and career advancement. Networking is the workout regimen your career muscle craves. Join us for an approachable journey to networking. |
March 26, 2026(3 events) – Registration required: Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) Why aquatic invasive species are so good at being badInvasive species are everywhere, and once they’ve arrived, they are extremely difficult to remove. In this fascinating webinar, we will explore why invasive species are so good at spreading and why they are so adept at pushing out native plants and animals. It all comes down to adaptions—special characteristics that make a species well-suited to live in its environment. In the case of invasive species, many of them are well suited for almost any environment, which gives them a huge advantage. APIPP Aquatic Invasive Species Manager Anna Hardiman will dive into the world of aquatic invasive species, giving specific examples of their amazing and troublesome adaptations. Anna’s talk will be followed by Alex Sotola, an assistant biology professor with SUNY Oneonta, who will cover ongoing research into whether invasive milfoils are hybridizing with native milfoils in the Adirondacks. If hybridization is occurring, the result would be a new form of milfoil that shares traits of both species, the effects of which remain unknown. The research project is a collaboration between SUNY Oneonta and APIPP. Lastly, Anna will discuss how people can help protect the lakes they love by becoming one of APIPP’s volunteer Lake Protectors. Participants in the program adopt a lake to monitor for invasive species and they report their findings through the easy-to-use iMapInvasives mobile app. The data collected are invaluable to helping us understand and manage aquatic invasive species. Registration required: Warren County Career Center Registration required: Caldwell-Lake George Library Step into the world of wonder with award winning author Kate Messner as she dives into the books from her Over and Under series. Discover the curiosity, research, and real-world science behind her beautifully illustrated stories that explore ecosystems above and below the surface. |
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April 1, 2026(1 event) Registration required: Warren County Career Center Your resume and cover letter are crucial components that can set you apart from other candidates when applying for a job. This workshop will present the basics of a powerful and effective cover letter including formatting, tailoring to the job, and getting through the online application process to land an interview. *Please bring a rough draft of your resume*
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April 2, 2026(2 events) Registration required: Warren County Career Center Your resume and cover letter are crucial components that can set you apart from other candidates when applying for a job. This workshop will present the basics of a powerful and effective cover letter including formatting, tailoring to the job, and getting through the online application process to land an interview. *Please bring a rough draft of your resume*
Registration required: Warren County Career Center Transferable skills are qualities you have already acquired which can be used in a different job. Make it easy for employers to see the connection between your qualities and the skillset needed to do the job and market yourself as the solution to an employer's problem. Learn ways to research the employer's needs then identify and show them that you have these skills.
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