The Cornwall Library

Celebrate Earth Day, April 22 at noon at the Cornwall Library. Katie Freygang will lead a discussion of the book Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong, This book reassembles ecological wisdom from various cultures, religions and philosophers into a foundational approach for modern times. Attendees are invited to bring their own favorite books dealing with nature [Read More...]

Storytime with Rita Delgado: Saturday, April 26th from 10:30am until noon. Jump into a magical book-filled interactive reading time with Miss Rita.

Acclaimed poet Phillis Levin will read from An Anthology of Rain (2025), the most recent of her six published collections, at 5pm on Saturday, April 26. Levin’s honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, a Fulbright Scholar Award to Slovenia, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, [Read More...]

The Second Person: Poetry Workshop with Phillis Levin, April 27 at noon. In this workshop students will explore the power of direct address in poetry. The act of speaking to (rather than of or about) a person, a thing, a place, or an idea opens us to a real or an imagined Other – and [Read More...]

Discovering Cornwall’s Apple Heritage Past, Present & Future: Saturday, May 3 at 5pm: A talk by Peter Del Tredici, Ian and Gordon Ridgway at the Cornwall Library. Come hear about our efforts to identify Cornwall‘s historic apple varieties and to preserve these old heirloom trees by grafting and cultivating them. We will also discuss Cornwall’s [Read More...]

Storytime with Rita Delgado: Saturday, May 10th from 10:30am until noon. Jump into a magical book-filled interactive reading time with Miss Rita.