Washington County Public Library System

Community Day
2026-03-18 11:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Glade Spring, 305 N. Glade St., Glade Spring, VA, 24340, United States
Join our community to watch “Wicked,” enjoy refreshments, and participate in a craft activity!

Mendota Storytime
2026-03-18 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-11 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-04 10:30 - 11:00 | Mendota, 2562 Mendota Road, Mendota, VA, 24270, United States
Join us for storytime at our Mendota location. Featuring songs, picture books, rhymes, movement, and so much more!
This program is for children 0-5 and their caregivers.

Hayters Gap Storytime
2026-03-18 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-11 10:30 - 11:00 | Hayters Gap, 7720 Hayters Gap Rd, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States
Join us for storytime at our Hayters Gap location. Featuring songs, picture books, rhymes, movement, and so much more!
This program is for children 0-5 and their caregivers.

Glade Spring Storytime
2026-03-18 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-11 10:30 - 11:00 | Glade Spring, 305 N. Glade St., Glade Spring, VA, 24340, United States
Join us for storytime at our Glade Spring location. Featuring songs, picture books, rhymes, movement, and so much more!
This program is for children 0-5 and their caregivers.

Damascus Storytime
2026-03-18 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-11 10:30 - 11:00 | Damascus, 310 Water Street, Damascus, VA, 24236, United States
Join us for storytime at our Damascus location. Featuring songs, picture books, rhymes, movement, and so much more!
This program is for children 0-5 and their caregivers.

Abingdon Storytime
2026-03-17 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-10 10:30 - 11:00 | Abingdon, 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States
Join us for storytime at our main library featuring songs, picture books, rhymes, movement, and so much more!
This program is for children 0-5 and their caregivers.

Music and Movement
2026-03-16 10:30 - 11:00, 2026-03-09 10:30 - 11:00 | Abingdon, 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States
Let’s sing interactive songs, play instruments, move, groove, and have fun together!
This program is for children 0-5 and their caregivers.

Strong Appalachian Women
2026-03-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Abingdon, 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States
In honor of Women’s History Month, Theresa Burriss, PhD, will celebrate many of the courageous, fierce women of Appalachia, who defy negative and reductive stereotypes that persist to this day.
Whether real life heroines, such as Helen Matthews Lewis, Hazel Dickens, Marat Moore, and Suzanne Stryk, or fictional ones, such as Lydia Moore McQueen, Gertie Nevels, Ivy Rowe, and Carrie Bishop, all the women serve as powerful role models to women and men alike, Appalachian or not. Come be inspired by these women’s amazing life stories!

Movies for Grown-Ups
2026-03-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Abingdon, 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States
Join us for a free movie! We’re showing “Circle of Friends.”

Afternoon Book Club
2026-03-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Damascus, 310 Water Street, Damascus, VA, 24236, United States
Join us on site, at the Damascus library, as we discuss “Radium Girls” by Kate Moore.

Pop-Up Library – Benhams
2026-03-13 09:30 - 10:00 | Benhams Community Center, 19864 Benhams Road, Bristol, VA, VA, 24202, United States
Stop by the Benhams Community Center above the Goodson-Kinderhook Fire Department for library materials including books, magazines and movies, other free materials, and complimentary notary service.
This program is for all ages.

Art & Audio
2026-03-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Hayters Gap, 7720 Hayters Gap Rd, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States
Looking for your next great read? Let’s make a masterpiece while we enjoy the first chapters of recent audiobook releases for tweens and teens.

Crochet Club
2026-03-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Abingdon, 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States
Join our crochet guru, Penny, to learn to crochet. We supply needles and yarn and you supply a willingness to learn.
Already know crochet? Bring your current project and spend an hour visiting and share tips and ideas with other crocheters.

Morning Mingle
2026-03-12 10:30 - 11:30 | Hayters Gap, 7720 Hayters Gap Rd, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States
All ages and abilities are welcome to join us for an accessible activity that promotes social connection.
Hayters Gap library every second Thursday.

A Spirited Book Club
2026-03-10 18:15 - 19:15 | Appalachian Heritage Distillery & Brewery, 110 West Laurel Avenue, Damascus, VA, 24236, United States
Join A Spirited Book Club at Appalachian Heritage Distillery and & Brewery as we discuss “Radium Girls” by Kate Moore.
Discussions will be led by Damascus Public Library. Call (276) 475-3820 to learn how to reserve a copy.

Pop-Up Library – Clinchburg
2026-03-10 09:30 - 2026-03-13 11:00 | Clinchburg Community Center, 31787 Old Saltworks Road, Meadowview, VA, 24361, United States
Stop by the Clinchburg Community Center for library materials including books, magazines and movies, other free materials, and complimentary notary service.
This program is for all ages.

Sunday with Friends: This Day and Time
2026-03-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Abingdon, 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States
Learn about one of the forgotten classics of Appalachian literature, Anne Armstong’s “This Day and Time,” which is set on the South Holston River in the 1930s in the Big Creek resort community, now flooded by South Holston Lake.
The realistic novel is the story of Ivy Ingoldsby, a resilient young woman who has been deserted by her husband and is raising a young son in the mountains after having tried working factory jobs in town. The novel has lyrical descriptions of the landscape and careful, authentic use of Appalachian dialect.
Armstong, a business executive, came to the area from Knoxville in the 1920s as the Assistant Manager of Industrial Relations for Eastman Kodak. In the 1930s she retired to the Big Creek community. In addition to writing fiction, she wrote articles on the emerging role of women in business.
In the 1950s she moved to Abingdon, where her friend Robert Porterfield encouraged her to adapt “This Day and Time” to play form. The adaptation was performed under a new title, “Some Sweet Day.”
The speaker will be Linda Behrend, a librarian at the University of Tennessee, who has edited a critical edition of the novel. She also has edited Armstong’s memoir, “Of Time and Knoxville: Fragment of an Autobiography.” Behrend’s articles have been published in “Against the Grain,” the “Encyclopedia of Appalachia,” and the “New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.”

Movies for Grown-Ups
2026-03-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Abingdon, 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States
Join us for a free movie! We’re showing “Rooster Cogburn.”

First Friday Book Club
2026-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Mendota, 2562 Mendota Road, Mendota, VA, 24270, United States
Join us for a discussion about Lauren Willig’s book “The Girl from Greenwich Street”.

Pop-Up Library – Green Cove
2026-03-06 09:30 - 11:00 | Green Cove Community Center, 41221 Green Cove Road, Damascus, VA, 24236, United States
Stop by the Green Cove Community Center for library materials including books, magazines and movies, other free materials, and complimentary notary service.
This program is for all ages.

Morning Mingle
2026-03-05 10:30 - 11:30 | Damascus, 310 Water Street, Damascus, VA, 24236, United States
All ages and abilities are welcome to join us for an accessible activity that promotes social connection.
Damascus library every first Thursday.

Readers Circle
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Abingdon, 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, 24210, United States
Join the Readers Circle! Exchange reading suggestions with other avid readers. Bring your current read to share.

Wellness Wednesdays
2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Damascus, 310 Water Street, Damascus, VA, 24236, United States
Join us the first Wednesday each month as we learn about a different fruit or veggie! Learn how they grow and why they are good for our bodies! This program is presented by Andrea Wann of the Virginia Cooperative Extension.
