Wilkinson Public Library

10/20/2026

Join us tomorrow at TBC 5:30 PM. Snacks and lots of talk about The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway. Even if you didn’t finish, come for the discussion!!!!

10/15/2026

Congratulations to our October Dog of the Month, Shanti! Shanti is 9 years old and her favorite book is Desert Dog by Jim Kjelgaard. Her human’s name is Ben Marshall.

Thank you to Dirt Dawg Co. for supplying the self-serve dog wash and to My Pup’s Remedy for the delicious treats! 🐶

If you want to enter your dog into the Dog of the Month contest, head to telluridelibrary.org to submit them by the 14th of the month. Congrats again Shanti!

10/14/2026

Can AI make art? Should it? What happens to human artists and human audiences when algorithms influence the way art is conceived and consumed? Join acclaimed songwriter and performer Emily Scott Robinson and novelist and former AI ethics insider Jenny Williams for a deep discussion of the impacts AI is already having on creative practice, labor, and industries, along with impassioned hopes for the future—interspersed with songs and readings from these two artists’ body of work (100% human-made). Join us this Monday, October 19th at 5:30pm in the Telluride Library Program Room for an unforgettable performance by these two amazing women.

Jenny Williams is the author of House of Liars, a new literary psychological thriller about AI, creativity, and motherhood, as well as the novel The Atlas of Forgotten Places (St. Martin’s Press) and the novella A Short Future History of Whales (Spotify Audiobook Selects). She spent eight and a half years at Google and Microsoft working on AI ethics, content design, and research on creativity and AI. A former Ridgway resident, she currently works as a researcher and writer in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Emily Scott Robinson is an internationally-touring singer and songwriter signed to John Prine’s label Oh Boy Records. Lauded by NPR, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Colorado Public Radio, and the Washington Post, Robinson recently released her fifth album Appalachia to critical acclaim and six weeks at the #1 spot on the Folk radio charts. “Colorado singer-songwriter Emily Scott Robinson mixes folk and country with gorgeous, clear-eyed examinations of faith, hope and regret.” - NPR

10/13/2026

Join us for a talk and signing on Monday, October 26th at 5:30 pm with Pam L. Houston about her new book, Animals Taught Me Everything!

What can a wagging tail and soaring wings teach us about a life well lived?

From Icelandic mares and Irish wolfhounds to elephants, leopards, hyenas, and a desert-adapted lioness named Charlie, Pam Houston has learned life’s most important lessons from animals. How to play. How to rest. How to love. How to die. How to be present with the dying. How to be present with the living and with the Earth. How to find joy in the least likely places. How to find joy, literally, everywhere. With playful sincerity, Houston finds power and promise in the teachings of our fellow creatures and reminds us that animals are here for us, every day and everywhere.

10/07/2026

Hi all, we have a little pivot! We will now be Telluride Brewing Co on the 3rd Wednesday of the month! The first one will now be Oct 21st 5:30 PM. Daniel Zemke will be our host for The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway! Sign up www.Telluridelibrary.org/events

10/05/2026

It’s Banned Book Week, and we are celebrating the Freedom to Read at Stronghouse Brew Pub on Wednesday at 5:30pm with a free BINGO night! Come on by early to grab a seat and a bite to eat. We’ll have banned books and WPL merch as prizes. Come solo or bring your friends. Hope to see you there!

10/02/2026

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We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

10/01/2026

Why do humans need ghosts? And what do ghosts have to teach us?

Join us for an author talk and signing with Betsy Gaines Quammen for her new book, THIS HAUNTED LAND: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories that Shape America at 4:00. This event is part of the Original Thinkers , but it is free and open to the public, as are all OT events held at the library. No pass needed.

This Haunted Land investigates some of America’s most enduring legends and uncovers how ghost stories can illuminate some of the most unsettling parts of history. With curiosity, a touch of skepticism, and an open-hearted willingness to learn from the living and the dead, Betsy Gaines Quammen takes readers on a journey into haunted towns, forgotten lives, and abandoned places.

09/30/2026

Thanks to Kendra of ecoaction_partners for being willing to be goofy for the ‘gram and whose own organization would like to help reduce waste! (WPL employee Annie is trying to step out of the shot, but let’s just point out that she is fixing up a violin we have for check out. WPL has something for everyone!)