Ester Village Library

Adult paint workshop
2025-09-04 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-11 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-18 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-09-25 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Anchorage) | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us for some fun times painting whatever your heart desires!

Open Hours
2025-09-06 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-10 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-13 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-17 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-20 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-24 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-01 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-04 13:00 - 16:00

Adult Book Club
2025-09-06 15:00 - 16:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick deWitt
From Amazon:
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn’t share his brother’s appetite for whiskey and killing, he’s never known anything else. But their prey isn’t an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm’s gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living-and whom he does it for.
With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters-losers, cheaters, and ne’er-do-wells from all stripes of life-and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.

Lynda Sather, local author, presentation
2025-09-06 16:00 - 17:00
Join us to hear local author Lynda Sather talk about her latest book,” A Smack of Jellyfish: Fear, Fish and Finding Yourself in Alaska”, a coming-of-age story about a young woman experiencing Petersburg, Alaska for the first time in 1973.
This will be a 20-minute talk about her book, and the process of writing fiction versus memoir, followed by a Q & A session afterwards.
Here is more of a description of the book:
A Smack of Jellyfish

Writing Circle/Open hours
2025-09-07 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-09-14 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-09-21 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-09-28 16:00 - 18:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Back to School Ice Cream Social
2025-09-08 15:00 - 18:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
Join us this week for ice cream!

Knit Night/Open Hours
2025-09-09 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-16 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-23 16:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-30 16:00 - 19:00

Annual Fall Garlic Sale
2025-09-13 12:00 - 14:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Children's Book Club
2025-09-13 14:30 - 16:00

Kid's art and crafts
2025-09-15 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-09-22 15:00 - 18:00, 2025-09-29 15:00 - 18:00

LiBerry Pie and Music Festival
2025-09-27 14:00 - 22:00 | Golden Eagle Saloon, 3530 Main Steet, Fairbanks, 99709, United States
Join us for our annual Fall fundraiser and pie throwdown!
Pie competition begins with entries being brought to the Clausen Cabin at 2:00PM, with pies being judged at 4:00 PM. There are 2 categories: sweet and savory, with a winner being crowned in each category and a grand prize champion.
Pies for sale ($5/slice) can be brought over to the Golden Eagle beginning at 5:00, with the pie sales and music beginning at 6:00PM. Non-winning pies will also be sold for $5/slice.
The three winning pies will be live auctioned off at 8:00PM.
Join us for a night of pie eating and fun!

Adult Book Club
2025-10-04 15:00 - 16:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
This month’s selection: West With Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge
From Amazon:
Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave.
It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world’s first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes.
Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it’s too late.
