Ester Village Library

Open Hours
2026-05-02 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-06 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-09 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-13 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-16 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-20 17:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-23 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-05-27 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Anchorage) and 3 more dates

Adult Book Club
2026-05-02 15:30 - 17:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
“The World According to Color” by James Fox
From Amazon:
We have an extraordinary connection to color―we give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colors―black, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and green―and uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history.
Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations.
Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give to hue. And using his background as an art historian, he explores many of the milestones in the history of art―from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein―in a fresh way. Fox also weaves in literature, philosophy, cinema, archaeology, and art―moving from Monet to Marco Polo, early Japanese ink artists to Shakespeare and Goethe to James Bond.
By creating a new history of color, Fox reveals a new story about humans and our place in the universe: second only to language, color is the greatest carrier of cultural meaning in our world.

Writing Circle/Open hours
2026-05-03 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-10 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-17 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-24 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-31 16:00 - 18:00, 2026-06-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725

Kid's art and crafts
2026-05-04 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-11 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-18 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-05-25 15:00 - 18:00, 2026-06-01 15:00 - 18:00

Knit Night/Open Hours
2026-05-05 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-12 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-19 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-05-26 16:00 - 19:00, 2026-06-02 16:00 - 19:00

Annual Plant Sale
2026-05-30 12:00 - 15:00 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
See the Plant sale flyer
Come on down to the library and get your starters for the year! Ornamental and edible plants for sale, all to support the library.

Monthly Book Club
2026-06-06 15:00 - 16:30 | Clausen Cabin, 3629 Main Street, Ester, 99725
“The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek” by Kim Michele Richardson
From Amazon:
The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy Mary, a packhorse librarian and her quest to bring books to the Appalachian community she loves, perfect for readers of William Kent Kreuger and Lisa Wingate. The perfect addition to your next book club!
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.
Cussy’s not only a book woman, however, she’s also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy’s family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she’s going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler.
Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman’s belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home.
