Fauquier Library News

Here's a shout out to public libraries, as we celebrate National Library Week!

Library celebrates Women's History Month, St. Patrick's Day and welcomes bestselling Civil War author Patrick K. O'Donnell.

February is a busy month at the library, from books clubs to STEAM programs.

Learn about the ways to start your new year at the library!

"Buddy, it’s fruitcake weather,” exclaims Miss Sook Faulk, in the lovely short story A Christmas Memory .    For Buddy and Sook the...

Library Director Maria Del Rosso shares a few highlights of library happenings in November.

Join us in celebrating The Book Cellar's 25 anniversary!

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled, according to Greek philosopher Plutarch .   The lineup of what the...

The green and white encyclopedia loomed large in my childhood.

Our summer theme is Adventure Begins at Your Library.  The operative word is “begins” but who knows where it will lead?  

It’s Monday morning and the first of our volunteers for the week shows up ready to work. 

“When it’s good, it’s very good, but when it’s bad it’s horrid.” Forgive me for altering Longfellow’s poem, but it sizes up the situation...

There’s a wow factor that greets visitors to Warrenton these days. The beige Britches building at the corner of Culpeper and Main Streets...

“If you build it, they will come.” On December 18, 2003, the Bealeton branch library opened its doors to the southern Fauquier community....

In the movie The Way We Were longtime buddies Hubbell and J.J. while sailing recount the best Saturday afternoon, the best month, the...

Check out these Meet the Author talks coming later this month: Joy Harjo Thursday, Nov. 16  |  4-5 p.m. Register United States Poet...

I cooked my first turkey in a church cafeteria for 20 college friends doing flood relief in Bluefield, West Virginia.  All went well,...

“But, where are the numbers?” I asked Mr. Hartledge, my freshman algebra teacher, after he had sprinkled the blackboard with a dizzying...

The Mary H. Weir Public Library was one block from my elementary school.  A note from my mother freed me to visit the place during lunch...

It’s hard to believe summer is waning but the signs are all there.  The sun sets earlier, stores stock school supplies, Labor Day looms. ...