Bright Hill’s Community Library & Internet Wing is Free and Available to the People of Treadwell, Franklin, and beyond. A member of the Four County Library System, we work in partnership with the Franklin Free Library.
A Special collections library, thousands of volumes of literary journals, prose, poetry, criticism, & biography, theater, reference, art, and children’s books are available for reading & research (parts are non-circulating ). Wireless Internet access is available. Hours are 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Fridays 10 AM – 2 PM. Call 607-829-5055 or e-mail info@brighthillpress.org for further details. Come for a visit and meet our librarians Kathleen Callahan and Amber Mooney.
Treadwell’s Bright Hill Community Library has been selected as one of 300 libraries to participate in round three of Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities, an American Library Association (ALA) initiative that provides community engagement and accessibility resources to small and rural libraries to help them better serve people with disabilities.
NEW IN THE LIBRARY & INTERNET WING!
January PROGRAMMING: Bright Hill Community Library celebrates Martin Luther King Day with Dream Friendship bracelets and we continue LEGO CLUB.
February Programs!
Creative Collage February 16, 2026 at 2:30 pm
Hey kids, let’s get creative using the art of collage! On February 16th, at 2:30pm we will be using old magazines and recycled materials to create new, effortless art…No artistic skills required! All supplies provided.
Color Me Calm Kids February 17, 2026 at 2:30 pm
Looking for something to do during school break? Kids of all ages are welcome to come over to the library and enjoy a relaxing afternoon of coloring and relaxation! All supplies provided free of charge.
Our History
- In 2004, Bright Hill Center realized a dream by building the Bright Hill Community Library and Internet Wing. The Wing, funded, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts Capital Program, is also funded by the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation, the Walter Rich Charitable Foundation, the Otis A. Thompson Foundation, Ronald and Lois DeLuca, the A.C. Molinari Foundation, The Dewar Foundation, and Bright Hill’s members and friends.
- The wing was designed by Architect Laurie Hunt and constructed by Riverside Builders.
- In November, 2004, with president Ernest M. Fishman, Board of Directors: Richard Bernstein, Thomas Briggs, Vicki Davis, Jacqnene Howard, Marjorie Bradley Kellogg. Pamela J. Peters, Jack Schluep, Hella Viola, Charlotte Zoe Walker, and Founder Bertha Rogers, poets, writers, and friends helped us celebrate our grand opening.
- The library’s collections include literary prose and poetry, books on art, reference books, and a children’s section. Among the collections is the Quarterly Review of Literature Collection of Literary Journals, dating back to the 1940s and often including complete sets of magazines; and the Doris Vladimiroff Collection of literary prose and poetry and books on art; as well as many individually-donated books.
- The library includes a tower loft for children, for reading and playing quiet board games.
- If you would like to contribute books or funds to our beautiful new library please send your donation to Bright Hill Center, 94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY 13846. For more information, contact the Center at info@brighthillpress.org or call 607-829-5055.
As part of the South Central Regional Library Council. Board member Karen Detert, Library Chair, worked with the council so that our library is fully catalogued, with much of it circulating (the vast collection of literary journals from the Quarterly Review of Literature’s library will be available for in-library and online research only, as will some of the many art books from the collection of Doris Vladimiroff and given in her memory). Much of our collection will be accessible through online library systems and thus available to many more patrons than could possibly come to Treadwell. Karen worked with Bright Hill interns as well as volunteers.
Karen Detert, an advocate of public education, served as the Executive Director of the Northwestern Ohio Education Association for 11 years. After moving to West Delhi, she was employed by the Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute, an institute within Hartwick College that teaches management skills using leadership models form classic literature and firms. Karen has a Bachelor of Philosophy from Wayne State University, Detroit; and a Masters in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. An avid reader of prose and poetry, Karen joined Bright Hill’s board in 2009.
