“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” --Sara Baume from A Line Made By Walking | |
Friday August 9th is National Book Lovers Day! We happen to know a little bit about loving books! To learn more click here, and be sure to take some time to get some reading in and celebrate the love of reading. | |
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Election August 5, 2024 To Choose Trustees, Vote on Budget
The Stone Ridge Public Library will hold its annual election on Monday, August 5, 2024, between the hours of 2 pm and 8 pm at the Library. The election is to fill two four-year seats on the Board of Trustees and to consider the following proposition:
“Shall the budget proposed by the Board of Trustees of the Stone Ridge Public Library, including a tax appropriation of $325,087, be approved?”
Board of Trustees candidates nominated by petition are Susanne Warren, and Lisa St. John.
For those not able to come to the polling place on Election Day, absentee ballots are available at the library. Absentee ballots must be returned by mail or in person to the Library no later than 8 pm on Monday, August 5th.
Those eligible to vote must live and be registered to vote in the Town of Marbletown. For further information contact Jody Ford, Library Director, at 845-687-7023.
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Upcoming Fall Programs
In September:
Yoga with Laura returns starting on wednesday, 9/4 from 5:30-6:30 at the Rondout Municipal Center in the former Bistro space. Registration will open on 8/28.
The Great Give Back Food Fight! As part of the Great Give Back, Ulster County libraries are holding a food collection contest. The common goal is to fill up the shelves of local food pantries and to put an end to hunger in our communities! September 1-October 19 and we're in it to win it for our community!
In October: We will have our Fall Book Sale and our 2nd Annual Cake Off October 5th! Registration for Cake Off contestants will open up on September 1st! Hooray!
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The Little Bookshop
Regular Hours Monday-Friday 3pm-5pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
*The Little Bookshop will be closed on July 4 for Independence Day.*
We will have adult, young adult and children's Books.
Fiction and Non-fiction
Hardcover and Paperbacks.
All books are gently used and cost $2 each.
We also have DVDs, CDs and audio books on CD for $1 each.
We will also be having monthly donation days so keep an eye out on our socials and our website.
Come visit us - get a good book and see our gardens and patio!
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*New Book Group*
The Escape Club
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The Escape Club
Tuesday, August 27 7-8pm
Library Activity Room
An After Hours Library Program
Are you looking for a book group that reads just for the fun of it? This may be the book group for you. No serious tomes of 500+pages, just lighthearted escapism the group members will take turns choosing.
If you are interested in joining this after hours library book group contact programs@stoneridgelibrary.org
Our next meeting will be July 30 at 7pm and we will discuss When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
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WATERCOLOR LANDSCAPES
Real and Imagined
by Roni Wilder-Guidi
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Art Exhibit
by Roni Wilder-Guidi
July 1-August 30
Artist Statement
My watercolors typically utilize the wet-on-wet technique of painting. The wet paint is applied to wet paper, or the paint is added to a wash of wet paint. This creates a very fluid and unpredictable effect, perfect for dreamy landscapes. It's a great lesson in letting go! Sometimes I loosely translate a photograph and other times my paintings simply come from my imagination. I've recently been exploring abstract landscapes, utilizing a similar method. I'm inspired by the beautiful Hudson Valley with the Catskill Mountains and the Ashokan Reservoir so close to my home.
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Roni Wilder-Guidi
Roni Wilder-Guidi is a watercolor artist living in Woodstock, New York. Her paintings are inspired by the landscape of the Hudson Valley. After receiving her bachelors degree in Art History in 1981, she entered the publishing world in NYC as a graphic artist. She then continued her career here in the Hudson Valley, first in advertising and then as the art department manager of a stationery/craft company. Her love of fine art was rediscovered after retiring in 2018. Roni's work has been exhibited at local businesses and galleries including WAAM, ASK, EMERGE, Olive Free Library, Saugerties Library, Betsy Jacaruso Studio and currently at Millbrook Winery’s ‘Art in the Loft’ exhibit. Roni is an active member of the Woodstock Artists Association (WAAM) and Arts Mid Hudson (AMH). She has also led watercolor and painting classes to grade school children. Exploring the natural world through water, pigment and paper is her passion.
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Canasta
Fridays from 10-12
Registration Required
The Library has added Canasta to our group game offerings. Join our volunteer Jane to learn how to play this card game. Canasta is a form of rummy that uses two full card decks. Players or partnerships try to meld groups of two or three cards of the same rank and score bonuses for 7-card melds. The first player to hit 5000 points or partnership to hit 8500 points wins!
Beginners are welcome. Registration is limited.
To register contact: programs@stoneridgelibrary.org
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News from the Library Foundation | |
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Community Movie Night was a big hit in spite of the weather! We had a terrific turnout and kids enjoyed all kinds of Willy Wonka-themed games + activities + prizes. Many thanks to Arrowood Farms for contributing to the great vibes and for donating their beer sale proceeds to us! We are especially grateful to the Hasbrouck House for making such a fabulous event possible. Thank you hosting us and for donating a portion of the evening's dinner & drink sales to the SRLF! Click here to view photos from the event. If you have photos you’d like to share, please contact Aimee Trumbore at foundation@stoneridgelibrary.org.
SRL T-Shirts!
Show your love for the Stone Ridge Library with this awesome shirt! Super soft 100% pre-shrunk cotton. Get yours now!
Youth Sizes - $20, available in S, M, L
Adult Sizes - $25, available in S, M, L, XL
Proceeds support the SRL Foundation. We will eventually sell these shirts online (stay tuned!)…but for now, please purchase in-person at the library - cash, check, or Venmo accepted.
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Let's Move with the Library | |
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Let's Move with the Library
Thursdays each month
from 9-10
Various Rail Trails
The Stone Ridge Library Saunterers are back in action walking various rail trails every Thursday each month from 9-10am during the heat of the summer.
All are welcome as we talk and walk, getting in our steps and getting to know our neighbors. There is no registration necessary. Just show up with your walking shoes on.
All walks are weather permitting. Any cancellations will be posted on social media and on our website.
*Please check with your doctor before starting this or any exercise program.*
Thursday, August 1, 9-10 Wallkill Valley Rail Trail parking lot at the Trestle Bridge on Binnewater
Thursday, August 8, 9-10 O&W Rail Trail parking lot on Leggett Road.
Thursday, August 15, 9-10 O&W Rail Trail parking lot Rest Plaus Road
Thursday, August 22, 9-10 Wallkill Valley Rail Trail parking lot at the Women's Studio Workshop
Thursday, August 28, 9-10 O&W Rail Trail parking lot at the Cottekill Firehouse parking lot. ***Please carpool if you can as this lot has limited parking spaces or park across the road at the Silos parking area.***
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Teen Game Night
Friday, August 2
6-8:30pm
Teens 15+
Join us for after hours game night for teens. If you enjoy group games, come and join in the fun. This month we will be playing Taboo, Catan and many others.
Snacks will be provided. Registration is required. The library doors will open at 6pm and close at 6:15pm so be here on time for an evening of fun.
Register here
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Adventure Begins at the Library
Story Hours with Julianna
Ages 5 -11 years 3:00-4:00
Wednesdays, August 14 & 21
(Note: no story hour on August 7)
Register here
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New Parent Playgroup
For children ages 0-12 months
Thursdays, 12:30-1:30
Register here
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Messtival!!!
Friday, August 23 3:00-4:00
An adventure in mess to celebrate a great summer of reading.
Don’t wear your finest clothes to this event.
Slime, paint, oobleck, & bubbles.
Register here
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Reading Dragons and Friends is a card collecting, independent reading, incentive program through the library.
This is a fun card collecting & reading INCENTIVE activity where children can earn a new dragon card for every 30 minutes of reading.
How do you get started and acquire a Reading Dragon?
Pick up a free Reading Dragon tracker, instructions, and some special starter cards at the library.
The more you read, the more dragons, unicorn, and griffin cards you can collect!
Each set includes an egg, a baby, a teenager, and an adult form of your dragon, unicorn, or griffin.
Take home your tracker, READ!! Then bring your completed tracker to the front desk to choose your cards!!
Collect them ALL!
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Tea Time
Book Group
Wednesday, August 14
1pm in the Activity Room
The book for August is In Another Time by Jillian Cantor
A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival. Love brought them together. But only time can save them 1931, Germany. Bookshop owner Max Beissinger meets Hanna Ginsberg, a budding concert violinist, and immediately he feels a powerful chemistry between them. It isnt long before they fall in love and begin making plans for the future. As their love affair unfolds over the next five years, the climate drastically changes in Germany as Hitler comes to power. Their love is tested with the new landscape and the realities of war, not the least of which is that Hanna is Jewish and Max is not.
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Clio's Muse
History Book Group
Wednesday, August 28
7pm via Zoom
The book for August is The Iliad, translated by Emily Wilson
One of the most important and influential works of the Western Canon, The Iliad has long been a favorite of scholars and laypeople, embraced by famed artists from Shakespeare to Brad Pitt. The Iliad opens in the late stages of the Trojan War, and, with reflection on prior battles, follows through the sacking of Troy and the Greeks' bitter victory. Spanning the defeats, allegiances, victories, and vengeances of mortals and Gods alike, this epic poem of the ages still manages to be intensely relevant to modern readers. The major thematic thrusts (glory, honor, wrath, and fate) are both the stuff of legend and part of our ongoing experience. Now, in an updated prose translation from the original Greek, Blakely focuses his Iliad on the gripping heroics of Achilles and Patroclus, recounting a relatable tale of angry young men striving for glory, trapped by fate into prescribed warrior roles.
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, August 21
11am in the Activity Room
The book for August is Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend. But life isn't as idyllic as it should be: exhausted by the responsibility of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, Susan is beginning to miss her literary life in London - even though her publishing career once entangled her in a lethal literary murder plot.
So when an English couple come to visit with tales of a murder that took place in a hotel the same day their daughter Cecily was married there, Susan can't help but find herself fascinated.
And when they tell her that Cecily has gone missing a few short hours after reading Atticus Pund Takes The Case, a crime novel Susan edited some years previously, Susan knows she must return to London to find out what has happened.
The clues to the murder and to Cecily's disappearance must lie within the pages of this novel.
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Friday, August 16
12:15pm, Activity Room
Registration Required
In August we will be cooking to the theme of Summer Favorites. Thinks seasonal as summer has so many local options and have fun!
The Cooks & Books group is a cookbook group. We meet the 3rd Friday of each month and take turns choosing a cookbook or theme to cook from. Each member then makes a chosen dish to bring to the meeting where we feast and discuss the cookbook and recipes. It’s a lot of fun with great food and company.
Participation is limited so if you are interested in joining this group, please contact Sarah Robertson at programs@stoneridgelibrary.org or call (845) 687-7023 ext. 8.
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German Conversation
with Suse Volk
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German Conversation Group
Friday, August 19, 4-5pm
Activity Room
The Stone Ridge Library has expanded our language conversation groups to include a German conversation group which will meet on the third Friday of each month.
Participants should have some background in German language as this is a conversation group meant to improve and brush up skills.
Suse Volk is a native German speaker ready to discuss a variety of topics including culture, travel and food.
If you are interested in joining this group please contact Sarah Robertson at: programs@stoneridgelibrary.org
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Tuesday, September 17
***French Conversation is on Hiatus until September.
1-2 pm - in the Activity Room
Want to brush up or improve your French with a conversation hour? Claudine is a native French speaker, born in Paris and raised in Europe; following a 30 year Government career abroad, she chose Stone Ridge to retire in. Culture, medicine, travels, and anything / everything culinary are favorite subjects-which she would love to share and exchange in French. The program is offered on the third Tuesday of each month. This group is meeting in-person in the Activity Room. Registration is not required. For more information contact Sarah Robertson at: programs@stoneridgelibrary.org.
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Monday, August 26
1-2 pm on Zoom
¿Hablas español? If you would like to brush up on your Spanish conversation skills and meet other language lovers in a friendly and stress free environment, come join our class in the activity room or on Zoom, every fourth Tuesday of the month from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm. All levels are welcomed. ¡Hasta entonces!
Francisco Rivera was born and raised in Spanish Harlem in NYC and is a long term resident of Marbletown.
Contact Sarah Robertson at programs@stoneridgelibrary.org to join the group.
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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen
Thursdays, August 1 & 15
on Zoom 1:30 - 3:00
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. Poetry meets the first and third Thursday of the month via Zoom.
Please contact Rosemary at rmdeen@gmail.com if you’d like to join the group.
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WRITERS' GROUP
with Cathy Arra
GROUP I:
Monday, August 12 & 26
GROUP II:
Monday, August 5 & 19
4:00-6:30pm in the Activity Room
Two separate writers' groups meet on alternate Mondays at the library, with a maximum of 10 participants in each group. This program is designed for those who are actively writing and publishing work and who want to participate in a structured critical feedback process. Cathy Arra, a poet, writer, and former teacher of English and Writing in the Rondout Valley School District, facilitates the groups. This is not a drop in group. If you are interested in participating, please contact Cathy Arra.
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MAHJONG
Every Tuesday
10am-noon, in the Activity Room
Tuesdays from 10-12 in the library Activity Room. No registration is required. Players must have basic knowledge to play. Everyone is welcome to watch. Beginner lessons will be offered occasionally by a group member at a mutually convenient time. The group is playing with the 2024 card.
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KNITTING GROUP
Every Saturday
10am-noon, in the Activity Room
The Stone Ridge Library Knitters meet every Saturday morning from 10am – 12noon. All ages and experience levels can join us and drop-in knitters are also welcome. We each bring our own supplies and do our own work, but one of the best things about us is that whatever obstacle or confusion you might encounter, you’re likely to receive as much comment and advice as you need to get where you’re going with a project.
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New Fiction
A Refiner's Fire by Donna Leon
Conditions Of Unconditional Love by Alexander McCall Smith
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
The Townsend Family Recipe For Disaster by Shauna Robinson
Death In Cornwall by Daniel Silva
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New Non-Fiction
Associate Press Style Book
What An Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman
Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World by Craig Foster
Then I Am Myself The World by Christof Koch
Get Me Through The Next Five Minutes by James Parker
The Townsend Family Recipe For Disaster by Shauna Robinson
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New DVDs
Animal Kingdom (French)
Anselm (Wim Wenders)
Chevalier (Greek)
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters II
Kindred
Maiden
Orphan Black (complete Series)
Ted Lasso (complete series)
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New E-books and Audio Books
*Recently purchased ebooks and Audio Books are available to all Mid-Hudson Library Patrons*
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New Fiction eBooks
Smolder by Brett Battles
The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton
Swift River by Essie Chambers
Eruption by Michael Crichton & James Patterson
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
Swan Song By Elin Hilderbrand
Sandwich: A Novel by Catherine Newman
A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn
A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn
A treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn
The Comfort Of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear
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New Nonfiction eBooks
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise Aronson
All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
Kitchen Garden Revival by Nicole Johnsey Burke
The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne
On Call : A Doctor's Journey In Public Service by Anthony Fauci, MD
New World Sourdough: by Bryan Ford
World Mythology For Beginners by Zachary Hamby
Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book On Decluttering You'll Ever Need by Tracy McCubbin
Let's Talk About Aging Parents: A Real Life Guide To Solving Problems with 27 Essential Conversations by Laura Tamblyn Watts
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HOW TO ORDER USING THE
ONLINE CATALOG
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Go to stoneridgelibrary.org.
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Click on Search the Catalog.
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Log in is in the top right corner of the page.
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You will need your Library Barcode (on back of your Library Card) and your PIN. (If you don't have a PIN you can set it up yourself.)
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Search for your item.
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Click the Request It button.
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Submit your request.
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Address: 3700 Main Street, PO Box 188
Stone Ridge, NY 12484
Phone: 845-687-7023
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