"A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship." -Markus Zusak The Book Thief
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The library will be CLOSED Wednesday, January 1, as we welcome in the New Year, 2025!
The library will be CLOSED Monday, January 20, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Using Mindfulness to Ease Your Pain
with Stephanie Speer
Monday, February 3, 2-3:30 PM
Activity Room
Mindfulness makes it possible to explore pain as a constellation of sensations, be they mild or intense, unpleasant or unbearable, transitory or prolonged, while being able to separate these physical sensations from stressful thoughts and troubled feelings. Having a body, we know that pain is inevitable. With mindfulness practices, we discover that our suffering is optional, that we can reshape our relationship with pain, and improve the quality of our life.
Registration required. Click here to register
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Meet our New Director
Saturday, January 25, 12:30-2:30
Library Activity Room
Light refreshments will be served
Join us as we welcome our new Stone Ridge Library Director, Gabrielle Esposito.
Gabrielle holds M.S. in Information Science from SUNY Albany and brings a wealth of experience as an adult programmer at both the Howland Public Library and the Millbrook Library. A passionate writer, she also enjoys teaching writing workshops at public libraries across the country. Gabrielle is thrilled to have the opportunity to serve the Stone Ridge Library community and looks forward to meeting our patrons and answering any questions.
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Rochester Memberships
at the Stone Ridge Library
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Starting on Thursday, January 2nd, Rochester memberships are available for sign up. We have 238 free memberships available on a first come, first served basis.
New members must stop in the library to sign up for a membership at the circulation desk.
Renewal of existing memberships can be done over the phone by calling (845)687-7023 ext. 3 for the circulation desk.
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The Power of the Pause:
Moving from Reactivity to Responsiveness with Mindfulness
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The Power of the Pause: Moving from Reactivity to Responsiveness with Mindfulness
Monday, January 6, 2-3:30
Activity Room
This will be an opportunity to explore the power of the pause, to rest in non-reactivity, and to increase one’s ability to respond to oneself, to others, and to our life circumstances with greater wisdom and ease. Register here.
As a trained instructor of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Stephanie Speer has been teaching mindfulness to individuals and groups for over 30 years. She
received her Masters in Humanistic Education from Goddard College and completed
her MBSR training from Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli of the University of
Massachusetts Medical Center. Her professional work and personal life have been
informed by 35 years of meditation practice and Buddhist studies.
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After Work Yoga with Laura
Wednesdays January 8, 15, 22 & 29
5:30-6:30
Marbletown Community Center
Starting 2025 off right!
The library and the Town of Marbletown are happy to offer free, hour-long, after-work yoga classes Wednesdays starting January 8 from 5:30-6:30.
Classes will be held at the Rondout Valley Municipal Center Gymnasium-the Community Center is closed for repairs. Bring your yoga mat and any props you use or you can borrow from our supplies.
Registration is required for each yoga class.
This is a very popular program and typically with a waiting list. If you register and then cannot make the class please cancel your registration on our website or let Sarah know in an email to: programs@stoneridgelibrary.org
January 8 Register here
January 15 Register here
January 22 Register here
January 29 Register here
*Please be sure to bring your yoga mat, any blocks or straps you have and a blanket or sweatshirt for shavasana. Those floors are chilly. If you don't have yoga equipment we have mats, blocks and straps you can borrow.
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In the Garden
January 13-February 24
Artists Reception Saturday, January 18, 1-3pm Light refreshments will be served
Our new exhibit showcases the observational drawings and paintings inspired by the Bonni Leu Banyard Pollinator Garden. We are excited to support the artists who have spent hours observing and documenting the diversity of flora and the pollinators they attract. Our featured artists include both novice and accomplished artists reflecting various artistic disciplines. Professional artists Lynn Friedman, and Judith Zeichner’s plein-air landscapes are an example of one approach, while Mavis Harris, Loretta Murin and Christine Herbes-Sommers along with Donna Calcavecchio and fledgling artist Mary Gruszka chose a more traditional botanical approach. With landscape paintings, preliminary sketches and finished drawings, the diversity of work and style in this exhibit equals the diversity of the flora and fauna found in the garden.
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Let's Move with the Library
Thursdays each month
from 12-1pm
Various Rail Trails
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 by 8am and on our website.
*Please check with your doctor before starting this or any exercise program.*
Thursday, January 2, 12-1 O&W Rail Trail parking lot Rest Plaus Trailhead
Thursday, January 9, 12-1 Wallkill Valley Rail Trail parking lot at the Women's Studio Workshop.
Thursday, January 16, 12-1 O&W Rail Trail parking lot at the Leggett Road Trailhead.
Thursday, January 23, 12-1 Wallkill Valley Rail Trail parking lot on Binnewater to walk the Trestle Bridge
*There will be no walk January 30*
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Teen Game Night
Friday, January 3
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 Arboretum, Liverpool Rummy, 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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We've moved the children’s DVDs!
Get out the popcorn! Starting in January, we are going to create more space in the Children's Room by moving our kid's DVDs to a new home alongside our main DVD collection. We are really looking forward to revitalizing our children’s movie collection in 2025 - stay tuned for new titles to be added each month!
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Tea Time
Book Group
Wednesday, January 8
1pm in the Activity Room
The book for January is People of the Book By Geraldine Brooks
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock the book’s mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its salvation back to its creation.
In Bosnia during World War II, a Muslim risks his life to protect it from the Nazis. In the hedonistic salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna, the book becomes a pawn in the struggle against the city’s rising anti-Semitism.
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Clio's Muse
History Book Group
Wednesday, January 29
7pm Via Zoom
The book for January is 1177: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture.
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, January 15
11am Activity Room
The book for January is Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O'Connor
In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Naomi's Bistro has always been a warm and welcoming spot to visit with neighbors, enjoy some brown bread and tea, and get the local gossip. Nowadays twenty-two-year-old Siobhán O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings, after the death of their parents in a car crash almost a year ago.
It's been a rough year for the O'Sullivans, but it's about to get rougher. One morning, as they're opening the bistro, they discover a man seated at a table, dressed in a suit as if for his own funeral, a pair of hot pink barber scissors protruding from his chest.
With the local garda suspecting the O'Sullivans and their business in danger of being shunned—murder tends to spoil the appetite—it's up to feisty redheaded Siobhán to solve the crime and save her beloved brood.
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The Escape Club
Book Group
Tuesday, January 21
7pm in the Activity room
(an after hours library program)
The book for January is The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret-one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the field, and Nell's personal hero. But she hasn't seen or spoken to him ever since he cruelly fired her and destroyed her reputation after an argument over an old, cheap gas station highway map. But when Dr. Young is found dead in his office at the New York Public Library, with the very same seemingly worthless map hidden in his desk, Nell can't resist investigating. To her surprise, she soon discovers that the map is incredibly valuable, and also exceedingly rare. In fact, she may now have the only copy left in existence... because a mysterious collector has been hunting down and destroying every last one-along with anyone who gets in the way. But why? To answer that question, Nell embarks on a dangerous journey to reveal a dark family secret, and discover the true power that lies in maps...
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The Morbid History Book Group
Monday, January 13
7pm in the Activity room
(an after hours library program)
***This book group will now meet on the 2nd Monday of the month starting in January 2025.***
The book for January is Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on to the Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and how they are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China to the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to the latest revolutionary upheavals of the digital age. A new afterword elucidates how knowledge is preserved amid the creative destruction of twenty-first-century technology.
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German Conversation Group with Suse Volk
Friday, January 17, 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, January 21
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, January 27
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 Monday 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
Thursday, January 2 & 16
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, January 6 & 27
GROUP II:
Monday, January 13
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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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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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 until the 2025 card becomes available.
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CANASTA
Every Friday
10am-noon, in the Activity Room
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!
Our volunteer, Jane, asks than new players plan to observe their first day to learn about the game. More advance players will be playing as well.
If you would like to learn how to play, contact: programs@stoneridgelibrary.org
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New Fiction
We Three Queens by Rhys Bowen
Now Or Never by Janet Evanovich
Lazarus Many by Richard Price
An Impossible Imposter by Deanna Raybourn
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Time of the Child by Niall Williams
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New Nonfiction
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coats
Fear Not by Stephen Zaima
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Alien: Romulus
Ridley (TV, PBS) Season 2
Romance & Cigarettes
Silicon Valley, Seasons 1 & 2
Twisters
Children's DVD's
The Secret World of Arrietty
Ponyo
The Wild Robot
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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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