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July 4 the Library is closed for Independence Day. Looking for ways to celebrate Independence Day? Click here to see what our National Parks suggest. Interested in learning more about the month of July? Click here.
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Community Movie Night
Save The Date! Join us for a sweet Community Night at the Hasbrouck House!
Come see a FREE screening of the 1971 classic Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory on the big screen and support the Library!
Wednesday, July 10
6-10PM
Butterfield Bluestone at the Hasbrouck House
3805 Main St., Stone Ridge, NY 12484
Come early for Willy Wonka-themed crafts & activities, dinner, Arrowood Farms brews, raffles and lawn games. Stay for the 8PM screening of the film!
10% of Bluestone sales + 100% of Arrowood Farm beer sales benefit the Stone Ridge Library Foundation!
FREE and open to the public, rain or shine under the big tent! We can’t wait to see you there!
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Planned Giving
Looking for a way to leave a lasting legacy? Planned Giving is one way you can help shape the world for the next generation.
Check out the SRLF’s Guide to Planned Giving to learn more about how you can support the Stone Ridge Library, the heart of this community, and impact generations to come.
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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, July 30, 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 This Time Tomorrow by Emma Staub.
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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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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.*
There will be no walk on Thursday, July 4th due to the Independence Day Holiday.
Thursday, July 11, 9-10 O&W Rail Trail parking lot on Leggett Road.
Thursday, July 18, 9-10 O&W Rail Trail parking lot Rest Plaus Road
Thursday, July 25, 9-10 Wallkill Valley Rail Trail parking lot at the Women's Studio Workshop
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Teen Game Night
Friday, July 12
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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Birds Of Prey with Bill Robinson – Summer Reading Kick-off
Sunday, June 30 11:00am - 12:00pm
Our Summer Reading Kick-off program features Bill Robinson and his amazing world of Animals because the Adventure begins at the Stone Ridge Library this summer.
Free children’s Books will be available for kids to choose and take to get their summer reading off to a great start.
We will also have information about our upcoming Summer Reading activities available to families so you can keep reading all summer long!
This program is paid for by a grant from Stewart Shops.
To register for this event for updates click here
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Adventure Begins at the Library
Story Hours with Julianna
Ages 5 -11 years 3:00-4:00
Wednesdays July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 14 & 21
(Note: no story hour on August 7)
Register here
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Preschool Story Time
with Ligeia
On the back lawn at the Library
For children ages 3 years to 5 years
Tuesdays: July 9, 16, 23, 30 9:30-10:30
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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Overnight Adventure for Stuffies!!!
Friday, July 19 4:00-5:00
Stuffies sleep at the library!
Sign up for this Stuffed Animal Sleepover! Bring your favorite stuffed animal for a bedtime-themed Storytime, with a pretend campfire. Then tuck your cuddly friend in for a sleepover at the library.
Pick up your stuffed animal the following day, along with a booklet detailing their overnight library adventures.
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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Summer’s Marvelous Mondays
for tweens and teens
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Pool noodle beaded lizard floatie
July 8 6:30-7:30 Ages 9 and up
Create a floating beaded lizard with pool noodle beads for adventures in the pool all summer!
Register here
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Pom Pom Creatures
July 15 6:30-7:30 Ages 9 and up
Create a pom pom then adorn it with eyes and felt to create your own adventure buddy.
Register here
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DIY Watermelon Squishy
July 22 6:30-7:30 Ages 9 and up
Create this squishy using memory foam and fabric paint.
Register here
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Zodiac Constellation Embroidery
July 29 6:30-7:30 Ages 9 and up
Create your own zodiac wall hanging using embroidery techniques.
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, July 10
1pm in the Activity Room
The book for July is Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
In “The Boundary,” one family vacations in the Roman countryside, though we see their lives through the eyes of the caretaker’s daughter, who nurses a wound from her family’s immigrant past. In “P’s Parties,” a Roman couple, now empty nesters, finds comfort and community with foreigners at their friend’s yearly birthday gathering—until the husband crosses a line.
And in “The Steps,” on a public staircase that connects two neighborhoods and the residents who climb up and down it, we see Italy’s capital in all of its social and cultural variegations, filled with the tensions of a changing city: visibility and invisibility, random acts of aggression, the challenge of straddling worlds and cultures, and the meaning of home.
These are splendid, searching stories, written in Jhumpa Lahiri’s adopted language of Italian and seamlessly translated by the author and by Knopf editor Todd Portnowitz. Stories steeped in the moods of Italian master Alberto Moravia and guided, in the concluding tale, by the ineluctable ghost of Dante Alighieri, whose words lead the protagonist toward a new way of life.
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Clio's Muse
History Book Group
Wednesday, July 10
7pm via Zoom
The book for July is The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged The Medieval World by Shelley Puhak
The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded immense power, only to be vilified for daring to rule. Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet-in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport-these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms, changing the face of Europe. The two queens commanded armies and negotiated with kings and popes. They formed coalitions and broke them, mothered children and lost them. They fought a decades-long civil war-against each other. With ingenuity and skill, they battled to stay alive in the game of statecraft, and in the process laid the foundations of what would one day be Charlemagne's empire. Yet after the queens' deaths-one gentle, the other horrific-their stories were rewritten, their names consigned to slander and legend. In The Dark Queens , award-winning writer Shelley Puhak sets the record straight.
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, July 17
11am in the Activity Room
The book for July is The Fourth Sacrifice by Peter May
Margaret Campbell had finally decided to leave Beijing---and the man she loved---and return home to the States. She had first come to Beijing to conduct a seminar on her specialty, forensic pathology, for the city's police. The invitation turned out to ask for more than she expected; she was thrust into the search for a murderer. This was how she met and came to fall in love with the Beijing police detective Li Yan. Although they began as enemies, the attraction between them was overwhelming---until personal tragedies pulled them apart. Now the police need an answer to a series of gruesome murders. Four men have been killed; the first three were Chinese and the fourth man was born in China but became an American in his youth. All were victims of what looks like ritual sacrifices. The U.S. ambassador practically forces Margaret to work once more with Li Yan. She buries her pain and turns to a new admirer for her free time---an American archaeologist who is making a television documentary. As Margaret and Li Yan investigate, they come closer and closer to finding the truth behind the killer's executions. They also come closer to a killer who will sacrifice anyone to conceal a secret. This second in the China Thriller series is another testament to Peter May's ability to write captivating characters that move stealthily through Beijing's vibrant and dangerous setting.
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Friday, July 19
12:15pm, Activity Room
Registration Required
In July Cooks and Books will be cooking from Dan Pelosi's book, Let's Eat or from his website.
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, July 19, 4-5pm
Activity Room
The Stone Ridge Library is expanding 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, July 16
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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Tuesday, July 23
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, July 11 & 25
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, July 1, 15 & 29
GROUP II:
Monday, July 8 & 22
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
Stuart Woods' Smolder by Brett Battles
Red Star Falling by Steve Berry with Grant Blackwood
The Cautious Traveller's Guide To The Wastelands by Sarah Brooks
Swift River by Essie Chambers
The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
It Had To Be You by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke
Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman
Camino Ghosts by John Grisham
The Last Hope, A Maggie Hope Mystery by Susan Elia MacNeal
Farewell Amethystine by Walter Mosley
Butcher by Joyce Carol Oats
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle And Flying Club by Helen Simonson
The Comfort Of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear
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New Non-Fiction
Getting To Know Death by Gail Godwin
Modified Keto Diet: A 3-Week Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners, with Curated Recipes and a Simple Meal Plan by Larry Jamesonn
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Let's Eat by Dan Pelosi
The Farm table by Julius Roberts
The Big Book of Sides by Rick Rodgers
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New DVDs
Anatomy Of A Fall
Arthur The King
Bob Marley: One Love
Dune: Part Two
Ferrari
Freud's Last Session
In The Land Of Saints & Sinners
Iron Claw
Knox Goes Away
Mean Girls
Old Oak
One Life
Origin
Remembering Gene Wilder
Sasquatch Sunset
Taste Of Things
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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 either Home or Books & More.
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Click on Mid-Hudson 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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