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“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.”
― Cynthia Rylant, In November
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November is National Native American Heritage Month. To learn more click here.
November is also National Care Givers Month. Click here for more information.
The Library will be closed November 11 in honor of Veterans Day.
The Library will close at 3pm on November 27 and remain closed November 28-29 for the Thanksgiving Holiday.
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Mindful Self-Compassion: Opening a Pathway to a Kind and Caring Heart with Stephanie Speer
Monday, December 2, 2-3:30pm
Activity Room
This experiential program is an opportunity to explore the principles and practices of mindful self-compassion. We begin by recognizing that “I am both the comforter, and the one in need of comfort.” By turning compassion inward, we are kind and understanding rather than harshly self-critical. Upon acknowledging our current struggles, sufferings, and sorrows, we can then give ourselves support and encouragement. Research has indicated that by integrating mindful self-compassion practices into our daily lives, we strengthen our resiliency, and improve our mental and physical well-being.
Register here.
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The Library Knitters Sale
The Library Knitters Holiday Sale will start Monday, November 25th and run through December. Cozy hats, mittens, scarves and so much more. Stop in and check it out. All proceeds from this sale got to the library.
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Wow! What amazing bakers we had this year! Thank you to everyone who participated, thank you to our judges and thank you to everyone who tasted and voted! This year's winner was Emily Ugolino with her Chocolate Pistachio Party Cake. | |
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Our People's Choice winner was Lily Bednarz with her Lemon Yogurt Cake.
In truth, we were all winners as tasters of 9 beautiful and delicious cakes. Such fun! Hope to see you next year!
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Enjoying the Uplift of an Attitude of Gratitude
With Stephanie Speer
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Monday, November 4
2-3:30pm
Activity Room
Registration is open. Register here
We are thrilled to once again be offering mindfulness programs with Stephanie Speer.
Awakening to the power of gratitude, we discover that we are not grateful because we are happy, we are happy because we are grateful. Living a life that includes wonder, thankfulness, and appreciation, we take in the good that we may otherwise have taken for granted. This interactive workshop will be an opportunity to learn a variety of ways to practice gratitude, practices that can easily be integrated into daily life so that we may reap the benefits of living life with a grateful heart and mind, even amidst trying times and challenging life circumstances.
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 | |
After Work Yoga with Laura
Wednesdays November 6, 13, 20 &27
5:30-6:30
Rondout Municipal Center
Big thanks to Town of Marbletown Parks, Trails & Rec. Dept. with our continued collaboration for free Wednesday yoga classes. Classes are held at the Rondout Municipal Center, on the Marbletown side of the building (in the former cafeteria space). All classes will be taught by Laura Brown and we are grateful to be working with her and the Parks and Rec. Dept. to bring these classes to our community.
Registration is required for each class due to limited space.
November 6 Register here
November 13 Register here
November 20 Register here
November 27 Register here
Laura loves bringing yoga into people’s lives, encouraging her students to welcome space, breath, and movement to reset their bodies and minds. These classes are perfect for the absolute beginner, the curious, the seasoned yogi and everybody in-between! All are encouraged to move at their own pace in this hour-long class.
Please be sure to bring your yoga mat and any blocks or straps if you use them. The library will have extra mats, blocks and straps if needed. As with any exercise class, be sure to check with your doctor before starting.
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SUNY Ulster Student Art Exhibit | |
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SUNY Ulster Student Art Exhibit
November 4-December 30
Artist's reception Saturday November 9, 1-3pm
Light refreshments will be served.
Fine Art/Visual Art students from SUNY Ulster will showcase artwork from Drawing & Composition, 2-Dimensional Design, Advanced Studio, Printmaking, Watercolor, Photography, Intro to Design Foundation, and Painting.
The Fine Art/Visual Art program at SUNY Ulster is a two-year, foundation-based program that prepares students for transfer to complete their four-year degrees at some of the top art schools or to begin their careers.
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Zumba Gold Classes
with Donna Ebanks
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Saturdays, November 2, 9 & 16
9:30-10:30
Rondout Municipal Center
We are thrilled to once again collaborate with The Town of Marbletown Parks, Rec and Trails Department to offer a six week session of free Zumba Gold Classes. Classes will be held at the Rondout Municipal Center on the Marbletown side of the building(playground entrance).
Join Zumba Gold instructor Donna Ebanks for a dance fitness program suited for those needing lower impact classes. This class is slower paced and will focus on balance, coordination and flexibility. Its a great way for seniors, anyone with mobility issues or those just starting out on their fitness journey to get started.
*You should check with your doctor before starting this or any exercise program.*
Registration is required for each class.
Register for Classes here
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Ulster County Food Fight Results | |
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As part of the Great Give Back Ulster County libraries held a food collection contest from September 1-October 19.
We came in second place behind Highland Public Library and the Gardiner Library came in third place with a win for all of our communities! All of our donations have been split between the Rondout Valley Food Pantry and the Rochester Food Pantry.
Thank you all for your donations!
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*New book group*
Morbid History Book Group
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Monday, November 18, 7-8pm
Activity Room
(An After Hours Program)
Are you looking for a book group that meets after work and discusses important but often ignored or uncomfortable history? Check out our new book group, The Morbid History Book Group. This group will meet on the 3rd Monday of each month, after hours at the library, for those who work days.
In honor of National Native American Heritage Month our second book is Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid. "An explosive examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, women--overwhelmingly from Indigenous backgrounds--have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern B.C. The highway is called the Highway of Tears by locals, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. In Highway of Tears, Jessica McDiarmid meticulously explores the effect these tragedies have had on communities in the region, and how systemic racism and indifference towards Indigenous lives have created a culture of "over-policing and under-protection," simultaneously hampering justice while endangering young Indigenous women. Highway of Tears will offer an intimate, first-hand look at the communities along Highway 16 and the families of the victims, as well as examine the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settler and Indigenous peoples that underlie life in the region."
We will discuss this book and choose books for our 2025 reading list so please bring suggestions.
Interested in joining this new book group? Email Sarah Robertson for more information or register here.
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The Little Bookshop will close for the season October 30.
Thank you to everyone for shopping with us and thank you to all our fabulous volunteers!
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News from the Library Foundation | |
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Our recent Online auction was our most successful auction yet! With your help, we raised over $8,000 for the Library! Many thanks to all of the local businesses and individuals who contributed items to the auction and to everyone who participated by bidding – your support is appreciated!
This year’s Mailbox Raffle was another hit. We’re grateful to Brian Murphy at Marbletown Hardware for donating the boxes, and to the artists who contributed their time and talents to creating these masterpieces just for us. Thank you, Lora Shelley, Emmy Hastings, and Barbara Bash!
We are thrilled to announce the three lucky winners! Congratulations to...
Mailbox #1 (by Lora Shelley) Jo Sweeney
Mailbox #2 (by Emmy Hastings) – Sarah Hendrick
Mailbox #3 (by Barbara Bash) – Corinna Sutherland
Much appreciation to everyone who supported the Library by purchasing tickets!
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Let's Move with the Library | |
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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 and on our website.
*Please check with your doctor before starting this or any exercise program.*
Thursday, November 7, 12-1 Osterhoudt Flats parking lot on Cooper Street before you reach Marbletown Elementary School.
Thursday, November 14, 12-1 Wallkill Valley Rail Trail parking lot at the Women's Studio Workshop.
Thursday, November 21, 12-1 O&W Rail Trail parking lot Leggett Road.
There will be no walk on November 28th due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Teen Game Night
Friday, November 1
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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Our After School Story Hours will take a look at Science.
Learn about electricity, air, polymers, acids & bases, and carbon dioxide.
Story Hours for Kindergarten- Third grade
Wednesdays 3:30-4:30
November 6, 13
A simple snack will be provided.
Register here
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Preschool Story Time with Jess and Lindsey!!!
This adorable duo delight preschoolers with stories, songs and crafts during their story times
November 7 & 21, December 5, 12, 19
10:00 - 11:00 in the children’s room!
Register here
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New Parent Playgroup
for babies 0-12 months and their parents
Every Thursday 12:30-1:30
Community building supportive playgroup. Connect with other parents and bring your little one for play, books, and more.
Register here
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Tea Time
Book Group
Wednesday, November 13
1pm in the Activity Room
The book for November is Table For Two by Amor Towles
The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles's novel, Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September, 1938, with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, "Eve in Hollywood" describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself-and others-in the midst of Hollywood's golden age. Throughout the stories, two characters often find themselves sitting across a table for two where the direction of their futures may hinge upon what they say to each other next. Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles's canon of stylish and transporting historical fiction.
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Clio's Muse
History Book Group
Wednesday, November 20
7pm via Zoom
The book for November is Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power. The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition contains a new preface by the author and an introduction by Larry McMurtry.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, November 20
11am in the Activity Room
The book for November is Princess Elizabeth's Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal
As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5. Spirited, strong-willed, and possessing one of the sharpest minds in government for mathematics and code-breaking, she fully expects to be sent abroad to gather intelligence for the British front. Instead, to her great disappointment, she is dispatched to go undercover at Windsor Castle, where she will tutor the young Princess Elizabeth in math. Yet castle life quickly proves more dangerous--and deadly--than Maggie ever expected. The upstairs-downstairs world at Windsor is thrown into disarray by a shocking murder, which draws Maggie into a vast conspiracy that places the entire royal family in peril. And as she races to save England from a most disturbing fate, Maggie realizes that a quick wit is her best defense, and that the smallest clues can unravel the biggest secrets, even within her own family.
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The Escape Club
Book Group
Tuesday, November 19
7pm in the Activity room
(an after hours library program)
The book for November is Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline. As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found."
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The Morbid History Book Group
Monday, November 18
7pm in the Activity room
(an after hours library program)
The book for November is Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid
For decades, women--overwhelmingly from Indigenous backgrounds--have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern B.C. The highway is called the Highway of Tears by locals, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. In Highway of Tears, Jessica McDiarmid meticulously explores the effect these tragedies have had on communities in the region, and how systemic racism and indifference towards Indigenous lives have created a culture of "over-policing and under-protection," simultaneously hampering justice while endangering young Indigenous women. Highway of Tears will offer an intimate, first-hand look at the communities along Highway 16 and the families of the victims, as well as examine the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settler and Indigenous peoples that underlie life in the region. Finally, it will link these cases with others found across Canada--estimated to number over 1,200--contextualizing them within a broader examination of the undervaluing of Indigenous lives in the country and of our ongoing failure to provide justice for the missing and murdered.
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German Conversation Group with Suse Volk
Friday, November 15, 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, November 19
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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*No Meeting in November*
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, November 7 & 21
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, November 4 & 25
GROUP II:
Monday, November 18
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.
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CANASTA
Every Friday
10am-noon, in the Activity Room
The Library has added Canasta to our group game offerings. Our volunteer, Jane, will offer beginners lessons periodically to teach how to play this card game. Our experienced players meet Fridays from 10-12 to play.
Registration is limited.
If you would like to learn how to play contact: programs@stoneridgelibrary.org
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New Books
Fiction
An Eye For An Eye by Jeffrey Archer
Bad Liar by Tami Hoag
Santa's Secret by Fern Michaels
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
A Grave In The Woods by Martin Walker
Nonfiction
Atlas Obscura: Wild Life by Cara Giaimo and Joshua Foer
Acting with Adler by Joanna Rotte
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New DVD's
The Amazing Maurice
Cat Daddies
Hotel Portofino Seasons 1 & 2
Kinds Of Kindness
Late Night With The Devil
The Long Game
A Quiet Place Day One
Wicked Little Letters
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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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