September 2024 Newsletter | |
“That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
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September 2 is Labor Day and the Library will be Closed. Want to know more about the history of Labor Day? Click here.
September is Library Card Sign Up Month? If there is a child or adult in your life without a library card, bring them in! We love making new library cards!
September 15 begins Hispanic Heritage Month. Click here for a great resource from goodreads of books to check out!
September 17 is National Voter Registration Day. To learn more or to check your voter registration click here.
September 22-28 is Banned Book Week. This year's theme is Freed Between the Lines. Want to know more? Click here.
September 22 is National Hobbit Day! If you're a fan of the book or the movies, click here to learn more.
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Wednesday, October 2, Maximizing Your Retirement Benefits with Sue Diamond 1pm in the Activity Room Learn more & register here.
Sunday, October 6, 4-6pm A Walk Among The Graves: The Buried Cultural & Material History of Cemeteries. This is a new offsite library program. To learn more & register, click here.
Friday, October 25, 7-8pm *New Book Group* Morbid History introductory meeting. Interested in joining our newest after hours book group? Contact Sarah Robertson here. Our first read is Death Makes A Holiday by David Skal
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Fall Book Sale & 2nd Annual Cake Off | |
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Saturday, October 5, 10-2
Rain Date Sunday, October 6, 10-2
Mark your calendars for our Fall Book Sale and 2nd Annual Cake Off baking competition!
We will have assorted selections of books under Library tents and the Little Book Shop will be open.
The Library knitters will have gorgeous items available for purchase and we will have a bake sale tent as well.
There will be live music with special guests, The Starlite Duo.
We will need help getting ready for our Book Sale and Cake-Off. Specifically, we need people to lift and move boxes of books from the sheds to tables in the yard. This is heavy lifting so if you are strong and willing to give a hand we would love to hear from you. Please e-mail Jody Ford: director@stoneridgelibrary.org, if you can spare a few hours on Friday October 4th or Saturday October 5th.
The Cake Off will be in full swing with the winners being announced at 12pm.
The Cake Off is a friend Raising Event that features 10 amateur bakers. Bakers will present homemade cakes baked from scratch and based on recipes from books found in the Mid-Hudson Library system. Our judges will include one professional baker, last year's People's Choice Winner and one community member. Ribbons will be awarded in various categories and there will be a Winner and a People's Choice Award. To learn about how to enter the Cake Off click here.
Parking will be across the street in the High Meadow parking lot. Hope to see you there!
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Small Works
an new exhibit by Denise Giardullo
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Small Works
by Denise Giardullo
September 9-October 28
Artists Reception: Saturday, September 14, 1-3pm
Library Activity Room
Light refreshments will be served.
Artist Statement
My work is about vision.
I find the interaction of color, texture, shape, and line to be very exciting, as well as my exploration of positive and negative space and how these function in my designs. I am an improvisational quilter. I begin my constructions by combining small sections of fabric, slicing the pieces and reconfiguring them until they form a cohesive unit. I keep adding additional sections until I intuitively decide it is finished. Originally trained as a painter, I often squint my eyes so that I can see objects, colors, patterns come into the foreground (positive), while other design elements recede (negative).
In my collages I tend to utilize ordinary images and objects in unusual ways, making connections between dissimilar things and subjects; many of my encaustic works have collaged images, although recently I have been using watercolor and inks to convey a sense of place.
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Denise Giardullo
A graduate of SUNY New Paltz, Denise Giardullo has exhibited widely since 1981. Living and working in the Hudson Valley, her work has been shown in many local galleries, including ASK, Emerge, the Woodstock School of Art, the Olive Library, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, the Wired Gallery, Uncanny Gallery, and WAAM. Her quilt “Early Spring Rain,” was juried into a traveling Studio Art Quilt Association exhibition and is published in a catalog from the exhibit. Two of her quilts were also juried into a national quilt show and traveled to many venues in the U.S. They are included in the publication “Fly Me to The Moon,” an art quilt journey, published by Schiffer Publishing in 2017. She has curated “Quilts as an Art Form,” at the ASK Gallery in Kingston, NY., and curated figurative sculpture shows at four Wiltwyck Quilt Shows in Kingston, NY.
Working in many different mediums, she trained first as a painter and a collage artist. She now considers herself primarily an improvisational quilter, but continues to make collages, encaustic works, assemblages, watercolor paintings and soft figurative sculptures. Exhibiting extensively, she belongs to many arts organizations, and has won many blue ribbons for her quilts. In 2019 she was inducted into the Catskill Mountain Quilters Hall of Fame.
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After Work Yoga with Laura
Wednesdays September 11, 18, & 25
5:30-6:30
Rondout Municipal Center
Our partnership with Town of Marbletown Parks, Trails & Rec. Dept. continues in 2024 with continued free Wednesday yoga classes. Classes will be 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.
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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Seed Saving with Jessica Williams | |
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Saturday, September 21
1-2pm
Library Activity Room
You'll discover the difference between hybrid and heirloom plants and why this is so important, along with how to recognize when seeds are fully ripe.
We'll discuss how to harvest seeds from flowers and vegetables with hands-on demonstrations. Avoid common mistakes and save money!
You'll leave with flower seeds and two tins for proper seed storage for next spring.
Jessica Williams has been gardening since she was three (which was a long time ago) and growing flowers and vegetables for almost as many years. She loves to share her enthusiasm for all things plant related and can be found on Instagram @odduckfarmhighland.
Register here.
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Applications Open
for 2025 positions with the library
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Stone Ridge Public Library Director
Ulster County Civil Service Position Library Director 1
Part-Time Library Assistant in Children’s Services
It's true! After 30 years as our Library Director, Jody Ford is retiring. Julianna Arms, our wonderful children's services manager is also stepping down. If you are interested in applying for either position click here for more information.
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The Little Bookshop
Regular Hours Monday-Friday 3pm-5pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
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 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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News from the Library Foundation | |
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September is an exciting month! Here’ s what’s coming up:
Round Up to Support the Library!
The High Falls Food Co-op is featuring the Library for their Round-Up Program in September! Shop at the Co-op anytime during the month of September and ask to “Round Up” your purchase to the nearest dollar. That extra change will be collected and donated to us!
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Online Auction! We’ve got all kinds of fabulous things lined up for you this year including gift certificates for local restaurants, classes, services and much more! Auction items will preview online September 22 - 28. Bidding will open for two weeks starting September 29. Details coming soon!
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Mailbox Raffle – Back by popular demand! We’re thrilled to have local artists Barbara Bash, Lora Shelley and Emeline Hastings back again this year to create mailbox masterpieces for us! They’ll be on display in the Library in late September and will be raffled off at the Library’s Fall Book Sale on October 5th. Stay tuned for details!
Proceeds from these events benefit the Library. For more information, contact SRL Foundation Coordinator Aimee Trumbore: foundation@stoneridgelibrary.org • 845-687-7023 ext 7.
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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, September 5, 12-1 Wallkill Valley Rail Trail parking lot at the Trestle Bridge on Binnewater
Thursday, September 12, 12-1 Wallkill Valley Rail Trail parking lot at the Women's Studio Workshop.
Thursday, September 19, 12-1 O&W Rail Trail parking lot Rest Plaus Road
Thursday, September 26, 12-1 O&W Rail Trail parking lot on Leggett Road. Join OSI and the Stone Ridge Library for a walk on the O&W Rail Trail to learn more about the vision for this exciting 57-mile trail corridor. Meet at the Leggett Road trail head parking lot at 9 AM on Tuesday, September 26th.
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Teen Game Night
Friday, September 13
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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Tea Time
Book Group
Wednesday, September 11
1pm in the Activity Room
The book for September is The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven and Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community-heaven and earth-that sustain us.
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Clio's Muse
History Book Group
Wednesday, October 9
7pm via Zoom
The book for October is The revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff
Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. He employed every tool available to rally a town, a colony, and eventually a band of colonies behind him, creating the cause that created a country. For his efforts he became the most wanted man in America: When Paul Revere rode to Lexington in 1775, it was to warn Samuel Adams that he was about to be arrested for treason. In The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, Schiff brings her masterful skills to Adams's improbable life, illuminating his transformation from aimless son of a well-off family to tireless, beguiling radical who mobilized the colonies.
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, September 18
11am in the Activity Room
The book for September is Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam G. Monfredo
In her historically authentic and cleverly entertaining first novel, Monfredo skillfully meshes life in Seneca Falls, N.Y., immediately before the First Women's Rights Convention in 1848 with a page-turning suspense story. Charming spinster librarian Glynis Tryon, like her fellow townspeople, is shocked by the sudden deaths of wealthy Friedrich Steicher and his wife, but she is more surprised by the appearance of a woman who says she is the daughter Steicher never knew. Before the woman can prove her allegation, however, she is murdered. Although suspicion falls heavily on Friedrich's only son, Karl, he denies the woman was his sister, even when her husband comes to town to lay a claim on the estate. Unofficially deputized, Glynis questions those who might have spoken to the woman, and continues the investigation of a second, related murder when the sheriff becomes ill. Historical figures, foremost Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are woven seamlessly into this well-modulated, satisfying tale.
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The Escape Club
Book Group
Tuesday, September 24
7pm in the Activity room
(an after hours library program)
September's Book is The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa.
A life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice, The Travelling Cat Chronicles shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy. We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old acquaintances and to make new friends. But the most important journey is the one that shows us how to follow our hearts... An instant international bestseller, The Travelling Cat Chronicles has charmed readers around the world. With simple yet descriptive prose, this novel gives voice to Nana the cat and his owner, Satoru, as they take to the road on a journey with no other purpose than to visit three of Satoru's longtime friends. Or so Nana is led to believe... With his crooked tail--a sign of good fortune--and adventurous spirit, Nana is the perfect companion for the man who took him in as a stray. And as they travel in a silver van across Japan, with its ever-changing scenery and seasons, they will learn the true meaning of courage and gratitude, of loyalty and love
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Cooks & Books
Book group
Friday, September 20
12:15 pm in the Activity Room
September revisits the theme of Indian Food with a spotlight on Madhur Jaffrey. Group members can chose from any of the library system's Indian Food Cookbooks and list of Jaffrey's books can be found here.
For more than forty years, Madhur Jaffrey has been revered as the "queen of Indian cooking" (Saveur). Here she shares inviting, easy-to-follow recipes -- some entirely new, others reworked from her classic cookbooks -- for preparing fantastic Indian food in the Instant Pot. While these dishes are quick and easy to prepare, they retain all the rich complexity for which Jaffrey's food has always been known, making this the only Indian cookbook with recipes designed for the Instant Pot you'll ever need. RECIPES: From classics like butter chicken and buttery dal to new sure-to-be-favorites like kale cooked in a Kashmiri style and Goan-style clams, these recipes capture the flavorful diversity of Indian cuisine. SIDE DISHES: Includes the chutneys, salads, and relishes you need to complete any Indian meal. Think avocado-radish salad, fresh tomato chutney, and yogurt and apple raita.
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German Conversation Group with Suse Volk
Friday, September 20, 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
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, September 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, September 5 & 19
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, September 16 & 30
GROUP II:
Monday, September 9 & 23
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 Fiction
The Spymaster's Scheme by C.J. Archer
The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
A Walk In The Park by Kevin Fedarko
Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand
Shadow Of Doubt by Brad Thor
The Museum Of Failures by Thrity Umrigar
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New Non-Fiction
Advanced Home Wiring by Black & Decker
Let Go Of The Guilt by Valorie Burton
Judaism Is About Love by Shai Held
The Big Book Of Sides by Rick Rodgers
The Horse by Timothy C. Winegard
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New DVDs
Kedi
Friday Night Lights - Season 1
Hope In the Water
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Perfect Days
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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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