Sunday, May 7, 1-3pm
at the Library

The Stone Ridge Library Foundation will host their annual recognition event, a " Sunday Tea," on
May 7 honoring Barbara Cazakoff and Vivi Hlavsa for their service and support. The event will take place from 1:00 to 3:00 in the afternoon. There will be a short presentation at 1:00 pm followed by tea sandwiches, desserts, and a selection of hot tea, served in the recently restored 1798 stone building.

Tickets are $30 per person, $50 per couple and are available online and at the Circulation Desk. Money raised will be used for improvements to the children's room, including a small kitchenette and an ADA compliant bathroom within the existing footprint, as well as renovations to the back porch.

For information, please contact the Stone Ridge Library Foundation Office at 845 687-7023, Ext. 106 .

Friday, May 5, at 7pm
Marbletown Community Center

Ronald G. Knapp will present an illustrated lecture featuring material from his most recent book, The Gunks (Shawangunk Mountains) Ridge and Valley Towns Through time, using a gallery of historical photographs, many of which have never been published, and contrasting them with recent work of photographers Fred Gerty, Maxine Kamin, Glenn Koehler, Susan Lehrer, Michael Neill O'Donnell and Carol Rietsma.

Trained in geography and history at Stetson University and the University of Pittsburgh, Knapp's early work focused on China's domestic architectural heritage. He is the author, editor or contributor of more than 20 books. For the past decade, he has worked with photographer A. Chester Ong, a collaboration which has taken him through China to Southeast Asia documenting domestic architecture.

In recent years, Knapp has returned to an early interest in the history of transportation, researching covered bridges throughout North America. America's Covered Bridges:  Practical Crossings and Nostalgic Icons, a collaboration with Terry Miller and Chester Ong, was published in 2014.

Knapp taught from 1968 through 2001 in the Department of Geography and Asian Studies Program at SUNY, New Paltz, holding the rank of Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Since 1987, he has served on the Board of Mohonk Preserve and was its President from 2004-2013. Free and open to the public, and books will be available for purchase and signing. 

Friday, May 19, at 7pm
Marbletown Community Center

The Catskill Aqueduct:  A Century of Service will be the topic when Diane Galusha, author of Liquid Assets: A History of New York City's Water System, will offer an illustrated presentation focusing on the 92-mile underground aqueduct which carries the combined waters of the Schoharie and Ashokan Reservoirs to consumers in New York City and in communities as far north as Ulster County.

The aqueduct was completed in 1917, an accomplishment celebrated that autumn by three days of concerts, parades and festivities when elaborate public fountains were turned on to welcome abundant, clean Catskill Mountain water to the city. The aqueduct was dearly bought, costing $162 million and 283 lives. It is an engineering feat that still sets heads to spinning:  it is gravity alone that propels water from the Ashokan Reservoir town the tube to Kensico reservoir in Westchester County, to Hillview in Yonkers, and beyond, plunging deep beneath the Hudson River where brave men and powerful dynamite pierced ancient bedrock between Storm King and Breakneck Mountains.

Learn about the brains, and the brawn, behind this achievement, and find out how well the Catskill Aqueduct has fared over a century of continuous service.

Diane Galusha, author of several books on local and regional history, is on the staff at the Catskill Watershed Corp. She is the founding president of the Historical Society of the Town of Middletown, Delaware County.

Copies of the book, republished in an expanded edition in 2016 by Purple Mountain Press of Fleischmanns. See www.liquidassetsbook.com. Free and open to the public, and books will be available for purchase and signing. 

Saturday, June 10, 10-3
Sunday Bag Sale, June 11, 10-2

As we prepare for the 71st Annual Stone Ridge Library Fair, we are sorting donated books for the huge Book Tent, and pricing donated tableware and gifts for the Gift Table. Please see below a few guidelines for these donations.

We are also reaching out to volunteers, both seasoned and newcomers, to ask for your help for a few hours' time. To see a list of volunteer opportunities click here. Please contact Barbara Cazakoff, Volunteer Coordinator at babscaz@gmail.com with questions and to sign up.  She will welcome you to the team!

The June book sale is the only one scheduled for this year - the Columbus Day weekend sale will not take place. But we do have the Sunday Bag Sale lined up for June 11 from 10-2 with the usual bargains $10 for a whole bag of books!

Please stay tuned for details! Food, fun, music and books will be on tap... And if Strawberry Shortcake tops your list, you will not be disappointed...

The Library welcomes book donations. Books donated are re-sold at the annual Library Fair, which is scheduled for Saturday, June 10 this year. Proceeds from the Library Fair are used for the operating budget-computers, books, salaries, supplies, etc.

"We are thankful for book donations from the community," said Library Director Jody Ford. "But we recently have had to update our procedures due to the large number of unsaleable books that have been coming in." When books are moldy, dusty and damaged, we cannot sell them and we must discard them. Hiring a dumpster is costly, and so the need to cull and discard the increasing percentage of donations has cut significantly into the potential profits of the book sale. "More importantly, all donated books are sorted by volunteer community members, so we ask that donations be clean and free from mold, dirt and dust to safeguard them in their work.

"We are happy to accept books in good condition," said Ford. "And we look forward to upholding the long tradition of the Book Tent, the Library Fair's most popular feature."

The Library asks that books in good condition be brought during library hours, with the donor's name and contact information. Textbooks, encyclopedias and medical books are not included in the books sale and should be recycled by the owner along with other books that cannot be sold.  Information on municipal recycling centers is available at the Library and online.

We can help! The library is collecting gently used tableware, gifts, jewelry and household décor items for this year's Library Fair. Drop off donations any time the library is open. We can accept most anything other than electronics and large, heavy items, but if you have questions just call the circulation desk at 687-7023. We look forward to seeing you at the Fair on June 10!

Ellie Anderson was born in Queensland, Australia and trained as an art teacher. She taught for a number of years before catching the travel bug. In the late '60s she left Australia to travel and work in England and Europe. After marrying an American and starting a family she completed a BA in Fine Art at George Mason University and taught high school art in Fairfax, Virginia.

In retirement Ellie and her husband spent 10 years back in Queensland, Australia. Here she devoted her time to painting and exhibiting with a group of like-minded art enthusiasts. This focus on art and re-exploring the familiar landscape of her childhood inspired her.

 "I love the challenge of interpreting my ideas on canvas and use mainly the mediums of oil, acrylic and pastel.  I especially love color, contrast and pattern making.  When you start a new canvas, you enter another world. It's exciting, challenging and a wonderful way to spend time."

Now living in Accord, New York Ellie continues to be inspired by the landscape, animals and colors around her.

Tuesday, May 2

1:30-3:00

Biography Room

Conversational French

Tuesday, May 16, 1:30-2:30pm
Biography Room

POETRY

Thursday, May 11, 25
1.30-3:30 in the Biography Room

Stone Ridge Library

Monday, May 8, 22
4:30-6:30pm

Every Saturday
10am-noon

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. Some of us can help toward the repair of knitted or crocheted items too.

The group is sociable and lively, and our conversation and sharing is just as wide-ranging as our projects. We are especially interested in the UFOs (Un-Finished Objects) that members bring in and love the show and tell of projects under way and being finished, new or old, simple or complex. Though knitting is our love and mainstay, we graciously adapt ourselves to stray crocheters and those of us who simply must take to the hook when the spirit moves. We share articles, magazines and books on knitting. Donations of yarn to the Library get made up into items for sale at the Library Fair and during the winter holidays for the benefit of the Library. Some of us also knit things for local hospitals or for the U.S. troops.

Where: Theaters
Based on: The Dinner by Herman Koch
Director: Oren Moverman

Where: Theaters
Based on:  Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2 a Marvel comic by Dan Abnett
Director: James Gunn

Based on: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Director: Moira Walley-Beckett
Cast: Amybeth McNulty

Based on: I Love Dick by Chris Kraus
Director: Jill Soloway
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Hahn, Griffin Dunne

Based on: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul by Jeff Kinney
Director: David Bowers
Cast: Jason Ian Drucker,  Owen Asztalos

Based on: Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
Director: Stella Meghie
Cast: Amandla Stenberg, Nick Robinson

Based on: The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Rooney Mara, Vanessa Redgrave, Jeremy Irons

Based on: Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana Henriques, with additional material from Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family by Laurie Sandell
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer