Saturday, March 16, 1:00 - 4:30pm 

Marbletown Community Center 

 

Hortus Conclusus -  

Unusual Ornamentals and Edibles in the American Garden

1:00 - 2:30 pm 

 

Join horticulturists, garden designers, and artists Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano for a visual presentation on outstanding native trees and shrubs all grown at the  Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Gardens. They will share the magnificent diversity of American plants with participants, showcasing rare, highly ornamental, and in some cases edible varieties that deserve to be used widely in American gardens but are often not seen anywhere but botanical gardens and arboreta.

 

Hortus is a small botanical garden in the mid-Hudson valley now recognized by the Morton Arboretum's international ArbNet program as a Level II-accredited arboretum. The gardens have an extensive collection of unusual edible and decorative plantings. By trialing both native and exotic plants, their goal is to push the limits of what can be successfully grown in Zone 6, and help fellow gardeners expand their knowledge base and incorporate some of these garden-worthy plants at home. See hortus.biz for more information.

 

Short Break - Fee free to bring a bag lunch;
the Library will provide beverages.

 

Honeybee Lives -- How Honeybees Forage

and
How We Can Help   

3:00 - 4:30 pm   

 

Join Grai St. Clair Rice of HoneybeeLives for a talk about how honeybees forage and why it matters what you plant and include info as well on other pollinators that are so very important for the healthy balance of life. 

 

HoneybeeLives is an organization, based in the Hudson Valley, practicing Natural/Organic Beekeeping with a Biodynamic influence.  Chris Harp and Grai Rice teach intensive two-day beekeeping workshops in the winter in the Hudson Valley and NYC.  Seasonal hands-on support classes are taught during the bee season at the HoneybeeLives Apiary in New Paltz, in the Hudson Valley, NYS.

The focus of HoneybeeLives' work is to encourage and support the health of the honeybee by nurturing knowledgeable, loving and confident beekeepers and property owners.  Broadening the general public's understanding and appreciation of the honeybee, and their role in honeybee health is another focus of HoneybeeLives' work.  Farmers and the general public can also have a positive impact through simple choices about when to spray or mow, as well as planting trees and flowers that provide valuable food for both domestic and feral bees. Visit HoneybeeLives.org for details.  

Sunday, March 24, 2:00-3:30   
Marbletown Community Center
*Snow date, Sunday, March 31

 

Music and Calling by Homespun Occasions 

 

Come kick up your heels to live fiddle music.  Enjoy a tradition of community dancing and music handed down from generation to generation. We play music and lead people of all ages (2 to 102), especially those who have not danced before, in easy-to-learn American barn-dance favorites: circles, squares, singing games and contras.  While participation in the dancing is encouraged -- and it's hard to sit still -- it's fun to just listen to the music and watch too!

Peter, Paul & Aldo play an eclectic blend of high-energy traditional American (New England, Appalachian and African influenced), Celtic, and French-Canadian fiddle and banjo tunes that keep the toes tapping. The players and instruments are: Aldo Lavaggi (fiddle, feet & mandolin), Peter Davis (guitar, gourd banjo, clarinet, pennywhistle, and more), and Paul Rosenberg (recorder, caller and instructor).

The program is free and sponsored by the Library. You don't need a partner to join in the fun. Photos courtesy of homespun.biz 

Last month the Library Foundation hosted a Valentine's Pop-Up Table filled with chocolates, flowers, jewelry, champagne, books, CDs, and many other gifts for sale. Thank you to our many local businesses who contributed items to the sale and to you for your support! 
We felt the love!

The Foundation's next event will help you gear up for Spring!

Get ready to garden at our next Gardening Pop-Up Sale to be held at the end of March!

Keep your eyes on the Library's outdoor sign for more information about this event.  You won't want to miss it!  

The Library is not accepting book donations this winter. We will start up again on April 1. 

3pm in the Activity Room

3pm in the Activity Room

Tuesday, March 26

1:30-3:00

Biography Room

Conversational French

Tuesday, March 19

1:30-2:30pm
Biography 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.

POETRY

Thursday, March 14, 28
1.30-3:30 in the Biography Room

Stone Ridge Library

GROUP I:
Monday, March 11, 25
4:00-6:30pm in the Activity Room

GROUP II:
Monday, March 4, 18
4:00-6:30pm in the Activity Room

Beginners are welcome to join our Mahjong group. We have two sets available but welcome additional sets if available to loan. Register on line on the calendar or at the Circulation Desk in the Library, or just walk in. We meet every Friday at 10am in the new event space.

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. 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.