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Sunday, April 14
2:00-3:15 pm
Marbletown Community Center  

Clarinetist Kay Sutka will present a fun and informational demonstration on all aspects of the clarinet. We will learn the history, uses of the instrument, playing ranges, famous pieces and more! The entire clarinet family will be on display from the tiny E-flat to the large contra-bass clarinet. Rondout Valley and Onteora Central School music students will help demonstrate various clarinet techniques.  

Kay earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Potsdam College, Crane School of Music and her Master of Music in Clarinet Performance as a Woodwind Specialist from Michigan State University. She has worked in the public schools and at Barcone's Music. She plays in the Woodstock Symphony Orchestra and serves on the Board of the Ulster Chamber Music Series. Kay lives in Stone Ridge with her husband and two Havanese dogs.

Downloadable through Libby and OverDrive 

April 1-15

The next Big Library Read is Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah and Winnie Yeung will be available for simultaneous use April 1-15. This title is highly rated on Good Reads and recently became a bestseller in Canada, where the author's currently living. Homes is the remarkable true story of how a young boy emerged from a war zone  with a passion for sharing his story and telling the world what's truly happening in Syria.

Big Library Read is an international reading program that connects millions of readers around the world simultaneously with an eBook through the library. It is available to everyone during this time without a waitlist and will automatically be returned at the end of the lending period.   OverDrive  Libby 

Tuesday, May 7 10AM -Noon 

Tuesday, May 14 10AM - Noon 

Class limited to 12 people 

Marbletown Community Center 

The Library will host a two-part workshop in beginning watercolor with Staats Fasoldt. Registration is required and is available on a first-come, first-served basis on the library's website calendar, or by calling the Program Office at 687-7023.

Staats is the Vice President of the Woodstock School of Art where he has taught painting and drawing for more than 35 years. He is an active member of the Woodstock Artist's Association and a member of The Art Society of Kingston. He is also a member and former Coordinator of Longreach Arts, the Hudson Valley's premier mobile Artists Co-op. Staats' exhibit at the Library has been extended through mid-June.  

We are looking for books in excellent condition  to sell at our Library Fair 

 

Please remember that we cannot sell dusty or moldy books or dated materials like textbooks and encyclopedias. Please help us by sorting those items from your donation. Thanks in advance for your consideration  

Look for our email we will be sending later this month with information about volunteering for this year's Fair.  

The Stone Ridge Library is pleased to announce that it has received $1,000 from Stewart's Holiday Match program toward an upcoming circulation area upgrade, planned for later this year. "We are thankful to Stewart's for their work in the community, and for their support of the library's project which will enhance library services to our patrons, including children and young adults," said Library Director Jody Ford.
For more information, visit stewartsshops.  

4pm in the Activity Room

4pm in the Activity Room

Tuesday, April 23

1:30-3:00

Biography Room

Conversational French

Tuesday, April 16

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

Stone Ridge Library

GROUP I:
Monday, April 8, 22
4:00-6:30pm in the Activity Room

GROUP II:
Monday, April 1, 15, 29
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.