“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than
money will get you through times of no libraries.” - Anne Herbert
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Pop-Up Children's Book & Toy Sale |
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Saturday, August 7, 10-3
Sunday, August 8, 12-3
You asked and we listened! While the Little Bookshop offers both fiction and non-fiction for adults, we do not have the space for a children’s section. To remedy this, we are offering a two day pop-up sale of Children’s Books and Toys. The sale will be Saturday, August 7th from 10-3 and Sunday, August 8th from noon until 3 under the tents on the library lawn. Hardcover books will be $1. apiece and softcover books will be 2 for $1. Cash or check only please.
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Looking for an end of summer reading challenge? How about trying Book Bingo?
Each participant will fill out a Bingo card with different reading challenges in each space, including reading to a child or pet. There will be one free space in the middle of each card. To get a Bingo you must fill an entire row across or down or on the diagonal.
All books must be read during the month of August. Readers must document the books read, including all book titles and authors on the back of their Bingo card. The first reader to complete a Bingo and return their card, will win an ice cream cake from Cherries Ice Cream Bar and Grill and 5 books of choice from the Little Bookshop. Second place will win a gift certificate from Bodacious Bagels for a breakfast bagel and coffee and 5 books of choice from the Little Bookshop. Third place will win 5 books from the Little Bookshop.
All will win full bragging rights on being exceptional readers!
Bingo cards must be returned to the circulation desk. The clerk will write in the date and time the card is received. Bingo cards can be picked up at the circulation desk in the library starting August 1st.
The winner will be announced September 10th and must come to the library to receive their prizes. Huge thanks to Alyson from Cherries Ice Cream Bar and Grill and Deb, from Bodacious Bagels for the donation of the prizes. We love local businesses!
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Summer Sundays at the Library |
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Through August 29
Open 12-3
We are celebrating the summer this year by adding Sunday hours from July 11th through August 29th. We will be open for regular business from noon to 3 on those Sundays. Stop by and see us if you are in the neighborhood!
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Little Book Shop at the Stone Ridge Library |
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NOW OPEN
Saturday 12-2
Sunday 1-3
Monday 1-3
Wednesday 3-5
Friday 1-3
Located in the small barn closest to the Library entry way
- Adult Fiction and Non-Fiction books only
- Occupancy limited to 2 people at a time (it is little)
- Masks required
- Gently used books
- Adult Fiction and Non-Fiction only
- $2 a book – cash or check
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WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING BOOK DONATIONS
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Monday, August 9, 2021
2 - 8pm in the Library
To Choose Two Trustees
To Decide on Budget
The Stone Ridge Public Library will hold its annual election/budget vote on Monday, August 9, 2021, between the hours of 2 pm and 8 pm at the Library.
The election is to fill two four-year seats for the board of trustees and to consider the following proposition:
“Shall the budget proposed by the Board of Trustees of the Stone Ridge Public Library, including a tax appropriation of $283,523, be approved?”
Board of Trustee candidates nominated by petition for the four-year seats are John Aubry, Rosemary Deen, and Kathleen Nokes.
For those not able to come to the polling place on Election Day, absentee ballots are available at the Library. You may request them with curbside pick-up or at the Circulation Desk. Absentee ballots that are mailed back must be postmarked no later than seven days prior to the vote. Ballots may be returned in person to the Library, no later than the day before the vote. The Library is open on Sundays in July and August, from 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Those eligible to vote must live and be registered to vote in the Town of Marbletown. For further information, contact Jody Ford, Library Director, at 845-687-7023.
To see a comparison of the proposed 2022 budget and the 2021 budget click here. |
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Venmo!
We’re making it easier for you to support the Library! The Foundation now accepts donations via Venmo. Donating through a Venmo account means you don’t have to go through our website or enter any contact or credit card information. Click HERE for more information on Venmo.
If you have a Venmo account, you can donate to
@StoneRidgeLibrary-Foundation or scan this QR code to contribute.
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Online Auction
We are gearing up for our annual Online Auction, which will begin previewing on September 19th! The auction is a great opportunity to support the Library, our community, and to get fabulous deals from local businesses on a huge variety of products and services.
If you are interested in donating an item to our auction, or if you are a local business looking to work with us, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
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Open Eyes Reception
Sunday, August 1 from 1-3
Exhibit August - October
The Stone Ridge Library is pleased to announce a reception for Open Eyes, a new art exhibit by artist and calligrapher Barbara Bash, Sunday, August 1st from 1-3pm at the library.
An exhibit of original art from a wide selection of Barbara’s books that explore the world of the desert, old growth forests, Indian banyan trees, little brown bats, black footed ferrets and urban birds. The art will be displayed – and for sale – throughout the library from August – October. Copies of Barbara’s books will be available for purchase at the opening to support the library.
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Barbara Bash is a calligrapher and illustrator who has written and illustrated numerous award-winning books for children illuminating the stories of the natural world. Barbara has traveled widely to experience the creatures and ecosystems firsthand and has shared her drawing and research process with many school children over the years. She has lived in Marbletown for many years. For more information about her work visit barbarabash.com Her visual blog is barbarabash.blogspot.com
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Tea Time
Book Group
Wednesday, August 11
12:30 in the Activity Room
The book for August is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, August 18
11am in the Activity Room
The Mystery book for August is A Good Death by Christopher Cox. When American Linda Watts, who emigrated from Laos as a child refugee, dies of a drug overdose in Bangkok, the insurance company holding her policy doesn’t buy that her death was accidental. They send Boston PI Sebastian Damon to Thailand to investigate. Once there, Sebastian realizes two things: Linda is alive, and he is unable to navigate Thai society on his own. Wisely, he enlists the aid of Sam Honeyman, one of his dad’s buddies from ‘Nam, who has made Thailand his home.
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Clio's Muse
A History
Reading Club
Saturday, August 28
at 12:30pm
in the Library Yard
We will be reading Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress by Steven Pinker. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In 75 jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. |
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Tuesday, August 17
1-2 pm in the Community 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
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Tuesday, August 24
1-2 pm in the Community Room
¿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 on Zoom, every 4th 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.
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Every Thursday
1:30 – 3pm on Zoom
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. Please contact Rosemary at rmdeen@gmail.com if you’d like to join the group.
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GROUP I:
Monday, August 9, 23
GROUP II:
Monday, August 2, 16, 30
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. If you are interested in participating, please contact Cathy Arra.
To participate in the Writers' Group all participants must be fully vaccinated.
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Mahjong
Every Tuesday and Friday
at 10am in the Activity Room
Beginners are welcome to join our Tuesday Mahjong group. Our regular group meets on Fridays. All are welcome, but beginners will get the basics on Tuesdays. Registration is not required, just walk in. We do ask that people wear masks while entering the Library, but once you are in the Activity Room it is up to the groups discretion.
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Every Saturday
10am-noon, in the Library yard
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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SUMMER READING PROGRAM 2021 |
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For children ages 3 years to 5 years
Tuesdays: 9:30-10:30 August 3, 10, 17
On the back lawn at the Library
(Excessive rain could cancel the program,check your email for updates)
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Story Hours ages 5 -11 years |
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Weeks of August 2 & 9 We are offering two Story Hour Options |
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Option 1: “Take and Make”
sign up to pick up a craft bag and follow along with a story hour link by Julianna each week
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Option 2: In Person Story Hour
Every Thursday at 3:30 August 5 & 12)
on the back lawn of the Library
(Excessive rain could cancel the program,check your email for updates)
Julianna is fully vaccinated. Children do not need to be masked.
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Virtual Live Storytime
Thursday, August 12 at 4:30pm
Join Captain Marvel this month while she reads, tells engaging stories, and plays games -- Plus, she will respond to your children's live comments by name! Join this Virtual Live Storytime for a half-hour interactive experience!
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Summer Programs for Ages 12 and up |
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Sunflower Painting Workshop
Friday, August 13 @ 3:30-5:30
Sip some lemonade and enjoy a relaxing, creative experience painting Sunflowers! No experience necessary. Jill Obrig will teach you step by step to finish a beautiful painting to take home. We will be working outside on the back lawn of the library.
Registration is limited to 15 participants.
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New Fiction
The Heathens: a Quinn Colson novel by Ace Atkins
Embassy Wife by Katie Crouch
A Comedy of Terrors by Lindsey Davis
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino
Castle Shade: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Treachery by Brian Freeman
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
The Man with the Silver Saab by Alexander McCall Smith
A Place Like Home: Short Stories by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Eagle's Claw: a novel of the Battle of Midway by Jeff Shaara
Nine Lives by Danielle Steel
Black Ice by Brad Thor
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New Non-Fiction
Purrfect English: Paw-ket Dictionary Cat to Human by Jillian Blume
Ruff Translation: Paw-ket Dictionary Dog to Human by Jillian Blume
The Deadline Effect: How to Work like it's the Last Minute - Before the Last Minute by Christopher Cox
Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays by Helen Ellis
New Women in the Old West: from Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story by Winifred Gallagher
Forgetting: The Benefits of Not Remembering by Scott A. Small
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New DVDs
The Courier - Benedict Cumberbatch
Defending Jacob - Chris Evans, Michelle Dockery
-Dream Horse - Toni Collette, Damian Lewis
French Exit - Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts
Georgetown - Christoph Waltz, Annette Benning, Vanessa Redgrave
His Dark Materials -
Season 2
Percy Vs Goliath - Christopher Walken, Roberta Maxwell, Christina Ricci
New Audiobooks
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
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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 either Home or Books & More.
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Click on Mid-Hudson Catalog.
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Log in using red button on right.
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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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We cannot accept any book donations at this time.
Please do not put book donations in our book drop.
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Address: 3700 Main Street, PO Box 188
Stone Ridge, NY 12484
Phone: 845-687-7023
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