“In the end, we’ll all become stories.” -
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Your Children Don’t Want Your Stuff!
What Can You Do?
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Wednesday April 6
2pm, via Zoom
We hear it every day. It’s happening all across America. But just because your children don’t want your stuff doesn’t mean it’s valueless. Join us as we present Mike Ivankovitch, April 6th at 2pm for this zoom program. Mike will offer 15 Tips & Strategies designed not only to help you deal with your “Stuff”, but hopefully help you make some good money when selling it.
Mike Ivankovich has been involved in some phase of the Antiques & Collectibles business for more than 40 years. He is the host of the “What’s It Worth? Ask Mike the Appraiser” Radio Show that airs every Friday morning from 9:30-10:30 AM on WBCB 1490 AM in Philadelphia PA. As a Home Downsizing Expert & Author he guides clients through the entire Home Downsizing process, helping them deal with their Antiques, Collectibles, and General Household Contents. His Home Downsizing in Four Easy Steps book can be found on Amazon.com. Please register on our calendar, and don't forget your email address so we can send you the Zoom link. |
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Library Poets Spring Celebration |
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Friday, April 29 7-9pm
Marbletown Community Center
Free and open to the public
The Library Poets invite you to join them for an evening of poetry, celebrating spring and being able to read in person. Come and join us at the Marbletown Community Center, with reading from Catherine Arra, Tina Barry, Frank Boyer, Fay Loomis, Lisa St. John, Carol Shank and Cecilia Worth. See more
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Saturday, May 7
10-2pm
In the Library yard
Join us on the library lawn for our Annual Plant Sale. We will have a variety of donated plants from flowers to vegetables. The Library Knitters will be with us with all sorts of treasures. Libraries are magical places so other surprises may just pop-up! This event is rain or shine.
If you can help us with the sale by dividing some of your plants from your home garden, please stop by the library where we will have empty pots waiting for you by the garden gate. Plants can be dropped off at the library the week of May 1st but not sooner please.
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Mondays at 2pm
In Person or on Zoom
Mindfulness is a skill that is practiced through meditation. It offers numerous benefits to our physical and emotional health, helping to reduce stress, improve concentration, cultivate kindness and experience greater emotional resilience.
Join us on Mondays at 2pm as we develop awareness, cultivate more presence, and strengthen our ability to bring mindfulness into our day-to-day lives.
These weekly drop-in sessions will include a short talk on the topic of the week, guided meditation, and opportunity for discussion. All levels of practitioners are welcome, no previous experience required. Come as often as you like.
There are two options to join:
ZOOM:
IN-PERSON:
5 in-person slots will be available each week on a first come, first served basis. Sign up for a slot by registering on the Library’s online calendar.
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Mark your calendars for Hudson Valley Gives Day: Wednesday, May 18th! This 24-hour online event is one of our most important fundraisers. Last year you helped us win two prizes and raise over $30,000 to support Library programs and services. We hope to reach that goal again this year.
If you’re interested in offering a matching donation or learning more about how to get involved with our HV Gives campaign, contact our SRLF Coordinator:
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SUNY Ulster Fine and Visual Art Student Exhibit |
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April 1-April 30
Come in and view our new exhibit of SUNY Ulster Student Art works. This exhibit will include works from both the Fine and Visual Art Programs including drawings, paintings and 3D works done by first and second year students. ReceptionTBA.
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Get access to more books with your Stone Ridge library card!
You can now borrow titles in Libby from the Upper Hudson Library System.
To add your card for a partner library:
- Go to MENU. Add Library.
- Search for The Upper Hudson Library System and open it.
- Tap Sign In with My Card.
- Under "Partner Libraries," choose Stone Ridge Library from the list and sign in.
- A visual "How To."
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Think of BrainHQ as your personal gym for brain training, where you can exercise your memory, attention, brain speed, people skills, intelligence and navigation abilities. BrainHQ offers more than two dozen scientifically proven exercises to help you think faster, focus better, remember more and enjoy life! Sign Up
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We are continuing curbside service. Call 687-7023 from the parking lot and we will bring your materials to the return benches by the entrance for you to pick up.
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Spring 2022
Our After School Story Hours will take a look at Fairy Tales. The gold, the sleeping spells, the frogs, the witches, and the wishes.
After School Story Hour will meet outside when the weather is good and move inside if needed:
Wednesdays - K-3rd grades
April 20, 27, May 4, 11, 18
3:30-4:30
A simple snack will be provided.
Parents will need to register their child for the program and drive their child to the library.
We will NOT be having children come on the bus from the elementary school for this program.
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“Take and Make” story time projects |
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These Fairy Tale Story hour projects will also be offered as a “Take and Make” project with an accompanying instructional video. You can sign up for this option on our calendar as well.
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Tween and Teen After School Activity |
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Poetry as Collage with Lisa St. John |
Thursday, April 28 3:00-4:30
Tweens and teens in grades 9 - 12
With April being poetry month the children's room is pleased to have Lisa St. John, an accomplished writer who has experience working with young adults creating their own poems, offer a one time "Poetry as Collage" workshop. In this workshop, participants will draw inspiration from examples of poems presented in collage. Participants with some guidance and support from Lisa will form and create their own collage poems using magazines, newspapers, gift cards and more.
The library will provide all necessary materials. Just bring yourself and (if you like) your favorite materials such as a favorite marker/pen, printouts of images or poems you would like to work with. If you don't have a favorite poem, you can build one or find one in the workshop. Please be sure to register for this program using our calendar to receive updates and information.
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Tweens and teens should consider joining our Battle of the Books teams. Battle of the Books is a program in which teenagers participate in a reading and trivia game competition. The participants read all or several of the selected books. The reading can begin ASAP and continues throughout the summer. During the summer our team will meet and practice studying trivia about the books. Then each library team will participate in a regional battle with other libraries. For more information email: Julianna@stoneridgelibrary.org
Middle School Team grades 5-8
Battle date the weekend of September 10th
Book Titles
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Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake
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Cub by Cynthia L Copeland
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The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
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Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
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The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
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The Fog Diver by Joel Ross
High School Team grades 9-12
Battle date the weekend of August 20th
Book Titles
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
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Reverie by Ryan La Sala
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A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
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Geekerella by Ashley Poston
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Carry on by Rainbow Rowell
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Tea Time
Book Group
Wednesday, April 13
12:30 in the Activity Room
The book for April is The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son, and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he s still alive. But it wasn't always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book. Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill, and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of extraordinary depth and beauty.
During the winter months all patrons participating in Stone Ridge Library sponsored groups are required to be vaccinated.
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, April 20
11am in the Activity Room
The classic first novel in Peter Robinson’s internationally bestselling series featuring Inspector Alan Banks. Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to quiet Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But as he soon learns, evil and violence are not unique to large cities. When an elderly woman is found brutally slain in her home in the quaint village of Eastvale, Chief Inspector Banks wonders if a local voyeur has crossed the line from menace to murderer. And before long, Banks finds himself caught in a web of increasingly deadly crimes—a net of danger that threatens his suddenly vulnerable personal life.
During the winter months all patrons participating in Stone Ridge Library sponsored groups are required to be vaccinated.
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Clio's Muse
A History
Reading Club
Wednesday, April 13
Zoom meeting at 7pm
We are reading The Fifties by David Halberstam. The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of not only the titans of the age: Eisenhower Dulles, Oppenheimer, MacArthur, Hoover, and Nixon, but also of Harley Earl, who put fins on cars; Dick and Mac McDonald and Ray Kroc, who mass-produced the American hamburger; Kemmons Wilson, who placed his Holiday Inns along the nation's roadsides; U-2 pilot Gary Francis Powers; Grace Metalious, who wrote Peyton Place; and "Goody" Pincus, who led the team that invented the Pill.
During the winter months all patrons participating in Stone Ridge Library sponsored groups are required to be vaccinated.
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Tuesday, April 19
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
During the winter months all patrons participating in Stone Ridge Library sponsored groups are required to be vaccinated.
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Tuesday, April 26
1-2 pm - a Zoom meeting
¿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 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.
During the winter months all patrons participating in Stone Ridge Library sponsored groups are required to be vaccinated.
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Thursdays, 1:30 – 3pm on Zoom
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. Poetry meets every Thursday via Zoom.
During the winter months all patrons participating in Stone Ridge Library sponsored groups are required to be vaccinated.
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GROUP I:
Monday, April 4,18
GROUP II:
Monday, April 11, 25
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.
During the winter months all patrons participating in Stone Ridge Library sponsored groups are required to be vaccinated.
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Every Tuesday
at 10am in the Activity Room
Beginners are welcome to join our Tuesday Mahjong group. Registration is not required, just walk in. We do encourage that people wear masks while entering the Library, but once you are in the Activity Room it is at the groups discretion.
During the winter months all patrons participating in Stone Ridge Library sponsored groups are required to be vaccinated.
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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.
During the winter months all patrons participating in Stone Ridge Library sponsored groups are required to be vaccinated.
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New Fiction
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Wild Irish Rose: a Molly Murphy mystery by Rhys Bowen
Shadows Reel: a Joe Pickett novel by CJ Box
Groundskeeping by Lee Cole
A Relative Murder by Jude Deveraux
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King
The Lightning Rod: a Zig & Nola novel by Brad Meltzer
Fear thy Neighbor by Fern Michaels
Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson
French Braid by Anne Tyler
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
A Safe House by Stuart Woods
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New Non-Fiction
Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker
Coming to Age: Growing Older with Poetry by Mary Ann Hoberman and Carolyn Hopley
Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts: 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape by Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano
15-Minute Stretch: four 15-Minute Workouts for Flexibility, Posture, and Strength by Suzanne Martin
Fauci - Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward by National Geographic
Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions by Joseph L Matthews
After the Vote: Feminist Politics in LaGuardia's New York by Elisabeth Istaels Perry
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
Eating to Extinction: the World's Rarest Foods and Why we Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino
Knocked Down: a High Risk Memoir by Aileen Weintraub
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New DVDs
Belfast - Jude Hill, Caitriona Balfe
House of Gucci - Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto
The King’s Man - Ralph Fiennes
Marry Me - Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson
The Matrix Reserrections - Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss
Midsomer Murders -
Series 22
West Side Story - Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Rita Moreno
Yellowstone - Season 4
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New Audiobooks
Shadows Reel by C.J. Box
The Match by Harlan Coben
French Braid by Anne Tyler
A Sunlit Weapon by Jacquelin Winspear
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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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