“Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books
by various authors so that you develop different style.” - R.L. Stine
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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. We will also have tables with gardening books for sale, a baked goods table and the Library Knitters will be with us with all sorts of treasures. It will be a great day to picnic on the library lawn and shop the sale. This event is rain or shine.
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If you can help us with the sale by dividing plants from your home garden, please stop by the library where we will have empty pots waiting for you by the garden gate. Plant donations can be dropped off at the library the week of May 1 st but not sooner please. |
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Hudson Valley Gives - May 18 |
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Hudson Valley Gives is coming up on May 18! This annual day of online giving is one of our most important fundraising events of the year.
Last year you helped to make HV Gives a huge success for the Library and we’re counting on your support again this year. Your gift impacts our entire community today and for generations to come, sustaining and growing the Library as a center of connection and life-long learning.
Check email and social media for exciting updates on HV Giving Day Deals, Matching Gift Opportunities, and HVG Prizes! And don’t forget to donate to the Library’s HVG Campaign on May 18!
Interested in supporting the Library by offering a Matching Gift or creating your own personal HVG Fundraising Page? Contact SRLF Coordinator Aimee Trumbore for more information: foundation@stoneridgelibrary.org | 845-687-7023 ext. 7 |
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The Library receives a generous gift! |
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Bonni Leu Banyard is remembered as a beloved member of the community and happily served the Stone Ridge Library as a talented and trusted bookkeeper for many years. She also avidly enjoyed gardening, photography and was an exotic bird and animal rescuer.
A steadfast supporter of her community, friendship, gardening and the arts, she bequeathed the Stone Ridge Library with a generous gift from her estate. With the help of her dear friend, Deb Gray from Gardenmakers, and others who knew Bonni well, the idea of a pollinator garden was brought to life.
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At her home in Kerhonkson, Bonni frequently spent time with friends and family either gardening or enjoying her garden. In true community spirit, the new owner gladly allowed Bonni’s friends to divide up many of the plants to help create the new garden space at the library.
The new pollinator garden was planted by Gardenmakers this month, and it extends from Route 209 to the entrance of the Stone Ridge Library. A dedication to Bonni Leu Banyard will happen this Spring. more
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Friday, May 13 at 2pm, Library Activity Room
Friday, May 20, at 2pm Zoom Program
The library is launching a new monthly book group, Cooks and Books. The organizational meeting for this group will be held at 2:00 on Friday, May 13, in the library Activity Room. You must register for this group and include your email address. If you are interested in joining this group please choose a cookbook you would like to explore and bring the title of the book with you to the meeting. Books chosen should be in the Mid-Hudson Library system. To find out if your chosen title is in the library system go to: https://search.midhudsonlibraries.org and type in the title or the author’s name.
Each month the group will meet either in person, to sample recipes from the chosen cookbook while discussing it, or via Zoom, to cook recipes together in our own kitchens.
During the first month we will meet twice, once for an organizational meeting and a second time at 2:00 on Friday, May 20, for a free cooking class on Zoom with Julia Turshen, author of Simply Julia, Small Victories and Now and Again. Her podcast, Keep Calm and Cook On, was named a finalist in the 2019 IACP awards and included interviews with Dorie Greenspan, Vivian Howard, Claire Saffitz, and Samin Nosrat.
Registration is limited so sign up for both sessions now. Sign up for May 13. Sign up for May 20. Be sure to include your email address so we can send you the Zoom link. |
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Let’s Move with the Library! |
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Thursdays, 12noon
various local rail trails
Are you ready to get outside and start enjoying the world again, but not sure you want to walk alone? Walk with us! This new library group will walk local rail trails each Thursday, starting May 5, from 12-12:45pm, weather permitting. Look for Sarah, who will be wearing her trusty NPR ball cap (and sunscreen), wear comfy walking shoes and let’s move.
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May 5, meet at 12pm at the Rosendale Trestle Bridge parking lot.
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May 12, meet at 12pm at the Leggett Road Rail Trail parking lot.
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May 19, meet at 12pm at the Cottekill Fire Department Rail Trail Parking lot.
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May 26, meet at 12pm at the Hurley Rail Trail Parking Area at the Gazebo.
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Monday May 9 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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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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After School Story Hours
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
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
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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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. Check our website for the lists of books. For more information email: Julianna@stoneridgelibrary.org
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Tea Time
Book Group
Wednesday, May 11
12:30 on Zoom
The book for May is The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis. For the nearly nine million people who live in New York City, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future, which she is certain will shine as the brightly as the constellations on the main concourse ceiling. It is 1928, and twenty-five-year-old Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central School of Art. Clara is determined to achieve every creative success. But she and her bohemian friends have no idea that they'll soon be blindsided by the looming Great Depression, an insatiable monster with the power to destroy the entire art scene. In 1974, the terminal is full of grime and danger, from the smoke blackened ceiling to the pickpockets and drug dealers who roam the floor, Grand Central is at the center of a fierce lawsuit: Is the once-grand building a landmark to be preserved, or a cancer to be demolished? For Virginia, it is simply her last resort. |
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, May 18
11am in the Activity Room And Zoom
The book for May is Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. A stunning debut novel about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the land. But while she could have lived in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world--until the unthinkable happens.
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Clio's Muse
A History
Reading Club
Wednesday, May 21
Zoom meeting at 7pm
We are reading How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr. A path breaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire. This book tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress.
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Tuesday, May 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, May 24
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.
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Thursday, May 5, 19
1:30 – 3pm on Zoom
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. Poetry meets the first and third Thursday of the month via Zoom.
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GROUP I:
Monday, May 2, 16
GROUP II:
Monday, May 9, 23
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.
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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.
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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.
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New Fiction
Amongst our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch
Wingwalkers by Taylor Brown
Little Souls by Sandra Dallas
Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge
Mrs. England by Stacey Halls
When Blood Lies: a Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery by C.S. Harris
The Sacred Bridge: a Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito novel by Anne Hillerman
Robert Ludlum's The Treadsotne Transgression by Joshua Hood
The Club by Ellery Lloyd
House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Sixteen Trees of the Somme by Lars Mytting
Death of the Black Widow by James Patterson
Three Debts Paid: a Daniel Pitt novel by Anne Perry
Kingdom of Bones by James Rollins
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
Beautiful by Danielle Steel
The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani
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New Non-Fiction
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker edited by Valerie Boyd
From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks
Half Baked Harvest
Recipes for balanced, flexible, feel good meals
Every Day by Tieghan Gerard
The Story of Your Dog: a Straightforward Guide to a Complicated Animal by Brandon McMillan
We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole
Write for your Life by Anna Quindlen
Patriots and Spys in Revolutionary New York by A. J. Schenkman
Unexpected Bravery: Women and Children of the Civil War by A. J. Schenkman
Timeless Noro Knit Shawls: 25 Unique & Vibrant Designs - sixth&spring Books
The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge by Gary White and Matt Damon
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New DVDs
C’mon C’mon - Joaquin Phoenix
Cyrano - Peter Dinklage
Death on the Nile - Kenneth Branagh
The Great Postal Heist - documentary, directed by Jay Galione, local resident
The Humans - Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell
Spider-Man: No Way Home - Tom Holland, Zendaya
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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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