“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
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Let’s Talk Turkey… and pie and stuffing |
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Send recipes by Friday, November 12
Recipe Demo on Thursday, November 18 7pm on Zoom
Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving recipe you make every year? That one recipe your family just can’t get through the holiday without? Are you willing to share your recipe for the best pumpkin pie, stuffing, baked yams, cranberry sauce, appetizer, cocktail or a fabulous non-traditional holiday side dish? We are having a Library Thanksgiving recipe swap.
We will compile all submitted recipes and the library staff with vote on a winner, November 15th.
The winner will have their recipe made live, via zoom, by our program manager, Sarah Robertson and her son Gunnar on November 18th at 7pm. All recipes submitted will be available to patrons at the circulation desk and featured on the library’s social media accounts.
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Our friends at the Pleasant Valley Library recently offered their patrons Kindness Capsules, little capsules filled with a random act of kindness to create a bit of good. We loved this idea and asked if we could follow suit and do something similar. Compassion Poppers! Patrons will find a basket filled with Compassion Poppers on our benches near the ramp. Please take one and thanks for helping us spread a little extra kindness around. |
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November is a time of giving thanks, even in hard times. A recent article, published by Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School, suggests that practicing gratitude can lift the spirits and create greater happiness. Giving thanks can make you happier - Harvard Health.
Please join us in lifting spirits by making your own Gratitude Jar. A gratitude jar can be any jar (the Library will be using a recycled pickle jar), decorated with stickers and ribbon and filled with little notes of gratitude. We will provide the decorations and notes, which can be picked up at the circulation desk all month.
Simply write a note of what you are grateful for and put it in the jar. The library will have a jar sitting on a table in the circulation area and will be posting notes on social media throughout the month. Examples can be simple things: good health, enough to eat, a child who slept through the night, hearing from a friend, being first on the holds list for a new book. Join us as we express our gratitude for our patrons and our community. Here's a How to. |
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Identifying & Avoiding Scams |
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Tuesday, November 9
6:00pm on Zoom
This virtual workshop, presented by Raffaela Benson of Walden Savings Bank, will help you stay one step ahead of scammers. Attendees will learn how to identify and avoid most of the common scams, what to do if you think you are a victim and how to defend yourself against these threats. Raffaela will also define fraud and discuss the tactics of scammers to help you protect yourself. This free virtual even is presented in partnership with the Ulster County Library Association and Walden Savings bank. Registration is required. Be sure to include your email address when registering so we can send the zoom link. Register
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Buy groceries and support the Library!
Our friends at the High Falls Food Co-op have selected the Stone Ridge Library Foundation as the recipient of their November Round Up Program.
Shop at the Co-op anytime during the month of November and “Round Up” your purchase to the nearest dollar. (Your total is $26.31…Would you like to Round Up to $27.00? Yes please!) That extra change will make a difference when it’s collected and donated to the SRLF!
The Co-op provides ethically-sourced products at the lowest prices possible. Check out their great selection of grocery, produce, bulk items (liquid, dry and spices), meat and dairy, health and beauty products – plus their fabulous prepared foods deli case. Shopping discounts are offered with Co-op membership.
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Tea Time
Book Group
Wednesday, November 10
12:30 in the Activity Room
The book for November is Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman. The Owens children have always been strange, and not just because they like black clothing and are oddly buoyant. Frances, the oldest, can communicate with birds; shy and beautiful middle sibling Bridget (nicknamed Jet for her black hair) can read minds; and the youngest, Vincent, is so winsome and irresistible that his obstetric nurse attempted to kidnap him. Growing up in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s, the children never fit in, until they visit Aunt Isabelle in Massachusetts and discover they are bloodline witches. Full of gifts and potential, the siblings are cursed with knowing too much about fate and the future. A prequel to Hoffman's Practical Magic.
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, November 17
11am in the Activity Room
a Tommy and Tuppence mystery by Agatha Christie. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford investigate the strange and troubling doings behind the scenes at a gothic British nursing home. When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs. Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs. Lancaster talks about "something behind the fireplace," Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in a spine-chilling adventure that could spell death for either of them.
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Clio's Muse
A History
Reading Club
Wednesday, December 8 Zoom meeting at 7pm
We are reading Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989 by Michael Beschloss. The authors' dramatic and inspiring saga explores crucial times when courageous presidents changed the history of the United States. With surprising new sources and a dazzling command of history and human character, Beschloss brings these flawed, complex men and their wives, families, friends, and foes to life as if in a gripping novel. Never have we had a more intimate, behind-the-scenes view of presidents coping with the supreme dilemmas of their lives. |
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Tuesday, November 16
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, November 23
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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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, November 1, 15, 29
GROUP II:
Monday, November 8, 22
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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Take and Make Projects
This Fall we will explore some hands-on science experiments with our "Take and Make" projects. The supplies you need for these projects will be available in a to-go bag your family can conveniently pick up at the library. Sign up with the calendar link to receive updates about Project pick-up information and to receive a video link for instructions and associated books.
The project themes will be:
November 8 - Acids vs. Bases
December 13 - Electric current and conductivity
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New Fiction
April In Spain by John Banville
God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rys Bowen
Claws for Alarm by Rita Mae Brown
State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Louise Penny
The Judges List by John Grisham
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
A Line To Kill by Anthony Horowitz
Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Silverview by John Le Carre
The Brides of Maracoor by Gregory Maguire
Vince Flynn Enemy at the Gates by Kyle Mills
The Jealousy Man by Jo Nesbo
Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Concepcion by Albert Samaha
A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris
The Butler by Daniel Steel
Oh William by Elizabeth Strout
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
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New Non-Fiction
The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
Baking With Dorie by Dorie Greenspan
Of Sound Mind by Nina Kraus
Lidia's A Pot, A Pan, and A Bowl by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali
On Animals by Susan Orlean
100 Things We’ve Lost To The Internet by Pamela Paul
And I Shall Have Some Peace There by Margaret Roach
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley
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New DVDs
The Truffle Hunters
Free Guy - Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer
RoadRunner: a Film about Anthony Bourdain
On The Rocks - Rashida Jones, Bill Murray
New Audiobooks
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Miss Kopp Investigates: a Kopp Sisters Novel by Amy Steward
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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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