“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.” -
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Free Princess Bride
Film Screening & Benefit!
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Bring the family and join us under the tent at the Hasbrouck House on Thursday, July 7 for an “inconceivably” good time!
4pm – 8pm: Princess Bride - themed games, crafts, trivia and activities for all ages +
Arrowood Farms Tap Takeover, dinner, cocktails, and raffle prizes!
8pm: movie screening. Stick around to see this beloved, classic film on the big screen!
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10% of dinner & drink sales will be donated to the Stone Ridge Library Foundation to
support our children’s collection.
No cost to attend, no reservations required. Rain or shine.
Hasbrouck House • 3805 Main St. Stone Ridge.
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Let’s Move with the Library!
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Thursdays, 12 - 12:45
various local rail trails
Walk with us! This library group, informally known as the Stone Ridge Library Sauter-ers, walks local rail trails each Thursday, from 12-12:45pm, weather permitting. Look for Sarah, in her trusty NPR ball cap, put on your comfy walking shoes, sunscreen, bug spray and let’s move.
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July 7: Wallkill Valley Rail Trail Trestle Bridge Meet at Binnewater Pater Parking Lot
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July 14: O & W Rail Trail Meet at Leggett Road Parking lot
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July 21: O &W Rail Trail Meet at Marcott Road Parking lot
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July 28: Wallkill Valley Rail Trail Meet at Sojourner Truth Park, New Paltz
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Friday, July 15, 2pm Activity Room
This month the Cooks and Books book group will be choosing recipes from Alexis DeBoschnek’s new book To the Last Bite. Group members will each choose a different recipe from the book to make and share. We will meet in the library activity room, dishes in hand, for tasting and discussion.
or call (845)687-7023 ext. 8
Registration is required.
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Monday July 11, 18, 25 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:
We’ll use this same Zoom link each week. (Password is: breathe) No registration required for those who join via Zoom. The Zoom link will also be available on the Library Home page.
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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NOW OPEN
Monday - Friday 3-5
Saturday 10-2
Located in the small barn closest to the Library entry way.
- Gently used books
- Occupancy limited to 2 people at a time (it is little)
- Children's Area
- $2 a book – cash or check
WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING BOOK DONATIONS
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Preschool Story Time on the Library Lawn with Ligeia Garland
For children ages 3 years to 5 years
Thursdays: 9:30-10:30
July 14, 21, 28, August 18, 25
On the back lawn at the Library (Excessive rain could cancel the program,check your email for updates)
Thank you to the Marbletown Youth Commission for sponsoring this program
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Summer Reading Program Story Hours
ages 5 -11 years
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We are offering two Story Hour Options
Option 1:
“Take and Make” story time projects
Ocean's of Possibilities is our Summer Reading Program theme.
This year we will dive into ocean themed stories, crafts, and prizes.
Sign up to pick up a craft bag and follow along with a story hour link by Julianna each week
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 Hours
Wednesdays at 2:00-3:00 July 6, 13, 20 & August 3 & 10
2 - 3pm
In Person Story Hour on the library lawn with Julianna
(Excessive rain could cancel the program,check your email for updates)
Ocean's of Possibilities is our Summer Reading Program theme.
This year we will dive into ocean themed stories, crafts, and prizes.
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Friday, July 15th
3:00-4:30 on the library lawn
Splish Splash it’s a Mermaid Bash, Pirates welcome too! Join us for Theater, snacks, and crafts. Costumes are welcome but not necessary.
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Summer’s Marvelous Mondays
for Tweens and Teens
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Ocean Theme Pin Craft
Monday, July 11
4:00-5:00
Ages 9 and up
Create a friendship pin with an ocean design. The design choices include a fish, crab, anchor, and turtle.
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Wayfinder Experience
Monday, July 18
4:00-6:00
Ages 9 and up
Capture the Flag with the Wayfinder Experience group and their foam swords will have participants engaged in an active game that pushes the boundaries between competitive and cooperative interaction, learning to act out high-intensity physical play safely and responsibly. It is an ocean of fun.
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Beach Themed Votive Candle Jar
Monday, August 1
6:30-7:30
Ages 9 and up
Create a beach theme candle jar as a gift or for yourself.
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Beach Theme Resin Pendant
Monday, August 8
6:30-7:30
Ages 9 and up
Create an ocean theme UV resin pendant. Turn it into a necklace or a key chain.
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Dungeons and Dragons game
Monday, August 22, 23, 24, 25
3:00-5:00
Ages 14 and up
The Dungeons and Dragons game will be led by dungeon master Josie Quinn. Participation is very limited. Participants must be available all four days.
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Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
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Did you know the Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum offers a Public Library Complimentary Guest Pass? This pass is valid for up to 5 people for entry to the Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum only. It is not valid for the President’s Home or any of the other Roosevelt sites.
Stone Ridge Library Patron can request a pass at the circulation desk during regular library hours. The Pass must be presented and surrendered to the Roosevelt Presidential Library Staff at the time of your visit.
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Thanks to a grant from the Mid Hudson Library System, our wireless signal in the yard has improved. There isn't any password, but if your device asks you to accept the portal, simply say yes.
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The Power and Simplicity of Color
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The Power and Simplicity of Color a new art exhibit by Martha J. Klein
July 1-August 31
Artist Reception Saturday, July 9, 1-3
Martha J. Klein has studied drawing, watercolor and acrylic painting for the past 20 years in both New York City and near her home in High Falls, NY. She is attracted to the inspiration and uplifting quality in nature, and often paints en plein aire to attempt to capture the “ah-ha” moment that moves her. Her philosophy is that people are less connected to the outside world than ever before, and suffer as a result. Bringing the power and simplicity of color, form, and scale to her work, the artist hopes to remind people that they are both tiny and immense, and that something bigger than them exists. Her hope is to help alleviate suffering in this way.
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"I have been a trauma therapist for over 33 years, and as such have seen firsthand how so many have suffered. I know the beauty and immense scale of the natural world can remind people that we belong to a bigger environment that has also suffered and changed, and yet perseveres. In my paintings, I hope to reconnect people with the experience of this essential energy in order that their spirits may be rejuvenated." For more information go to Martha J Klein.
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Tea Time
Book Group
Wednesday, July 13
12:30 on Zoom
The book for July is The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. An epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli - like so many of her neighbors - must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life.
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, July 20
11am in the Activity Room And Zoom
London, 1888. When archeological photographer John de Morgan mysteriously vanishes with a priceless artifact, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague, Stoker Templeton-Vane, are pulled into a dangerous world of conspiracies and ancient threats. De Morgan, now married to Stoker's former wife, Caroline, was part of the Tiverton expedition, an archeological endeavor which stirred the wrath of a vengeful curse when the crew violated the tomb of an ancient Egyptian princess. Since the discovery of the sarcophagus, they have endured a string of freak accidents, sudden waves of illness, and even deaths. They wonder if it's all been an unfortunate coincidence--or if the expedition is really doomed.
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Clio's Muse
A History
Reading Club
Wednesday, July 9
Zoom meeting at 7pm
We are reading Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna by David King. Details the 1814 Congress of Vienna, offering portraits of the participants and discussing the political intrigues, illicit affairs, tangled alliances, and bitter rivalries that marked the occasion that transformed the face of nineteenth-century Europe. Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.
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Tuesday, July 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
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Tuesday, July 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.
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Thursday, July 7,21
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, July 11, 25
GROUP II:
Monday, July 18
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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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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New Fiction
The Home Wreckers by Mary Kay Andrews
Dream Town by David Baldacci
Ashton Hall By Lauren Belfer
The Omega Factor by Steve Berry
Tom Clancy - A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel Zero Hour by Don Bentley
Book of Night by Holly Black
Horse A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
A Calling For Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Sands of Dune by Brian Herbert
Fly Girl: A Memoir by Ann Hood
The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings
Give Unto Others by Donna Leon
The Unfortunates by Sophie McManus
Learning to Talk by Hilary Mantel
Dele Weds Destiny by Tomi Obaro
The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick
Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley
The Investigator by John Sanford
Suspects by Danielle Steel
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
The Angel of Rome and other Stories by Jess Walker
Bruno's Challenge by Martin Walker
The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner
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New Non-Fiction
Salad Freak by Jess Damuck
His Name is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Happy- Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
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New Audios
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
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New DVDs
Compartment Number 6 - Seidi Hearla, Yurry Borisov
Fantastic Beasts: the Secrets of Dumbledore -
Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law
Infinite Storm - Naomi Watts
The Worst Person in the World - Renate Reinsve
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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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