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"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
-Margaret Atwood from Bluebeard's Egg.
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May is AAPI Heritage Month? Want to know more? Click here.
May is the time to get those gardens in. Questions? Why not ask the experts at Cornell Cooperative Extension Ulster County. Click here for more information.
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News from the Library Foundation | |
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HUDSON VALLEY GIVES is coming up on MAY 15! This annual day of online giving is one of our most important fundraisers of the year. Community support is what we’re all about – and it’s YOUR support that sustains us.
HELP US MEET OUR GOAL OF RAISING $25,000 for the Library!
Online contributions to our HV Gives Campaign on MAY 15 will help the Library win CASH PRIZES & MATCHING GRANT FUNDS!
Plus - take advantage of special Deals for Donors! Donate to our HVG Campaign on MAY 15 and get:
20% OFF at Victoria Gardens on May 15
10% OFF at Bluebird Wines on May 15
Free Admission at Skate Time on May 18 or 19
Stay tuned for more information + DONATION LINKS coming soon via email, Facebook and Instagram!
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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Honeybee Keeping Explained
with Bob Rawluk of the Ulster County Beekeeper's Association
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Honeybee Keeping Explained
Saturday, May 18, 1-2pm
Library Lawn
Curious about beekeeping? Join us Saturday, May 18, from 1-2 pm on the library lawn for this family friendly program. We will learn about the history of beekeeping, methods, and the equipment used past and present. Learn about the honey collection process, and why eating locally produced honey is good for you. We will also observe live honeybees at work in a safe environment.
Bob Rawluck is the President of the Ulster County Beekeeper Association, and will be happy to answer questions regarding the club, and its mission.
Please Register here
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Drawing in the Garden with Donna Calcavecchio
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Drawing in the Garden with Donna Series
Starting Monday, May 13. 1:30 —3:30
Meeting every other Monday through June 3-October 7 in our pollinator gardens.
Join Donna Calcavecchio every other Monday afternoon in our lovely pollinator garden. Starting in May and continuing through the growing season into Fall.
Learn about botanical drawing and nature journaling as you practice drawing flowers, foliage and pollinators in our pollinator Garden. Create a sketchbook/journal, documenting your observations of the various plants and the pollinators that they attract. Basic to advanced drawing skills are helpful, but not required.
A limited amount of supplies will be provided for the first meeting along with a suggested materials list.
Registration is limited so please register if you plan to attend the full series.
Register here
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Donna Calcavecchio has a BFA with a major in illustration
from The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. She has worked as a graphic designer and illustrator for the past 30 years, winning several design awards along the way. A Hudson Valley native, Donna became fascinated by all things in nature as a child. Her primary interest is in botanical art and her medium is colored pencils, with recent excursions into pen and ink, and watercolor.
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Paper & Paint
a new exhibit by Lily Bednarz
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Art Exhibit
by Lily Bednarz
May6-June 28
Artist Reception May 11, 1-3pm
Activity Room
Artist Statement
This show grew from a pile of paper two years in the making. Drawn to color schemes and thick brush strokes, Lily has created works dense with textures and filled to the very corners. The subject of each piece was decided before the collage was made and pieced together with the end result in mind.
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Lily Bednarz
Lily Bednarz lives in the Hudson Valley, in the Hamlet of Cottekill and has been creating art for as long as she can remember. Currently enrolled at SUNY Ulster in the early college program, Lily is pursuing a Fine Arts degree.
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After Work Yoga with Laura Brown | |
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Wednesdays May 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29
5:30-6:30
Marbletown Community Center
Our partnership with Town of Marbletown Parks, Trails & Rec. Dept. continues in 2024 with continued free Wednesday yoga classes. Classes will be held at the Marbletown Community Center. All classes will be taught by Laura Brown and we are grateful to be working with her and the Parks and Rec. Dept. to bring these classes to our community.
*This is a very popular program so if you register for a class and cannot make it, please cancel your registration or email us so we can fill the spot with someone on the waitlist.*
Participants must register for each class. To register click on the links below:
Questions? Contact: Programs
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Laura loves bringing yoga into people’s lives, encouraging her students to welcome space, breath, and movement to reset their bodies and minds. These classes are perfect for the absolute beginner, the curious, the seasoned yogi and everybody in-between! All are encouraged to move at their own pace in this hour-long class.
Please be sure to bring your yoga mat and any blocks or straps if you use them. The library will have extra mats, blocks and straps if needed. As with any exercise class, be sure to check with your doctor before starting.
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Saturdays
May 11,18 & 25
9:30-10:30
Rondout Municipal Center (In the former Bistro Space)
1921 Lucas Ave
Cottekill, NY
Get your Saturdays off to a great start with a new 3 week session of Zumba Gold Classes. We are again thrilled to be collaborating with the Town of Marbletown Parks, Trails and Recreation Department to offer you these exercise classes free of charge.
Join Zumba Gold instructor Donna Ebanks for a dance fitness program suited for those needing lower impact classes. This class is slower paced and will focus on balance, coordination and flexibility. Its a great way for seniors, anyone with mobility issues or those just starting out on their fitness journey to get started.
*This is a very popular program so if you register for a class and cannot make it, please cancel your registration or email us so we can fill the spot with someone on the waitlist.*
*You should check with your doctor before starting this or any exercise program.*
Registration is required for each class.
May 11 Register here
May 18 Register here
May 25 Register here
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Awaken Joy: Mindfulness and the Art of Savoring
with Stephanie Speer
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Awaken Joy: Mindfulness and the Art of Savoring
Monday, May 20, 2-3:30pm
Activity Room
An invitation to cultivate the Art of Savoring as a simple and powerful practice for taking in the good, awakening joy, and improving psychological wellbeing. During our time together, we will be using the tools of mindfulness to come to our senses, by being aware and awake in the present moment, that we may recognize the delights that are available in the ordinary and the extraordinary experiences of our daily lives.
Registration is required. Register here
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As an instructor of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Stephanie Speer has been teaching mindfulness practices to individuals and groups for over 30 years. She received her Masters in Humanistic Education from Goddard College and completed her MBSR professional training from Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Her professional work and personal life has been informed by 35 years of meditation practice and Buddhist studies. As a long term resident of Ulster County, she continues to enjoy the beauty, serenity, and simplicity of living in this rural area which has helped to sustain her meditation practice and enabled her to enter the busyness of the world with greater calm and ease.
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Let's Move with the Library | |
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Let's Move with the Library
Thursdays each month
from 12-1
Various Rail Trails
The Stone Ridge Library Saunterers are back in action walking various rail trails every Thursday each month from 12-1.
All are welcome as we talk and walk, getting in our steps and getting to know our neighbors. There is no registration necessary. Just show up with your walking shoes on.
All walks are weather permitting. Any cancellations will be posted on social media and on our website.
*Please check with your doctor before starting this or any exercise program.*
Thursday, May 2, 12-1O&W Rail Trail parking lot on Leggett Road.
Thursday, May 9, 12-1 O&W Rail Trail parking lot Rest Plaus Road
Thursday, May 16, 12-1 O&W Rail Trail parking lot behind the Cottekill Firehouse
**parking is limited at the Cottekill Firehouse so feel free to park at the library and carpool with friends or park across the street at the Silos rail trail parking area.**
Thursday, May 23, 12-1 Wallkill Valley Rail Trail parking lot at the Trestle Bridge on Binnewater Road.
Thursday, May 30, 12-1 Wallkill Valley Rail Trail parking lot at the Women's Studio Workshop
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Teen Game Night
Friday, May 3
6-8:30pm
Teens 15+
Join us for after hours game night for teens. If you enjoy group games, come and join in the fun. This month we will be playing Photosynthesis, Arboretum and Herbaceous as we focus on Earth-centric games for Spring.
Snacks will be provided. Registration is required. The library doors will open at 6pm and close at 6:15pm so be here on time for an evening of fun.
Register here
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After School Story Hour for children in K-3rd grades
Get the giggles story hours on Wednesdays
May 15, 22, 29 3:30-4:30
These three story hours are all about laughing out loud in the children’s room. (Of course be quiet and respectful in other parts of the library).
We will read some funny books and make some humorous crafts.
Be sure to register here.
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Take and Make kits
Get the giggles at home.
Take and Make kits with a pre-recorded video are available weekly. Sign-up to reserve your kit and receive information about pickup times and video links.
Be sure to register here
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Tween Craft afternoon
Tweens in grades 4-8 Join us Tuesdays May 14, 21, 28 3:00-4:00
We will be pulling out materials and supplies to create projects and make some fun crafts.
Be sure to register here.
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Reading Dragons and Friends is a card collecting, independent reading, incentive program through the library.
This is a fun card collecting & reading INCENTIVE activity where children can earn a new dragon card for every 30 minutes of reading.
How do you get started and acquire a Reading Dragon?
Pick up a free Reading Dragon tracker, instructions, and some special starter cards at the library.
The more you read, the more dragons, unicorn, and griffin cards you can collect!
Each set includes an egg, a baby, a teenager, and an adult form of your dragon, unicorn, or griffin.
Take home your tracker, READ!! Then bring your completed tracker to the front desk to choose your cards!!
Collect them ALL!
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Tea Time
Book Group
Wednesday, May 8
1pm in the Activity Room
The book for May is Banyan Moon by Thao Thai
A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories. When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life--a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste--but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng. Back in Florida, Huơng is simultaneously mourning her mother and resenting her for having the relationship with Ann that she never did. Then Ann and Huơng learn that Minh has left them both the Banyan House, the crumbling old manor that was Ann's childhood home, in all its strange, Gothic glory. Spanning decades and continents, from 1960s Vietnam to the wild swamplands of the Florida coast, Banyan Moon is a stunning and deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, the things we inherit, and the lives we choose to make out of that inheritance.
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Clio's Muse
History Book Group
Wednesday, May 15
7pm via Zoom
The book for May is Leonardo DaVinci by Walter Isaacson
"He was history's most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us? The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But in his own mind, he was just as much a man of science and technology. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history's most creative genius"-- Provided by publisher.
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, May 29
11am in the Activity Room
The book for May is Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar by Olga Wojtas
Never underestimate a librarian. Comfortably padded and in her middle years, Shona McMonagle may look bookish and harmless, but her education at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls has left her with a deadly expertise in everything from martial arts to quantum physics. It has also left her with a bone-deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, that scurrilous novel that spread scandalous untruths about the finest educational institution in Edinburgh. Her skills, her deceptively mild appearance, and her passionate loyalty make Shona the perfect recruit for a new and interesting project: Time-travel to Tsarist Russia, prevent a gross miscarriage of romance, and--in any spare time--see to it that only the right people get murdered. It's a big job, but no task is too daunting for a Head Girl from Miss Blaine's.
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Friday, May 17
12:15pm, Activity Room
Registration Required
In May Cooks and Books will be cooking from any of NY author Deb Perelman's Smitten Kitchen cookbooks. We have all of her books in the Mid-Hudson Library System and the can be ordered here.
The Cooks & Books group is a cookbook group. We meet the 3rd Friday of each month and take turns choosing a cookbook or theme to cook from. Each member then makes a chosen dish to bring to the meeting where we feast and discuss the cookbook and recipes. It’s a whole lot of fun and great food.
Participation is limited so if you are interested in joining this group, please contact Sarah Robertson at programs@stoneridgelibrary.org or call (845) 687-7023 ext. 8.
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*New* German Conversation
with Suse Volk
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German Conversation Group
Friday, May 17, 4-5pm
Activity Room
The Stone Ridge Library is expanding our language conversation groups to include a German conversation group which will meet on the third Friday of each month.
Participants should have some background in German language as this is a conversation group meant to improve and brush up skills.
Suse Volk is a native German speaker ready to discuss a variety of topics including culture, travel and food.
If you are interested in joining this group please contact Sarah Robertson at: programs@stoneridgelibrary.org
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Tuesday, May 21
1-2 pm - in the Activity 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. This group is meeting in-person in the Activity Room. Registration is not required. For more information contact Sarah Robertson at: programs@stoneridgelibrary.org.
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Tuesday, May 28
1-2 pm on Zoom
¿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 in the activity room or 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.
Contact Sarah Robertson at programs@stoneridgelibrary.org to join the group.
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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen
Thursdays, May 2, 16 & a bonus date of May 30
on Zoom 1:30 - 3:00
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. Poetry meets the first and third Thursday of the month via Zoom.
Please contact Rosemary at rmdeen@gmail.com if you’d like to join the group.
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WRITERS' GROUP
with Cathy Arra
GROUP I:
Monday, May 13
GROUP II:
Monday, May 6 & 20
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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MAHJONG
Every Tuesday
10am-noon, in the Activity Room
If you are a Mahjong player, join us Tuesdays from 10-12 in the Activity Room. No registration is required. The group is playing with the 2024 card. If you have a 2024 card be sure to bring it. All levels are welcome. Come join in the fun!
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KNITTING GROUP
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
The Cemetery Of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
Calamity Of Souls by David Baldacci
Sharpe's Command by Bernard Cornwell
A Tempest Of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
The Hunter by Tana French
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
Lost Birds by Anne Hillerman
What Cannot Be Said: A Sabastian S. Cyr Mystery by C. S. Harris
Close To Death by Anthony Horowitz
Confederates In The Attic by Tony Horwitz
The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R King
Choice: A Novel by Neel Mukherjee
Extinction by Douglas Preston
Toxic Prey by John Sandford
The Good, The Bad And The Aunties by Jesse Q. Santo
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Murder In Rose Hill by Victoria Thompson
Table For Two by Amor Towles
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New Non-Fiction
Food Gifts by America's Test Kitchen
Vegan Soups And Stews For All Seasons by Nava Atlas
The Black Box: Writing About Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Somehow: Thoughts On Love by Anne Lamott
We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship by Will Schwalbe
Best of Europe by Rick Steves
A City On Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
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New DVDs
Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom
The Crime is Mine
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NDV Coping Mechanisms: Notes From The Field by Billy-Ray Belcourt
The World Keeps Ending, And The World Goes On by Franny Choi
IEP Jaltok Poems From A Marshallese Daughter by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
County Descent by Clint Smith
The Beloved Community by Patricia Spears Jones
Peach State by Adrienne Su
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New! We are now listing our new E-books and Audio Books
*Recently purchased E-books and Audio Books are available to all Mid-Hudson Library Patrons*
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New E-Books
Fiction
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
James by Percival Everett
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
The Hunter by Tana French
The Secret World of Weather by Tistan Gooley
The Women by Kristen Hannah
The Heaven and Hell Grocery Store by James McBride
Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki
Table For Two by Amor Towles
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Non-Fiction
Attracting Birds and Butterflies by
Barbara Ellis
The Backyard Chicken Keeper's Bible by Jessica Ford Rachel Federman and Sonya Patel Ellis
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New Audio Books
Fiction
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Erasure by Percival Everett
The Heaven and Hell Grocery Store by James McBride
Table For Two by Amor Towles
Non-Fiction
Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time by Robert Downey Jr. and Thomas Kostigen
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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 is in the top right corner of the page.
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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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Address: 3700 Main Street, PO Box 188
Stone Ridge, NY 12484
Phone: 845-687-7023
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