"In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.” ― Cynthia Rylant, In November | |
November 2023 Newsletter | |
Mindful Aging: Living Life Fully as an Older Woman with Stephanie Speer | |
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Thursday, November 9, 2023
2:00-3:30 PM Activity Room
May I meet this moment fully. May I meet it as a friend. This is an opportunity for women over 55 years of age to come together for contemplation and connection to use the tools of mindfulness to meet the joys, sorrows, fears, pleasures and challenges of aging with greater ease, balance, and control. Our time together will include conversation, information, and participation in simple mindfulness meditation practices provided in a safe and supportive environment.
Registration is limited to 12 participants. To register click here
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Stephanie Speer M.A.
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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After Work Yoga Extended Dates! | |
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Wednesdays, November 1, 8, 15, & 29
5:30-6:30
Marbletown Community Center
Thanks to the Town of Marbletown Parks and Rec. Dept. we are able to continue to offer free Wednesday yoga classes for the rest of 2023! Classes will continue to 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.
Participants must register for each class. To register click on the links below:
Wed. 11/1
Wed. 11/8
Wed. 11/15
There will be no class on November 22 due to the Thanksgiving Holiday
Wed. 11/29
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 class 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 and blocks if needed. As with any exercise class, be sure to check with your doctor before starting.
Questions? Contact: Programs
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NEWS FROM THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION
Our Online Auction was a big hit last month! Many thanks to all the local businesses, organizations and people who donated to the auction as well as to everyone who placed bids. Thanks to you, it was our most successful auction to date! We appreciate your support so much!
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Compassion Poppers & Gratitude Jars
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Holidays can be hard! 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. Simply write a note of what you are grateful for and put it in the jar. The notes can be read daily with family or saved and read at your Thanksgiving meal. The library will have our jar in the circulation area and will be posting notes on social media throughout the month. Examples can be simple things: good health, family, a child who slept through the night, time with a friend or a new library book. We will provide the decorations and notes, you provide the jar! Stop in and pick yours up at the circulation desk and join us as we express our gratitude for our patrons and our community.
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Compassion Poppers! These little packages are filled with a random act of kindness to fulfill. Please take one and help us spread a little extra kindness around. If you would like, share your experience. And tag us on Instagram #stoneridgelibrary
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Infusing Booze for Holiday Gifts | |
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Infusing Booze for Holiday Gifts
Saturday, November 18, 4-6pm
Looking for fun gifts to make for loved ones? Join us for an after hours special program as we learn how to infuse different alcohols for gift giving over the holiday season. We will be making Limoncello, Spicy Cinnamon whisky, Spiced Pecan liqueur and more. Every participant will bring home recipes and a small bottle of one of our creations. Light refreshments will be served and we will be sampling Glogg, a fortified mulled wine.
Must be 21years of age to participate. Registration is limited.
Register Here
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Flora and Fauna, A Compilation
exhibit by Donna Calcavecchio
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Art Exhibit Flora and Fauna, A Compilation by Donna Calcavecchio
November-December
Artist Reception Friday, November 9, 4:30-7pm
A trained illustrator and designer, Donna Calcavecchio has a BFA with a major in illustration from Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts. She has worked as a graphic designer for the past 30 years winning several design awards along the way. Her expertise encompasses all aspects of graphic design including publication design and website design.
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 |  | Several years ago her interest in illustration was reignited after taking a workshop with world renowned botanical illustrator Wendy Hollander. One workshop led to many more with Wendy, and then more with equally renowned Carol Woodin. Several classes at the New York Botanical Garden followed, the latest being an exceptionally informative, challenging and rewarding class in plant morphology with the late Dick Rauh. A Hudson Valley native, Donna became fascinated by all things in nature as a child and credits her cousin Bill’s nature walks with stimulating her interest. She had, and still has a quite large collection of somewhat peculiar, but interesting rocks, seashells, twigs, wasp galls, bark and lichen, acorns, even some dried leaves and blossoms. There’s always something on hand to sketch. Her main interest has always been centered on drawing botanicals with colored pencils. However, when she was asked by Scenic Hudson to do a series of drawings in pen and ink for a new website, the unfamiliar medium proved to be an exciting departure from her usual go-to pencils and was quite challenging as it included native flora as well as native fauna, hence the name of this show; Flora and Fauna, A Compilation
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Let’s Move with the Library! | |
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Thursdays, 12-1 on Local Rail Trails
Join Sarah and your friends and neighbors as we take weekly walks along local rail trails. Each week we will walk from 12-1 on our gorgeous O&W and Wallkill Valley Rail Trails. This social group is a talking and walking group and our motto is: “We are only as fast as our slowest walker.” If you are looking to meet new people and get in some steps while conversing, join us! No pets please. Be sure to check with your doctor before joining this group or any exercise program. No registration necessary-just show up!
All walks are weather permitting. Weather cancellations will be posted on the Stone Ridge Library’s Facebook and Instagram page so be sure to check those out if the weather is questionable. Looking forward to walking with you! for information or maps click here: O&W Rail Trail and Wallkill Valley Rail Trail.
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Thursday, November 2: Meet at O&W rail trail Leggett Road parking lot.
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Thursday, November 9: Meet at the WV rail trail at the Trestle Bridge parking lot.
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Thursday, November 16: Meet at the O&W rail trail at the Cottekill Fire Dept. parking lot.
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We will NOT meet November 23 due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
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Thursday, November 30: Meet at the O&W rail trail Rest Plaus parking lot.
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Do you have baskets, glassware, linens, dishes, candles or ornaments you no longer need? The library is accepting donations for our holiday table through November.
Please bring your new or gently used items to the library any time we are open. We will find a new home for your items and you will help the library at the same time!
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Library Knitters Holiday Sale | |
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Be on the lookout for our annual Library Knitters Sale coming mid-November. We will have hats, scarves, sweaters, mittens and much, much more. All purchases can be made at the circulation desk. Proceeds of all sales go directly to the library.
Thank you for shopping with us!
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Friday, November 17
Teen Game Night
Teens 15+
Join us for after hours game night for teens. If you enjoy group games, come and join in the fun. Games will include Sushi Go, Catan, Sparkle Kitty and more. 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.
Registration Required
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Our After School Story Hours will take a look at Art and Artists.
Learn about Pollock, Monet, Van Gogh, Warhol, Picasso, and Matisse.
Story Hours for Kindergarten- Third grade will meet:
Wednesdays 3:30-4:30 November 1, 8, 15
A Take and Make option with a pre-recorded video is also available for these story hours.
Register for November 1, here.
Register for November 8, here.
Register for November 15, here.
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Tween Painting inspired by Georgia O’Keefe
Tuesday, November 14 3:00-4:00
Grades 4th and up
Be inspired and paint like the great American painter Georgia O’Keefe.
Register using our online calendar here.
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Tween Thanksgiving craft Workshop
Tuesday, November 21, 3:00-4:00
Grades 4th and up
Join us while we make beaded decorative corn and a decorative serving platter.
Register using our online calendar here.
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Tea Time
Book Group
Wednesday, November 8
1pm in the Activity Room
*Please note the time change.*
The book for November is Lucy By The Sea by Elizabeth Strout.
With her trademark spare, crystalline prose--a voice infused with "intimate, fragile, desperate humanness" (The Washington Post)--Elizabeth Strout turns her exquisitely tuned eye to the inner workings of the human heart, following the indomitable heroine of My Name Is Lucy Barton through the early days of the pandemic.
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea.
Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation, as well as the hope, peace, and possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire. At the heart of this story are the deep human connections that unite us even when we're apart--the pain of a beloved daughter's suffering, the emptiness that comes from the death of a loved one, the promise of a new friendship, and the comfort of an old, enduring love.
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Mystery
Book Group
Wednesday, November 15
11am in the Activity Room
The book for November is Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder
Late one night in April 1958, a filing assistant at Miss Brickett's receives a letter of warning, detailing a name, a time, and a place. She goes to investigate but finds the room empty. At the stroke of midnight, she is murdered by a killer she can't see--her death the only sign she wasn't alone. It becomes chillingly clear that the person responsible must also work for Miss Brickett's, making everyone a suspect. Marion Lane, a first-year Inquirer-in-training, finds herself drawn ever deeper into the investigation. When her friend and colleague is framed for the crime, to clear his name she must sort through the hidden alliances at Miss Brickett's and secrets dating back to WWII. / plunges readers into the heart of London, to the secret tunnels that exist far beneath the city streets. There, a mysterious group of detectives recruited for Miss Brickett's Investigations. Inquiries use their cunning and gadgets to solve crimes that have stumped Scotland Yard. Masterful, clever and deliciously suspenseful, this is a fresh take on the Agatha Christie-style locked-room murder mystery, with an exciting new heroine detective.
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Clio's Muse
A History
Reading Club
Wednesday, November 29
Zoom meeting at 7pm
The book for November is An indigenous peoples' history of the United States
Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
In An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them.
Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples' history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.
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Friday, November 17
12:15pm, Activity Room
Registration Required
This month we are trying something totally different, a literary take on cooking. We will all cook a recipe from or inspired by our favorite books. Think of Heartburn by Nora Ephron, Still Life by Louise Penny, or any of the Harry Potter books, and choose a recipe. You can also choose a recipe popular at the time your favorite book was written.
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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Tuesday, November 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, November 28
1-2 pm - in the Activity Room (in September) and 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, November 2, 16, 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, November 13, 27
GROUP II:
Monday, November 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 and Friday
at 10am in the Activity Room
If you are a Mahjong player, join us Tuesdays and Fridays from 10-12 in the Activity Room. No registration is required. The group is playing with the 2023 card. 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
Secrets of the Nile by Tasha Alexander
Tom Clancy: Weapons Grade by Don Bentley
Lost and Hound by Ritan Mae Brown
The Secret by Lee & Andrew Child
Blood Lines by Nelson DeMille & Alex DeMille
No Reserve by Felix Francis
The Exchange by John Grisham
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
The Last Chairlift by John Irving
Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The Night House by Jo Nesbo
Payback in Death by J. D. Robb
Judgement Prey by John Sandford
Testament by Wilbur Smith
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Obsession by Stuart Woods and Brett Battles
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
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New Non Fiction
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, MD with Bill Gifford
Lidia’s: From our Family Table to Yours by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanua Bastianich Manuali
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States 10 Anniversary Edition by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Chutney Life by Palak Patel
The Movie Puzzle Book by Ian Smith & Dr. Gareth Moore
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski
Maman & Me by Roya Shariat and Gita Sadeh
Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore by Kiki Smith
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New DVDs
Barbie
Succession: The Final Season
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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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Address: 3700 Main Street, PO Box 188
Stone Ridge, NY 12484
Phone: 845-687-7023
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