July 2015

THANK YOU LIBRARY FAIR VOLUNTEERS

Dozens of pictures. more

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New Audio Books

• Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay - Elena Ferrante
• In a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France - Susan Herrmann Loomis

New DVD's

• Get: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem - Ronit Elkabetz
• The Newsroom - 3rd season
• While We're Young - Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried
• The Wrecking Crew - various musicians

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BOOKLISTS

Every month we feature reading suggestions. Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the booklist-of-the-month brochure and check out a book from our current display.

BEACH READS

• Hamish Macbeth series by M.C. Beaton
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
• Burglar series by Lawrence Block
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
• Robert Langdon novels by Dan Brown
• Mrs. Murphy series by Rita Mae Brown
• At Home by Bill Bryson 643.1 bry
• Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• Jack Reacher series by Lee Child
• anything by Agatha Christie
• The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
• The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
• Lincoln Lawyer series by Michael Connelly
• The Mayan Secrets; The Storm by Clive Cussler
• Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
• Bridget Jones's Diary series by Helen Fielding
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fanny Flagg
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Canada by Richard Ford
• The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
• The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon
• The Cuckoo's Calling; The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
• Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Kinsey Millhone mysteries by Sue Grafton
• The Beach House by Jane Green
• Sycamore Row by John Grisham
• Marley & Me by John Grogan
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Fly Away by Kristin Hannah
• Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen
• Beautiful Day; The Island by Elin Hilderbrand
• The Kite Runner; And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
• Fifty Shades series by E.L. James
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Joyland by Stephen King
• Flight Behavior; Prodigal Summer; The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella
• The Dragon Tattoo series by Stieg Larsson
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries by Donna Leon
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
• John Adams by David McCullough Bio Ada
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt 929.208 McC
• The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
• Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
• Starting Now; Rose Harbor in Bloom by Debbie Macomber
• The Son by Philipp Meyer
• Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
• Me Before You; One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
  
  Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson
• Chief Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penney
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Chet and Bernie mysteries by Spencer Quinn
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
• The Collector; Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts
• The Divergent series by Veronica Roth
• The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• Lean In by Sheryl Standberg 658.4 San`
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• The English Girl by Daniel Silva
• The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
• The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman
• Power Play; Friends Forever by Danielle Steel
• The Help by Katherine Stockett
• The Vacationers by Emma Straub
• Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
• Bruno, Chief of Police novels by Martin Walker
• The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
• Best Friends Forever ; All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner
• The Devil Wears Prada; Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
• The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
• Stone Barrington series by Stuart Woods

The Stone Ridge Library is in the midst of the second phase of restoration. To boost these efforts, the Summer Pledge Drive is underway. Supporters are encouraged to make an easy, secure, tax-deductible pledge in the donation form.

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Candidates Sought
For Trustee Election;
2016 Tax Budget Proposed

The Stone Ridge Library will hold an election Monday, August 10, 2015 to choose three trustees for four year terms, and to submit its 2016 budget to voters.

Board candidates are nominated by petitions, which are available at the Library. Only qualified voters may serve on the board. To be valid, petitions must be signed by at least 10 qualified voters of the Library district. Full directions are on the petitions which are available at the front desk of the library. Completed petitions must be returned by the close of business Thursday, July 9, 2015.

The 2016 tax appropriation would rise 1.78% to $259,390 from $254,854 this year.* To see the budget click here.

For more information about serving on the Board of Trustees or about the election, please call Jody Ford, Library Director, at 687-7023, or Board of Trustee President Rob Miraldi at 687-0792.

* Budget increase is comprised of $536 in newsletter and membership. $2000 in repairs and hardware. $2000 in wages and payroll tax.

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Folk Songs of the Early '60s
with Caroline Doctorow

Sunday, July 19 - 3pm
Marbletown Community Center

For her library performance Ms. Doctorow will concentrate on the folk songs of the early '60s, presenting the work of our favorite folk icons, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Tom Paxton, Donovan, Richard and Mimi Fariña, Pete Seeger, and others. Ms. Doctorow will also present some of her original compositions and discuss the songwriting process, and what it was like to grow up in a home with her father, world renowned author E.L. Doctorow. This program-through song-offers the listener a unique perspective of this significant period in our country's musical history. It's music that audience members of all ages will enjoy and remember. The program is free and open to the public.

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GARRET IS BACK!
COME CELEBRATE WITH US…

Garret before and after restoration

Friday, July 31 – 6pm Reference Room

Our beloved Hasbrouck paintings, portraits of Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck and her husband Garret Decker Hasbrouck, painted in 1840 by Italian Artist Francesco Anelli, have both undergone conservation treatment, thanks to funding from the Greater Hudson Heritage Network. These grants have enabled the Library to preserve these important components of our local history collection for current and future generations. We invite you to celebrate their return home a reception and lecture by Marie Bruno who recently completed the work on the Garret portrait.
Marie Bruno, painting conservator of Arte Artigianato Restauro, Inc. will be speaking on the restoration process of the nineteenth century portrait of Garret Decker Hasbrouck. Her talk will include a discussion of the materials and techniques of the artist as well as explaining the condition of the artwork prior to and following conservation and restoration treatment.

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Poetry Reading

Friday, July 17 7PM
Marbletown Community Center

Award-winning poet Matthew J. (Matt) Spireng will present a reading celebrating the region, and, in particular the town of Marbletown, its people, places and past. Please join us for a lovely evening of poetry with a reception following th e reading. Matt's books will be available to purchase, and a portion of the sale price will be donated to the Library.

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The Library Hosts Summer Exhibit of Jim Smith's Photography

We are pleased to announce a summer-long exhibit of celebrated local photographer Jim Smith's work. The photographs are hung throughout the Library are available for purchase.

"We are delighted to be hosting Jim Smith's wonderful photographs at the Library this summer," said Director Jody Ford. "They are so beautifully done, and look like still life paintings. We hope that the community will come in to enjoy them."

For most of his life, Jim has dedicated himself to the world of photography. From the moment Jim picked up his first camera in seventh grade, he never looked back. His first roll of film was a 12-exposure black and white and he shot Central Park, NYC. Those twelve pictures sit in his mom's attic; tens of thousands of his other photographs since then sit between the covers of hundreds of books on people, food, travel, museums and art.

Jim wouldn't start off a conversation talking about his work, but if asked he'll humbly go on to tell you about his adventures in Africa, photographing everything from Maasai warriors to lions on the Serengeti plains. He might also tell you about making a book called Fathers: A Celebration, a study on the celebration of fatherhood. The book itself was widely praised and rewarded him an interview on the Bravo Television Network. You may even coax him into talking about his travels around America, searching for individuals that embody the quintessence of what it is to be Irish-American for his book, The Irish Face in America. Jim would photograph them in their environments, be it home, office, cattle ranch, and in some cases, from their surfboard. It's not everyone that gets thrown out of Beverly Hills for taking a picture of an Irish actor, whose name he will not mention.

Professionally, Jim also has worked on the best-selling series of cookbooks created by Wayne Gisslen, for the publishing house of Wiley and Sons. On those particular shoots Jim not only took all the pictures, but he tasted and enjoyed every food item.

Jim has also created books on famous historical figures. If you were to ask him, his favorite is that of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the National Civil Rights Museum. Though everyone at the Museum would agree that it's great working with Jim, he himself would say that it was one of the great privileges of his life to work on the subject of the National Civil Rights Movement. "I stand in the shadow of those heroes and heroines, and always will."

You can find Jim's photos in over 300 different titles, as well as periodicals such as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Travel and Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, Destinations, New York Magazine, Vogue, Memphis Magazine, Hibernia, and The Washington Post.

Jim has also had the great fortune of working with the Disney family, creating Picturing the Walt Disney Family Museum, a book which showcases the life and legacy of Walt Disney.

Most recently, Jim has delved further into his fine art. He shoots most of his pieces in his studio located in the Stone Ridge area where he has lived and worked for more than 30 years. He works closely with The Wired Gallery, a wonderful art gallery to be found in the neighboring High Falls. Jim's work has been featured in many art shows, finding success in a variety of venues, including Mohonk Mountain House. Jim has recently been awarded the privilege of being part of a group show of 12 national and international artists to be hosted this year in an extended show to benefit the Reeves-Reed Arboretum in New Jersey.

Jim is honored to have the Stone Ridge Library show some of his most recent photographs. Including a best-selling piece Well Read, a magical shot of spectacles resting on an aged bible from bygone years. It was taken thanks to the generosity of The Ulster County Historical Society at the Bevier House.

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COMMUNITY NEWS...

Marbletown Biodiversity Presentation

Thursday, July 9, 6:30 to 7:15
at the Marbletown Town Hall

Find out about the plants and animals you're likely to see in your own back yard, and which parts of Marbletown have the most interesting biodiversity. Gretchen Stevens from Hudsonia Ltd., Kathleen Nord, and Stuart Greenfield will present a "Biodiversity Assessment of 7500 Acres in Marbletown" study which they conducted along with several others. The presentation is free and open to the public and will be presented by the Marbletown Environmental Conservation Commission at the Marbletown Town Hall from 6:30 to 7:15 on July 9th. For more information contact Stuart Greenfield or ECC Chair Tom Konrad.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, July 8
4pm in the Biography Room

For our July meeting we will be reading Crow Lake by Mary Lawson. A gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural "badlands" of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur–offstage.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, July 15
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is A Drop of Chinese Blood by James Church. North Korean cop Inspector O is living with his nephew Bing in a backwater region of northeast China that borders North Korea. Bing is head of state security for the region, and his skill at controlling corruption at the border is all that allows him to keep his job. But a visit by Madam Fang, "the most beautiful woman in the world," draws Bing and O into a bizarre quest for an almost unknowable objective, a quest that becomes increasingly more mysterious and hazardous.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, August 5
7pm in the Biography Room

The book choice for the August meeting is David Benioff's City of Thieves. This historical novel, set in Leningrad during the WWII siege by the German army, has received accolades including the following quote from the NY Times Book Review: "No recent novel…travels so quickly and surely…from humor to devastation…[It] reminds us what a beautifully ambiguous world we live in."

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Conversational Spanish
with Cliff Rockmuller

Tuesday, July 7,
1:30-2:30 in the Bio Room

Basic conversational ability is a pre-requisite for these sessions that provide participants with an opportunity to practice and hone their Spanish language skills in a comfortable and enjoyable setting. Cliff Rockmuller, former language teacher at the Rondout Valley School District, leads the conversation. This program is held on the first Tuesday of each month.

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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, July 21, 1:30-2:30pm
Biography 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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Stone Ridge Library
Writers' Group
with Cathy Arra

Monday, July 13, 27
4:30-6:30pm

A writers' group meets every other Monday at the Library, with a maximum of 10 participants. This program is designed for people who are already in the process of writing and publishing work and want to participate in a structured feedback process. Cathy Arra, a poet, writer and former teacher of English and Writing in the Rondout Valley School District facilitates the group. If you are interested in participating, please contact Diane DeChillo at the Stone Ridge Library (687-8726) to place your name on the wait list.

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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thursday, July 9, 23,
1.30-3:30 in the Biography Room

Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. Our meetings are held twice a month, on the second and fourth Thursdays.

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KNITTING GROUP

Every Saturday
10am-noon

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. Some of us can help toward the repair of knitted or crocheted items too.

The group is sociable and lively, and our conversation and sharing is just as wide-ranging as our projects. We are especially interested in the UFOs (Un-Finished Objects) that members bring in and love the show and tell of projects under way and being finished, new or old, simple or complex. Though knitting is our love and mainstay, we graciously adapt ourselves to stray crocheters and those of us who simply must take to the hook when the spirit moves. We share articles, magazines and books on knitting. Donations of yarn to the Library get made up into items for sale at the Library Fair and during the winter holidays for the benefit of the Library. Some of us also knit things for local hospitals or for the U.S. troops.

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Movies Based on Books Opening in Theaters

July 17, 2015

Movie Title: Ant-Man
Where: Theaters
Based on: Ant-Man Comics by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Larry Lieber
Director: Peyton Reed
Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly

July 15, 2015

Movie Title: The End of the Tour
Where: Theaters
Based on: Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
Director: James Ponsoldt
Cast: Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, Joan Cusack

July 17, 2015

Movie Title: Mr. Holmes
Where: Theaters
Based on: A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada

July 24, 2015

Movie Title: Paper Towns
Where: Theaters
Based on: Paper Towns by John Green
Director: Jake Schreier
Cast: Nat Wolff, Cara Delevingne

Construction Updates

Our entryway. more

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A Reminder

The Library will be closed on Saturday, July 4th. However our WIFI is always available in the yard. Also, Overdrive's downloadable ebooks and audio books are available 24/7.

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KIDS eNEWS

See what's going on this summer in the Childrens' room. more

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GREAT WEBSITES!

Having a Staycation this summer?

If you are looking to stay close to home this year check the I Love NY tourism site. The site is searchable by region or type of event you are looking for. The Adriance library has put together another helpful pdf. more

The Greatest Pie Fight in Film History

This 1927 comedy short produced by Hal Roach and starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy helped launch the team to national prominence. This "lost" film has been digitized by the Library of Congress. more
the short

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