When local musician Thomas Earl returned to the Hudson Valley after a hiatus in Hawaii, he wanted to do something for his local library.
Suspenseful and compelling, Daniela Tully’s Hotel on Shadow Lake is at once an intricate mystery, an epic romance, and a Gothic family saga.
When Maya was a girl in Germany, her grandmother was everything to her: teller of magical fairy tales, surrogate mother, best friend.
Reference Room
Local Author Richard Klin, Petroleum Transfer Engineer
Underground Voices presents Richard Klin’s Petroleum Transfer Engineer. Its locus is a Twilight Zone-like gas station at the Jersey shore, circa 1983: a place of outlaw bikers, ex-Marines, and drunken tourists.
Local artist, Lori Andersen, is a photographer featuring landscape, wildlife, portrait, and travel images. All photographs on display are for sale. Images are available on different mediums such as: metal, glass, canvas, bamboo, as well as matted and framed. For additional information and examples of her work, please visit loriandersen.com.
Story Hour for Grades K – 5th
Story hours will be happening at Tongore Park with the Marbletown camp. If your child is not enrolled in camp you must stay at the park during story hour.
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who pitched in to make this one of the best Library Fairs ever. And special thanks to all the new and returning volunteers who made the event run so smoothly. To see the 2018 pictures click here.
The July meeting is Cancelled
The book for our August meeting is Mudbound by Hillary Jordan. In Jordan’s prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband’s Mississippi Delta farm–a place she finds foreign and frightening.
The reading selection for August is A Column of Fire by Ken Follett. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love.
The July meeting is Cancelled
Thursday, July 12, 26, August 9, 23
1.30-3:30 in the Bio Room
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. Our meetings are held the second and fourth Thursdays of the month.
Every Saturday
10am-noon
Reference Room
The Stone Ridge Library Knitters meet every Saturday morning from 10am – 12noon. All ages and experience levels can jo in 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.
Every Friday at 10am
We are starting a Mahjong group, beginners are welcome. Register on line on the calendar or at the Circulation Desk in the Library, or just walk in. We will be meeting every Friday at 10am.
GROUP I:
Monday, July 2, 16, 30, August 13, 27
4:00-6:30pm
GROUP II:
Monday, July 9, 23, August 6, 20
4:00-6:30pm
Two separate writers’ groups meet on alternate Mondays at the library, with a maximum of 10 participants in each group.
Tuesday, July 17, August 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.
Tuesday, July 24, August 28
1:30-3:00
Reference Room
Conversational Spanish is held on the fourth Tuesday of every month, from 1:30 – 3:00 in the Reference Room. Basic conversational ability is a pre-requisite for these sessions.
Our Book Barns are FULL!
Sorry, but we cannot accept any more books.
Please hold any donations until after July 4.
Visitors to the Stone Ridge Library will now be greeted by a beautiful limestone sculpture that has been installed amongst the plantings that line the bluestone walkway at the entrance to the 1798 stone building. The sculpture, titled Magnus I, was created in 1995 by Bradford Graves, and was recently donated by Verna Gillis in memory of her late husband.
Thanks to the generosity of Mohonk Preserve, the Library will have four passes available for Library patrons age 18 and older whose record is in good standing, to enjoy 70 miles of hiking, biking and climbing trails and carriage roads. Passes can be checked out for three days and returned at the Circulation Desk.
Introducing a new, more user-friendly mobile app from Overdrive called Libby!
Libby is the new app to use on your phones or (most) tablets when downloading e-books and audiobooks. Designed for ease of use, Libby eliminates the need for format selection (uses OverDrive Read and OverDrive Listen) and contains new features that make the digital library fresh and fun.
The Children’s Room Project is designed to renovate and enlarge the Children’s Room at the back of the Library. Staying within the existing footprint, it will utilize existing cold storage space between the 1798 and 1811 buildings, resulting in an expanded program room and adding a small kitchenette and an ADA-compliant restroom.
1. Pick up a bag at the Library (proceeds go to the library!)
2. Take a trip
3. Take a photo with your Library bag and post it on social media using this hashtag: #SRLaroundtheworld
Make your mark and spread the word about the Stone Ridge Library!