Sunday, February 24, 3 – 5pm
Marbletown Community Center
The event is free and open to the public.
What is SongClub? …
Singing, Feeling Good, and Community Building. Debbie Lan started SongClub as an interactive drop-in singing event in October 2018.
The Library will host a reading and author signing reception for Writing in the Ether, published by Dos Madres Press, 2018, the latest work of local memoirist, writer and poet, Catherine Arra.
Nikki Weisman, LMSW, of Hudson Valley Hospice will host an informative talk in the Library’s Activity Room. The lecture is titled “Making Every Moment Count,” and will provide an overview of the services that Hospice offers.
Registration is available on a first come, first-served basis, and is available beginning February 9, on the library’s calendar, or by calling the Program Office at 845 687-7023.
The Library will not be accepting book donations during the Winter. We will begin taking books again on April 1.
The reading selection for February is An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
We are pleased to present an exhibit of Watercolors by local artist Staats Fasoldt through March 21. The works are situated among the stacks in the 1798 library building as well as in the new Children’s Wing.
Staats Fasoldt is Executive Vice President of the Woodstock School of Art’s Board of Directors, and has taught painting and drawing there for more than 35 years.
Thursday, January 24, February 14, 28
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
in the Activity 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
in the Activity Room
Beginners are welcome to join our Mahjong group. 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, January 14, February 4, 25
4:00-6:30pm
GROUP II:
Monday, January 28, February 11
4:00-6:30pm
Two separate writers’ groups meet on alternate Mondays in the Activity Room of the Library, with a maximum of 10 participants in each group.
Tuesday, January 15, February 19
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, January 22, February 26
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.