Events

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.

Drawing in the Garden Series with Donna Calcavecchio

1:30-3:30 Activity Room and Quiet Room

Every other Monday through December 2 .

*Please note Drawing in the Garden will be held in the Quiet Room October 7, November 4, and December 2 and in our Activity Room October 21 & November 18

Join Donna Calcavecchio every other Monday afternoon in our lovely pollinator garden. Practice the fundamentals of drawing flowers, leaves, twigs, buds and bugs as you focus & hone your observational skills. Keep a journal of the changes in the garden as the season progresses through summer, and 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.

This series started in May and continues through the growing season into Fall. Registration is currently full.

Writers Group 2 meets every other Monday, in the Activity Room from 4-6:30

Group 2:
June 10 &24
4:00-6:30pm in the Activity Room

Two separate writers’ groups meet on alternate Mondays at the library in the Activity room, 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.

To inquire about joining the group email Cathy Arra

Monday, November 18, 7-8pm

Activity Room

(An After Hours Program)

Are you looking for a book group that meets after work and discusses important but often ignored or uncomfortable history? Check out our new book group, The Morbid History Book Group. This group will meet on the 3rd Monday of each month, after hours at the library, for those who work days.

In honor of National Native American Heritage Month our second book is Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid. “An explosive examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them. For decades, women–overwhelmingly from Indigenous backgrounds–have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern B.C. The highway is called the Highway of Tears by locals, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. In Highway of Tears, Jessica McDiarmid meticulously explores the effect these tragedies have had on communities in the region, and how systemic racism and indifference towards Indigenous lives have created a culture of “over-policing and under-protection,” simultaneously hampering justice while endangering young Indigenous women. Highway of Tears will offer an intimate, first-hand look at the communities along Highway 16 and the families of the victims, as well as examine the historically fraught social and cultural tensions between settler and Indigenous peoples that underlie life in the region.”

We will discuss this book and choose books for our 2025 reading list so please bring suggestions.

Every Tuesday
at 10am in the Activity Room

Join us for Mahjong Tuesdays and Fridays from 10-12 in the Activity Room. All levels of players are welcome

Come join in the fun!

3rd Tuesday of Each Month
1-2pm 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.

Tuesday, November 19   3:00-4:00  

grades 4th and up 

Simply glue and cut paper bags to create beautiful snowflake decorations.

Be sure to register, spaces are limited! 

A simple snack will be provided before we begin.

The Escape Club

The 3rd Tuesday of each month 7-8pm

Library Activity Room

An After Hours Library Program

Are you looking for a book group that reads just for the fun of it? This may be the book group for you. No serious tomes of 500+pages, just lighthearted escapism the group members will take turns choosing. Think beach reads but year round. If you are interested in joining this after hours library book group, contact programs@stoneridgelibrary.org

Mystery Book Group meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month in the Activity Room.

Once again, the library is happy to offer hour-long, after-work yoga classes each Wednesday of November. Classes will be held at the Municipal Center, 1925 Lucas Ave. in Cottekill (old Rosendale School).

We will be in the cafeteria (formerly the Blackboard Bistro) or on the lawn above the playground, weather permitting. These classes will be taught by Laura Brown and we are thrilled to be working with her. Registration for this event will open on October 29.

Wednesday, November 20, 5:30-6:30

Wednesday, October 9
7pm on Zoom

The book for October is: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power. The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition contains a new preface by the author and an introduction by Larry McMurtry.

This adorable duo delight preschoolers with stories, songs and crafts during their storytimes 

October 24, November 7 & 21,  December 5, 12, 19

10:00 – 11:00 in the children’s room!

Register by visiting our online calendar at www.stoneridgelibrary.org,

For babies 0-12 months and their parents

Every Thursday 12:30-1:30

Community building supportive playgroup. Connect with other parents and bring your little one for play, books, and more. 

Register by visiting our online calendar at www.stoneridgelibrary.org, 

Board of Trustees Meeting

Third Thursday of the month, 4pm

Activity Room

Monthly Meeting of the Library Board of Trustees. Open to the public.