Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2025-02-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-08 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-12 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-02-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of February’s book, How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley.
Summary:
“A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from New York Times- bestselling author Clare Pooley.

When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.

The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.

When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.” (via goodreads)

1000 Hours Outside Activity: Snow Volcanoes!
2025-02-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-03-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of March’s book The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams.
Summary:
“In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world.
Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.
Set when the women’s suffrage movement was at its height and the Great War loomed, The Dictionary of Lost Words reveals a lost narrative, hidden between the lines of a history written by men. It’s a delightful, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking celebration of words, and the power of language to shape the world and our experience of it.” (via Goodreads)

Ag. Lit. Storytime!
2025-03-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

1000 Hours Outside Activity: Mud Play Day!
2025-03-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Arts & Crafts for Grownups
2025-04-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Easter Shindig
2025-04-19 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Earth Day Celebration and Plantstravaganza!
2025-04-26 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-05-15 18:00 - 19:00
Join us for a discussion of May’s book, All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker.
Summary:
“1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.
When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy with one eye, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.
Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.
A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession, and the blinding light of hope.” (via Goodreads)

Sidewalk Chalk Play Day!
2025-05-31 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-06-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of June’s book, Now Is Not The Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson.
Summary:
“From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever.
Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge—aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner—is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s unhappy house and who is as lonely and awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster, shot through with an enigmatic phrase, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.
The posters begin appearing everywhere, and people wonder who is behind them. Satanists, kidnappers—the rumors won’t stop, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. The art that brought Frankie and Zeke together now threatens to tear them apart.
Twenty years later, Frances Eleanor Budge—famous author, mom to a wonderful daughter, wife to a loving husband—gets a call that threatens to upend everything: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? And will what she knows destroy the life she’s so carefully built?
A bold coming-of-age story, written with Kevin Wilson’s trademark wit and blazing prose, Now Is Not The Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love, identity, and the power of art. It’s also about the secrets that haunt us—and, ultimately, what the truth will set free.” (via Goodreads)

1000 Hours Outside Activity: Flower Art Play Day!
2025-06-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll try our hand at flower pounding! We’ll also be pressing flowers so you can take them home for later use! Plus snacks. Open to all ages. If it rains, we’ll simply move the activity inside.

Wednesdays with Summer Rec
2025-07-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll learn about animal rehabilitation with Cheryl Burns.

Saturday Storytime: Butterflies!
2025-07-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for the first Storytime of Summer Reading! We’ll be reading a story (or two), then doing butterfly crafts and having a snack!

Free Art Time!
2025-07-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library Saturdays during Summer Reading, from 12-1:30pm for Free Art Time! This is a chance for kiddos who signed up for Summer Reading to work on the crafts and activities on their Station Challenge sheets. If you didn’t sign up, or are on the CCLS Road Trip, you can still play and make art with the supplies we provide. We want to turn the library into a lovely art gallery this summer, so we need your help! You can leave things to work on the following Saturday, too, so be sure to put you name on all your work.

Wednesdays with Summer Rec
2025-07-16 11:00 - 11:30
Tammy and Ledger from The K9 Complex will be here to teach us about agility training.

Author Talk: Joan Wahl
2025-07-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion with author Joan Wahl. She’ll tell us about her writing journey, and discuss her books as well. Books will also be available for purchase.

Joan Wahl, a romantic at heart, draws inspiration from her idyllic seventeen-year marriage and her rich cultural background to craft captivating love stories. A passionate traveler and avid reader, she finds her muse in diverse locations from Nashville to Maine.
With a life steeped in love and adventure, Joan brings authenticity and warmth to her romances, inviting readers to escape into stories that celebrate the enduring power of true love.

About Falling for Autumn:
When Autumn enters into a marriage of convenience to widower Spencer Sullivan, she never anticipates falling for him and his three children. As pretense transforms into genuine connection, secrets and misunderstandings drive them apart. Against Nashville’s country music backdrop, can one grand romantic gesture reunite them? This heartwarming story explores second chances and the healing journey of a blended family. With emotional depth and compelling characters, “Falling for Autumn” captivates readers who believe in overcoming obstacles for true love.

Book Club
2025-07-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of July’s book, Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris.
Summary:
“Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.
But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.
Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.
Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.” (via Goodreads)

Saturday Storytime: Silly Hats!
2025-07-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a story or two, then we’ll decorate silly hats and have a snack!

Wednesdays with Summer Rec
2025-07-23 11:00 - 11:30 | Findley Lake Community Center, 2883 North Rd., Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States
UPDATE: Apologies, folks, our taxidermist is unable to make it today, so the event is cancelled, and we’ll just play in the library instead.
We’ll learn about taxidermy with a local taxidermist!

1000 Hours Outside-Inspired Activity: Tie Dye Play Day!
2025-07-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll be tie dyeing bandanas! We’ll wear gloves, but you might want to wear cloths that can get messy!

Saturday Storytime!
2025-08-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Free Art Time!
2025-08-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
This is a chance for kiddos who signed up for Summer Reading to work on the crafts and activities on their Station Challenge sheets. If you didn’t sign up, or are on the CCLS Road Trip, you can still play and make art with the supplies we provide. We want to turn the library into a lovely art gallery this summer, so we need your help! You can leave things to work on the following Saturday, too, so be sure to put you name on all your work.

Saturday Storytime: Marbles!
2025-08-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Free Art Time!
2025-08-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2025-08-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll be trying out milk carton printmaking with water-based inks on different papers. This one will be messy, so wear an apron if you have one, or wear cloths that can get messy.
