Alexander Findley Community Library

After Easter Party!
2026-04-11 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for an After Easter Party on Saturday, April 11th at 11am. We’ll have an egg hunt, then we’ll dye eggs, make a craft, have snacks, and play!

Arts and Crafts for Grownups
2026-04-09 17:00 - 18:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
NEW LATER TIME: 5-6:30. We’ll be decorating pre-made wooden birdhouses. You can paint or decoupage, and there will be an assortment of things to glue on if you want to spice it up a bit (think birds, flowers, ribbons, beads, etc.)

CLOSED - Easter Observance
2026-04-06 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We will be closed Monday, April 6th, in observance of Easter Sunday.

Board Meeting
2026-03-23 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-02-23 18:30 - 19:30, 2026-01-26 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The library board of trustees meets the fourth Monday of the month to discuss library matters. Meetings are open to the public.

Agricultural Literacy Storytime!
2026-03-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
A volunteer from the Cornell Cooperative Extension will be here to read us Seasons on the Farm by Chelsea Tornetto. Come for the story, stay for a craft and activity!
March 17th-21st is Agricultural Literacy Week, a celebration of our county’s legacy and the hard work of those who produce healthy, local food, 365 days a year!

Book Club
2026-03-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of March’s book, Anxious People by Fredrik Backman.
Summary:
“Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can’t fix their own marriage. There’s a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about to have their first child but can’t seem to agree on anything, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an eighty-seven-year-old woman who has lived long enough not to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her face, a flustered but still-ready-to-make-a-deal real estate agent, and a mystery man who has locked himself in the apartment’s only bathroom, and you’ve got the worst group of hostages in the world.
Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are ready to boil over. None of them is entirely who they appear to be. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the authorities and the media surround the premises these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in motion a chain of events so unexpected that even they can hardly explain what happens next.
Rich with Fredrik Backman’s ‘pitch-perfect dialogue and an unparalleled understanding of human nature’ (Shelf Awareness), Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope—the things that save us, even in the most anxious times.” (via Storygraph)

Arts and Crafts for Grownups
2026-03-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library from 3-6:30 pm for a special Arts & Crafts for Grownups. We recently lost our dear friend, patron, former Library Assistant and volunteer Joanne Malecki. She was a huge part of life at the Mina Community Center, and she will be greatly missed. In honor of Joanne, we’re making sunflowers—her favorite. You can paint, collage, draw, etc. We’ll have an assortment of supplies at the ready. We’ll hang them in the library so Joanne can keep an eye on us.

Dr. Seuss Storytime!
2026-03-07 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a celebration of Dr. Seuss’ Birthday! We’ll enjoy a story or two, then we’ll craft, play games, and have snacks. Come down and play!

Book Club
2026-02-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of February’s book, The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley.
Summary:
“The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love.
Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren’t really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes–in a plain, green journal–the truth about his own life and leaves it in his local cafe. It’s run by the incredibly tidy and efficient Monica, who furtively adds her own entry and leaves the book in the wine bar across the street. Before long, the others who find the green notebook add the truths about their own deepest selves–and soon find each other In Real Life at Monica’s Cafe.
The Authenticity Project‘s cast of characters–including Hazard, the charming addict who makes a vow to get sober; Alice, the fabulous mommy Instagrammer whose real life is a lot less perfect than it looks online; and their other new friends–is by turns quirky and funny, heartbreakingly sad and painfully true-to-life. It’s a story about being brave and putting your real self forward–and finding out that it’s not as scary as it seems. In fact, it looks a lot like happiness.
The Authenticity Project is just the tonic for our times that readers are clamoring for–and one they will take to their hearts and read with unabashed pleasure.” (via StoryGraph)

CLOSED - President's Day
2026-02-16 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We will be closed Monday, February 16th, for President’s Day!

Arts and Crafts for Grownups
2026-02-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We aren’t waiting for Spring to clean out the closet. Build and paint your own birdhouse, paint these little, wooden farmyard sights, or make a geometric sand mandala. If you’re really motivated, do all three!

Take Your Child to the Library Day Storytime!
2026-02-07 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a Take Your Child to the Library Day Storytime on Saturday, February 7 at 11am. Come for a story or two, then stay to see all the fun and cool things the library has to offer! We’ll be crafting, playing games, having a snack, and giving a library tour!
On the first Saturday in February*, thousands of libraries across the world celebrate Take Your Child to the Library Day by offering free, fun, fabulous activities for families. Your local library is an ideal place for children to play, discover, make friends, and have fun.

CLOSED - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2026-01-19 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We will be closed Monday, January 19th, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

Book Club
2026-01-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of One By One by Freida McFadden. Let’s see if she lives up to the hype!
Summary:
“One by one, they will get what they deserve…
A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation.
She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven.
Then Claire’s minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to their hotel. But it turns out the woods aren’t as easy to navigate as they thought.
Hours later, they are lost. Hopelessly lost.
And as they navigate deeper into the woods, the members of their party are struck down mysteriously one by one. Has a wild animal been hunting them? Or is the hunter one of them?
But as more time passes, one thing becomes clear:
Only one of them will return home alive.” (via Goodreads)

Arts and Crafts for Grownups
2026-01-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’re still trying to make these snowflake ornaments out of TP rolls. Hopefully weather and health will cooperate with us this time! You can spice them up with paint, markers, glitter, and ribbons.
Arts & Crafts for Grownups meets the second Thursday of the month, and all supplies are provided, unless otherwise noted.

1000 Hours Outside Activity: Snowman Play Day!
2025-12-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for another 1000 Hours Outside-Inspired Activity: Snowman Play Day! We meet up Saturday, December 27th from 11am-12pm to make snowmen. Let’s see how many we can make! Bring any hats, gloves, scarves, etc. you want to use to dress them up! Afterwards, we’ll go inside to warm up and have a snack.

Christmas Storytime + Party!
2025-12-20 11:00 - 13:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for our annual Christmas Storytime + Party on Saturday, December 20th, from 11am-1:30 pm. Mrs. Claus will read us a story (or two), then we’ll have a snack, make crafts, and be merry! Kids get a free book from under the tree. Grownups can craft if they want, and enjoy hot chocolate, snacks and good company!

Book Club
2025-12-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of December’s book, All Adults Here by Emma Straub.
Summary:
“When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she’d been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence?
Astrid’s youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid’s thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most.
In All Adults Here, Emma Straub’s unique alchemy of wisdom, humor, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth order, and all the other things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not.” (via Goodreads)

Christmas Movie Day!
2025-12-13 11:00 - 12:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a Christmas Movie Day on Saturday, December 13th at 11am. We’ll get cozy, have a snack, and watch a couple short Christmas movies, starting with How the Grinch Stole Christmas. See you then!

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2025-12-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll be making snowflake ornaments out of TP rolls. You can spice them up with paint, markers, glitter, and ribbons!
Arts & Crafts for Grownups meets the second Thursday of the month, and all supplies are provided, unless otherwise noted.

Board Meeting
2025-11-24 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The library board of trustees meets the fourth Monday of the month to discuss library matters. Meetings are open to the public. This will be the last meeting for 2025, as the board does no meet in December.

Book Club
2025-11-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of November’s book, Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.
Summary:
“When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces–which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where’d You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are and the power of a daughter’s love for her mother.” (via Goodreads)

Arts & Crafts for Grownups
2025-11-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll be making felt leaves with beads and sequins.

Fall Craft Show Fundraiser!
2025-11-01 10:00 - 16:00

Spooky Halloween Shindig!
2025-10-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-10-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of October’s book, Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce.
Summary:
“It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on scraps. One day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and small existence to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist–the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she advertises for an assistant to accompany her, the woman she ends up with is the last person she had in mind. Fun-loving Enid Pretty in her tight-fitting pink suit and pom-pom sandals seems to attract trouble wherever she goes. But together these two British women find themselves drawn into a cross-ocean adventure that exceeds all expectations and delivers something neither of them expected to find: the transformative power of friendship.it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.” (via Goodreads)

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2025-10-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-09-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of September’s book The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams.
Summary:
“In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda’s new stepsister—all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion—is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society.
But beneath the island’s patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel’s privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he’s determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph’s enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda’s caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades.
Now, in the landmark summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface, the Island remains the same—determined to keep the outside world from its shores, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda’s stepfather eighteen years earlier. What’s more, Miranda herself is no longer a naïve teenager, and she begins a fierce, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved . . . even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.” (Via Goodreads)
