Alexander Findley Community Library

Saturday Storytime: Butterflies!
2025-07-12 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | 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!

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2025-07-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll be making mosaics on tiny terra cotta pots using cut glass pieces and Weld Bond adhesive. We won’t have time to grout, as the adhesive will need to dry and set, but we can do it on another day!

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

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.

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)

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

Annual Meeting
2025-06-07 09:00 - 10:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The library board of trustees will meet to discuss library matters and elect officers. Meetings are open to the public.

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

Closed for Memorial Day
2025-05-26 00:00
Hello, bookworms! We are closed today in observance of Memorial Day. We’ll be back Tuesday at 1pm. If you’re able, check out the parade in town at 9:30am and the program at the gazebo after.

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)

Spring Craft Show Fundraiser!
2025-05-03 10:00 - 16:00 | Findley Lake Volunteer Fire Department, 10372 Main Street, Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States

Board Meeting
2025-04-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The library board meets in the Young at Heart Room to discuss library matters. Meetings are open to the public.

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

Closed in observance of Easter
2025-04-21 09:00 - 14:00
We’re closed today in observance of Easter. See you Tuesday at 1pm!

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

Book Club
2025-04-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of March’s book, The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.
Summary:
“When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide.
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.
As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.” (via Goodreads)

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

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

Board Meeting
2025-03-24 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-02-24 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-01-27 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The board meets on the fourth Monday of the month in the Young at Heart room to discuss library matters. Meetings open to the public.

Ag. Lit. Storytime!
2025-03-22 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)

1000 Hours Outside Activity: Snow Volcanoes!
2025-02-22 11:00 - 12:00 | 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)

Snow Play Day! a 1,000 Hours Outside Activity
2025-01-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-01-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of the first book of the new year, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.
Summary:
“Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.
But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.
Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.” (via Goodreads)
