Alexander Findley Community Library

Board Meeting
2025-02-24 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-01-27 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

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)

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2025-02-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

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)

Arts & Crafts for Adults
2025-01-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Christmas Storytime + Party!
2024-12-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2024-12-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of December’s book, American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins.
Summary:
“Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the cartels, Lydia’s life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. But after her husband’s tell-all profile of the newest drug lord is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.
Forced to flee, Lydia and Luca find themselves joining the countless people trying to reach the United States. Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to?” (via Goodreads)

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2024-12-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library from 3-5pm for Arts & Crafts for Grownups. We’ll be making little pine cone Christmas trees in tiny terra cotta pots!

Board Meeting
2024-11-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The library board of trustees meets in the Young at Heart room on the fourth Monday of the month to discuss library matters. Meetings are open to the public. This is the last meeting of the year.

Book Club
2024-11-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah.
Summary:
“Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance.
In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression.” (via Goodreads)

Author Talk
2024-11-21 17:00 - 18:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Fall Craft Show
2024-11-02 10:00 - 16:00 | Findley Lake Volunteer Fire Department, 10372 Main Street, Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States

Spooky Halloween Shindig!
2024-10-26 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2024-10-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of October’s book, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman.
Summary:

No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .
The only way to survive is to open your heart.(via Goodreads)

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2024-10-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
This month we’ll be making paper spider webs! You can make more than one and try adding some color, too.

Garden Club
2024-09-28 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll try one last meeting this year! Saturday isn’t working, but stop by if/when you are able and help us come up with a new plan for next year. (Meet on a Monday morning when it’s cooler out? Create teams to keep up different sections of the garden and have patrons vote on best section?)

Board Meeting
2024-09-23 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-08-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The library board meets the fourth Monday of the month to discuss library matters. Meetings are open to the public.

Book Club
2024-09-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of September’s book, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
Summary:
“The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.
The Glass Castle is truly astonishing–a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.” (via Goodreads)

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2024-09-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll be making paper (and/or) cloth pumpkins in preparation of cool fall weather and colors!

AFCL's Annual Book Sale!
2024-09-01 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-08-31 10:00 - 20:00, 2024-08-30 16:00 - 20:00 | Water Wheel Outlook, Main Street, Findley Lake, NY, 14736

End of Summer Reading Shindig!
2024-08-31 11:00 - 14:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for an End of Summer Reading Shindig as we celebrate all the fun adventures we had this summer! We’ll be drawing prizes, so be sure to have your Adventure Maps and Classic Adventurer Scavenger Hunt turned in by Thursday, August 29th (and don’t forget to put your name on everything!).

Saturday Storytime: Hiking & Camping!
2024-08-24 11:00 - 12:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Tabling Event: Learn How to Save Energy & Improve the Efficiency of Your Home
2024-08-22 13:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Saturday Storytime: Dinos!
2024-08-17 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
