AFCL Annual Meeting
2021-06-12 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library
Alexander Findley Community Library will be having our annual meeting at 9am on Saturday, June 12th in the Community Center Gym. Masks and distancing are recommended. This meeting is free and open to the public.

Book Club
2021-06-17 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” June is Yellow!

Join us this month in discussing Conversion by Katherine Howe.

As usual, masking and distancing required.

It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t.
First it’s the school’s queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic.
Soon the media descends on Danvers, Massachusetts, as everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes to realize what nobody else has. Inspired by true events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school, this is the mystery that raises the question, what’s really happening to the girls at St. Joan’s? (via goodreads)

Closed for 4th of July
2021-07-05
Closed in observance of 4th of July. See you tomorrow!

Collaborative Summer Reading Week 1: Bat Boxes
2021-07-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
This Wednesday kicked off our Summer Reading program, and was our first time collaborating with Darlene at the Clymer-French Creek Free Library. The bat box extravaganza was a huge success! We had a great time learning about bats and bat boxes, their role in our environment, and how we can help bring them back from the brink of extinction. We listened to a story about bats playing baseball, and then decorated many lovely new homes to keep our bat friends cozy and warm (thanks to a coat of black paint).

Many thanks to Molly Brown from Cornell Cooperative Extension for constructing all 49 bat boxes and for teaching us so much! And thanks to the Community Support Group- Summer Recreation for making this event possible! (Special shout out to Emma for helping us paint all the boxes—someone better make you a Thank You cake! )

Collaborative Summer Reading Week 2: Kaylee & Luckee
2021-07-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Week two of our collaborative Summer Reading program with the Clymer – French Creek Free Library may have been a bit more rainy than last week, but we still had a great time hearing stories and learning about training and agility with Kaylee and her dog, Luckee! We learned about commands, different types of collars and leashes, and what kinds of things judges expect when Luckee shows off his skills. Many thanks to Miss Darlene for reading some stories, and to Kaylee (and her mom) and Luckee for a fun-filled morning!

Book Club
2021-07-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” July is Blue!

Join us this month in discussing Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.

As usual, masking and distancing required.

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind.
A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

Collaborative Summer Reading Week 3: Farm Animals
2021-07-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
On a chilly, drizzly Wednesday, the intrepid Miss Darlene enlisted the help of her family to introduce some of the animals from their farm. We met:

A mama goat and her two kids.
Two anxious chickens, one of whom made a daring escape but was soon recaptured.
Two big, very soft chinchilla rabbits, one named Jose.

We also heard two wonderful stories and a couple of us even checked out some books and got some prizes!

Many thanks to Miss Darlene and her family for bringing the animals over for a visit!

Board Meeting
2021-07-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The AFCL board will meet in the library at 6:30 pm to discuss library matters.
Meetings are open to the public. If you are not vaccinated, wear a mask and practice social distancing.

Collaborative Summer Reading Week 4: Worm Farms
2021-07-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Miss Molly returns to teach us about worms, vermicomposting, and we will make worm farms!
Pictures forthcoming!

Collaborative Summer Reading Week 5: Wool Friendship Bracelets
2021-08-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Yesterday was our last Wednesday collaboration with Clymer – French Creek Free Library, and our friend Molly came back to read to us again, to show us a few different kinds of dyed wool, and teach us how to make friendship bracelets. These bracelets require teamwork and lots of twisting, so it’s best to grab a friend!

Many thanks go to Molly Brown, educator from Cornell Cooperative Extension, for teaching us so many amazing things this summer! And even more thanks to Darlene from Clymer for joining forces with us for Summer Reading this year! We’ve learned a lot and had a blast, so we can’t wait to see what happens next summer!

Remember, there are still lots of activities and crafts to come as we continue with Summer Reading through the end of August. Stay tuned here on Facebook to see what’s coming up. If you haven’t had a chance to come in and add your hours yet, or get a prize, or if you’ve just run out of books, come to the library and we’ll help you out!

Book Club
2021-08-19 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” August is Mimosa!

Join us this month in discussing The Cat Who Went Underground by Lilian Jackson Braun.

If you are not vaccinated, please wear a mask and socially distance.

Jim Qwilleran packs up his old kit bag and his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, for a sun-and-fun summer at his log cabin in Moose County. Their vacation starts out ominously with the disappearance of a handyman hired to patch up Qwilleran’s cabin. But the felines really start throwing catfits when they come across a dead body or two…A serial killer may be right under Koko’s nose, and now this ingenious Siamese must dig deeper to clear poor Qwilleran of suspicion—and dig up the motive for a catastrophic crime. (via goodreads)

Board Meeting
2021-08-23 18:30 - 20:00, 2021-10-04 18:30 - 20:00, 2021-11-22 18:30 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The AFCL board will meet in the Young at Heart Room at 6:30 pm to discuss library matters.
Meetings are open to the public. If you are not vaccinated, wear a mask and practice social distancing.

Annual Book Sale at the Water Wheel Outlook!
2021-09-03 - 2021-09-05 | Water Wheel Outlook, Main Street, Findley Lake, NY, 14736

Closed for Labor Day
2021-09-06
Closed for Labor Day. See you tomorrow!

Book Club
2021-09-16 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” September is Sand Dollar!

Join us this month in discussing The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce.

Masking and distancing recommended.

Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn’t seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye.
Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. But then, as happens in the very best works of fiction, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live.
Still in his yachting shoes and light coat, Harold embarks on his urgent quest across the countryside. Along the way he meets one character after another, each of whom unlocks his long-dormant spirit and sense of promise. Memories of his first dance with Maureen, his wedding day, his joy in fatherhood, come rushing back to him – allowing him to also reconcile the losses and the regrets. As for Maureen, she finds herself missing Harold for the first time in years.
And then there is the unfinished business with Queenie Hennessy. (via goodreads)

Closed for Columbus Day
2021-10-11
Closed for Columbus Day. See you tomorrow!

Book Club
2021-10-21 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” October is Emerald!

Join us this month in discussing The House Girl by Tara Conklin.

Masking and distancing recommended.

A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York.
Virginia, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell.
New York City, 2004. Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in an elite law firm, is given a difficult, highly sensitive assignment that could make her career: she must find the “perfect plaintiff” to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
It is through her father, the renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers Josephine Bell and a controversy roiling the art world: are the iconic paintings long ascribed to Lu Anne Bell really the work of her house slave, Josephine? A descendant of Josephine’s would be the perfect face for the reparations lawsuit – if Lina can find one. While following the runaway girl’s faint trail through old letters and plantation records, Lina finds herself questioning her own family history and the secrets that her father has never revealed: How did Lina’s mother die? And why will he never speak about her?
Moving between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, this searing, suspenseful and heartbreaking tale of art and history, love and secrets, explores what it means to repair a wrong and asks whether truth is sometimes more important than justice. (via goodreads)

Spooky Halloween Shindig!
2021-10-30 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Fall Craft Show!
2021-11-06 10:00 - 16:00

Closed for Veterans Day
2021-11-11
Closed today for Veterans Day. See you on Saturday!

Book Club
2021-11-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” November is Violet!
Join us this month in discussing The Game by Laurie King.
Masking and distancing recommended.
It’s only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year’s visit from Holmes’s brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containing the papers of an English spy named Kimball O’Hara—the same Kimball known to the world through Kipling’s famed Kim. Inexplicably, O’Hara withdrew from the “Great Game” of espionage and now he has just as inexplicably disappeared.
When Russell discovers Holmes’s own secret friendship with the spy, she knows the die is cast: she will accompany her husband to India to search for the missing operative. But Russell soon learns that in this faraway and exotic land, it’s often impossible to tell friend from foe—and that some games aren’t played for fun but for the highest stakes of all…life and death. (via goodreads)

Closed for Thanksgiving
2021-11-25
Closed for Thanksgiving! Enjoy the day! We’ll see you on Saturday.

Book Club
2021-12-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Our Book Club 2021 Challenge is “Reading Colors Your World.” December is Red!
Join us this month in discussing Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden.
Masking and distancing recommended.
Please note: starting now, we will be meeting at 6, instead of 6:30.

Storytime with Mrs. Claus!
2021-12-18 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Closed for Christmas
2021-12-23
Closed for Christmas observance. See you Monday!

Closed for Christmas!
2021-12-25
We will be closed today for Christmas. We wish all our patrons a very merry and safe holiday season!

Author Talk: Isaiah Rashad II
2022-01-13 13:00 - 15:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us as author Isaiah Rashad II discusses his new book, Homicide of a Rat. After the discussion, there will be a Q&A session.
Summary: What is right and what is wrong? In this modern society of uncertainty these questions are answered through the real life stories of murder, deception and betrayal from the view of a gang member, united states Army soldier of war and Police Officer. And, you may just discover that what you believe to be wrong, may just be right.

Bio: Isaiah is a former gang member, who rose to become a United States Army Soldier of war, Police Officer and College Assistant Professor, turned author. Isaiah holds a Masters of Divinity in Global Leadership, BS; Christian Ministry in Counseling; BS; Global and Cultural Studies, AS; Research and Investigations. Isaiah is the author of several books, including Man’s Search For Peace, which was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Contender.

Masks are required for this event.

Closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
2022-01-17 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We are closed today in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. See you tomorrow!
