Alexander Findley Community Library

Saturday Storytime
2022-08-06 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-07-30 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-07-23 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-07-16 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library
Every Saturday in July and August, we’ll have Storytime at 11am. Come for a story read by the fabulous Judy Hunt, stay for a craft and/or activity! Some of the Saturdays, there will be a StoryWalk on the Nature Trail behind the Mina Community Center where our library is located. On those days, we’ll have Storytime on the trail (weather permitting).

Final Collaborative Wednesday: Mood Jars!
2022-08-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Today is our last Collaborative Wednesday with the Clymer-French Creek Free Library and the Clymer-Findley Lake Summer Recreation Program. We will be making mood jars!

Many thanks to everyone who participated this year! We learned a lot, and can’t wait to show off our crafts.

Class: Getting Started with Libby
2022-07-28 13:30 - 14:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us as we welcome Megan Disbro, the Digital Services Librarian for the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System. She will get you up to speed on everything you need to know to get started with Libby, and get you on your way to enjoying popular ebooks and audiobooks on your device. Attendees are entered to win a Samsung tablet! (Must be present to win.)

Board Meeting
2022-07-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-05-23 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-04-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-03-28 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-02-28 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. Please wear a mask and practice social distancing.

Book Club
2022-07-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of this month’s book Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah.
Summary
After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.
The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.
Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?
Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars. (via goodreads)

Arts & Crafts for Adults
2022-07-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us as we make some fun and easy frames out of mat board, then decorate the frame however you want. Bring a picture you’ve been wanting to have framed!

Closed Monday for July 4th
2022-07-04 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We are closed today for July 4th. See you tomorrow!

Author Talk: Isaiah Rashad
2022-06-30 13:30 - 15:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us from 1:30-3:30 in the Young at Heart room as author Isaiah Rashad returns to discuss his latest work and answer your questions. There’s plenty of engaging conversation to be had!

SRP Registration DUE!
2022-06-30 13:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Please have your Summer Reading Registration forms turned in by today, so we can start to get things ready to go in July. Thank you!

Closed Monday for Juneteenth
2022-06-20
We are closed today for Juneteenth. See you on Tuesday!

Book Club
2022-06-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us Thursday, June 16th at 6pm for a discussion of this month’s book, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. 🙂
Summary
Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. (via goodreads)

Annual Meeting
2022-06-11 09:00 - 22:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
The AFCL board will hold their Annual Meeting in the Young at Heart Room at 9am to discuss library matters and hold elections.
Meetings are open to the public.

Closed Monday for Memorial Day
2022-05-30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We are closed today for Memorial Day. We will see you on Tuesday!

Book Club
2022-05-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us Thursday, May 19th at 6pm for this month’s discussion of Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. 🙂
Summary
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized black world. (via goodreads)

Spring Craft Show at the Fire Hall!
2022-05-07 10:00 - 16:00

Spring Craft Show at the Fire Hall!
2022-05-07 10:00 - 16:00 | Findley Lake Fire hall, 10372 Main Street, Findley Lake, 14736, United States

Earth Day Celebration!
2022-04-23 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2022-04-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us Thursday, April 21th at 6pm for this month’s discussion of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange. Please wear a mask and maintain distancing. 🙂
Summary
When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it’s not easy. She deserted them all—and her high school sweetheart—five years before with little explanation, and they’ve got questions.
Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the east coast, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fiancé. The longer she stays, however, the more she realizes they need her just as much as she needs them. When a dangerous man from her past brings her family’s pub business to the brink of financial ruin, the only way to protect them is to upend all their secrets—secrets that have damaged the family for generations and will threaten everything they know about their lives. In the aftermath, the Brennan family is forced to confront painful mistakes—and ultimately find a way forward, together. (via goodreads)

Closed Saturday for Easter
2022-04-16 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We are closed today for Easter weekend. We will see you on Monday!

Easter Party!
2022-04-09 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2022-03-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us Thursday, March 17th at 6pm for this month’s discussion of Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Please wear a mask and maintain distancing. 🙂
Summary
“Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.
So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos.
A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.” (via goodreads)

1000 HRS Outside Activity: Snow Painting!
2022-02-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
UPDATE! 2/19 was too windy and cold, so we postponed Snow Painting until Saturday, Feb 26th! Thanks!

Closed Monday for Presidents' Day
2022-02-21 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’re closed today in honor of Presidents’ Day. We will see you tomorrow!
