Arts & Crafts for Adults
2023-07-13 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library
This month we will be painting on glass. Various containers provided, with limited supplies. You can bring your own if you want!

Book Club
2023-07-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library at 6pm for a discussion of July’s book, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Head’s up: next month we will read the follow-up, Olive, Again.
Summary:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.
As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life – sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty. (via goodreads)

Summer Reading Storytime and Craft!
2023-07-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library on Saturday, July 22 at 11am for a Storytime, followed by a craft and other playtime activities!

Board Meeting
2023-07-24 18:30 - 20:00, 2023-08-28 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.

Garden Club
2023-07-29 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Summer Reading Storytime and Craft
2023-08-05 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Coming soon!

Arts & Crafts for Adults
2023-08-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Pots from our first go-round in May.
We’re going to découpage terra cotta pots again—but smaller ones this time. They’re going to be so cute! All supplies are provided, so come visit us, have some fun, make a bit of a mess!

Author Talk: Destiny Kinal
2023-08-17 17:00 - 18:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2023-08-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Meet us in the library at 6pm for discussion of July’s book, Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout. As part of Summer Reading, this is the follow-up book to Olive Kitteridge that we read in June.
Summary:
Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us, to move us, and to inspire us—in Strout’s words—“to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.” (via goodreads)

Summer Reading Storytime and Craft!
2023-08-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Garden Club
2023-08-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Show off your Nature Journal and check in on the garden!

Harvest Festival Book Sale!
2023-09-01 16:00 - 20:00, 2023-09-02 10:00 - 20:00, 2023-09-03 10:00 - 16:00 | Water Wheel Overlook

Arts & Crafts for Adults
2023-09-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2023-09-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of September’s book, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.
Summary:
Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who’s telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters’ futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers’ advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they’ve unknowingly inherited of their mothers’ pasts.
With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery. (via goodreads)

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2023-10-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
This month we’ll be making a cute Halloween Monster Bunting. Stop by and say boo! All supplies are provided.

Book Club
2023-10-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of the month’s book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
Summary:
Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.
Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. (via goodreads)

Board Meeting
2023-10-23 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.

Spooky Halloween Shindig!
2023-10-28 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Fall Craft Show Fundraiser!
2023-11-04 10:00 - 16:00 | Findley Lake Volunteer Fire Department, 10372 Main Street, Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2023-11-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
This month, we’ll be making Christmas/Winter cards with special guest Barb Cooper! This program is free and all supplies are provided.

Book Club
2023-11-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of November’s book, The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman.
Summary:
“It’s the following Thursday.
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He’s made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life.
As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn’t that be a bonus?
But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can The Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?” (via goodreads)

Board Meeting
2023-11-27 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. This will be the last meeting of the year.

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2023-12-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
This month, we’ll be making origami Christmas Trees and ornaments!
This program is free and all supplies are provided.

Christmas Party & Storytime with Mrs. Claus!
2023-12-16 11:00 - 13:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2023-12-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of this month’s book, The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict.
Summary:
“In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection.
But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle’s complexion isn’t dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American.
The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths to which she must go—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.” (via goodreads)

Closed for Christmas Eve Observance
2023-12-23 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’re closed Saturday, December 23rd for Christmas Observance. We’ll be back Tuesday, December 26th at 1pm!

Closed for Christmas
2023-12-25
We’re closed Monday, December 25th for Christmas. We’ll be back on Tuesday, December 26th at 1pm! We will you and yours a safe, warm, and fun holiday season!
