Earth Day Celebration!
2022-04-23 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library

Board Meeting
2022-04-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-05-23 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-07-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2022-08-22 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. Please wear a mask and practice social distancing.

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

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

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)

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!

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.

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)

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

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!

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!

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

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!

Saturday Storytime
2022-07-16 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-07-23 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-07-30 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-08-06 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-08-13 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-08-20 11:00 - 13:00, 2022-08-27 11:00 - 13:00 | 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).

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)

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.)

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.

Arts & Crafts for Adults!
2022-08-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Come on down and paint a decorative bird house! Don’t worry if you’re not crafty! We just want people to try something new and have some fun.

Book Club
2022-08-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of this month’s book We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker.
Summary
Walk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released.
Duchess is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Her mother, Star, grew up with Walk and Vincent. Walk is in overdrive trying to protect them, but Vincent and Star seem bent on sliding deeper into self-destruction. Star always burned bright, but recently that light has dimmed, leaving Duchess to parent not only her mother but her five-year-old brother. At school the other kids make fun of Duchess―her clothes are torn, her hair a mess. But let them throw their sticks, because she’ll throw stones. Rules are for other people. She’s just trying to survive and keep her family together.
A fortysomething-year-old sheriff and a thirteen-year-old girl may not seem to have a lot in common. But they both have come to expect that people will disappoint you, loved ones will leave you, and if you open your heart it will be broken. So when trouble arrives with Vincent King, Walk and Duchess find they will be unable to do anything but usher it in, arms wide closed.
Chris Whitaker has written an extraordinary novel about people who deserve so much more than life serves them. At times devastating, with flashes of humor and hope throughout, it is ultimately an inspiring tale of how the human spirit prevails and how, in the end, love―in all its different guises―wins. (via goodreads)

Closed Monday for Labor Day
2022-09-05 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We will be closed today for Labor Day. See you on Tuesday!

Arts and Crafts for Adults
2022-09-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Coming soon!
