Could You Be a Grape Farmer?
2024-07-31 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library
Wednesdays with Summer Recreation Week 3
Josie Allen from the Cornell Cooperative Extension will be here to see if we have what it takes to be a grape farmer. This event is held for the kids attending the Summer Recreation at the Mina Community Center, but all our patrons are welcome to join in!

Saturday Storytime: Stars!
2024-08-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Soil Health & Erosion Demonstration
2024-08-07 10:00 - 23:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Wednesdays with Summer Recreation Week 4
Josie Allen is back for our last Wednesday with the kids from Summer Recreation. This week she’ll teach us about soil health and the problems with soil erosion. This event is held for the kids attending Summer Recreation at the Mina Community Center, but all our patrons are welcome to join!

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2024-08-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Bicentennial Open House!
2024-08-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Bicentennial Play Day!
2024-08-10 11:00 - 13:30
Since it’s Mina’s Bicentennial Celebration this weekend, we will not be having a regular Storytime. Instead, we will have a Play Day! We are borrowing the button maker and the paint spinner from CCLS, so folks can stop in and play for a bit and still participate in the festivities downtown. Be sure to check out the Vintage Parade at 10am, and wave hello to library trustees and friends!

Book Club
2024-08-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of August’s book, Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy.
Summary:
“Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.
Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed—inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is found dead, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn’t make the kill, then who did? And what will Inti do when the man she is falling for seems to be the prime suspect?
Propulsive and spell-binding, Charlotte McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves is the unforgettable story of a woman desperate to save the creatures she loves—if she isn’t consumed by a wild that was once her refuge.” (via goodreads)

Saturday Storytime: Dinos!
2024-08-17 11:00 - 12:00 | 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: Hiking & Camping!
2024-08-24 11:00 - 12:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Board Meeting
2024-08-26 18:30 - 20:00, 2024-09-23 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.

AFCL's Annual Book Sale!
2024-08-30 16:00 - 20:00, 2024-08-31 10:00 - 20:00, 2024-09-01 10:00 - 16:00 | 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!).

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!

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)

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?)

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.

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)

Spooky Halloween Shindig!
2024-10-26 11:00 - 13:00 | 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

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

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)

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.

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!

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)

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

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