Author Talk: Joan Wahl
2025-07-17 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion with author Joan Wahl. She’ll tell us about her writing journey, and discuss her books as well. Books will also be available for purchase.

Joan Wahl, a romantic at heart, draws inspiration from her idyllic seventeen-year marriage and her rich cultural background to craft captivating love stories. A passionate traveler and avid reader, she finds her muse in diverse locations from Nashville to Maine.
With a life steeped in love and adventure, Joan brings authenticity and warmth to her romances, inviting readers to escape into stories that celebrate the enduring power of true love.

About Falling for Autumn:
When Autumn enters into a marriage of convenience to widower Spencer Sullivan, she never anticipates falling for him and his three children. As pretense transforms into genuine connection, secrets and misunderstandings drive them apart. Against Nashville’s country music backdrop, can one grand romantic gesture reunite them? This heartwarming story explores second chances and the healing journey of a blended family. With emotional depth and compelling characters, “Falling for Autumn” captivates readers who believe in overcoming obstacles for true love.

Book Club
2025-07-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of July’s book, Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris.
Summary:
“Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.
But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.
Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.
Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.” (via Goodreads)

Saturday Storytime: Silly Hats!
2025-07-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a story or two, then we’ll decorate silly hats and have a snack!

Wednesdays with Summer Rec
2025-07-23 11:00 - 11:30 | Findley Lake Community Center, 2883 North Rd., Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States
UPDATE: Apologies, folks, our taxidermist is unable to make it today, so the event is cancelled, and we’ll just play in the library instead.
We’ll learn about taxidermy with a local taxidermist!

1000 Hours Outside-Inspired Activity: Tie Dye Play Day!
2025-07-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll be tie dyeing bandanas! We’ll wear gloves, but you might want to wear cloths that can get messy!

Board Meeting
2025-07-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Findley Lake Community Center, 2883 North Rd., Findley Lake, NY, 14736, United States
The library board of trustees meets the fourth Monday of the month to discuss library matters. Meetings open to the public.

Saturday Storytime!
2025-08-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Free Art Time!
2025-08-02 12:00 - 13:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library
This is a chance for kiddos who signed up for Summer Reading to work on the crafts and activities on their Station Challenge sheets. If you didn’t sign up, or are on the CCLS Road Trip, you can still play and make art with the supplies we provide. We want to turn the library into a lovely art gallery this summer, so we need your help! You can leave things to work on the following Saturday, too, so be sure to put you name on all your work.

Saturday Storytime: Marbles!
2025-08-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Free Art Time!
2025-08-09 12:00 - 13:30, 2025-08-23 12:00 - 13:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2025-08-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll be trying out milk carton printmaking with water-based inks on different papers. This one will be messy, so wear an apron if you have one, or wear cloths that can get messy.

Saturday Storytime: Suncatchers!
2025-08-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Free Art Time!
2025-08-16 12:00 - 13:30

Arts & Crafts for Grownups BONUS DAY!
2025-08-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-08-21 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of August’s book A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.
Summary:
“The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America—majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way—and a couple of bears. Already a classic, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).” (via Goodreads)

Saturday Storytime: Sugar Watercolor!
2025-08-23 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Board Meeting
2025-08-25 18:30 - 20:00
The board of trustees meets the fourth Monday of the month to discuss library matters. Meetings open to the public.

Book Sale!
2025-08-29 16:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-30 10:00 - 20:00, 2025-08-31 10:00 - 16:00 | Water Wheel Overlook

1000 Hours Outside-Inspired Activity: Bubble Play Day!
2025-08-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll be blowing lots of bubbles! Wear clothes that can get messy!

End of Summer Reading Shindig!
2025-08-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-09-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of September’s book The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams.
Summary:
“In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda’s catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda’s new stepsister—all long legs and world-weary bravado, engaged to a wealthy Island scion—is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society.
But beneath the island’s patrician surface, there are really two clans: the summer families with their steadfast ways and quiet obsessions, and the working class of Portuguese fishermen and domestic workers who earn their living on the water and in the laundries of the summer houses. Uneasy among Isobel’s privileged friends, Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse with his mysterious wife. In summer, Joseph helps his father in the lobster boats, but in the autumn he returns to Brown University, where he’s determined to make something of himself. Since childhood, Joseph’s enjoyed an intense, complex friendship with Isobel Fisher, and as the summer winds to its end, Miranda’s caught in a catastrophe that will shatter Winthrop’s hard-won tranquility and banish Miranda from the island for nearly two decades.
Now, in the landmark summer of 1969, Miranda returns at last, as a renowned Shakespearean actress hiding a terrible heartbreak. On its surface, the Island remains the same—determined to keep the outside world from its shores, fiercely loyal to those who belong. But the formerly powerful Fisher family is a shadow of itself, and Joseph Vargas has recently escaped the prison where he was incarcerated for the murder of Miranda’s stepfather eighteen years earlier. What’s more, Miranda herself is no longer a naïve teenager, and she begins a fierce, inexorable quest for justice for the man she once loved . . . even if it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.” (Via Goodreads)

Arts & Crafts for Grownups!
2025-10-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Book Club
2025-10-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us for a discussion of October’s book, Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce.
Summary:
“It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on scraps. One day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and small existence to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of her childhood obsession: an insect that may or may not exist–the golden beetle of New Caledonia. When she advertises for an assistant to accompany her, the woman she ends up with is the last person she had in mind. Fun-loving Enid Pretty in her tight-fitting pink suit and pom-pom sandals seems to attract trouble wherever she goes. But together these two British women find themselves drawn into a cross-ocean adventure that exceeds all expectations and delivers something neither of them expected to find: the transformative power of friendship.it means uncovering every last one of the secrets that bind together the families of Winthrop Island.” (via Goodreads)

Spooky Halloween Shindig!
2025-10-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Alexander Findley Community Library

Fall Craft Show Fundraiser!
2025-11-01 10:00 - 16:00

Arts & Crafts for Grownups
2025-11-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
We’ll be making felt leaves with beads and sequins.

Book Club
2025-11-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Alexander Findley Community Library
Join us in the library for a discussion of November’s book, Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.
Summary:
“When her daughter Bee claims a family trip to Antarctica as a reward for perfect grades, Bernadette, a fiercely intelligent shut-in, throws herself into preparations for the trip. But worn down by years of trying to live the Seattle life she never wanted, Ms. Fox is on the brink of a meltdown. And after a school fundraiser goes disastrously awry at her hands, she disappears, leaving her family to pick up the pieces–which is exactly what Bee does, weaving together an elaborate web of emails, invoices, and school memos that reveals a secret past Bernadette has been hiding for decades. Where’d You Go Bernadette is an ingenious and unabashedly entertaining novel about a family coming to terms with who they are and the power of a daughter’s love for her mother.” (via Goodreads)
