Events For 10/06/2024

Learn how to search the Internet using Google in this class for beginners. Mouse skills required.

Marry Makofske will lead a discussion of Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake. Told in several different voices, this novel vividly depicts the impact of mountain-top coal removal on West Virginians pulled between their intimate connection to their land and their economic dependence on mining.
Copies available at the Library

Meditation awakens us to the joy of the present moment. In this workshop, Mingyur Rinpoche explains what meditation is and how to get started. It’s not as hard as you think. You don’t have to be Buddhist to meditate. You don’t even have to be religious. All you need is a sincere desire to open your heart and mind to the present moment.
This workshop includes experiential video teachings by Mingyur Rinpoche and discussions led by Kathryn Prusinski, coordinator of the local Tergar Meditation Group. These teachings are suitable for people of all faiths, as well as both beginning and experienced meditators.

No registration required.

For ages 2-7. Just drop-in on Saturday mornings for stories, songs and a craft. This is a fun time for the whole family.

Husband and wife Solonche and Siegel co-authored Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books 2002) and individually have published widely.
Joan I. Siegel
Recipient of the New Letters Poetry Prize and Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award as well as 4 Pushcart Prize nominations, Siegel is author of Hyacinth for the Soul (Deerbrook Editions 2009) and Light at Point Reyes (Shabda Press) forthcoming in December 2012. Her poems have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Commonweal, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Raritan, among other publications.A pianist, she lives in Blooming Grove with her husband and daughter and seven cats.
J.R. Solonche
Four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, J.R. Solonche has been publishing poetry in magazines, journals, and anthologies since the early 70s. Some of these are The American Scholar, The Progressive, The New Criterion, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Literary Review, Poetry Northwest, Poetry East, The North American Review, Salmagundi, The Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, The Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, and Visiting Frost: American Poets on the Life and Work of Robert Frost. He recently retired from the English Department of SUNY Orange Community College.

The Library will be closed on Monday, February 20 for Presidents' Day, and will reopen on Tuesday, February 21 at 9:00am.