Upcoming Events

We'll supply the materials.  Bring your imagination.

Grades 4-7.

Stories, songs & a craft.

18 - 35 months w/caregiver.

Hear a story then "play" it out!

3 - 5 years w/caregiver.

Celebrate World Read Alound Day with us; drop in the Community Room to hear celebrity readalouds between 12 pm and 2 pm.  We'll have a continuous video loop of celebrities like  Kevin Costner, Wanda Sykes and Lily Tomlin. Come for one or many. Refreshments will be available.

For Families.

Join Ana Metaxas for Conversational French.  Attendance at all sessions strongly encouraged.

It's World Read Aloud Day - Come read to the dogs! Join us for a short celebration of our therapy dogs then read to your favorites!  Branson, Junior and Coalby will be here to hear your stories.  Sign up for a 15 minute reading slot today by visiting or calling the Children's Room (845-986-1047 ext. 5).

We'll provide the packs: you battle it out to win the most cards.

Grades 1 - 4

Laurie Byro and the Circle of Voices Poetry Group will discuss the works of W.H. Auden.  New members are always welcome! Poems are available here and at the Help Desk.

Wystan Hugh Auden was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907. He moved to Birmingham during childhood and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. As a young man he was influenced by the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost, as well as William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Old English verse. At Oxford, his precocity as a poet was immediately apparent, and he formed lifelong friendships with two fellow writers, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood.

In 1928, Auden’s collection, Poems, was privately printed, but it wasn’t until 1930, when another collection titled Poems (though its contents were different) was published, that Auden was established as the leading voice of a new generation.