Speed Dating for Book Lovers
Calling all book lovers! We have 500 copies of America's 100 Favorite Novels. Come browse the books, "speed dating"-style, and choose up to 10 to keep!
Artist in Residence Closing Reception - Fantasy Fountain Craft for Everyone!
Celebrate our first STEAM Artist in Residency program with stories and pictures from all events! Everyone is invited to make a fantasy fountain to take with them and perhaps inspire a real a fountain in your own backyard. Music and refreshments, too!
This program is made possible by a gift to the AWPL Foundation by Glenn P. and Susan D. Dickes.
Artist in Residence Workshop: Crafting a Water Feature
Join us for a hands-on water feature crafting experience, expanding the underground basin of our Library’s Fountain - ASPIRE Agrisculpture! Guided by its creator, Amy Lewis Sweetman, you will learn how the visible and invisible design elements of fountains align. By renovating and physically expanding the below-grade portion of Fountain ASPIRE Agrisculpture, installed almost 5 years ago at the Library, you will take part in the practical physical aspects of creating a pondless water feature. This class is open to all adults of all abilities interested in creating and installing a fountai
Celebrate National Native American Heritage Month with Reuben Fast Horse: The Contributions of Native Americans
If you peel back the layers of American history, you will find roots in Native America. Many of our foods, tools, medicines, and governmental structures are derived from Ancient America. Join Reuben Fast Horse as he shares his knowledge of the contributions of the people of the First Nations.
Library Closes at Noon for Thanksgiving
The Library is Closed for Thanksgiving
Art of the Ramapo River Valley
Join Geoff Welch for a discussion of the scenic beauty of the Ramapo River Valley as depicted in masterful paintings by Jasper F. Cropsey, John Kensett, David Johnson, Man Ray, John Marin and others. Wood engravings and rare historic photographs are also included in his presentation.
Former art teacher Geoff Welch has been studying artists who visited the Ramapo River Valley for nearly 25 years, rooting out local places that have been captured on canvases by painters passing through this area.