June 2016

New Fiction

• Robert B. Parker's Slow Burn - Ace Atkins
• The Last Mile - David Baldacci
• The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes
• Versions of Us - Laura Barnett
• Boar Island - Nevada Barr
• After the Fire - Lauren Belfer
• Tall Tail: a Mrs. Murphy Mystery
• As Time Goes By - Mary Higgins Clark
• Everyone Brave is Forgiven - Chris Cleave
• Diana's Alter - Barbara Cleverly
• Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben
• Girl from Summer Hill -Jude Deveraux
• Before we Kiss the Goddess - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• La Rose - Louise Erdrich
• Singing Bone - Beth Hahn
• The Excellent Lombards - Jane Hamilton
• The Second Life of Nick Mason - Steve Hamilton
• Imagine Me Gone - Adam Haslett
• Why We Came to the City - Kristopher Jansma
• Hide Away - Iris Johansen
• Blood Flag - Steve Martini
• NYPD red 4 - James Patterson
• Everybody's Fool - Richard Russo
• Extreme Prey - John Sanford
• The Apartment - Danielle Steel
• Murder in Morningside Heights - Victoria Thompson
• Wife of the Day - Daphne Uviller

New Non-Fiction

• Slamming & Splitting - Cathy Arra
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - Kim Barker
• Bead Pendants & Necklaces - Susan Beal
• Learn to Timber Frame: Craftsmanship, Simplicity, Timeless Beauty - Will Beemer
• The Comeback: How Today's Moms Reenter the Workplace Successfully - Cheryl Casone
• Crochet One-Skein Wonders for Babies - Judith Durant
• Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers who Transformed a Nation - Julie M. Fenster
• Fodor's Travel Alaska
• Words Without Music - Philip Glass
• Weapon: a Visual History of Arms and Armor - Richard Holmes
• How Women Decide: What's True, what's Not, and What Strategies Spark the Best Choices - Therese Huston
• Joy of Less: a Minimalist Guide to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify - Francine Jay
• Pinpoint: How GPS is changing Technology, Culture, and our Minds - Greg Milner
• Tiny Houses Built with Recycled Materials - Ryan Mitchell
• The Gene: an Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams along a Shanghai Road - Rob Schmitz
• Junk: Digging Through America's Love Affair with Stuff - Alison Stewart
• Far & Away - Andrew Solomon

New Audio Books

• NYPD Red 4 - James Patterson

New DVD's

• The Finest Hours: The Impossible Rescue - Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana
• Janis: Little Girl Blue - Janis Joplin
• Joy - Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro, Bradley Cooper
• Mustang - Turkish
• Orange is the New Black - season 3
• A Royal Night Out - Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley Jack Reynor, Rupert Evrett, Emily Watson
• War & Peace - mini-series
• Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore

Recently Donated DVD's

• 50 First Dates - Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore
• Ben Hur - Charlton Heston
• Cheaper by the Dozen - Steve Martin
• Grey's Anatomy - season 2
• Le Divorce - Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts
• Marilyn Monroe Diamond Collection
• Men in Black II - Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith
• Mork & Mindy - Season 1
• The Perfect Storm - George Clooney
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Arnold Schwarzenegger
• True Crime - Clint Eastwood
• True Grit - John Wayne
• True Grit - Jeff Bridges

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BOOKLISTS

Every month in this spot we feature reading suggestions. Visit the Library to pick up a copy of the booklist-of-the-month brochure and check out a book from our current display.

Local Authors 2016

The Hudson Valley is loosely defined as north of Westchester, south of Albany. Thank you to Nina Shengold for this list. (Nina adds that this list is far from complete, and apologizes for any oversights). If you'd like to be added to the Library's Local Author list, please contact Nina Shengold at books@chronogram.com

STONE RIDGE VICINITY

• Barbara Bash - True Nature
• Nan Bauer-Maglin - Death, Dying and the Choices we Make
• Jon Bowermaster - Wildebeest in a Rainstorm
• Frank Boyer - Jumping Out of My Skin
• Matthew Cantello - Communing With Music
• Steve Clorfeine - Field Road Sky
• Laura Shaine Cunningham - Sleeping Arrangements
• Jacky Davis & David Soman - Ladybug Girl
• Dina Falconi - Foraging & Feasting
• Maya Gold - Cinderella Cleaners
• Melanie Hall - The Magic Pomegranate
• Steve Hamilton - Let it Burn
• Wendy Hollender - Botanical Drawing in Color
• Dave Horowitz - Chico the Brave
• Robi Josephson - Mohonk Mountain House and Preserve
• Keith Kachtick - Hungry Ghost
• Roger Kahn - The Boys of Summer
• Richard Klin - Something to Say
• Casey Kurtti - Three Ways Home
• Stephen Ladin - Ulster County Railroads
• Bob Larsen - An Unforgiving Land
• Elaine Lee - Starstruck
• Donald Lev - A Very Funny Fellow
• Bruce Littlefield - The Bedtime Book for Dogs
• Jana Martin - Russian Lover & Other Stories
• Robert Miraldi - Scoop Artist
• Bruce Morrow - Rock & Roll... and the Beat Goes On
• Bruce Murkoff - Waterborne
• Jon J Muth - Zen Ghosts
• Jean Naggar - Sipping from the Nile
• Linda O'Keeffe - Stripes: Design Between the Lines
• Mary Beth Pfeiffer - Crazy in America
• Melissa Holbrook Pierson - The Place You Love is Gone
• Nicole Quinn - The Gold Stone Girl trilogy
• Laura Rose - The Passion of Marie Romanov
• Charley Rosen - The Emerald Diamond
• Nina Shengold - Clearcut
• Matthew Silverman - Best Mets
• Matthew J. Spireng - Out of Body
• Jon-Christian Suggs - Whispered Consolations
• C.L. Watson - Eating the Shadow
• Mary Louise Wilson - My First Hundred Years in Show Business
• Scott Wolven - Controlled Burn
• Kim Wozencraft - Wanted
• Koren Zailckas - Mother, Mother

HUDSON VALLEY

• Peter Aaron - If You Like the Ramones
• Thelma Adams - The Last Woman Standing
• Alexandra Aldrich - The Astor Orphan
• David Appelbaum - Nieuw Pfalz
• Susannah Appelbaum - The Poisons of Caux
• Garnette Arledge - 100,000 Lights
• L.S. Asekoff - Freedom Hill
• John Ashbery - Notes from the Air
• Nava Atlas - Wild about Greens
• Shalom Auslander - Foreskin's Lament
• Scott Ian Barry - Wolf Empire
• Emily Barton - The Book of Esther
• Jo Ann Beard - In Zanesville
• Larry Beinhart - Salvation
• Helen Benedict - The Sand Queen
• Frank Bergon - Jesse's Ghost
• Durga Yael Bernhard - Coyote Rides the Sun
• Judy Blundell - What I Saw and How I Lied
• Fergus M. Bordewich - Bound For Canaan
• Laurie Boris - Drawing Breath
• Sari Botton - Goodbye to All That
• Gwendolyn Bounds - Little Chapel by the River
• John Bowers - Love in Tennessee
• Kelly Braffet - Save Yourself
• Wesley Brown - Push Comes to Shove
• Ann M. Burg - All the Broken Pieces
• Akiko Busch - Nine Ways To Cross a River
• Lawrence Bush - Jewdayo
• Mary Caponegro - All Fall Down
• Kris Carr - Crazy Sexy Diet
• Laurence Carr - Pancake Hollow Primer
• Jennifer Castle - The Beginning of After
• Benjamin Cheever - Strides
• Bruce Chilton - Abraham's Curse
• James & Lesa Cline-Ransome - Words Set Me Free
• Elizabeth Crane - The History of Great Things
• Elizabeth Cunningham - The Passion of Mary Magdalen
• Nayana Currimbhoy - Miss Timmins' School for Girls
• Juliet Dark - The Demon Lover
• John Darnton - Almost a Family
• Nina Darnton - African Adventure
• Jeffrey Davis - Journey to the Center of the Page
• Lydia Davis - Varieties of Disturbance
• Beverly Donofrio - Riding in Cars with Boys
• Jennifer Donnelly - Revolution
• Liza Donnelly - When Do They Serve the Wine?
• Cornelius Eady - Hard-Headed Weather
• Pamela Erens - The Virgins
• Dina Falconi - Foraging and Feasting
• Tony Fletcher - Boy about Town
• Nick Flynn - The Ticking is the Bomb
• Sean Michael Flynn - The Fighting 69th
• Julie Fogliano - And Then It's Spring
• Elizabeth Frank - Cheat and Charmer
• Martha Frankel - Hats & Eyeglasses
• Nancy Furstinger - Maggie's Second Chance
• Neil Gaiman - American Gods
• Mary Gaitskill - Veronica
• Mary Gallagher - Father Dreams
• Alison Gaylin - And She Was
• Susan Gillotti - Women of Privilege
• Holly George-Warren - Public Cowboy #1
• Gail Godwin - Queen of the Underworld
• K.L. Going - Fat Kid Rules the World
• Anne Gorrick - A's Visuality
• Carol Goodman - River Road
• Jonathan Gould - Can't Buy Me Love
• Lee Gould - Weeds
• Eamon Grennan - Out of Sight
• James Gurney - Dinotopia
• Carey Harrison - Freud: a Novel
• Juliet R. Harrison - Track Life
• Christine Heppermann - Poisoned Apples
• Mikhail Horowitz - Rafting Into the Afterlife
• Ginnah Howard - Doing Time Outside
• Samantha Hunt - Mr. Splitfoot
  
  Kevin Hurley - Cut & Cover
• Kristofer Jansma - Why We Came to the City
• Marilyn Johnson - This Book is Overdue
• G. Brian Karas - Young Zeus
• Marshall Karp - The Rabbit Factory
• Bobbi Katz - Once Around the Sun
• Jack Kelly - Heaven's Ditch
• Robert Kelly - The Logic of the World
• William Kennedy - Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes
• Dave King - The Ha-Ha
• Owen King - Double Feature
• Lucy Knisley - Relish
• Michael Korda - Hero
• Amitava Kumar - Lunch With a Bigot
• Alisa Kwitney - Sex as a Second Language
• Dakota Lane - The Secret Life of It Girls
• Michael Lang - The Road to Woodstock
• Kay Larson - Where the Heart Beats
• James Lasdun - It's Beginning to Hurt
• Guy Lawson - Octopus
• Adam LeFevre - Ghost Light
• Barbara Lehman - The Red Book
• John Long - Darwin's Devices
• Joseph Luzzi - My Two Italies
• Djelloul Marbrook - Artemisia's Wolf
• Ann M. Martin - The Babysitters Club
• Ashley Mayne - Tiger
• Peter McCarty - Chloe
• Molly McGlennen - Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits
• David Means - The Spot
• Daniel Mendelsohn - The Lost
• Sarah Micklem - Firethorn
• Myriam Miedzian - He Walked Through Walls
• Bradford Morrow - The Diviner's Tale
• Will Nixon - Acrostic Woodstock
• Stephen O'Connor - Here Comes Another Lesson
• Greg Olear - Fathermucker
  James P. Othmer - The Futurist
• Susan Orlean - Rin Tin Tin
• Christa Parravani - Her
• Michael Perkins - Carpe Diem
• Phillippe Petit - Why Knot?
• Leila Philip - A Family Place
• Daniel Pinkwater - The Neddiad
• Gretchen Primack - Kind
• Francine Prose - Reading Like a Writer
• Erin Quinn - Pride & Politics
• David Rees - Get Your War On
• Nelly Reifler - Elect H. Mouse State Judge
• Brent Robison - The Principle of Ultimate Indivisibility
• Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya - The Storyteller of Marrakesh
• Paul Russell - Immaculate Blue
  
  Edwin Sanchez - Diary of a Puerto Rican Demigod
• Ed Sanders - Sharon Tate
• Luc Sante - Low Life
• Esmeralda Santiago - When I Was Puerto Rican
• Gene Santoro - Myself When I Am Real
• John Sayles - A Moment in the Sun
• Edward Schwarzschild - The Family Diamond
• Danny Shanahan - Bad Sex!
• Lee Slonimsky - Logician of the Wind
• Michele Slung - Garden of Reading
• Charles R. Smith, Jr. - My People
• Sparrow - America: A Prophecy
• Scott Spencer - Man in the Woods
• Alison Stewart - Junk
• Sebastian Stuart - To the Manor Dead
• Nova Ren Suma - Imaginary Girls
• Hudson Talbott - River of Dreams
• Mark Teague - Funny Farm
• Abigail Thomas - Thinking About Memoir
• John Thorn - Baseball in the Garden of Eden
• Gioia Timpanelli - Sometimes the Soul
• Iza Trapani - The Bear Went Over the Mountain
• Pauline Uchmanowicz - Sand and Traffic
• Daphne Uviller - Hotel No Tell
• Christine Wade - Seven Locks
• Lois Walden - One More Stop
• Robert Burke Warren - Perfectly Broken
• Nancy Willard - In the Salt Marsh
• Daniel Wolff - How Lincoln Learned to Read
• Rebecca Wolff - The King
• Mark Wunderlich - The Earth Avails
• Jeffrey Yang - An Aquarium

LIBRARY FAIR

Saturday, June 11
10am to 3pm on the Library Lawn

BAG SALE

Sunday, June 12
10am to 2pm on the Library Lawn

The Stone Ridge Library will host the 70th Annual Library Fair on Saturday, June 11 from 10 am to 3 pm, rain or shine, on the Library grounds. The festivities will include a huge book sale, plant sale, children's activities, craft and gift booths, food and drink, and entertainment all day.

The main event of the Fair is Books! Displayed under the large striped tent, the selection will include everything from novels to history, cooking to mystery, biographies, poetry, and a collection of art and specialty "coffee table" books.

The Plant Tent will be laden with flowering annuals and perennials, herbs and heirlooms plus plants donated from botanically gifted patrons. An interesting assortment of daylilies, labeled by variety, height, color and growing instructions will also be available.

Shoppers will find gifts and tableware, art, and jewelry at Eleanor's Emporium, and the Saturday Knitters will be on hand to demonstrate their craft and sell their wares.

Traditional picnic fare will be served, with Cherries of Stone Ridge joining the Library team this year. Hot dogs, hamburgers, sausage and peppers plus vegetarian dishes will be available. Fair favorites--home made strawberry shortcake and root beer floats will also be on the menu, along with coffee and tea, artisan bread, and home-baked desserts.

For children, lots of games, face painting, and children's activities will be provided. There will also be a large selection of children's books for sale.

Entertainment will be provided all day, beginning with a debut of selections from local playwright Edward Schoelwer's March in the Parade: A Play with Music for Young Audiences under the musical direction of Andrea Shaut.

Cheryl and Kurt of the Kurt Henry Band will play at 11. Henry's lyrics have been likened to fine poetry (Music Machine).

Bloom Women's Voice Ensemble under the direction of Debbie Lan will perform at Noon, with original arrangements of songs by Peter Gabriel, James Taylor, Sweet Honey in the Rock and more, as well as some original compositions.

Then, at 1pm Breakaway with Robin Baker at will take the stage, bringing in their great mix of rock, funk, pop and ballads. The Rondout Valley High School Jazz Band with Randolph Loder directing will take the stage at 2 pm, wrapping up the day's entertainment with a high-energy, creative performance.

Profits from the day's events go to the Stone Ridge Library operating budget to pay for books, supplies, salaries, utilities, etc. Funds for the capital campaign and building restoration are raised separately by the Stone Ridge Library Foundation.

On Sunday, the popular Bag Sale will be open from 10am to 2pm, with a bag of books selling for $8.

There will be no shuttle bus service this year, but parking will be available at the High Meadow School, Key Bank, Express Tech Printing, George Moylan's Funeral Home and the Marbletown Community Center and the Marbletown Elementary School. Traffic control will be provided by the NYS Troopers, Kingston Barracks.

"We hope that everyone will come out to enjoy the festivities on this 70th Anniversary of the Library Fair," said Director Jody Ford. "People have wonderful remembrances of meeting their friends at the Library Fair, and we are happy to keep the tradition going strong."

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Book Signing to feature NPR Commentator Frank Deford

Saturday, June 18
from 2 to 5 pm
at Sweetpea in Emmanuel's Plaza

NPR writer and commentator Frank Deford will be doing a book signing for his new book, I'd Know that Voice Anywhere: My Favorite NPR Commentaries, at Sweetpea, a new shop in Emmanuel's Plaza on Main Street (Route 209) in Stone Ridge. The book signing will hosted by Scarlet Crawford, Deford's daughter, who owns the shop.

In addition to the book signing a raffle for gift certificates to Sweetpea and other local businesses will be held, with proceeds being donated to the Stone Ridge Library.

Frank Deford has been the sports commentator at NPR since 1980, appearing most Wednesday mornings. He has presented more than 1,600 commentaries on virtually every subject in the sporting universe. He's chosen about one hundred of his favorites for his latest book, I'd Know That Voice Anywhere.

Deford is the author of seventeen books. While his is often recognized as the finest sports writer of his era, his highly praised historical novels have ranged far afield. Besides Bliss, Remembered he has written about such varied topics as the polio epidemic (An American Summer), reincarnation (The Other Adonis) and Japan before Pearl Harbor (Love and Infamy). His story about modern celebrity, The Entitled, is often cited as the best novel ever written about the sport of baseball.

Two of Deford's books, the novel, Everybody's All-American and Alex: The Life of a Child, his memoir about his daughter who died of cystic fibrosis, have been made into movies. Two of his original screenplays—Trading Hearts, and Four Minutes—have also been filmed.

Deford is said to be amongst the most versatile of American writers. On radio, he may be heard as a commentator Wednesday on Morning Edition on National Public Radio. His television credits include Senior Correspondent on the HBO show, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. He is also Senior Contributing Writer at Sports Illustrated—an association that dates to 1962.

As a journalist, Deford has been elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters, and was voted six times U.S. Sportswriter of the Year by his peers at Sports Illustrated, just to name a few. The magazine GQ has called Deford, "simply the world's greatest sportswriter." President Obama also awarded Deford the National Medal for the Humanities in 2014.

Daughter Scarlet Crawford moved to Stone Ridge last year with her husband Sean last year. Her shop, Sweetpea opened April 1. She formerly worked at Scholastic designing children's magazines. According to Crawford, she and her Dad "are super advocates of education and reading, especially making reading fun for kids at an early age."

Scarlet's dad will sign his work on the day before Father's Day. He will be featured on the local NPR station promoting the event and the raffle on the Saturday morning Roundtable the day of the event.

The event is free and open to the public. For information, contact Scarlet Crawford; for information about Mr. Deford, visit frankdefordbook.

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TEA TIME BOOK GROUP

Wednesday, June 8
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection this month is Time and Again by Jack Finney. When advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he jumps at the chance to leave his twentieth-century existence and step into New York City in January 1882. Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.

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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group

Wednesday, June 15
4pm in the Biography Room

The selection for this meeting is The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan. Tracking down a candidate's secret mistress days before a pivotal Senate election, reporter Jane Ryland discovers links between her story and a serial killer investigation by detective Jake Brogan, with whom she partners to stop a killer in the face of dirty politics and betrayal.

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CLIO'S MUSE
A History Reading Club

Wednesday, June 15
7pm in the Biography Room

The reading selection for June is SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard. World-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even two thousand years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty.

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Conversational Spanish
with Cliff Rockmuller

Tuesday, June 7, July 12
1:30-2:30 in the Bio Room

Basic conversational ability is a pre-requisite for these sessions that provide participants with an opportunity to practice and hone their Spanish language skills in a comfortable and enjoyable setting. Cliff Rockmuller, former language teacher at the Rondout Valley School District, leads the conversation. This program is held on the first Tuesday of each month.

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A New Conversational Spanish Offering
with Heidi Ehrich

Tuesday, June 28, 1:30-2:30
Biography Room

For those of you who would like an opportunity to practice your Spanish language skills at a slower pace, Heidi Ehrich will be facilitating a second Conversational Spanish session every fourth Tuesday at the Library at 1:30. Cliff Rockmuller's group will continue to meet on the first Tuesday at 1:30. Patrons are welcome to participate in one or both groups, the only pre-requisite being a basic conversational ability in Spanish.

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Conversational French
with Claudine Brenner

Tuesday, June 21, 1:30-2:30pm
Biography Room

Want to brush up or improve your French with a conversation hour? Claudine is a native French speaker, born in Paris and raised in Europe; following a 30 year Government career abroad, she chose Stone Ridge to retire in. Culture, medicine, travels, and anything/everything culinary are favorite subjects—which she would love to share and exchange in French. The program is offered on the third Tuesday of each month.

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Stone Ridge Library
Writers' Group
with Cathy Arra

Monday, June 6, 20
4:30-6:30pm

A writers' group meets every other Monday at the Library, with a maximum of 10 participants. This program is designed for people who are already in the process of writing and publishing work and want to participate in a structured feedback process. Cathy Arra, a poet, writer and former teacher of English and Writing in the Rondout Valley School District facilitates the group. If you are interested in participating, please contact Diane DeChillo at the Stone Ridge Library (687-8726) to place your name on the wait list.

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POETRY
with Rosemary Deen

Thursday, June 9, 23
1.30-3:30 in the Biography Room

Join us for an afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. Our meetings are held twice a month, on the second and fourth Thursdays.

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KNITTING GROUP

Every Saturday
10am-noon

The Stone Ridge Library Knitters meet every Saturday morning from 10am - 12noon. All ages and experience levels can join us and drop-in knitters are also welcome. We each bring our own supplies and do our own work, but one of the best things about us is that whatever obstacle or confusion you might encounter, you're likely to receive as much comment and advice as you need to get where you're going with a project. Some of us can help toward the repair of knitted or crocheted items too.

The group is sociable and lively, and our conversation and sharing is just as wide-ranging as our projects. We are especially interested in the UFOs (Un-Finished Objects) that members bring in and love the show and tell of projects under way and being finished, new or old, simple or complex. Though knitting is our love and mainstay, we graciously adapt ourselves to stray crocheters and those of us who simply must take to the hook when the spirit moves. We share articles, magazines and books on knitting. Donations of yarn to the Library get made up into items for sale at the Library Fair and during the winter holidays for the benefit of the Library. Some of us also knit things for local hospitals or for the U.S. troops.

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Movies Based on Books Opening in Theaters

June 3, 2016

Movie Title: Me Before You
Where: Theaters
Based on: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin

June 10, 2016

Movie Title: Blackway
Where: Theaters
Based on: Go With Me by Cast5le Freeman Jr.
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta

June 10, 2016

Movie Title: Genius
Where: Theaters
Based on: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A.Scott Berg
Director: Michael Grandage
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Colin Firth

June 24, 2016

Movie Title: The Fundamentals of Caring
Where: Theaters
Based on: The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison
Director: Rob Burnett
Cast: Paul Rudd, Selena Gomez

June 24, 2016

Movie Title: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Where: Theaters
Based on: Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
Director: Sam Neill and Julian Dennison
Cast: Taika Waititi

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GREAT WEBSITES!

Civil Service Jobs in New York

There are many resources to help New Yorkers find jobs in the public sector. A helpful resource from the Adriance Library. more

Zika Virus Resources

This headline-making illness is not currently spread locally, but rather was picked up by travelers. None of the Hudson Valley cases of Zika Virus to date were contracted in the United States. With science now proving that serious health consequences are linked to the contraction of the Zika virus - spread by mosquito to human transmission - it's prudent to increase public awareness, and do what we can to prevent further spread of this disease. To help you stay informed, this Tip will direct you to some of the best sources for public health information. A helpful PDF from the Adriance Library. more

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COMMUNITY EVENTS

The Marbletown ECC will be sponsoring two events in conjunction with Trash Fest

Bag It: is your life too plastic?

Wednesday, June 15, 6:30pm
Film at the Community Center

Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes, disposable bags that they throw away without much thought. But where is "away?" Where do the bags and other plastics end up, and at what cost to the environment, marine life and human health? This documentary film follows "everyman" Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics. Jeb's journey starts with simple questions: Are plastic bags really necessary? What are plastic bags made from? What happens to plastic bags after they are discarded? What he learns quickly grows far beyond plastic bags.

Checkout Bag Legislation Workshop

Wednesday, June 22nd, 6:30-8:30
at the Community Center.

Marbletown retailers, shoppers, and other interested parties are invited to join the Marbletown Environmental Conservation Commission and representatives from the Town Board and Ulster County Legislature to learn about legislation to reduce the use of plastic checkout bags in New York and beyond, and to contribute to crafting legislation for Marbletown.

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