The week's events

  • Babies & Books - A LapSit Program for Birth to 24 Months

    Category: General Babies & Books - A LapSit Program for Birth to 24 Months


    March 4, 2024

    Babies & Books
    A LapSit Program for Birth to 24 Months

    Using songs, rhymes, fingerplay, puppets, toys and more this program is geared to promote the development of early literacy skills, motor coordination and provide opportunities for social interaction.

    Monday, March 4, 11, 18 & 25
    10:30 AM

     

    Mah Jongg Monday

    Category: General Mah Jongg Monday


    March 4, 2024

    Mah Jongg Monday

    For more information call 889-4683 or email staatslibrary@gmail.com

    Monday, March 4, 11 18 & 25
    2 PM

  • Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé With Author Elizabeth Cobbs - Online Via ZOOM (Registration Required)

    Category: General Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé With Author Elizabeth Cobbs - Online Via ZOOM (Registration Required)


    March 5, 2024

    Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé
    With Author Elizabeth Cobbs

    Celebrate Women's History Month

    Feminism was born in 1776. When the United States became a nation, a woman had no legal existence beyond her husband. If he abused her, she couldn’t leave without abandoning her children. Abigail Adams tried to change this, reminding her husband John to “remember the ladies” when the Founders wrote new laws in 1776. He simply laughed—and women have been fighting for their rights ever since.

    Elizabeth Cobbs tells the story of women who dared to take destiny into their own hands, and who fueled America's political and economic growth in the process. They were feminists and antifeminists, activists and homemakers, victims of abuse and pathbreaking professionals. Fueled by an unshakeable sense of right and wrong, and inspired by ideals drawn from the anti-patriarchal writings of English philosopher John Locke, they wouldn’t take no for an answer. In time, they carried the country and the world with them.

    Elizabeth Cobbs is a historian, novelist, and documentary filmmaker. Author of nine books, she has won prizes for fiction as well as non-fiction. She has served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Historical Advisory Committee of the U.S. State Department, and written for the New York TimesFinancial TimesWashington Post, and Reuters. A Stanford Ph.D., Cobbs is an Emeritus Professor at Texas A&M. She has produced documentaries for public television on the history of U.S. foreign policy and on the future of Artificial Intelligence, winning an Emmy and a Telly. In 2020, the U.S. Army Signal Corps Association named her Brevet Colonel for unearthing the story of the “Hello Girls,” America’s first women soldiers.

    Register Here: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/11671111

    Tuesday, March 5
    12 PM
    Online Via Zoom

  • Preschool Motion Commotion

    Category: General Preschool Motion Commotion


    March 7, 2024

    Motion Commotion For Preschoolers

    Join Miss Lisa for a movement and music program including songs, instruments, rhyme and interactive play for children.

    Active participation of an adult caregiver is required.

    Thursday, March 7 & 21
    10 AM

    Celebrating Women Artists: Rosa Bonheur Taking Charge Presented by Art Historian Rena Tobey - Online Via Zoom (Registration Required)

    Category: General Celebrating Women Artists: Rosa Bonheur Taking Charge Presented by Art Historian Rena Tobey - Online Via Zoom (Registration Required)


    March 7, 2024

    Celebrating Women Artists: Rosa Bonheur Taking Charge
    Presented by Art Historian Rena Tobey
    Online Via Zoom - Registration Required

    Nothing was going to stop Bonheur from her calling--as an artist and unprecedented, as a woman depicting animals in paint and bronze. She challenged societal rules that restricted where women could go and what they could learn. From the slaughterhouse to public auctions, from the Highlands of Scotland to the forests of Fontainebleau, Bonheur surged forward on her quest to show animals with regal splendor and in all their metaphorical glory.

    Rena Tobey is an American art historian whose passion centers on making art accessible, insightful, and fun. She has taught at NYU's School for Professional Studies and Southern Connecticut State University. Rena conducts lively, interactive tours of New York City's museum collections, now online. Her research and writing centers on American women artists working before 1945, with particular interest in the challenges they faced in bucking societal norms.

    Afterward, we'll have a Q&A with Rena — any and all questions about these artworks are welcomed and encouraged!

    The program is a collaboration of the
    Staatsburg Library, Stone Ridge Library, Clinton Community Library & Millbrook Library

    To register call 845-889-4683 or email staatslibrary@gmail.com

    Thursday, March 7
    7 PM

  • Magic Tree House Book Club – For Early Elementary Ages

    Category: General Magic Tree House Book Club – For Early Elementary Ages


    March 8, 2024

    Magic Tree House Book Club – For Early Elementary Ages

    Discuss the adventures of Jack & Annie! Activities, crafts and games based on the Magic Treehouse Book Series.
    February -  Book #5 Night Of The Ninjas

    Friday, February 9
    6:30 PM

     

We offer story times and other activities for children, teens, and adults, including a book discussion group. Check our program calendar or call the library at 845-889-4683.