Events in October 2025
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Motion Commotion For Preschoolers Motion Commotion For Preschoolers
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October 2, 2025
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, October 2, 16 & 30
10 AM
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Babies & Books Babies & Books
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October 6, 2025
Babies & Books
A LapSit Program for 4 to 23 Months
Babies and Books is a special time to bond with your baby in the company of other parents and caregivers. We will enjoy the wonders of connecting and learning through song, rhymes, fingerplay and books.
This is a lap sit program to savor time with your little one as we sing, read and have fun at the library!
Babies and Books is best for children 4 months to 23 months and their caregivers to engage in a group activity.
If your little one is on the move, and uninterested in engaging with the lap sit, please join us at 11:00 AM for free play and socialization.
Monday, October 6, 20, & 27
*Library CLOSED October 13
10:30 AM
Staatsburg LibraryFree Play Time Free Play Time
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October 6, 2025
Free Play Time
For ages 4 Months to 23 Months
If your little one is on the move, and uninterested in engaging with the lap sit, please join us at 11:00 AM for free play and socialization.
Monday, October 6, 20 & 27
*Library CLOSED October 13
11 AM
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Story time - Fall Is In The Air Story time - Fall Is In The Air
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October 9, 2025
Story time
Fall Is In The Air
Join Miss Lisa for books, crafts, friends & FUN!
Thursday, October 9
10 AM
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Magic Tree House Book Club Magic Tree House Book Club
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October 10, 2025
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.
October Book - #33 Narwhal On A Sunny Night
Friday, October 10
6:30 PM
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CLOSED - Indigenous Peoples' Day & Columbus Day CLOSED - Indigenous Peoples' Day & Columbus Day
October 13, 2025
The Staatsburg Library will be CLOSED
in Observance of Indigenous Peoples' Day & Columbus Day
Monday, October 13
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Girls Book Club Girls Book Club
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October 15, 2025
Girls Book Club – For Upper Elementary Ages
(3rd - 5th Grades)
Talk about books, play games, make crafts, have a snack & lots of FUN!
October book / activity: Reader's Choice
Wednesday, October 15
4:30 PM
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Motion Commotion For Preschoolers Motion Commotion For Preschoolers
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October 16, 2025Motion 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, October 2, 16 & 30
10 AM
Dungeon & Dragons Club Dungeon & Dragons Club
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October 16, 2025
Dungeon & Dragons Club
For Middle & High Schoolers
Join or new D & D Club where you will collaborate in the role playing game Dungeon & Dragons, guided by Zachary Gordon. You don't have to have experience playing, just a good attitude and willingness to learn and have fun!
Thursday, October 16
4:30 PM
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Great Give Back - Milkweed Release at Burger Hill Great Give Back - Milkweed Release at Burger Hill
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October 18, 2025
Great Give Back
Milkweed Release Day at Drayton Grant Park at Burger Hill
Join Winnakee and pollinator partners: The Morton and Staatsburg Libraries and the Pollinator Patrol Club at Burger Hill for a morning of identifying milkweed, discovering the wonders of Monarchs and participating in the joyful act of spreading milkweed seed for next year’s Monarchs.
Can’t join us this day? We will have seed packets after the event available for pick up at the Staatsburg or Morton Libraries that you can use at home.
Free and open to all. No registration necessary.
Saturday, October 18
10 am - 12 pm
Drayton Grant Park at Burger Hill
3158 NY-9G, Rhinebeck
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Babies & Books Babies & Books
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October 20, 2025Babies & Books
A LapSit Program for 4 to 23 Months
Babies and Books is a special time to bond with your baby in the company of other parents and caregivers. We will enjoy the wonders of connecting and learning through song, rhymes, fingerplay and books.
This is a lap sit program to savor time with your little one as we sing, read and have fun at the library!
Babies and Books is best for children 4 months to 23 months and their caregivers to engage in a group activity.
If your little one is on the move, and uninterested in engaging with the lap sit, please join us at 11:00 AM for free play and socialization.
Monday, October 6, 20, & 27
*Library CLOSED October 13
10:30 AM
Staatsburg LibraryFree Play Time Free Play Time
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October 20, 2025Free Play Time
For ages 4 Months to 23 Months
If your little one is on the move, and uninterested in engaging with the lap sit, please join us at 11:00 AM for free play and socialization.
Monday, October 6, 20 & 27
*Library CLOSED October 13
11 AM
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Story time - Boo! Story time - Boo!
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October 23, 2025
Story time
BOO!
Join Miss Lisa for books, crafts, friends & FUN!
Thursday, October 23
10 AM
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Babies & Books Babies & Books
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October 27, 2025Babies & Books
A LapSit Program for 4 to 23 Months
Babies and Books is a special time to bond with your baby in the company of other parents and caregivers. We will enjoy the wonders of connecting and learning through song, rhymes, fingerplay and books.
This is a lap sit program to savor time with your little one as we sing, read and have fun at the library!
Babies and Books is best for children 4 months to 23 months and their caregivers to engage in a group activity.
If your little one is on the move, and uninterested in engaging with the lap sit, please join us at 11:00 AM for free play and socialization.
Monday, October 6, 20, & 27
*Library CLOSED October 13
10:30 AM
Staatsburg LibraryFree Play Time Free Play Time
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October 27, 2025Free Play Time
For ages 4 Months to 23 Months
If your little one is on the move, and uninterested in engaging with the lap sit, please join us at 11:00 AM for free play and socialization.
Monday, October 6, 20 & 27
*Library CLOSED October 13
11 AM
Staatsburg LibraryRoad Scholar Online Lecture Series - Curse of the Hope Diamond Road Scholar Online Lecture Series - Curse of the Hope Diamond
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October 27, 2025
Road Scholar Online Lecture Series
Evalyn Walsh McLean & the Curse of the Hope Diamond
Online Program or at the library for an in-person viewing
Online Program - Registration Required
Evalyn Walsh McLean, an American mining heiress and socialite, was the famed owner of the 45-carat Hope Diamond — the world’s largest blue diamond when she purchased it in 1911 from Pierre Cartier in Paris. Rumored to carry a curse that brought misfortune to its owners, the diamond accompanied Evalyn everywhere, from White House gatherings to charity events. According to the Smithsonian Institution, where the gem is displayed at the National Museum of Natural History, there is no truth to the legends related to the curse. And yet, Evalyn Walsh McLean’s life was never the same after acquiring the Hope Diamond. Heartbreak and tragedy befell her, impacting every aspect of her life. Was the diamond to blame?
Join Carolyn Crouch to explore the origins of the Hope Diamond’s supposed curse and its connection to the extravagant and reckless lifestyle of its
larger-than-life owner.
Monday, October 27
1 PM
Registration Required to view from home
OR
Join us at the library for an in-person viewing (no registration necessary)
Boys STEM Club Boys STEM Club
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October 27, 2025
Boys STEM Club - Upper Elementary
(3rd - 5th Grade)
STEM activities & challenges, play fun games and have a snack!
Monday, October 27
4:30 PM
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Poetry Reading - Poets, Criminals and Spies Poetry Reading - Poets, Criminals and Spies
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October 28, 2025
Poetry Reading
Poets, Criminals and Spies
Ruth Danon - Dutchess County Poet Laureate
Join us for an intriguing evening of poetry as Dutchess County Poet Laureate Ruth Danon shares her work and that of other poets on the theme Poets, Criminals, and Spies.
Participants are welcome to bring a poem by a published poet on the theme to share as well.
Ruth Danon is poet, memoirist, teacher, and curator living and working in Beacon, New York. She is the author of four books of poetry -- Turn Up The Heat (Nirala, 2023), Word Has It (Nirala, 2018), Limitless Tiny Boat (BlazeVOX, 2016), and Triangulation From A Known Point (North Star Line, 1990). Her work has been published widely in the US and abroad in publications such as 2Horatio, The Paris Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Barrow Street, Versal, and Fence. Her work was selected as a finalist in Tupelo Quarterly’s Four Quartets project and Robert Creeley selected one of her poems for inclusion in Best American Poetry 2002. Her memoir, Long Ago in the Twentieth Century, will be published by Grid Books in 2027. In 2025, she was named both Dutchess County Poet Laureate and Beacon Poet Laureate.
Tuesday, October 28
6 PM
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A Program For All Abilities Arts & Crafts / Music & Movement / Games & Stories A Program For All Abilities Arts & Crafts / Music & Movement / Games & Stories
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October 29, 2025
A Program For All Abilities
Arts & Crafts / Music & Movement / Games & Stories
Registration Required
A social hour of activities and games designed for teens & adults with intellectual, cognitive and/or developmental disabilities.
October Program - Halloween Fun!
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: staatslibyouth@gmail.com
Wednesday, October 29
11 AM
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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Motion Commotion For Preschoolers Motion Commotion For Preschoolers
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October 30, 2025Motion 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, October 2, 16 & 30
10 AM
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Halloween on the Library Lawn Halloween on the Library Lawn
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October 31, 2025
Halloween on the Library Lawn
If you are out Trick -or- Treating come visit us at the library!
Show off your costume and warm up with some hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows beside the campfire on the library lawn (weather permitting).
Friday, October 31
5 - 8 PM
Staatsburg Library
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.