The Bookmark Old Forge Library Winter 2020 At the printing of this newsletter we are living in uncertain times. For months COVID-19 has reshaped our schedule and programs. Changes to operations may be deemed necessary. Call the library prior to visiting for updates about our services. We will continue to provide updates on our Facebook page & website. We wish ALL OUR PATRONS, and ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE good health and fortitude. President’s Message Bee Good Bingo The holiday season is here and, the library has been Start the New Year Right! decorated with greenery and lights. I love seeing the tree in the gazebo all aglow. Want to feel good in the New Year? Like many, I am ready to say goodbye to 2020 and hope that 2021 brings us back closer to “normal.” Despite Nothing COVID restrictions, the library has continued to be a vital will part of our community. We had grab n go trick or treat make bags, grab n go craft bags, zoom craft nights, zoom you feel meetings, and the ability to be back inside to enjoy all the better library has to offer. than We dedicated a new flagpole with the help of our doing a little good. Join veterans and many braved the inclement weather to us in January for Bee watch a new flag unfurl. Special thank go to George Good Bingo! Win some Merrill, Dale Heroux, and George Pearson for making this recognition and an “I happen. Thanks to the Friends, look for improvements around the pole next year. did good!” pin for completing a row, and We also said a fond farewell to Reed (and Barb) Proper, even better surprises and thank them for the excellent care of our building and when you complete the sheet! Out of town? Ask us grounds. to mail or email you a bingo card. This year the Library Board has been hard at work updating bylaws, personnel policy and emergency Message from Linda & the Staff preparation. Our next step is to implement a 5 year plan and we are asking for your input. Please fill out a survey Last month we celebrated Thanksgiving, and as it should, and let us know areas you feel we need to improve, it brought to mind what we are grateful for. Here is the embellish or right out change. All the stake holders are a short list: vital source of information to help guide us in the coming Our families. Our health. Our community. years. In closing, I wish one and all the happiest of holidays. The library staff, like the rest of the world has learned to May you feel grateful for family, friends near and far, adjust to changes in our routine, and had to forgo many enjoy the wonder of the season and the beauty of the of our beloved traditions. There will be no January Library Adirondacks. Lunch, no Sweetheart Baking Contest, and there are no Kirsten Down, President groups in the building – no story hour, no puzzles, or comfy seating area in front of the fireplace. New Library Hours For 2021: But we have everything that really matters, and that (Downstairs is open to the public) includes the ability to serve our patrons with books, audiobooks, movies and more. Our virtual craft gatherings warm our hearts. We’re looking forward to Monday 10 am - 2 pm joining with you virtually for a jazz flute performance in Tuesday 10 am - 7 pm February and on our lawn for the Easter Egg hunt to kick off spring. Wednesday 10 am - 7 pm Thursday 10 am - 7 pm More than all that, we look forward to the day that we can Friday 10 am - 4 pm gather close with you all once again, and celebrate that Saturday 10 am - 2 pm we came out of this a stronger community. Thank you for your support. Events, Programs, Series & Outdoor Solstice Celebration Workshops Monday, Dec. 21, 4 pm Cultures around the world Programs are free and open to the public. have long celebrated the Virtual Craft Time winter solstice. Fire and Craft supplies provided. Patrons pick up a grab n’ go light are traditional craft kit to make a craft at home. Then join your symbols of neighbors from your own home on Zoom to make a celebrations held on the darkest day of the year. craft together. Be sure to register ahead. Celebrate together with us, and with lights and cheer! Pick-up craft materials on Tuesday or Wednesday The festivities will be led by the Old Forge Library and Zoom Crafting Party, Wednesday at 5 pm our friends at Weaving Home. You are invited to bring Glue guns are available to borrow from the library. boughs to add to the solstice spiral and lights. Dress for the weather! December 16 Clothespin Snowflakes Jazz & the Civil Taking apart clothes pins Rights Movement and put them back together Galen Abdur-Razzaq to make a cute ornament! Friday, February 26, 7pm A live performance January 13 online on Zoom Winter Hat Garland Jazz was an instrument of Using scraps of yarn, expression during difficult create little knit hats and periods in American string a garland. history and an important pathway to a greater appreciation of all music. January 20 Galen is an extraordinary Paper Bag Gnome flutist with an extensive performance career and a Every home needs a gnome! riveting speaker with encyclopedic knowledge on the February 3 history of jazz and the Civil Rights Movement. No Sew Heart Pillow Kids Grab N’ Go Crafts and Activities We’ll make some hearts, cut A grab bag full of goodies including crafts, activities fringe, tie the edges together and surprises! Limited supplies. Registration preferred. and stuff to make a pillow. Winter Owls Grab N’ Go March 3 Pick up: Monday & Tuesday, Felt Shamrock Pin December 28 & 29 A pretty wardrobe addition; a Valentine’s Grab N’ Go quick snip and stitch idea to Pick up: Friday & Saturday, show the pride of the Irish. February 12 & 13 March 17 St. Patrick’s Grab N’ Go Sock Bunnies Pick up: Friday & Saturday, March 12 & 13 A no-sew craft with adorable results. Turn a sock into a Easter Egg Hunt bunny and celebrate Spring. Saturday, April 3, 11 am Outside on the library lawn – Dress for the weather! March 24 A traditional Easter Egg hunt for children. Egg Wreath A wreath form, hot glue and Library PARP some plastic eggs will make Pick A Reading Partner Program any door into a cheerful hello! January 15 – February 19 Children, their parents and other reading partners can More crafts to be announced soon: choose books from the library’s collection. All child January 27 ● February 10 ● February 17 ● readers can enter to win the PARP raffle! February 24 ● March 3 ● March 10 ● March 31 In conjunction with Town of Webb School’s PARP program New Fiction: Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman ● The Book of Monday Evening Book Group Two Ways, by Jodi Picoult ● Chaos, by Iris Johansen ● Every last Monday of the month at 6:30 pm Christmas Cupcake Murder, by Joanne Fluke ● The New members are always welcome to join the book Coast to Coast Murders, by James Patterson ● Dune groups. Call the library for the current book selection. Prequels; Books 1, 2 & 3, by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson ● The Exiles, by Christina Baker Kline ● The The Book Group has been meeting virtually via Fall of Shannara, by Terry Brooks ● Fortune and Glory; Zoom for the last few months! Call or email for Volume 27, by Janet Evanovich ● I Would Leave Me If meeting information. December 28, January 25, I Could: A Collection of Poetry, by Halsey ● The February 22, March 29, April 26 Harbinger II The Return, by Johnathan Cain ● The Invention of Sound, by Chuck Palahniuk ● Invisible Girl, That’s what friends are for… by Lisa Jewell ● The Law of Innocence, by Michael Message from the Friends of the Old Forge Library Connelly ● Marauder, by Clive Cussler ● Midnight Sun, by Stephanie Meyer ● Moonflower Murders, by Built as a family home in 1925, our library is very much a park like setting. Over the years a gazebo and Anthony Horowitz ● The Orphan’s Guilt, by Archer Mayor ● A Question of Betrayal, by Anne Perry ● gardens have added to that environment. And then, Shadows in Death, by J.D. Robb ● The Silence, by Don in October it was the scene of Pumpkin DeLillo ● Silent Bite, by David Rosenfelt ● To Sleep in Sports! Several friends joined Old Forge young folk a Sea of Stars, by Christopher Paolini ● Total Power, in bowling with pumpkins and croquet with Vince Flynn ● Troubled Blood, by Robert Galbraith ● gourds. Your author, for one, found the thwack of the Truly, Madly, Deeply, by Karen Kingsbury, and more…. mallet on the cucurbitaceae very satisfying and hopes the Pumpkin Sport tradition gets well established. New Non-Fiction: The Answer Is…Reflections on My Life, by Alex Trebek In the category of “gone but not forgotten”, the January ● Battle of Brothers: William & Harry The Inside Story luncheon and the February Sweetheart Baking of A Family in Tumult, by Robert Lacey ● The Best of Contest traditions won’t be upheld in 2021. Me, by David Sedaris ● Compromised Counter Hopefully when the pandemic is behind us, we will be Intelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump, by together again to enjoy good food and friendship. Peter Strzok ● Do You Feel Like I Do?, by Peter Frampton ● Eat a Peach, by David Chang ● Everything The Friends masked Beautiful in Its Time, by Jenna Bush Hager ● The up and decorated Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, the library for the Loyalty and War, by John Chick Donohue ● holidays.