STARGAZING – THE AUTUMN SKY
September 21st (rain date September 28th) Galeville Park, Long Lane, Town of Shawangunk, Hamlet of Wallkill
Join us for an evening of Stargazing with: Raj Pandya Director, John R. Kirk PlanetariumLecturer, Department of Physics and AstronomySUNY New Paltz
We will have a guided tour of the skies from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Please bring a blanket/towel and a flashlight. Dress warm.
If you have a telescope, bring that, too!, NYPlease RSVP (845) 744-4265 x2
Sponsored by Stewart’s Holiday Match
Someone, either as a prank or due to a momentary lapse of reason, abducted the aliens pictured below shortly after the Alien Festival on September 4th. Two local artists spent their time and money creating these one of a kind pieces and they deserve to take their creations home. If you happen to know, for whatever reason, where these works of art are being stored please do the right thing and return them to the Pine Bush Library. You can leave them leaning up against either building or just bring them inside. No questions will be asked and the police WILL NOT be notified. We just want to return them to their rightful owners.
We would like to thank all of our little artists that came out to Explore With Paint/Family Fun Time.
The staff of the Pine Bush Library would like to wish everyone an easy fast on Yom Kippur. May you be sealed in the Book of Life.
The Great Giveback has BEGUN!!!
Please drop off your donations at the community center or main library during business hours.
Please drop off your donations at the community center or main library during business hours.
The Pine Bush Library & the Pine Bush Area Arts Council would like to thank all our generous and talented patrons who painted aliens and flying saucers for the Alien Day Festival. We would also like to thank the following local businesses/organizations for being great community partners. The Town of Crawford, Hearts & Flowers, Mosquito Joe, Broad Leaf Books, Sith’s Barber Co, Beer World, Shear Illusions, Pine Cone Storage, Walden Savings Bank, the Town Supervisor, the Town Clerk, Girl Scout Troop #439, The Aloha Ukulele Strummers, The Shawangunk Summer Camp, and Wood Rock Studios.
Volume 2 of our September Newsletter is now out. If you would like to receive newsletter directly in your inbox all you have to do is send your email address to PBL@rcls.org or send a privet message to us on Facebook.
Librarian Jean Eustance with her Pink Princess Porcelain Pumpkin. Proof that fall is just around the corner.
AARP has just announced that Smart Driver in house classes have now been moved to January 2022. Online classes are still available at a discounted rate ($34.95 for non-members and $29.95 for members). They are 6 hour sessions, but you have a month to finish them. The library is available to guide anyone through the classes. Getting started is the hardest. Then it is easy going. Call to set up a time for yourself.
UKULELE MADNESS AT THE PINE BUSH LIBRARY
(OUTDOORS/WEATHER PERMITTING)
TUESDAY SEPT. 14th 5:00 – 6:30 PM
Do you strum? Please join the ALOHA UKULELE STRUMMERS for some UKE MADNESS! Beginners welcome…extra ukes on hand! Bring a stand if you have one!
Rosh Hashanah, literally meaning “head [of] the year”, is the Jewish New Year. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah, literally “day of shouting or blasting.”
Rosh Hashanah is Monday September 6th to Wednesday September 8th
Even the aliens are stopping by Shear Illusions for a quick haircut
DON’T FORGET!!!!!!
The Pine Bush Library begins tomorrow at 9am.All manner of treasures and things you simply cannot live without will be out, for sale on the front lawn. Stop by before you head on down to the UFO Festival.
Another excellent Take and Make craft.
Don’t forget to send us pictures of your Take and Make crafts.
PBL@rcls.org
I have read several of the Ian Rutledge books by Charles Todd. We have some of them in the Pine Bush Area Public Library. The newest one is A Fatal Lie. In it, Inspector Rutledge, of Scotland Yard, is dispatched to Wales because a man has been found dead in a river, in 1921. The Chief Superintendent is keen to get Ian Rutledge out from under his feet, and Wales (in the rain) seems just the place to send him.
Ian Rutledge is a veteran of the Great War—they have not had World War II yet, so no one calls the first one, World War I. They also do not call the problem Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, they call it Shell Shock. But Ian does not want anyone to know that he has shell shock—and a voice in his head. In the Great War, he had to have one of his soldiers killed because Hamish would not lead the men “over the top” once more, and Hamish refused an order, and died. Now Ian Rutledge cannot get rid of him. He can’t see Hamish, but he can hear him, standing behind him saying, “Ware!” for “Beware!” as in, “Get down, you idiot!” And occasionally Ian gets down in time, and sometimes he doesn’t, as on page 204 when someone crowns him with a crowbar.
Our Hero has a tendency to find things out—things that are not wanted. The doctor tells him that the man in the river probably fell from the aqueduct, the bridge that carries the canal across the river’s ravine. Ian traces a tattoo and a label on a shirt, and identifies the man, and finds his widow and a failing pub that is eating up all the money, over the border in England. And that is when the plot thickens. There is a missing child, and one lie after another, and another and another until you cannot tell which one would be the Fatal Lie.
The Ian Rutledge series (this title is number 23) is gritty and realistic. It is a little too detailed and realistic for my taste. I usually read whatever book in the series I’m at, quite eagerly for a day and half, and then I bog down. I like a little more humor than I find here, and Hamish seems to be the only thing that’s near being humorous—which is pretty sad when you think about it. I find the series ghastly and gritty, sad and sordid, and filled with shadows. If you like your murder mysteries long, heavy and drenched with rain, you will probably like A Fatal Lie. Read it. And better you than me.
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