Hi All! It’s Wreath Time, the biggest fundraiser of the year Troop 37. Reach out to your favorite scout in Troop 37 or send to Pine Bush Troop 37 on Facebook to get your order in by November 1st! 12″ wreaths hand decorated by the boys will be delivered to you by Thanksgiving.
If you don’t have a favorite scout and don’t want to place an order on Facebook you can call the Pine Bush Library and ask for Chrissy.
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Due to circumstances beyond our control we were forced to reschedule our eclipse viewing event. The new date is Monday, April 8th, 2024. We were trying to reschedule it for an earlier date but unfortunately manipulating the cosmos is not in the library mandate.
Call 845-744-4265 ext. 2 to sign up
Join the Pine Bush Library in celebrating Banned Books Week.
Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. For more than 40 years, the annual event has brought together the entire book community — librarians, teachers, booksellers, publishers, writers, journalists, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted for removal or restriction in libraries and schools. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship.
Use this week to exercise your freedom to read and check out a banned book from your local library.
For a list of the most challenged books in recent years click the link below.
October seems to lead no where but to Halloween. In the Children’s Department of the Pine Bush Area Public Library, we have a weird book called Frankenstein Takes the Cake by Adam Rex. It is either a picture book or an elongated poetry book, but it is on the Chapter book Shelves, in with books for grades three to six. It’s not in the Picture book Section. Read it before October 31.
Frankenstein’s Monster is getting married to the Bride of Frankenstein. (Good choice.) Frankie appears in a white jacket and black tie and looks rather spiffy. His Bride (they never give her first name) has a running argument with her mother, who is upset because her daughter died and they went into debt getting her buried, and now, here she is back again and they have to pay for her wedding.
The book is written as a series of poems. They aren’t all about the wedding. There are comments on the Sphinx, Medusa, and King Kong. (“No One Comes to Skull Island Anymore.” If you don’t have tourists willing to be eaten by pterodactyls, you will go out of business.) The Abominable Snowman and the Yeti are scaring the poor little flower girl witless. The Headless Horseman and his head problem keeps appearing, and Edgar Allan Poe seems to have writer’s block.
Back to the wedding, “The Caterer of Frankenstein Makes an Announcement.”
“Listen up! This is the day we’ve been dreading, We’re serving the guests of the Frankenstein wedding. So, please heed these warnings and plan for the worst, if you want to avoid getting eaten or cursed…..The wolf men hate silverware. Don’t give it to them. No drinks for the skeletons—wine goes right through them. Let’s see now…is that all I wanted to say? Oh! We’re no longer serving the cherries flambe. Yes, I know this is coming right down to the wire, but the
Frankenstein family has problems with fire.”
The different poems go on from there, with the Bride of Frankenstein making up her own wedding vows, and Dracula, who is the Best Man, visiting the buffet and discovering garlic
bread.
Assume that you have been invited to this wedding, and get this book from the Pine Bush Library. The pictures are priceless, and Halloween will be here sooner than you think.
Pine Bush Area Public Library 
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