ATTENTION!!!!The deadline for reserving your kite has been extended to Monday October 12th.

Give us a call 845-744-4265 and reserve your kite ASAP

There will be no Storytime October 11th & 13th.Storytime will resume it’s normal Monday and Wednesday schedule the following week.

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Medicare 101 with John Bousquet from the Medicare Resource Group

Chair Yoga has been put on hold for a couple of weeks. We will call those of you who gave us their phone number when it gets started again. The rest of you keep an eye on our Facebook and website.

Only a few spots left!!
Call 845-744-4265 TODAY to sign up

FAMILY FISHING EVENT!!!!

Saturday October 16th.
$5 per person

Lunch will be provided. Hot Dogs, beans, chips, pickles, watermelon, water lemonade and iced tea.
Bring a dessert to share on our dessert table!
Bring chairs, bait, poles and cameras. If you don’t have a pole we are happy to share with you.

email SCanglers@gmail.com to sign up.

Last chance to sign up. Stay up to date on all the changes coming for Medicare in 2022.

Call 845-744-4265 ext. 2 TODAY

Don’t forget to stop by the children’s library and pick up this weeks Take & Make Craft.

Don’t forget to send us a photo of your completed Take and Make Squirrel PBL@rcls.org.

Join the Pine Bush Library for some good old fashioned kite flying.

Saturday, October 16th @ 1:30 pm

Come to Alice Court Park, Pine Bush and We will provide each family with a free kite to fly and your family will provide the running power!!

Who can fly the highest?

Refreshments will be served.

Please call (845) 744-4265 ext. 2 for your kite reservation!

“Tales and Tails”Halloween Pet Parade and Costume Contest

October 23rd 2:00 PM At The Pine Bush Area Public Library Lawn and parking lot.

Dress up your best pet and show him/her off at this very exciting event!

Your pet can be live or a stuffed animal but your animal must have a tail and a costume must be worn!!Pet Parents and siblings are also encouraged to dress up.(Animals need to be leashed!)

Reserve your spot!Call (845) 744-4265 x2

Prizes will be awarded!

FAMILY FISHING EVENT!!!!

Saturday October 16th.

$5 per person

Lunch will be provided. Hot Dogs, beans, chips, pickles, watermelon, water lemonade and iced tea.
Bring a desert to share on our desert table!

Bring chairs, bait, poles and cameras. If you don’t have a pole we are happy to share with you.

email: SCanglers@gmail.com to sign up.

AARP is making it even easier for you to learn about new vehicle technologies like Blind Spot Warning Systems and Drowsy Driving Alerts and how that can keep you safe on the road. Learn at your convenience with our FREE programs and stay ahead of the curve when it comes to vehicle technology.As always the Library Community Center is available to assist you if you want to take the course with us.

October seems to do nothing but lead up to Halloween, so let’s look at two books about witches.  Beyond the Burning Time is painful reading. It is historic fiction about the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. This book is by Kathryn Lasky and is written for fifth or sixth grade readers, in the Children’s Department of the Pine Bush Area Public Library.  It is about neighbor turning against neighbor, and a bunch of rotten kids turning in their elders, as witches. There was no defense in Salem, Massachusetts. If some bratty teenager said that she saw the specter of a witch hurting her, then the person she accused was doomed.  There was no way to disprove “spectral evidence.” The grownups believed it and 19 people were hanged, some died while imprisoned, and one man was pressed to death.  The fiction part of this book is that Mary and Caleb are able to save their mother as she is being carted to the gallows, and they all get away. A happy ending.

For the lighter side of the witch trials, try a fiction book from Adult Services, upstairs.  The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane is by Katherine Howe.  She sets some of her book in 1681, and then up to the troubles in 1692, and on to 1760 when someone has the gall to sell “mother’s book” for money—getting rid of an old almanack, or a recipe book, or is it a book of spells?

In 1991, Connie Goodwin wants to write her dissertation at Harvard University. Her advisor, Manning Chilton, wants her to write about witchcraft, and then he sends her on a quest to find (somewhere, somehow) a primary source.  In other words, he wants a spell book.  Why? 

This is a book about witches, but it is not desperately sad. This is a book about Connie, a woman who does not believe in witches, but who has a mother who is a former hippy who has never quite given up. Grace likes to “clean up” people’s auras—the halos of colors around them which only she can see.  She sends Connie to clean up her grandmother’s house in Marblehead, Massachusetts. You might find anything in that old house.

In this story, there is a boyfriend who is kind and happy and decent, and there is a little dog that seems to appear and disappear.  And there are secrets and a book of spells. It is a nice change from the weight of history that I find when I look seriously at the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.  The author, Katherine Howe, is not being irreverent. She is coming from a serious place—she is “a descendant of Elizabeth Proctor, who survived the Salem witch trials, and Elizabeth Howe, who did not.”  This is a readable book with humor and kindness in it. 

So, here you find two fiction books that look at a very hard time in American history, when families were divided, and people feared for their lives. People wanted a return to normalcy, and the end of insanity. Time moved on and 1692 passed into history. Somehow, time moves on.

“Tales and Tails”

Halloween Pet Parade and 

Costume Contest

October 23^rd 2:00 PM

at

The Pine Bush Area Public Library 

Lawn and parking lot.

Dress up your best pet and show him/her off at this very exciting event!  

Your pet can be live or a stuffed animal but your animal must have a tail and a costume must be worn!!

Pet Parents and siblings are also encouraged to dress up.

(Animals need to be leashed!)

Reserve your spot!

Call (845) 744-4265 x2

Prizes will be awarded!

Join the Pine Bush Library for some good old fashioned kite flying.Saturday, October 16th @ 1:30 pm

Come to Alice Court Park, Pine Bush and We will provide each family with a free kite to fly and your family will provide the running power!!Who can fly the highest?

Refreshments will be served.

Please call (845) 744-4265 ext. 2 by September 30thfor your kite reservation!

Banned Books Week (September 26 – October 2, 2021) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

This years list of “banned books” includes:

1. George by Alex Gino. Challenged, banned, and restricted for LGBTQIA+ content, conflicting with a religious viewpoint, and not reflecting “the values of our community.”

2. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds. Banned and challenged because of the author’s public statements and because of claims that the book contains “selective storytelling incidents” and does not encompass racism against all people.

3. All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. Banned and challenged for profanity, drug use, and alcoholism and because it was thought to promote antipolice views, contain divisive topics, and be “too much of a sensitive matter right now.”

4. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Banned, challenged, and restricted because it was thought to contain a political viewpoint, it was claimed to be biased against male students, and it included rape and profanity.

5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Banned and challenged for profanity, sexual references, and allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of the author.

6. Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin. Challenged for “divisive language” and because it was thought to promote antipolice views.

7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Banned and challenged for racial slurs and their negative effect on students, featuring a “white savior” character, and its perception of the Black experience.

8. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Banned and challenged for racial slurs and racist stereotypes and their negative effect on students.

9. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Banned and challenged because it was considered sexually explicit and depicts child sexual abuse.

10. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Challenged for profanity, and because it was thought to promote an antipolice message.