House Concert with The River Trio

The Friends of the Claverack Library will present The River Trio in a House Concert on Saturday, November 5th, at 5 PM.

The trio, composed of Claverack cellist Jay Shulman, violinist Linda Finegan Lott, and flutist Pamela Sklar, will play late 18^th century music by Hayden, Handel, and Myslivicek, a less familiar composer who was a friend of Mozart’s.

The concert, at the home of Kathy and Sedat Pakay, 230 Route 217 in Claverack, just south of the Roxbury Road intersection, will be followed by wine and cheese. The event is an opportunity to hear chamber music in a period home, an intimate environment like that in which it was intended to be played.

Tickets are $20. For information and reservations, which are essential, call Karen Rosand at 518 851-5656 or email Karen@agracefulplan.com

Book Group for Adults

November 11     “The Ghost Road” by Pat Barker

December 9      ”The Hare with Amber Eyes” by Edmund de Waal

January 13        ”Diary of a Provincial Lady” by E.M. Delafield

Fun Fall Festival, October 24 at 5 pm

On Monday, October 24th at 5:00pm join us for a Fun Fall Festival.  Families are invited to share Community Stone Soup with us (please bring a chopped veggie to add to the soup).  While our soup is cooking children will be able to participate in Origami Crafts and listen to Fun Fall Themed Stories.  Please call the library for any questions!  518-851-7120

Slide show on the book, Hidden History of the Mid-Hudson Valley. October 16, 3 pm

Hidden History of the Mid-Hudson Valley

Stories from the Albany Post Road

with

Carney & Tatiana Rhinevault

The Albany Post Road was the vital artery between New York City and the state capital in Albany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It saw a host of interesting events and colorful characters, though these unusual and extraordinary stories, as well as their connection to the thoroughfare, are oft forgotten. Revolutionary War spies marched this path, and anti-rent wars rocked Columbia County. Underground Railroad safe houses in nearby towns like Rhinebeck and Fishkill sheltered slaves seeking freedom in Canada, and Frank Teal’s Dutchess County murder remains unsolved. Local historian Carney Rhinevault presents these and other hidden stories, along with illustrations by Tatiana Rhinevault, from the Albany Post Road in New York’s mid-Hudson Valley  

Tatiana Rhinevault is a graduate of the Art Department of Moscow State University. She and her husband met while working together in 1990 on a joint mapping project for the U.S., British, Canadian and Australian embassies in Moscow.

Carney Rhinevault is Hyde Park town historian and is the author of The Home Front at Roosevelt’s Hometown: Small Town America During World War II. He has researched thousands of deeds, wills, maps and other documents during a long career in surveying and cartography.

Please Note: Change in Schedule for Chair Yoga Class

Attention:
There will be no class on Thursday, September 22nd.

The next class in the series will be on Thursday, September 29th at 10 am at AB Shaw firehouse.  See the announcement on chair yoga class below for further details about the class.  There will be an additional class added on Thursday, October 27th.

Fall Book Sale, October 1 – 2, 2011

We are now taking donations of books for our fall book sale.  Please drop off your donated books at the library anytime during open hours.

The Trustees and Friends of the Claverack Free Library will host the library’s annual fall book sale on Saturday and Sunday, October 1st and 2nd.  The sale runs on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

On Saturday, home-made breads, cookies, cakes and brownies, coffee and luncheon will be served in the café tent, and activities for children will be available. Raffle tickets will be sold and the drawing will be held on Sunday at 2 p.m.

Donations of good used books are accepted until September 30th. The Trustees request that no text books, periodicals, technical publications, manuals, or books in unreadable condition be donated, as it costs the library both money and labor to dispose of unsellable books.

Volunteers are needed to provide baked goods, set up in advance, and help clean up after the sale. Sign-up sheets are posted at the library. Contact 851-7120, or Trustee and Friends of the Library liaison, Jenny Post at 851-5950, for more information.

The library is at the intersection of Routes 23B and 9H in Claverack.

No entry before 7:30 a.m.; an early-bird buyer premium will be charged until 9:00 a.m.

Meet your neighbors and  meet the community of people who support the library when you come out to the book sale.

Chair Yoga Classes

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!   CLAVERACK LIBRARY OFFERS FREE “CHAIR YOGA” CLASSES FOR SENIORS OR DISABLED

Free Chair Yoga /Exercise Classes will be offered by the Claverack Library for seniors and for others with disabilities or challenges such as chronic illness, pain, stiffness, inflexibility, or weight issues.

The series of six classes will begin on Thursday, September 15, from 10 am to 11 am, and continue at that time for the next five weeks (September 22, 29 and October 6, 13, 20). Participants are urged to attend all of the classes, but will be welcome to come to however many they can, even if it’s only one for a try-out.

The aims of the program are to build strength, increase flexibility, improve balance, maximize breathing capacity, relieve stress, and to have fun!  The program requires only a chair (provided) and two 2-pound weights, which participants can purchase at Wal-mart, Steiners and other stores in Hudson.

Karen J. Rosand, a Certified Yoga Instructor who trained in Integrative Yoga Therapy at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, will teach the program.  A former employee of the New York Times, she has been teaching Yoga in the Hudson Valley and for the staff of the New York Times since 2002.

The classes will take place on the upper floor of the A.B. Shaw Fire House, adjacent to the Library, at the Northwest Corner of Routes 9H and 23B.

To register for the program, please call the Claverack Library at 518-851-7120 or send an e-mail to claveracklibrary@yahoo.com, providing your name and phone number.

If you have questions about the program itself, please call the instructor, Karen Rosand at 518-851-5656 or send an e-mail to karen@agracefulplan.com

Learn a foreign language fast

Looking for fun, interactive language lessons? Lessons available in 22 languages!

Calling All World Travelers!

The Claverack Free Library launches summer reading program Young readers will travel the globe this summer as the Claverack Free Library presents “One World, Many Stories” during their summer reading program. Children will explore places from Austrailia to Zimbabwe through stories, crafts, music, dance and other acitvities. The 2011 Summer Reading Program is open to young people between the ages of 3 and 12 with programs, prize drawings, story hour, a reading club and more. Families are invited to join us on Wednesday Mornings starting at 10:00 a.m. We’ll meet June 29 for Our North American Neighbors, July 6 for Ancient Asia, July 13 we’ll Backpack through Europe, July 20 join us for Safari to Africa, July 27 Let’s go Down under to Australia, and August 3 we’ll Celebrate the wonderful reading with Awards. Philmont Library will join us on August 9 at the Claverack Town Park of an evening of fun with Mathew Locricchio and Roger the Jester. Registration for “One World, Many Stories” begins on Saturday, June 25 from 10:30-12:00. For more information please call the Claverack Free Library at 518-851-7120.

All programs are free of Charge.

Wednesday, June 29 @ 10:00 a.m: Our North American Neighbors! We being with a fiesta in Mexico! come for pinata making, tissue paper flowers and yummy festive treats to make and taste.

Wednesday, July 6 @ 10:00: Ancient Asia. Suzanne, a black belt from Chung do Kwon, Tae Kwon Do will demonstrate and instruct simple, basic martial arts moves. We will also explore the Japanese are of origami (paper folding) and make and taste Asian cuisine.

Wednesday, July 13 @ 10:00: Backpacking through Europe. Mike McCrudden will entertain and explain all about the bagpipes, the unofficial instrument of Scotland! We’ll also be enjoying a smorgasbord of flavors!

Wednesday, July 20th @ 10:00: We’re on Safari to Africa. The Kumba Dance and Drum Group will share the fun of drumming with us.Bring a drum with you today to participate, not just watch. Don’t forget we’ll be making another delectable treat!

Wednesday, July 27 @ 10:00: Let’s Go Down Under to Australia! Be prepared to paint. We’ll be recreating Aboriginal dot art. We’ll also explore foods of the south pacific.

Wednesday, August 3 @ 10:00:  Awards Party!

Tuesday, August 9 @ 4:30 pm: Community picnic! Join Claverack and Philmont libraries for an evening picnic at Claverack Town Park. Break the pinata we made, enjoy a sharing picnic, be entertained by Roger The Jester and local author of international cookbooks, Matthew Locricchio.

“A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF CLAVERACK”

On Sunday, June 5 from 3:00 to 4:30 at the A.B. Shaw Firehouse at the intersection of Routes 9H/23B/23, the Claverack Free Library will host John Isaacs’ audiovisual presentation, “A Year in the Life of Claverack,” a sequence of 365 photographs taken daily between April 8, 2008 and April 7, 2009—landscapes, people, buildings, moments, monuments, flora, fauna, interiors, events, weather, and whatever else.

While the majority of photographs were taken by John Isaacs, there are also some by Enid Futterman, Stephen Benson, Helen Faraday-Young, Carlos Loret de Mola, Alison Wedd and Lance Wheeler. “A Year in the Life of Claverack” is a project of OURTOWN, the quarterly magazine published in Claverack and distributed throughout Columbia County and slightly beyond.

The piece lasts approximately 30 minutes, following which John Isaacs will answer questions and take comments from the audience. Refreshments will be served.

Admission is free.