Middleburgh Library Notes for Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Houseplants are a fun hobby, but most have no food value. What if you could grow citrus plants like lemons, oranges, and limes right in your living room?

The Middleburgh Library will host a session on May 6 at 1 p.m. called “Growing Citrus in New England.” Learn how to grow citrus, as well as bananas, pomegranates, olives, coffee, and even vanilla orchids and other spices at home. Learn what plants are hardy in your United States Department of Agriculture zone, and whether or not they are self-pollinating or require a second plant.

Participants will take home an exotic plant of their choice.  Registration is required.

Drop-in Story Time

Come to the Middleburgh Library on May 7 at 10:45 a.m. for Drop-in Story Time.

This fun and interactive program is meant for children up to age 5 and their caregivers, although older siblings are always welcome.

We read books, sing songs, play games, dance, and watch a short movie based on a weekly theme. No registration is required.

Budget Vote

On May 7, from noon to 8 p.m. the Middleburgh Library Budget Vote is in the Community Room.    Come and support your library.

Mahjong Mahjong

On May 7, from 1 to 4 p.m., a spirited group of people will get together in the library’s Community Room, as they do every Tuesday, to play Mahjong.

Don’t know how to play? No problem! They will teach you how. No registration is required.  

Insight Meditation

On May 7, at 5:15 p.m., a meditation group will meet at the library.

What do you want most deeply? Seeing your life calmly and clearly helps answer this. Insight Meditation is a simple way to steady your mind, stop wandering in daydreams, and end the suffering of troubling thoughts.

Our group is a place to sit quietly in safety, supported by others; to allow understanding and compassion to arise; to encourage loving kindness and patience. We welcome those with no experience to advanced mediators, teens to seniors.

Give it a try. No registration is required. There is no fee. All are welcome.

Movie

On May 8 at 1 p.m., join us for the Wednesday Matinee showing "The Wife" rated R. Behind any great man, there's always a greater woman - and you're about to meet her. Joan Castleman ( HYPERLINK "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000335?ref_=tt_stry_pl" Glenn Close): a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty - the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe ( HYPERLINK "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000596?ref_=tt_stry_pl" Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humor. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises. And Joan's reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan's coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career.  No registration required. Free popcorn!

Book Discussion

On May 9 from 1 to 3 p.m. join us to discuss "The Road to Wellville" by T.C. Boyle. Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too.

Jane Smiley in “The New York Times” Book Review called “The Road to Wellville "a marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end."

Tai Chi

On May 10 from 10 to 11 a.m. join us for  Tai Chi and Qigong, from China, the cultivation of human energy Gentle slow movements, strengthen the body and calm the mind. These practices have been used for agility, balance, cognition and longevity. Suggested donation, $5. Please use back entrance as the library is closed on Fridays.

Not all of programs have been scheduled at time of printing. Please check our Calendar on our website at  HYPERLINK "http://www.middleburghlibrary.info" www.middleburghlibrary.info. for future programs.