Rensselaerville Library Notes for Friday, July 15, 2016

Thank you to everyone who participated and volunteered to make the first annual Rensselaerville Trail Run and Walk a huge success. Please feel free to share with us any suggestions you have for improvement.

Summer reading

The 2016 summer reading program theme “On Your Mark, Get Set…Read!” is underway for all ages. You can register online and set your summer reading goal. Make sure to check out all the programs we will have available to keep kids’ minds and bodies active all summer.

Details and registration can be found at http://www.rensselaervillelibrary.org/summer-reading.html. The program is supported by Stewart’s Holiday Match, Price Chopper, Zoom Flume, FunPlex FunPark, and the Upper Hudson Library System.

July youth programs

On Tuesday, July 26, join us for storytime from 4 to 5 p.m. The theme is pets with stories, music, and fun. Snack and juice are provided.

The monthly craft project for kids is creating our own treasure chest, a variety of templates available and each week in July discover a new jewel to add to your treasure chest.

On Tuesday, July 26, we will use Maker Space for stress balls and squishy balls.

On Wednesday evenings from 6 to 7 p.m.  teens come check out the menu of activities or create your own. Teens, the 2016 Read it Forward (read it and share it) book is available for pick up. The title this year is “The Raft” by S.A. Bodeen. Complete the survey and be entered to win a prize.

Special events

On Tuesday, July 19 from 5 to 6 p.m.  kids will explore kitchen chemistry with Lee.

The Friday night movies during July start at 6:30 p.m. Visit the web site for more information.

There will be an author reading by local author Darryl McGrath on Friday, Aug. 5 at 7 p.m. He will be reading from her new book “Flight Path: A Field Journal of Hope, Heartbreak, and Miracles with New York’s Bird People.”

The library’s board of trustees meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 19 at 7 p.m. Board meetings are held on the third Tuesday of every month except when noted. All board meetings are held at the library in the downstairs meeting room and are open to the public.

The writing group is taking the summer off. The group will return to meeting in September on Thursday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m.

Our poetry group will meet on Tuesday, July 26 at 7p.m. Come share your work, receive feedback, and spend time working on your own project.

The coloring book club will take a break until the fall. In the meantime, if you want to stop in anytime and color on your own, materials will be set up in the living room and the meeting room. Coloring is a great way to relax and give our creativity a boost.

Coming in August we will have a four-week primer on cosmology and astronomy with Mike Lawrence, a physics teacher for 40 years. Topics include the big bang, exoplanets, stellar evolution, the death of stars, and (for good interdisciplinary measure) the poetry of the cosmos. No math required. The program will run on Tuesday evenings at 7p.m. from Aug. 2 through 23.