Stillwater Free Library

Lighthouse Keepers

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True Stories of Lighthouses and Their Keepers

Getting ready for summer jaunts to the coastline?
Do you look for the far reaching towers of safety for passing ships?
Ever wonder what life was like for the keepers?

Kate Dudding, professional storyteller of Clifton Park, will join us on
Tuesday, May 6th at 6:30pm
in the library to share her tales on just that subject!

Join in the conversation as you enjoy stories from her CD,
“Lighting the Way Home: Stories of Lighthouses and Their Keepers”
This CD is available for sale in the library at $15 each. Supplies are limited and will be available until the night Kate comes to visit. You can get some more copies that evening and Kate will autograph them for you as well!

Listen to samples at Kate’s website: www.KateDudding.com

Baby and Me

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 A special time in the library for those little ones who can’t sit still…

Sara or Mary Ann will read stories, color, or just hang out while mom gets time to search for books. Stop in to enjoy thirty minutes to browse, meet other moms, and introduce your littlest to the library!

1st and 3rd Wednesdays from 11:30 - 12:00

Pre-K Storytime

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It’s always OK to monkey around at Pre-School Storytime!
Every Friday at 12:30pm

Game Night for 5th & 6th…

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Join us in the library to celebrate the reading you do all month!  Play Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution or board games.  Enjoy what we have - or bring your own.  Whatever you do, bring your manners!

This month we are voting on a single title we will all read as the ticket in for next month.  Cant’s make it but want to be heard?  Stop in to give your suggested title.  Next month - we have to read the same so make it good!!!

Friday, May 9th from 5-8
5th and 6th grade students only 

Board of Trustees Meeting

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The Stillwater Free Library Board of Trustees will meet in the library on Tuesday, May 13th at 6:30pm in the upstairs meeting room. Open to the public.

Crocheting with Ellen and Em

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Wednesday, May 14th @ 6:00pm

Join Ellen and Emma as they lead a group in crochet. Stop in to share what you are working on, learn the craft from scratch, or just to visit…

Crocheters of every level are more than welcome!

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

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Daisy Goodwill Flett is “a middle-class woman, a woman of moderate intelligence and medium-sized ego and average good luck.” In other words, a woman so commonplace that her story would seem barely worth remarking, were it not, perhaps, for her own determination to tell it. And in telling it, give it shape and meaning - even if she must supply these herself.

This is the problem that Carol Shields addresses in The Stone Diaries: how do small lives, the kind most women were once assumed to lead, assume significance and coherence? How closely do our versions of those lives correspond to objective facts? Can facts be said to exist at all in the context of something as changeable and arbitrary as a life? To what extent do “our” stories really belong to us, considering the tendency that other people - parents, spouses, children - have to intrude in them, interpret them, claim them?

Join us for a discussion of The Stone Diaries on Tuesday, May 20th @ 6:30pm. New members are eagerly awaited - we’d love for you to stop and in and visit!

Conversations with Charlie

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Join in the final conversation before a summer hiatus for the intellect! For the May meeting Charlie will guide us in trying to find the ties between all of the past titles we have discussed. How have you changed or become more adamant? Have you begun to see a difference in your viewpoints? Have the books shown themselves in your daily life?  Stop in to visit with us!

MAY 27th at 6:30 pm…