Join us for another great Yard Sale!
Each spot is approximately 4'x8'. Fee for a spot: Use our tables $35 OR Bring your own tables $25
MUST pay at time of sign up! Call or come in person to get a spot!
Join us for our bi-annual clothing swap! Please bring items in for the swap from April 26- May 1st for sorting. There is no need to bring items to the swap to come and shop, we always have plenty! Great for the whole family!
Julia Haines will be teaching mini harp lessons for people of all ages! Please sign up in advance, there are limited harps. In order to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to try a harp lesson, please only sign up for 2 slots total from now through July. Adults should attempt to sign up for the first slot at each Pop-Up, kids and families for the second session. All guardians should remain with their child whether or not they are trying the harp. This is a free program "This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson."
Our third and final Piano Plus artist will be Marilyn Crispell. Marilyn Crispell is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied classical piano and composition, and has been a resident of Woodstock, New York since 1977 when she came to study and teach at the Creative Music Studio. She discovered jazz through the music of John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and other contemporary jazz players and composers. Her program will be mostly improvised. Buy tickets here
Get ready for our next Music Café performance featuring Triad. Enjoy live music, homemade supper and beverages in a cozy, coffeehouse setting with neighbors and friends. No reservations, just come by and enjoy!
Chrissy will be here to teach us how to make a tote bag with a zipper. Please sign up in advance, and let us know if you need to borrow a machine or if you will bring your own.
Brought to the Olive Free Library by Health Option NY. Topics covered will be : Common scams targeting seniors.
How to spot and report fraud.
Resources, including the National Elder Fraud Hotline.
Steps to safeguard personal information and finances.
Come in and hear all about pollinator gardens and the good they do. Hear from several speakers about how you can get involved and keep the gardens growing. More details to come.
Unwind and release tension with guided relaxation techniques. Through reflective journaling, gentle movement, breathing exercises, and meditation this workshop is the perfect opportunity allowing you to center yourself and find a sense of peace and balance. The knowledge and tools you acquire here will also serve you well in your day-to-day life. This program is co-hosted by the Amenia Free Library, Millbrook Library, Olive Free Library, Staatsburg Library, Stanford Free Library, and Stone Ridge Public Library. Please sign up in advance to receive the link.
Hot Wrk Ensemble is a saxophone/woodwind and percussion trio founded in 2020 by award-winning musicians J Brooks Marcus (J Why), Lois Hicks-Wozniak and Brad Hubbard, explores, deconstructs and wrks out concepts of traditional chamber music and the concert experience by engaging communities to interact with and partake in the creation process. Performances can include everything from contemporary art music, jazz, world music styles to early Baroque, and arrangements of Dolly Parton and The Beatles. Expect the unexpected! The Hot Wrk Ensemble is performing a free concert at Olive Free Library, West Shokan, NY. This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.
Join us for our ANNUAL LIBRARY FAIR! This year will be bigger and more family friendly than ever! We will have our plant sale & book sale to benefit our Friends Group. We have a juggler, Jester Jim, coming to give us a great show, juggling knifes and so much more. Music, Kids activities and food! Tettas will be here serving lunch & snacks. And closing out the day we will have an author coming in in to discuss their book. More details to come!
Ulster County Older Adults Empowerment Council presents: Gotcha! Beware off Scams/See the Red Flags! Case studies in Financial Exploitation and how to prepare. Please register and join us at the Olive Free Library for a Zoom event.
“Keepers of the Light: Women Lighthouse Keepers of the Hudson River”
Women have kept the lights since the earliest days of the Hudson River lighthouses. Starting in the 1830s until automation in the 1950s, nearly a dozen women were official lighthouse keepers on the Hudson River, several with careers of over forty years. Others were unjustly turned out from their posts. Some weren’t official keepers at all, but did the duties nonetheless. Learn about the careers and personal lives of these female keepers, what it took to be a lighthouse keeper, and why the Hudson River had more women lighthouse keepers than most places in the United States. Emma Cariello from Hudson River Maritime Museum will be presenting.
Join the Nutty Scientists for a great interactive science show and sign up for our summer reading program. Great for the whole family! No need to sign up, show up and have a good time!
This program focuses on presenting locational data of potential Native American sacred sites within the Catskills and surrounding regions, in order to discern patterns in their construction techniques, environmental positioning, and event-specific structural alignments related to sky observation. Presented by author Glenn Kreisberg.
Julia Haines will be teaching mini harp lessons for people of all ages! Please sign up in advance, there are limited harps. In order to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to try a harp lesson, please only sign up for 2 slots total from now through July. Adults should attempt to sign up for the first slot at each Pop-Up, kids and families for the second session. All guardians should remain with their child whether or not they are trying the harp. This is a free program "This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson."
Julia Haines will be teaching mini harp lessons for people of all ages! Please sign up in advance, there are limited harps. In order to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to try a harp lesson, please only sign up for 2 slots total from now through July. Adults should attempt to sign up for the first slot at each Pop-Up, kids and families for the second session. All guardians should remain with their child whether or not they are trying the harp. This is a free program "This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson."
Julia Haines will be teaching mini harp lessons for people of all ages! Please sign up in advance, there are limited harps. In order to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to try a harp lesson, please only sign up for 2 slots total from now through July. Adults should attempt to sign up for the first slot at each Pop-Up, kids and families for the second session. All guardians should remain with their child whether or not they are trying the harp. This is a free program "This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson."
Join Will for his FREE Tech Tuesday, get your questions answered, bring devices that are giving you a challenge! Will is here every other Tuesday. No need to sign up! Check the website calendar for upcoming dates.
Join us for a Dolly Parton-filled evening celebrating the legend and her Imagination Library. Enjoy delicious food, live music and a reading from local author Holly George-Warren, co-author of Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones.
A new writer’s group in the Town of Olive! Come and meet the group, support other local authors and brainstorm some great ideas.
Come in and sew some new shorts! No need to purchase pattern! You might also want to buy flannel if you’d prefer that over the cotton fabric available at the library. Please sign up in advance, are you bringing your own machine or borrowing ours?
Julia Haines will be teaching mini harp lessons for people of all ages! Please sign up in advance, there are limited harps. In order to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to try a harp lesson, please only sign up for 2 slots total from now through July. Adults should attempt to sign up for the first slot at each Pop-Up, kids and families for the second session. All guardians should remain with their child whether or not they are trying the harp. This is a free program "This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson."
Join Will for his FREE Tech Tuesday, get your questions answered, bring devices that are giving you a challenge! Will is here every other Tuesday (upcoming sessions are April 15 & 29). No need to sign up!
Julia Haines will be teaching mini harp lessons for people of all ages! Please sign up in advance, there are limited harps. In order to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to try a harp lesson, please only sign up for 2 slots total from now through July. Adults should attempt to sign up for the first slot at each Pop-Up, kids and families for the second session. All guardians should remain with their child whether or not they are trying the harp. This is a free program "This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson."
Our second Piano Plus concert of the season stars Steven Beck. As a soloist Mr. Beck has performed with the New York Philharmonic and the National Symphony and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Library of Congress; summer concerts have been at the Aspen Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. As an orchestral musician he has played with the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet Orchestra, and Orpheus. Buy Tickets here
In this beginner class you will learn the basics of hand embroidery by creating a small sampler of stitches inspired by folklore embroidery.
Join Kathy Carey for a Tai Chi for Health & Wellness series. This series runs Fridays, from April 4- May 23. Please sign up in advance for the series. This is a mixed level class series and is designed to be a step up from the class offered by the Ulster County office of the Aging.
Join Will for his FREE Tech Tuesday, get your questions answered, bring devices that are giving you a challenge! Will is here every other Tuesday (upcoming sessions are April 1, 15 & 29). No need to sign up!
Join us for our first Piano Plus presentation of 2025. Daria Podorozhnova & Terri Ji will perform various pieces on the piano. Suggested fee will be $15 at the door.
Do you have questions about an old property in our area? Get some resources and ideas of where to look for answers! Presented by Audrey Klinkenberg, Associate Historian from Ulster County for genealogy.
Pollination is the bedrock of our natural communities. The work of the Hudson Valley’s pollinators—which include bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, and even bats and birds—is vital to the functioning of our natural systems. They help to fuel the food chain that nearly all animals rely on for sustenance and shelter, including human beings. Pollinators make our farms flourish and our forests function. However, the existence of many of our pollinators, and thus the integrity of our ecological communities, is under threat. Join us for the discussion of how we can help and what we can do.
The Guatemalan legend says, "Tell your worries to the worry dolls before you go to bed and put them under your pillow. In the morning, the dolls will have taken your worries away!"
In this program, families and people of all ages will explore the story of Muñeca Quitapena.
Then you will get creative by making their own Worry Dolls to keep the legend alive!
Andrea Del Cid from the Reher Center in Kingston with be presenting. Please sign up, space is limited!
Join Will for his FREE Tech Tuesday, get your questions answered, bring devices that are giving you a challenge! Will is here every other Tuesday (upcoming sessions are March 18, April 1, 15 & 29). No need to sign up!
Chrissy is back and ready with another series of Sew on & Sew Forth!
At this class you will create an Upcycled Jean Skirt (You’ll need one or two pairs of jeans that fit your waist.) Please sign up in advance, limited space!
For centuries, Native People traveled through the Catskill Mountains on well-used paths and visited select locations for hunting elk, beavers, passenger pigeons and other game. By the 18th century, secluded valleys near the headwaters of Catskill Creek, Schoharie Creek and the Delaware River became a refuge for families retreating from Euro-American settlement. This presentation will explore the identity of these communities and tell their story.
Presented by Justin Wexler of Wild Hudson Valley
No need to register.
Ever want to learn about fly fishing and fly tying? The folks with Trout Unlimited are happy to teach and talk about all things fly fishing. All materials provided. Please bring food, water as needed.
Led by author David Corbett, this club will delve into ideas that make us examine democracy and how to defend it. If you would like to join, you can get a book from the library and meet David on MARCH 4th at 5:30 p.m. No need to sign up, just come in and meet with David.
Ever want to learn about fly fishing and fly tying? The folks with Trout Unlimited are happy to teach and talk about all things fly fishing. All materials provided. Please bring food, water as needed.
Ever want to learn about fly fishing and fly tying? The folks with Trout Unlimited are happy to teach and talk about all things fly fishing. All materials provided. Please bring food, water as needed.
We will begin with a discussion about what the chakras are, the history and the physical and emotional impact that they have on our energy. The we end the workshop with a guided meditation and light reiki touch with essential oils and we will also experience the crystal singing bowl. Please bring a towel or yoga mat as desired. Snowdate is Feb 22nd.
Ever want to learn about fly fishing and fly tying? The folks with Trout Unlimited are happy to teach and talk about all things fly fishing. All materials provided.
Ever want to learn about fly fishing and fly tying? The folks with Trout Unlimited are happy to teach and talk about all things fly fishing. All materials provided.
Join Kathy for a 6 week yoga series on Saturday mornings! Saturday Feb 8, 15, 22 & March 1, 8 & 15 from 9-10 a.m.
Sign up for the entire series for $36. You can pay for this series at the first meeting.
Join us for our annual Bird’s of Prey show with Bill and Brian Robinson. They will bring some of their feathered friends and give us some facts about birds of prey. No need to sign up!
Hosted by the Friends Group
Clear the winter blues and come in from the cold. Join old friends, meet new friends, enjoy the good vibes of Olive over warm bowls of soup and stew, bread and other warm refreshments! We look forward to seeing you there!
