Book It for the Olive Free Library!

5K walk/run Saturday September 13, 2025, 9:00 am start time. 

Join us for a 5K walk/run to benefit our wonderful library nestled in the Catskill mountains. Our run will take place at the gorgeous Ashokan Reservoir Promenade with the most beautiful views around. It's mostly flat, with one uphill at the start of the course, and much of the route is closed to traffic. 

Register to vote at the Olive Free Library.

Gentlemen Caller is a talented duo of indie folk musicians Jon B. Woodin and Jude Roberts. Accomplished songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, they blend compelling melodies and rich harmonies reminiscent of Simon & Garfunkel, all while delivering with wit, humor, and impeccable style.

Local author Gail Straub has lived in her home perched on the edge of the Ashokan Reservoir for forty-four years. And she has also travelled and worked all over the world. Join Gail for a book reading and signing about her critically acclaimed new book , Home Inside the Globe: Embracing Our Common Humanity.

For countless generations, the Lenape People relied on the Hudson River and its tributaries for their survival.

Join us for this presentation by ethnoecologist Justin Wexler and learn about the day to day life of local Native Peoples five centuries ago.

If you are thinking of trying a new hobby or art style, come and check it out! You may find all you need to get started. Free of charge!

Ulster County Office for the Aging is offering free individual Medicare counseling at the Olive Free Library, during the 2025 Annual Open Enrollment period 10/15/2025 - 12/07/2025.

Call Office for the Aging early to make a one-on-one appointment with Peggy Eifler 845-340-3456.

Bring your red/white/blue Medicare card, list of prescriptions and income information.

Come and Experience the vibrational healing of the Symphonic Gong.

This month we will learn how to make a quilted table runner!

Sign up soon, LIMITED SPACE!

No sewing machine needed!

Ulster County Office for the Aging is offering free individual Medicare counseling at the Olive Free Library, during the 2025 Annual Open Enrollment period 10/15/2025 - 12/07/2025.

Call Office for the Aging early to make a one-on-one appointment with Peggy Eifler 845-340-3456.

Bring your red/white/blue Medicare card, list of prescriptions and income information.

Henry H. Sapoznik is a five-time Grammy-nominated producer/performer of over fifty recordings and author of the award-winning book Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World.

Ulster County Career Center (UlsterWorks.com) invites you to attend hands-on, instructor-led sessions. FREE of charge!

An 8 week series with Kathy Carey focused on: muscular strength, endurance & toning, flexibility, balance, coordination, cardiovascular health, bone density & joint health.

$6/per class

Pauline Palkovic will teach us to mend our much loved items with decorative and visible stitching in this hands-on workshop.

Ulster County Office for the Aging is offering free individual Medicare counseling at the Olive Free Library, during the 2025 Annual Open Enrollment period 10/15/2025 - 12/07/2025.

Call Office for the Aging early to make a one-on-one appointment with Peggy Eifler 845-340-3456.

Bring your red/white/blue Medicare card, list of prescriptions and income information.

An 8 week series with Kathy Carey focused on: muscular strength, endurance & toning, flexibility, balance, coordination, cardiovascular health, bone density & joint health.

$6/per class

Stumbling Blocks is a powerful intergenerational memoir by Jennifer Krebs that explores her family’s journey from Nazi Germany to rural America. Blending personal history, Jewish identity, and emotional reflection, the book traces her father’s memories of growing up under the Third Reich and her own coming-of-age in small-town New York as the daughter of a survivor.

This month we will learn how to make a key fob or continue with last month’s project (quilted table runner), if you haven’t completed it. !

Sign up soon, LIMITED SPACE!

No sewing machine needed!

An 8 week series with Kathy Carey focused on: muscular strength, endurance & toning, flexibility, balance, coordination, cardiovascular health, bone density & joint health.

$6/per class

A spirited lecture presented by actor and local historian Frank Marquette.

Your evening will include a local whiskey tasting presented by Hudson House Distillery of West Park, New York.

Ulster County Career Center (UlsterWorks.com) invites you to attend hands-on, instructor-led sessions. FREE of charge!

Ulster County Office for the Aging is offering free individual Medicare counseling at the Olive Free Library, during the 2025 Annual Open Enrollment period 10/15/2025 - 12/07/2025.

Call Office for the Aging early to make a one-on-one appointment with Peggy Eifler 845-340-3456.

Bring your red/white/blue Medicare card, list of prescriptions and income information.

An 8 week series with Kathy Carey focused on: muscular strength, endurance & toning, flexibility, balance, coordination, cardiovascular health, bone density & joint health.

$6/per class

An 8 week series with Kathy Carey focused on: muscular strength, endurance & toning, flexibility, balance, coordination, cardiovascular health, bone density & joint health.

$6/per class

An 8 week series with Kathy Carey focused on: muscular strength, endurance & toning, flexibility, balance, coordination, cardiovascular health, bone density & joint health.

$6/per class

An 8 week series with Kathy Carey focused on: muscular strength, endurance & toning, flexibility, balance, coordination, cardiovascular health, bone density & joint health.

$6/per class

In fiction and in nonfiction, a rich setting has the ability to draw readers into the world of our story and help them see the world from characters' point of view. In this workshop, we will explore ways to create rich, immersive settings. Techniques will include looking at visual sources, zooming in on details, thinking about space, and using all five senses. We will focus on historical settings as a way to sharpen our eyes, ears and vocabulary, but the skills practiced in this workshop will be appropriate for stories in all time periods. Writers in all genres are welcome!

An 8 week series with Kathy Carey focused on: muscular strength, endurance & toning, flexibility, balance, coordination, cardiovascular health, bone density & joint health.

$6/per class