Library Events

We’ll explore ideas about landscape and poetry, using your own experience as a source for writing down memories, observations, thoughts and feelings. Come prepared with a creative spark and a willingness to share the work you make in class with workshop participants. Have a favorite landscape in mind to write about. Make some magic in assembling words, sounds and images. No experience necessary. Poets and writers at all levels are welcome!  
 
  Sponsored by Arts Mid-Hudson.

Come by and play with a group of friendly gamers. This is an adult group.

Your best resource for information about the health insurance exchange and the health plans that are available to people who are eligible for Medicare.  Sponsored by Rhinebeck @ Home.

The Rhinebeck Historical Society is open during office hours to anyone interested in researching genealogies, houses and buildings, and general local history. The local history room houses a large collection of books and resources including:

• Church and cemetery records
• Genealogies, in both book and CD form
• Abstracts of wills, marriages, and deaths
• Notebooks compiled by respected historians and genealogists
• Surname and building resource files
• Books on the history of Rhinebeck and the surrounding area

Robbie's beloved story time brings together an animated, fun, and engaging reading style with literacy-focused activities, including fingerplays and crafts. Great for ages 2-6.

Mary Regina Miller founded the Starr Institute in 1862, and while her husband Hon. William Starr Miller's portrait hangs prominently in the library, her image is nowhere to be found--but not for long!

This Women’s History Month, we’re using archival materials from the RHS’s collections to tell the story of Mary Regina Miller, who founded Starr Library in 1862. The completed portraits will be part of a mini-exhibition in the kids' wing. This hands-on, kinesthetic learning-based program promises to be both educational and fun. 

Sponsored by Tangible Mind & The New Historia.

Do you want to join our brand new Lego Robotics Team, Starr Chimps? This group for ages 10+ will be meeting weekly downstairs while analog Lego Hour takes place upstairs to work toward programming robots for a Lego Robotics convention in June. Web developer Patrick Reid and a group of Rhinebeck parents lead the group. Ideal team size is 2-4 kids, can accommodate up to 6 teams.

This self-directed group meets every Tuesday. 

In this polarized time, we lack basic understanding of why people on the other political side hold their beliefs. We don’t see them as they see themselves–their core values and central concerns–but instead as we choose to see them. We are tempted to regard our own side as principled and the other side as self-interested. When we try to communicate across this gap, we often lack the skills for listening carefully, looking for common ground, and sharing our perspectives in ways that connect rather than create more misunderstanding.

We can learn to disagree better, which means accurately seeing where we differ and where we share common ground. Register for this event through the Braver Angels Eventbrite page.

Sponsored by Braver Angels .

After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. 

Join Starr Library's Scrabble club for classic word game fun every Wednesday!

We're celebrating the reissue of a bold new edition of The Artist's Guide to Sketching, the groundbreaking book by two of America's most prominent visual artists, James Gurney (Dinotopia, Color and Light), and Thomas Kinkade, freshly updated with a new introduction, archival photographs, and illuminating text to guide a new generation of illustrators. 

An exhibition of selected works will be on view in the library through March 30th.

The Rhinebeck Historical Society is open during office hours to anyone interested in researching genealogies, houses and buildings, and general local history. The local history room houses a large collection of books and resources including:

• Church and cemetery records
• Genealogies, in both book and CD form
• Abstracts of wills, marriages, and deaths
• Notebooks compiled by respected historians and genealogists
• Surname and building resource files
• Books on the history of Rhinebeck and the surrounding area

Back-to-back sessions! Licensed music therapist Terry Watson delights with songs, chants, puppetry, instruments, storytelling and movement/dance with a focus on child development and early literacy. Sessions are geared toward children 0-4 years old with their caregivers or parents. Parents with slightly older children are welcome, too. 

Back-to-back sessions! Licensed music therapist Terry Watson delights with songs, chants, puppetry, instruments, storytelling and movement/dance with a focus on child development and early literacy. Sessions are geared toward children 0-4 years old with their caregivers or parents. Parents with slightly older children are welcome, too. 

Come by and play with a group of friendly gamers. This is an adult group.

The Starr Library Board of Trustees usually meets on the 4th Thursday of the month at 5:30pm, downstairs in the Mary Frazer Room.

This is a new group for anyone interested in learning more or sharing wisdom about investing. Everyone has something to contribute and can suggest some areas they want to explore. We are not experts, nor teachers, but will freely share our experiences. We will start with a questionnaire and choose a topic for each week going forward based on group consensus. 

Join yoga teacher Barbara Eichin for this gentle and relaxing program designed for seniors and those who are recovering from injury or have restricted movement. Suggested donation : $10.00.

An informal meet-up in the playroom upstairs in the children's wing for parents and caregivers of children 0-3 years old. Come, play, and pitch in afterward to help make sure the room is neat and tidy.