The Spice Club: Pick up a new spice every month with recipes to prepare and share. Starts February 3. The Writer’s Room: Come for focussed writing time to work on personal projects. Meets the first and third Mondays of the month. Go to the events calendar to find out more.
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On Veterans Day, Monday, November 11, 2024, the Rye Free Reading Room hosted its Seventh Annual Spelling Bee. Library Director Chris Shoemaker welcomed twelve enthusiastic middle and high school students who arrived ready to test their spelling skills and compete for top scholarship prizes. Rye patrons and sisters, Cara Giacomo and Adrienne Mecca, served as
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On Saturday, October 19, 2024, a sold-out evening themed, “It Was All A Dream,” awaited 500 attendees at the Rye Free Reading Room’s tenth biennial Novel Night benefit celebration. Guests began the evening with costumed dinner parties hosted at ten private Rye homes, with creative themes including “Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse” to “Bridgerton: The
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On September 15, the Rye Free Reading Room unveiled its new addition: the Discovery Zone, a vibrant space where children ages 6 months to 6 years old can explore, play, and learn. Specially designed with a variety of creative zones – including interactive play tables, cozy reading nooks, and whimsical “park” benches — the inviting
After an estimated 6,500 books were donated from community members parting with reads from their shelves, hundreds of people came to the Rye Free Reading Room’s Annual Book Sale, on Saturday and Sunday, September 14 and 15, 2024. Visitors browsed for bargain-priced used books while supporting the library. Families enjoyed hunting for literary treasures among
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The early days of TV was dominated by men on the small screen but a surprising number of women (unusual for its time, the late 1940s and early 1950s) left a mark. Presented by Evan Weiner Evan is a speaker, author, with an extensive radio and TV background, including the History Channel, ABCNews Now, and
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The Village Green was abuzz with excitement on Sunday, May 19th, as 1,100 children from 475 families came together for the Rye Free Reading Room’s annual Vehicle Fair. Kids and adults had plenty to enjoy, from an impressive array of vehicles including a fire truck, bulldozer, logger truck, and police car to admire or even
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Sunday, May 19, 11 am – 3 pm, On the Village Green Detail at vehiclefair.ryelibrary.org The fun rolls back into town with trucks, cars, bounce houses, face painting, bubble mania, music, and food trucks! Walk-up ticket available – $35 per child and $80 for a family pass at the event.
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Take the community needs survey at www.ryelibrary.org/survey and share your feedback on the programs and services of the Rye Free Reading Room. As a token of our thanks, when you share your feedback, you can sign up to enter into a raffle for a chance to win a package of gift certificates to 5 local Rye
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