FDR Presidential Library and Museum Pass

Printable Pass Admits: A family, defined as up to 5 people, to enter for the Roosevelt Presidential Museum and Library. You will receive a confirmation email with a link to the printable pass, or you can also print the pass from the confirmation message that appears after you complete the below form. After printing, write in the answers to the questions on the pass: name of family, how many in party, day of visit, and date of visit (same date as the reservation you made). Surrender the pass at the ticket counter of the Henry A. Wallace Visitor[...]

Dick Wood – Creepy Tales of the “Hudson River Grappler”

By Bill Kleppel Fame and celebrity tend to spout from the same fountainheads of publicity. Actors, athletes, politicians, musicians, entrepreneurs, or artists of any stripe, are bestowed with accolades, whether deservedly or not, by the usual media guttersnipe. A story going viral can make a person a household name in less than 24 hours. It’s all so amazing, remarkable, and at times, incredibly silly. But let’s ask this question: In the 21st Century, can a person get heaps of praise hoisted upon them for pulling dead bodies out of the Hudson River with grappling[...]

Most Borrowed Books of 2022!

Click on an image below to open up a PDF that contains links to each title in the library catalog. Adult Titles Adult Fiction: The Lincoln Highway by Amos Towles The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley Run Rose Run: A Novel by Dolly Parton and James Patterson Sparring Partners by John Grisham Apples Never Fall by Lianne Moriarty Adult Non-Fiction: South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry The 1619 Project by[...]

Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Library

Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Branch Library Library Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9 AM - 5 PM Tuesday, Thursday: 1 PM - 5 PM Saturday: Event days only (10 AM - 2 PM) Sunday: Closed Happenings at Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Branch Library: Discovery Science Every month, the Mid-Hudson Discovery Museum will be visiting the Sadie Peterson Delaney Library Branch to create some amazing science experiments and talk about important people in the science world that not everyone has heard about.[...]

Most Borrowed Books of 2021

Adult Fiction Books: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah Daylight: An Atlee Pine Thriller by David Baldacci The Midnight Library: A Novel by Matt Haig A Gambling Man: An Aloysius Archer Novel by David Baldacci Serpentine: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman Win: A Novel by Harlan Coben The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly 21st Birthday by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro Deadly Cross: An Alex Cross Novel by James Patterson The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel by Laura Dave Adult Nonfiction Books: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson[...]

Helpful Links for African American Genealogy Research in Dutchess County

New York Slavery Records Index - Records of Enslaved Persons and Slave Holders in New York from 1525 through the Civil War (John Jay College) Dutchess African Heritage Studies: Walter M. Patrice Online Library (Dutchess County Historical Society) New York Heritage Digital Collections – search for "slave register" Free newspaper websites: a.     New York State Historic Newspapers b.     Old Fulton Postcards c.     Hudson River Valley Historical Newspapers

Most Borrowed Books of 2020

Click on an image below to open up a PDF that contains links to each title in the library catalog. Adult Fiction: American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Fair Warning by Michael Connelly  Walk the Wire by David Baldacci  Camino Winds by John Grisham  The Dutch House by Ann Patchett  Hideaway by Nora Roberts  Blindside by James Patterson  Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano  The Boy From the Woods by Harlan Coben  28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand Teen Fiction: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo  Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer  The Inheritance[...]

Curbside Pick Up

Curbside Pick-up Service Provided at Adriance Memorial Library and Boardman Road Branch Library Reserve items for pickup at Adriance by calling 485-3445 x 3701. Reserve items for pickup at Boardman Road by calling 485-3445 x 3706. Some more details: Please have your library card barcode ready when you call.  We will be unable to provide service without it. Delivery between libraries has resumed. You will be notified when the item(s) are ready for pickup.  Please follow the instructions provided, so we can keep everyone safe. You must show the same library card at pickup that was used when[...]

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