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. For kids grade 1-5.

Join us for coding with bots and learn some facts about the scientist Katherine Johnson.

Egg Shell Seedling

It’s time to plant some seeds! Join us to plant seeds in an eggshell and learn how to plant the eggshells in the garden. It’s all sustainable, learning and growing fun! For kids ages 5-12.

Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin Screening and Q & A
Saturday, June 14 from 2-4:30pm
Lateef Islam Auditorium
Registration required. Register here.

Brother Outsider illuminates the life and work of Bayard Rustin, a visionary activist and strategist who has been called “the unknown hero” of the Civil Rights Movement. A tireless crusader for justice, a disciple of Gandhi, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and the architect of the legendary 1963 March on Washington, Rustin dared to live as an openly gay man during the fiercely homophobic 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Brother Outsider reveals the price that Rustin paid for this openness, chronicling both the triumphs and setbacks of his remarkable 60-year career.

Concert: Hot Wrk Ensemble
Saturday, June 21 from 2:30-4 pm
Lateef Islam Auditorium
No registration required.

Come celebrate with Juneteenth with Hot Wrk Ensemble, a saxophone/woodwind, and percussion trio founded in 2020 by award-winning musicians J Brooks Marcus (J Why), Lois Hicks-Wozniak and Brad Hubbard. Hot Wrk Ensemble explores, deconstructs, and works 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 free concerts during 2025 at libraries and community centers throughout Dutchess and Ulster County as part of the Statewide Community Re-grants Program through the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

About Sadie Peterson Delaney African Roots Branch Library:

The Family Partnership Center building was formerly Poughkeepsie High School and later Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic High School. The library occupies the same space that housed the schools’ libraries. The branch will have a particular focus on early literacy as an important developmental step for children. The original African Roots Library collection that occupied this space is curated through a partnership between the Library Action Committee and the Poughkeepsie Public Library District.

The branch is named in honor of Sadie Peterson Delaney, who attended Poughkeepsie High School and was active in the Smith Metropolitan AME Zion Church. She went on to serve as Chief Librarian at the Veterans Administration Hospital Library in Tuskegee, Alabama, where her work in Bibliotherapy received international attention.

Learn more about Sadie Peterson Delaney via our Local History Blog or by visiting Dutchess County Historical Society‘s recording program about Sadie P. Delaney.