Painting by Phil Goldstein

Phil Goldstein was born in Nyack in 1959 and grew up in Piermont when it was an old factory town. He has been an exhibiting artist for over 25 years, consistently choosing to render a high level of detail into his paintings and drawings. His subjects include people, their tools and machines, and their environment. The myriad details in his work resonate to create a realistic image and evoke the compelling interplay of light on form.

Painting by Phil Goldstein

Painting by Phil Goldstein

Phil has moved north to Accord, NY, but is in Piermont regularly to visit family.

He will welcome friends and neighbors at an opening reception here on Sunday, June 9, from 2 to 4 p.m.

Monthly: meets 3rd Wednesday of each month.

FREE children's music classes held in the Library's Children's Room. Presented by Moon River Music Together with Catherine Rubin, the class will explore how the early childhood program of Music Together® teaches music through play.

Young children are given the opportunity to develop basic competence in music by providing them with a rich musical experience in a relaxed and playful environment. Catherine believes that every child is musical and that each child needs a stimulating, supportive music environment to enjoy the wonderful human capacity for music-making.

Join us to see how much fun music classes can be!

Monthly: 3rd Wednesday of each month

June 19th - the group will be discussing Me Before You by Jojo Moye.

Join: the Book Club is seeking new members. Please call 845-359-4595 or e-mail us at info@piermontlibrary.org with your name, phone number, and e-mail address to join.

Girl Scout Troop #40671 is hosting a Baby Shower Workshop at the library on Thursday, June 20th, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Children ages 8 - 13 are invited to have fun learning all about babies and how to take care of their needs. You will learn through hands-on activities how you can help underprivileged mothers by making homemade blankets, home-made baby food, creating bilingual cookbooks and making mobiles.

Space is limited. Registration is required.

The "Your Favorite Series" book club for children in grades 3 - 5 with have a wrap-up party on Thursday, June 20th.

Let's celebrate our great year of reading, chatting and fun at the library.

Weekly: Mondays mornigns (except on holidays).

Stories and songs for children ages 6 months to 5 years with Nancy and Judy.

We offer two Toddler Story Time sessions weekly on Monday mornings. Session I begins at 10:15 and Session II begins at 11:15.

Registration is no longer required, but each session will be limited to the first 15 children who arrive. This is necessary for an optimal Story Time in our space.

Weekly: Mondays mornigns (except on holidays).

Stories and songs for children ages 6 months to 5 years with Nancy and Judy.

We offer two Toddler Story Time sessions weekly on Monday mornings. Session I begins at 10:15 and Session II begins at 11:15.

Registration is no longer required, but each session will be limited to the first 15 children who arrive. This is necessary for an optimal Story Time in our space.

Summer reading for Non-readers Age 4+

Every Monday, June 24 - July 29

Drop-in Hour 1:45 - 2:45 pm

Video: Click here to view a Public Service Announcement video about Summer Reading.

Download the Summer Reading 2013 flyer .

Restored railroad station on Ash Street in Piermont, NY

Monthly: 4th Monday of every month unless it happens to be a holiday.

Meetings are held in the Library's conference room.

The Piermont Historical Society encourages everyone to come to the meetings, join the Society, and help out.

Learn more about upcoming events and projects, and find out how you can help to preserve our Piermont heritage.

Summer reading for Independent Readers

Every Thursday, June 27 - August 1 (except July 4)

Drop-in Hours & Crafts 4:00 - 6:00 pm

Video: Click here to view a Public Service Announcement video about Summer Reading.

Download the Summer Reading 2013 flyer .

Weekly: Mondays mornigns (except on holidays).

Stories and songs for children ages 6 months to 5 years with Nancy and Judy.

We offer two Toddler Story Time sessions weekly on Monday mornings. Session I begins at 10:15 and Session II begins at 11:15.

Registration is no longer required, but each session will be limited to the first 15 children who arrive. This is necessary for an optimal Story Time in our space.

Weekly: Mondays mornigns (except on holidays).

Stories and songs for children ages 6 months to 5 years with Nancy and Judy.

We offer two Toddler Story Time sessions weekly on Monday mornings. Session I begins at 10:15 and Session II begins at 11:15.

Registration is no longer required, but each session will be limited to the first 15 children who arrive. This is necessary for an optimal Story Time in our space.

Weekly: Mondays afternoons (except on holidays).

For ages 3 – 5.

Space is limited. Please call 359-4595 to register.

Monthly series: 1st Friday of every month.

Free and open to public.

Friday, July 5: Before Sunrise (1995) at 6:30 p.m.–and Before Sunset (2004) at 8:30 p.m.

To celebrate summer, love, and of course, the tortuous French-American relationship (especially in between July 4 and Bastille Day!), we're going to screen a double-header of one of the most cherished movie series ever. These movies, so focused on the same two characters, and their almost painfully natural dialogue, are so fresh, authentic, and true that you will feel as though you are eavesdropping on a series of long, irresistible conversations. They conjure up the wildness, freedom, and abandon of young love–and the decisions that must be made when young love grows up. Don't miss!!

Richard Linklater's intoxicating film Before Sunrise stars Ethan Hawke as Jessie, an American backpacker who strikes up a conversation with lovely French fellow traveler Céline (Julie Delpy) on the train to Vienna, and persuades her to spend his last day in Europe with him. Wandering the picturesque streets of the Austrian capital through the day and night, the two strangers share stories, ideas and affection, tumbling into a powerful bond, in one of the most freewheeling, true, intensely romantic movies ever.

Before Sunrise left its characters, and audiences, hanging. What happened to this couple who parted at a train station without exchanging contact information? Nine years later, Before Sunset answers the question. Now a successful author, Jessie's on a book tour in Paris when Celine shows up at a reading, just hours before his plane leaves. It's their last chance at closure–and maybe a second shot at truly being together. Another ecstatic-agonizing nail-biter, filled with freewheeling conversation–and with an ending you will never forget.

Photo by Tom Artin

A very exciting exhibit this month celebrates the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom held on August 28, 1963. On that day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his profoundly moving "I Have a Dream" speech. Tom Artin, a 24 year old participant in the march, had brought along his Nikon F, just in case. Having neither press credentials nor telephoto lenses, he could not photograph Dr. King or any of the celebrities on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. But he focused on the multitude of citizens who had come, by the hundreds of thousands, to demand an end to racist segregation, discrimination, and intolerance throughout the United States.

Photo by Tom Artin

He had only one roll of film. With it he captured a sense of the diversity and vitality of this group of Americans who came together in the largest demonstration for human rights in our history and truly changed the world. In 1964 the historic Civil Rights Act was passed, followed by the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

Artin, now a resident of Sparkill who maintains a studio in the Bel-Ans complex and is on the roster of Bruce McGaw Graphics, publisher of his images as fine art posters sold around the world, has created an exhibit of the photographs taken at the march which he will show at the Piermont Library during July and August. The images, accompanied by Artin's introductory essay, have also been published as a book. Entitled March On!, copies of the book will be available at the library on Sunday, July 14, from 1 to 3 p.m., during an opening reception for the exhibit. Artin will be present to discuss the work and sign copies of the book.