Lewisboro Library

Stitch Together
2025-06-20 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-06-27 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-07-11 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-07-18 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-07-25 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York)
This casual, weekly gathering of those who knit/crochet and chat meets in the conference room during the winter, and outside on the Library patio when weather permits.

Catch up on people’s craft projects and what is going on in Town – and beyond. Bring a project, and a chair when outside!
If interested in being on the contact list, email info@lewisborolibrary.org.

Afternoon Film Series: "The Problem with People"
2025-06-23 13:00 - 15:00
Things don’t go as planned when two distant cousins — one from New York City, the other from Ireland — come together after an Irish patriarch wills half his legacy to his son’s unknown American cousin. Starring Paul Reiser and Colm Meaney.
Please register below.

Solutions to the Current Climate Crisis
2025-06-24 19:00 - 20:00
Did you know that humans have increased the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by over 50%, and that is continuing to increase every year? We are now warming the planet faster than the most destructive climate changes in the past.

Come join this discussion of the specific actions that all of us can take to significantly lessen the future impacts of global warming and climate change on our children and grandchildren – and future generations everywhere.

Robert Whittaker, of the Lewisboro Sustainability Committee will lead this presentation and group discussion. This is the second in a series of climate discussions that will be held bimonthly on the 4th Tuesday of the month.

Please register below.

Lewisboro Library Book Group: "Martyr!"
2025-06-25 19:30 - 20:30
The Lewisboro Library Book Group usually meets at the Library on the last Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m.
This month the group will be discussing the New York Times best-selling novel Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar.

Books are available through the Westchester Library System and copies are often ordered in advance for members to pick up at the Library. New members are always welcome in this adult, co-ed book group. For more information contact Myrna or Steve Shomstein at (914) 533-2550.

Afternoon Writers Group
2025-06-26 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-03 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-10 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-17 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-24 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-07-31 14:00 - 16:00
Are you an aspiring writer who would like to get feedback on your work? The Afternoon Writers Group meets every Thursday, from 2 to 4 pm, to discuss their work and share feedback with others.
We currently have a few spots open in the group. If you are interested in joining, please email the Library at info@lewisborolibrary.org.

Evening Mahjong: Mixed Level
2025-06-26 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-03 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-10 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-17 18:00 - 20:30, 2025-07-24 18:00 - 20:30
Are you a mahjong player? This is a group of mixed level players that meets weekly Thursday evenings at 6:00 pm.
This is NOT a drop-in program. We need to know the number of players to set up the room.
Interested players should send an email to info@lewisborolibrary.org, with your name and level of experience.

Guided Foraging Walk
2025-06-29 10:30 - 12:00
Come learn which wild plants and fungi are edible, poisonous, or just plain cool – right around Lewisboro!
In this interactive, hands-on walk led by local foraging instructor, Heather Flournoy, we’ll explore leaves, flowers, roots, bark and fungi of our area. Discover what we can learn to use for our own pantry, apothecary or art supplies. She’ll discuss identification techniques, resources, ethics, and foraging safety. She will give a brief introduction inside the Library, and then lead a walk along nearby roads and fields.
Heather is founder of Wild Nearby, and is an avid foraging, wild herbalism, self-reliance, and foraging-with-horses teacher. She leads a monthly Foray & Potluck, gives lectures and leads foraging walks in the greater NYC area. Find her foraging calendar on www.WildNearby.com She is the founder of the Wild Roots Initiative of the nonprofit D.I.G. Farm in North Salem, which cultivates local wild plant teachers from various walks and aims to build community. www.DIGfarm.org
Please register below. The rain date is June 29.

Estate Planning Mistakes that can Cost You
2025-07-01 19:00 - 20:00
Veronica Mcilraith, of Mcilraith & Associates, presents this important workshop on “Estate Planning Mistakes that can Cost You – and How to Avoid Them.”
Learn to avoid the pitfalls of: financial procrastination, outdated wills and forms, uncoordinated beneficiaries, making children joint owners of your assets, and more.
Please register below.

Earring Design Workshop
2025-07-07 19:00 - 20:30
For Adults &Teens
Have fun socializing with friends and neighbors – while giving back to those less fortunate! Join us as we make earrings to donate to women’s shelters. For every pair that you make and keep, you must donate a pair to charity.

This workshop is led by Joan Lloyd, who donates over 1400 pairs of earrings each month and has been offering workshops at the Library for over 10 years.
Space is limited, please register below.

How to Access Free eBooks, Audiobooks, Movies & More
2025-07-12 11:00 - 12:30
Did you know that the Library has FREE downloadable digital media and streaming services you can access – using just your library card? Learn how to use our popular services Libby, hoopla and Kanopy, and which services to access for free eBooks, audiobooks, music, TV and film. Discover how to load up your devices – just in time for summer travel!

We’ll also touch on a few newer services, like Medici TV, which has video streaming classical music, opera, dance, and jazz, plus documentaries and master classes, and Mango Languages, an online language learning site with 70 world languages plus American Sign Language, enabling you to learn a new language with confidence.

Space is limited, please register below.

Afternoon Film Series: "Bob Trevino Likes It"
2025-07-14 13:00 - 15:00
When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life. A film festival favorite, it is inspired by the true friendship that writer and director Tracie Laymon found with a stranger when looking for her father online.
Please register below.

(Virtual) The Grid that Made Manhattan
2025-07-14 18:00 - 19:00
Via Zoom
Find out how the NYC we know today came to be in this fun & informative session!
Those who live & work in New York City or even just visit surely notice the very regular grid of numbered streets & avenues that make it easy to get around much of Manhattan. But for many years after its founding, the city grew in disorganized & organic ways, until the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 laid out the vision for what it would become today.
Join us for a deep dive into how this new plan was conceived and implemented, and the many traces of the process that impact the city even to the present day.
We’ll learn about:
● The ways that NYC grew from prehistory through colonial times
● An eccentric Founding Father who guided the grid plan
● The intrepid surveyor who laid it out
● How in the following decades we both filled in and also changed the grid
And much more! Should you be interested in testing your new NYC knowledge, there is even an online quiz you can take afterward.
Register for the Zoom link HERE.

Lewisboro Seniors Book Group: "The Wedding People"
2025-07-16 11:00 - 12:00
Our group meets in person on (usually) the third Wednesday of the month during the Lewisboro Senior Adults meeting at the Stevens Memorial United Methodist Church. The church is located at 9 Shady Lane, South Salem All seniors are welcome!
This month the group will be discussing The Wedding People, by Alison Espach. Recently divorced Phoebe travels to Rhode Island to end her life in style, but then she encounters “The Wedding People”, and it causes her to examine her life.
The Library will provide copies of the book to all participants. Large print copies are also available upon request. Please contact the Library if you need a copy of the book – (914) 875-9004 or lewisborolibrary@gmail.com. The book is also available as an eBook and audiobook via Overdrive/Libby.

Library Board Meeting
2025-07-16 19:00 - 21:00
The monthly meeting of the Lewisboro Library Board of Trustees meets in person at the Library.
Meetings are open to the public.

Afternoon Film Series: The Ballad of Wallis Island
2025-07-28 13:00 - 15:00
An estranged folk band duo (and former couple) are unexpectedly thrown back together for a gig. Unbeknownst to them, the audience consists of just one man – a wealthy, eccentric, and delightfully quirky recluse who has used his considerable resources to orchestrate a private reunion of his favorite musicians on a remote British island.
Please register below.

Mahjong for Beginners
2025-07-29 18:30 - 20:00
Have you always wanted to learn Mahjong? This 4-week session, led by Donna Pirro, will meet on Tuesday evenings from July 29 – August 19. It will give you the basic skills to start playing.
The Library owns Mahjong tiles, which will be used for the class. You will need your own Mahjong card to play.

Please order a 2025 Mahjong card as soon as possible, so it arrives before the first class. It can be ordered at https://www.nationalmahjonggleague.org/store.aspx#

This is NOT a drop-in program, registration is required. There are a limited number of spaces since we already had names on our waitlist from the last session.
Please register below.

Lewisboro Library Book Group: "The Confidante"
2025-07-30 19:30 - 20:30
The Lewisboro Library Book Group meets at the Library on the last Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m.
This month the group will be discussing the The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America. Written by Christopher C. Gorham, it is the first biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, the Hungarian Jewish immigrant who became FDR’s closest advisor during World War II. As special envoy to Europe in World War II she went where the president couldn’t go, she was among the first Allied women to enter a liberated concentration camp. She guided the direction of the G.I. Bill of Rights and the Manhattan Project.
Books are available through the Westchester Library System and copies are often ordered in advance for members to pick up at the Library. New members are always welcome in this adult, co-ed book group. For more information contact Myrna or Steve Shomstein at (914) 533-2550.
