Join us at Wednesday January 30 at 7pm for the third in our series on dementia.  This month’s topic is called “Advance Directives in Financial Planning”.

The Caregiver Support Initiative will once again provide valuable information for the people caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

Financial planning is a very important when a loved one is in need of care, but it can be a difficult topic to tackle without a road map.  This program will answer some of your questions about how to start planning for a future with dementia, and what resources are available to families in need of providing long term care.

For more information prior to the program, call Stacey Barcomb at (518)832-4992.  This program is free of charge.

Stock up on the books, dvd’s, and audioboooks you’ll need to travel and celebrate the upcoming holiday.  The library will be open Saturday December 22nd 10 – 1, then reopen Wednesday December 26th at 11 am.

The staff of the Indian Lake Library wishes all of our patrons a very Happy Thanksgiving.  Stop in today, Tuesday, or Wednesday to pick up the books, dvd’s, and audiobooks you and your family need for traveling this weekend.

The library will be closed Thursday the 22nd through Sunday the 25th in order to celebrate the holiday.  We’ll see you again on Monday the 26th!

Saturday, October 27th, join us at the Indian Lake Library for a family-friendly nature event all about that unsung pollinating hero, the humble bat!  Caitlin Stewart, educator with the Hamilton County Soil & Water Conservation District, returns for a fun-filled and informative presentation everyone in the family will enjoy.  After the event, stick around for a bat story and a bat craft project.  Hope to see you there!

Synopsis: One morning, Deming Guo’s mother Polly goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. Left with no one to care for him, eleven-year-old Deming is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an “all-American boy.” But far away from all he’s ever known, Daniel struggles to reconcile his new life with his mother’s disappearance and the memories of the family and community he left behind.

Inspired by real-life stories of family separation, The Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he’s loved has been taken away—and how one woman learns to live with the mistakes of her past.

Accolades:  The Leavers was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction and the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction, a prize awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice. It was named a best book of the year by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Los Angeles Times, Oprah Magazine, and Electric Literature and was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2017 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.

About Lisa:  Lisa Ko’s writing has also appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, The New York Times,BuzzFeed, O. Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City, where she was born. Learn more about her work at lisa-ko.com

Join us at the Indian Lake Library on Monday October 1st, at 7pm for a fascinating look at Indian Lake History. In this show-and-tell presentation, Adirondack Experience Library Director Ivy Gocker will bring us an assortment of maps, guest books, brochures, and ephemera from the museum’s collection–all of them related to the history of Indian Lake. This is a great opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the local history gems stored in the museum’s archives!