Sunday, May 24th CLOSED

Monday, May 25th  CLOSED

Look for the Library contingent in the town Memorial Day parade on Monday! 

PLEASE NOTE: Our computer system will be undergoing scheduled maintenance from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Monday the 25th.  This means there will be no access to our online catalog, the My Account feature (for reserves and renewals) and many of the databases that require a library card for log-in.  We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to improved system functioning following this work.

The Ridgefield Library now uses an online system for people to log and report their progress during the Summer Reading Program. To help children create accounts and track their books, hand out prizes and encourage more reading, the Library will be looking for approximately 50 middle and high school volunteers, each of whom can make a significant time commitment (at least 10 hours between late June and mid-August). 

Interested teens should print out an application here, sign it (and get a parent or guardian signature) and return to Teen Services Librarian Geri Diorio at the Library by June 3rd.

Licensed therapist Yudit Maros will talk about authenticity: how to think, behave and act in a way that is conducive to health and happy relationships. At the foundation of it all is healthy self-parenting, or self-care. This means the ability to show up for one's Self as a parent figure, especially under stress, to make sure needs are met. This requires four distinct practices that in a healthy family one learns in childhood from significant caretakers. These can also be learned later in life.  There will be an opportunity to try this method out, and time for questions and answers.

Yudit Maros is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Certified Hypnotherapist in private practice in Ridgefield, CT. She is founding president of the Association of Authenticity Therapy in Hungary, and is an international trainer of therapists in the topics of authenticity as related to health, and trauma resolution. Ms. Maros has been practicing for 25 years, ten of which she dedicated to searching for the underlying pattern of what makes for emotional and relational health. She summarized her findings in her recently published book, Apple of My I: The Four Practices of Self-Love. Please register.

Tim Harrington and Paul Wright got their start playing for spare change in Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace. In a few short years since, Tall Heights has headlined venues across the country, toured down to Austin, TX to showcase at South By Southwest Music Festival, and performed alongside national acts like Laura Marling, Ryan Montbleau, Andrew Belle and Wild Child.

Ridgefield Folk is made possible thanks to The Friends of the Ridgefield Library.  Free tickets can be picked up at the door from 1:00 PM on the day of the show.  Doors open at 1:30 and the show starts at 2:00 PM.

Wednesday, May 27, 5:30 PM

Reading Is a Family Affair

Families with children in grades 3 - 5 are invited to a very special parent and child book discussion.  The book selected for this session is Flora & Ulysses by Kate DeCamillo.  Parents and children will read the book then come to the library for a pizza dinner and a fun discussion of the book.  Pick up your free complimentary copy of the book when you register prior to the discussion.  A $5 per person deposit is required at the time of registration.  The deposit will be returned at the book discussion.  Sponsored by the Friends of the Ridgefield Library.