Harry Potter Night

Friday, July 20 from 8:00 p.m. until midnight

It's hard to believe that J.K. Rowling has officially finished the Harry Potter series! The final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be released on Saturday, July 21. Come celebrate in Kinderhook the night before!

Blackwood and Brouwer Booksellers, the Kinderhook Memorial Library, and the Valatie Free Library, will be hosting a party on Friday, July 20 from 8:00 p.m. until midnight!

Some activities will run continually throughout the evening. Blackwood and Brouwer will have food, trivia games, and other activities at the bookstore (7 Hudson Street). The Valatie Library will be at the bandstand in the Kinderhook Village Square with fun activities, including a make-your-own wizard's hat table--the best wizard's hat gets a prize!*

At 8:30 p.m., the Kinderhook Library will show the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Join us in the air-conditioned library for Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts. The year is marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. Will Harry rise to the challenge of the Triwizard Tournament? Will he be able to keep up with his school work? Will Voldemort, the Dark Lord, rise again? Find out at the library!

At 11:30 p.m., the last chapter of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be read aloud at the Kinderhook Library which will take us right up to the stroke of midnight when people who have pre-ordered their copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
can pick them up at the bookstore and start reading! Be among the first in Kinderhook to know what happens!

Then again, why wait to see how the Harry Potter series ends? Write your own ending! Enter our contest for a chance to win a $30 gift certificate for Blackwood and Brouwer Booksellers. Submit your idea on an official entry form anytime before 11:30 p.m. on Harry Potter Night to be entered in the competition. The entry closest to J.K. Rowling's finale wins. Winners will be notified by August 1. Official entry forms will be available at Blackwood and Brouwer Booksellers, Kinderhook Memorial Library, and the Valatie Free Library starting Thursday, July 5. Submissions can be made at any of the three locations.

To pre-order your copy of the new Harry Potter book, call Blackwood and Brouwer Booksellers at 758-1232.

* Rain location for these activities to be announced.

Battle of the Books

The next meeting of our Battle of the Books team will be Saturday, July 7 at 4:00 p.m. We will discuss books that we have been reading for the competition and will start talking about the format of the competition.

Teen Night: Ghostbusters, Gross Out Challenge, and Costume Party

Who you gonna call?

Is Kinderhook Memorial Library haunted? On Friday, July 6 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. teens may be able to find out! In keeping with the NYS summer reading theme You Never Know @ Your Library, the Teen Advisory Board (TAB) will be hosting an evening celebrating the unexplained, starting with the classic 80's movie Ghost Busters (1984 - rated PG). Nothing goes better with a movie than a few tasty snacks - unfortunately you won't be finding them here. The TAB challenges all teens with an iron stomach with the question "Are you gonna eat that?" by setting up a table of delectably gross (but perfectly edible) treats. Top all that off with a costume contest and you have all the makings of ghoulishly good evening. Who's going to show up? You never know...