Join teacher and author Melissa Pyrch for a signing and casual visit at the Reading Room on Sunday October 30th from 12-2pm. Drop in during that time to check out her book and chat with Melissa about all of the questions that loom once graduation is on the horizon.

Every year Katonah jumps into the Holidays in a BIG way. We have music and parades and decorations and special events and fun fun fun. We welcome you to come meet some of our favorite people who help put these events together and hear how you can get involved. Commitments vary from very small amounts of time to bigger depending on your interest and availability. If you ever want to volunteer and spend time working to make our town the best one around, come by this Wednesday around 4:45pm at the Reading Room and get involved!

File this under…if you know, you know. Every couple of months we make the dive and switch our chocolate soft serve spout into something special. This month we bring the revered Maple Creemee to Katonah.

Katonah Elementary School Halloween Fair!

October 29 from 11am to 3pm.

Best event of the year. Put in on your calendar!

This month we support those with dyslexia. I’ve had a lot of people in my life who have dyslexia. They happen to be the most amazing, hardest working, interesting people I know. They fight to learn, work twice as hard as the rest of us to interpret the world and the written word and often use strategies to learn that would exhaust the rest of us…

In “Survive the Night”, by Riley Sager, Charlie, a junior in college is no stranger to death; first with the sudden death of her parents and now with the murder of her best friend and roommate.

Delicious house made soups are back on the menu this week!

Fresh News for Fall. New hours, new books, stocked shelves, and guess what? Soup will be back on the menu too. Starting this week we will be permanently changing our hours from 9am - 5:30pm.

Next up: Bliss Montage, stories.

October 26, 2022, 7pm.

Join us for a collection of stories by Ling Ma.

Join us October 22nd from 5-8pm for a casual evening with our favorite authors. Books with be available for signings, authors will be ready for chatting, and staff will be on hand for everything else.

Pennys pick - Like a cup of tea and a cozy afghan on a fall day. Enjoy Frances Mayes’ rambles about gardens, houses, travel and quirky dinner parties.

Our Bluegrass in the Barn event is back this year! We invite you to join us Thursday, September 15 from 6–9pm at Maple Grove Farm in Bedford as we enjoy live music, creative cocktails, and gourmet snacks…

Actors bring the lives of longtime Bedford residents Bill and Lois Wilson to life in this staged reading comprised of the Wilson's writings. Presented by the Town of Bedford Friends of Stepping Stones…

A sweet, eccentric author nana sits in judgement over her spoiled, money grubbing family members in her last days. Excellent magical writing…

Join the Bedford-Pound Ridge Women’s Collective from 7 to 9pm on Thursday, September 22 at Conant Hall as we share our abortion stories and band together as a community to protect the right to reproductive healthcare.

For Ages 8 and up: The Handman String Quartet will be featured in the first of the new Spierling Family Concert Series at Katonah Presbyterian Church. This 60-75 minute concert will feature music from the classical repertory, as well as contemporary and popular short works.

Penny is a lover of good books, a super sleuth of customer recommendations, a list maker, a cocktail pairing book club aficionado, a mom to a college student, and an artist specializing in pup portraiture. Here’s her list of great reads that you might just have missed this year. Check them out and get in on Penny’s best list.

Surreal, tense, and evocative. The collection of short stories shares a similar tone and themes around women' being at odds with men, second generation immigrant Asian women coming to terms with their own identity, and the absurdity of our own reality….

I don’t know about you, but I’m barely hanging on this week. September for me always brings on the blues. The doubts. The sleepless nights. More than New Year’s, September is always a time of looking at my life and saying “what the hell am I doing”. I create goals, make promises to be better, and try to dig out of depression. I promise myself I’ll exercise, get on a better organized schedule, eat out less, work harder, and make good healthy choices…but frankly all of that bores the shit out of me. I want to see friends and eat apple pie and watch good tv…

I grew up spending summers in Vermont and hold it in my heart as a special, special place. Just saying “Vermont” makes me think of green fields and cows and mountains and hikes and laughter and farmers and farm markets and lakes and sun and happiness…and of course, creemees.