Pass on your Eclipse Glasses

You can donate your eclipse glasses instead of throwing them in the trash! A solar eclipse will be passing over parts of South America in October. You can mail your glasses yourself or drop them off at the library. Eclipse Glasses USA is a company that runs a global donation program, they collect the used glasses for inspection and then send them out to the part of the world where an eclipse with be occurring next.

The address to mail your glasses to is:

Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC                        PO Box 50571                                        Provo, UT 84605

(ship by August 1st)

Magazine Selection at the Oxford Memorial Library

We are now subscribing to  Mother Jones, an American progressive magazine covering  news, investigative journalism, and commentary on politics, human rights, the environment, and culture. 

Here is a list of our current subscriptions:

  •  Mother Jones
  • American Spirit
  • Better Homes & Gardens
  • Birds & Bloom
  • Conservationist, New York State
  • Consumer Reports
  • Country Sampler Farmhouse Style
  • Good Housekeeping
  • Mother Earth News
  • National Geographic
  • People Weekly
  • Reader’s Digest
  • Woman’s Day

There is also a wide selection of digital magazines available through the Four County Library System catalog and Libby. Click this link to check it out!

Abandoned In Chenango County

The public is invited to a presentation by Henry J. Drexler, “Abandoned in Chenango County”, to be given at 1 PM on February 10th, 2024 at the Oxford Memorial Library.  While local roads, schools, bridges, taverns and many other things have been abandoned, Drexler will focus on abandoned barns and farms, illustrated with his photographs.  He will also display his recent painting of an abandoned barn that once stood on Hopkins-Crandall Road in Plymouth.  His research indicates we have been losing family farms in Chenango County for over a hundred years and the loss has affected our local culture and economy.

This program is made possible with public funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Earlville Opera House