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Ages 8-18

Create a character! Fight monsters! Make your own luck! Develop your skills in this fantasy role-playing system with other kids just like you.

Each player will only attend once a week on either Wednesday or Thursday; your slot will be assigned by the library based on your availability, experience, and other factors. The club is spread across two days to accommodate as many members as possible and follows the Dobbs Ferry Schools calendar for vacations and days off. Please only sign up if you think you can attend most of the meetings.

Registration is required via this Google form. You are not registered until a librarian contacts you with confirmation and scheduling details.

PROGRAM FULL. To be placed on the waitlist or ask a question, participants aged 8-12 can email children’s librarian Gina at childrens@dobbsferrylibrary.org, and participants aged 13-18 can email teen librarian Alex at teens@dobbsferrylibrary.org.

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Get ready for the 2026 XXV Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina! Join New York’s own Lake Placid Olympic Museum as they share historic images and artifacts from their collection that tell the story of the Olympic Winter Games, all the way from Ancient Greece to contemporary Italy. There will be a special focus on the two Games that were hosted in Lake Placid, NY: the first time in 1932 and again in 1980.

Other topics include:

• The founding of the Ancient Olympics in Greece
• The revival of the ancient Games in 1896
• How the Games were officially split by season into Winter and Summer Games in 1924
• Bringing the Olympic Winter Games to North America forever leaving its mark on Lake Placid
• The Olympic Winter Games through the decades as lenses through which to view the failures, hopes, and greatest successes of humanity
• Miracle on Ice and other history-Making moments from the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics
• The evolution of the Winter Olympics
• Time to ask the experts any questions

Register for the ZOOM link at reference@dobbsferrylibrary.org

Presented in partnership with: John C. Hart Memorial Library Library, Lewisboro Public Library, Ossining Public Library, White Plains Public Library, and Yonkers Public Library.

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