PWPL: Celebrating 120 Years Games Will Be Available for 7-Day Checkout in Both the Media Depart- January 2012 Marks the Beginning of Our 120Th Anniversary Year
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A monthly guide to your community library, its programs and services Issue No. 273, January 2012 January holidays The library will be closed on Sunday Annual Dill Jones Jazz Tribute January 1. Have a safe and happy new year! On Monday, January 16, we will with The Gail Nelson Trio be open from 1 to 5 p.m. in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The Music Advisory Council Jones was one of the leading figures welcomes the Gail Nelson Trio on in London jazz circles prior to his Sunday, January 22 at 3 p.m., fea- coming to the United States in 1961. Computers Classes in turing Gail Nelson, vocals, Howard He is remembered for his consider- Begun, piano, David Jackson, bass, able abilities as a performer of the Spanish and Al Gaffa, guitar. Harlem Stride Piano School. He January 21 from 12 to 2 p.m.: Com- The versatile Gail Nelson is worked with many of the leading puter Second Grade and from 2 to a singer-actress who is equally at British and American musicians, 4 p.m. Microsoft Word and Desktop home with opera, Broadway, theater and a list of his associates reads like Publishing. On Januar y 28 from and clubs. a who’s who in jazz. 12 to 2 p.m. Computer Third Grade This concert pays tribute to Music Advisory Council pro- and from 2 to 4 p.m. Microsoft Excel. Dillwyn “Dill” Jones, a renowned grams are funded by donations to Call the ESOL Office at Ext. 147 or 149 jazz pianist who lived the last years the Port Washington Library Foun- to register. of his life in Port Washington. Dill dation. Jobs, justice and our economic future Port resident Jon Weinstein will moderate a forum on Tuesday, Janu- ary 24 at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Irwin Kellner, MarketWatch’s chief economist, opens the forum with a summary of the state of the economy. Story inside. FOL Book & Author Luncheon Save the date for the Friends of the Library’s 43rd Annual Book & Author Luncheon: Friday, May 11, 2012 at a new location: The North Hills Coun- try Club. Check future newsletters and pwpl.org/fol for information on authors and tickets. Biography Book Group Want to keep your brain firing on all cylinders? Like a little social inter- action on occasion? Enjoy sharing your thoughts with others? Join our monthly book discussion where we learn the where, when and how others have lived. The group meets on third Thursdays at 1:30 p.m. Books are pro- vided. Contact Lee Fertitta at 883-4400, Ext. 135 for more information. Video games!! The PWPL is excited to announce that beginning in January, we’ll have a circulating video games collection. PWPL: Celebrating 120 years Games will be available for 7-day checkout in both the Media Depart- January 2012 marks the beginning of our 120th anniversary year. See the story inside for a sampling of our year-long program ment and Children’s Room. of festivities. Pictured above are the Imani Winds ensemble, the first Port Washington Public Library and a sample of steam- punk art. Details on page 3. An evening with Oscar Brand and Ervin Drake On Thursday, January 26 at Ervin Drake, 92 years young, 7:30 p.m., the library and the Long became a published songwriter in Island Music Hall of Fame (LIM- 1932, at age 12. Since that time, he HoF) present an evening with Oscar has written or co-written a number Brand and Ervin Drake, two veteran of American Songbook standards, songwriters and long-time Great including “It Was a Very Good Year,” Neck residents, who have shared a first recorded by the Kingston Trio decades-long friendship. and a top 10 hit for Frank Sinatra. “I Oscar Brand, a youth of 91, is Believe,” a hit for Frankie Laine in a folk singer, songwriter, and author 1953, holds the record for number of who has composed at least three hun- non-consecutive weeks spent at num- dred songs and released nearly one ber one. The song has been recorded hundred albums. He has hosted the by dozens of artists, including Barbra radio show Oscar Brand’s Folksong Streisand and Elvis Presley. The jazz Festival on New York’s WNYC-AM standard “Good Morning Heartache” 820 since its debut on December 10, has been recorded by over one hun- 1945, making it the longest-running dred artists, including Diana Ross for What’s all that radio show with the same host. the movie Lady Sings the Blues. These He earned a Peabody Award for are a few of the accomplishments that jazz? broadcast excellence in 1982 for his led to Mr. Drake’s 1983 induction into Join musician and educator Shenole work on National Public Radio’s The the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Latimer for a lecture and performance Sunday Show, and was awarded the These two musicians will share that outlines the history of jazz on Friday, January 6 at 12:10 p.m. Personal Peabody Award in 1997. anecdotes during their presentation. Our top picks from 2011 A Discovery of Witches by Deborah The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman. A Monsters in the Movies: 100 Years E. Harkness. Deep in the stacks of favorite . because it’s about rural of Cinematic Nightmares by John Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young Massachusetts and an apple orchard Landis. The director of An Ameri- scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly and it begins with the arrival of the can Werewolf in London pays tribute calls up a bewitched alchemical first settlers, and moves forward in to his favorite monster movies with manuscript. Descended from linked stories through the history of a gorgeous coffee table book full an old and distinguished line of the town and the unusual characters of rare images. Jonathan Guildroy. witches, Diana wants nothing to who inhabit the place. Told with Media Services do with sorcery, but her discovery great compassion and a little bit of sets a fantastical underworld stir- magic! Also high on the list were The In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Ter- ring. Denise Anchico, Reference Paris Wife and Rules of Civility. Patti ror, and an American Family in Services Paris, Reference Services Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson. It’s 1933, a time of rapid, frightening No Passengers Beyond this Point Junonia by Kevin Henkes. Alice change in Germany, and the new In the Main by Gennifer Choldenko. With and her parents return to Sanibel U.S. ambassador, a history profes- their house in foreclosure, sisters Island where Alice will celebrate sor from the University of Chicago, India and Mouse and brother Finn her 10th birthday and she wants has just arrived in Berlin with his Gallery wife and family. Corinne Camarata, Constance Garrow Diamond exhibits Precis are sent to stay with an uncle in everything to be perfect. But things in the Main Gallery, January 2 through 26. Colorado, but when the plane seem different this year and Alice Administration The Art Advisory Council hosts a reception lands, the children are welcomed desperately hopes to find the rare for the artist on January 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. junonia seashell. A coming of age Delirium by Lauren Oliver. Lena Ms. Diamond writes: by cheering crowds to a strange looks forward to receiving the story that deals with how kindness “I went to school at a time when the thinking place where each of them has a government-mandated cure that perfect house and a clock that is and sympathy can soothe unsettling was that a work of art should speak for times. For ages 9 to 12. Joni Simon, prevents the delirium of love and itself. Artists did not write statements. ticking down the time. Rachel S. leads to a safe, predictable life, Practice then dictated that a statement Fox, Children’s Services Children’s Services th be presented with a body of work. When I until days before her 18 birthday was teaching, I required my students to do and her treatment, when she falls The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak. A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny. so – not so much for the viewer but for the The latest in a series that takes place in love. Lori Gerbasi, Young Adult students to clarify for themselves where The story of a young American Services they were going and understand their own thrust into World War I fighting in Three Pines, Quebec. “Hearts are work. Perhaps a compromise is the answer on the side of Austria, his family’s broken,” Lillian Dyson carefully un- She Wolves: The Women Who Ruled – a short statement of introduction. homeland. This concise novel re- derlined in a book. “Sweet relation- England Before Elizabeth by Helen “I usually work on 3 or 4 related pieces veals the true horror of the Great ships are dead.” But now Lillian her- Castor. A wonderful — and bloody at a time, moving from one to the other – primarily when I need to think. My pieces War, as one man witnesses an self is dead, found in Clara Morrow’s — account of women surviving in garden in Three Pines, shattering are meant as a précis, a condensation of unconscionable side of humanity. treacherous times. Virginia Bugli- feelings and personal content, an emotional Keith Klang, Children’s Services the celebrations of Clara’s solo show arello, Adult Services response. Everything unnecessary is at the famed Musée in Montreal. Lee eliminated, what is left is abstract art that Fertitta, Adult Services is meant as a dynamic interplay of form, Practical Jean by Trevor Cole.