40 Years of Friendship
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A monthly guide to your community library, its programs and services Issue No. 213, November 2006 Library hours The library will close at 5 p.m. on Folk music legend Jean Ritchie lends her Wednesday, November 22, and will be closed on Thursday, November 23. name to library folk concert Happy Thanksgiving. The library’s Music Advisory using primitive methods and enter- CPR/AED Course Council is pleased to announce tained themselves with play-party Registration is in progress for the the inaugural Jean Ritchie Folk games and ballads handed down American Heart Association Adult Concert on Sunday, November 19 through the generations from their Heartsaver AED (Automated External at 3 p.m. featuring North River Scottish, English and Irish ances- Defibrillator) Course to be held on Band and NexTradition. Library tors. Jean is a graduate of Wednesday, November 15. See Calen- Director Nancy Curtin comments, Cumberland College and the Uni- dar of Events for details. “Jean Ritchie is one of the greats versity of Kentucky where she of the folk music world. We are earned a bachelor’s degree in so- fortunate to have her name grace cial work. FOL to name winners this concert series.” After college, Jean moved to In celebration of its 40th Anniversary, Jean was born and raised in New York and worked in the the Friends of the Library sponsored a Viper, Kentucky in the heart of the Henry Street Settlement as a social contest in TeenSpace to see how many Southern Appalachian Mountains, worker whose main virtues book titles teens could create using the youngest in a family of 14 children proved to be her voice and her phrase “Friends of the Library’s 40th An- born to Balis and Abigail Ritchie. deeply felt desire to help make a niversary Celebration.” The winner of Walled in by the rugged Cumber- better world. the contest, as well as winners of the land ridges, the Ritchies and their FOL’s Children’s Essay/Art Contest, neighbors farmed their hillsides continued on page 2 will be announced and prizes awarded on November 4 at the family movie. November 4 at 1 p.m. Celebration weekend schedule At the Landmark On Wednesday, November 29 at 7:30 Port resident Walt Bogdanich addresses p.m., bestselling author Nelson DeMille 40 years of will visit the Landmark on Main Street the future of investigative reporting to introduce his suspenseful new novel Wild Fire. In addition, Susan Isaacs will New York Times investigative State University in 1976. Friendship interview Mr. DeMille. This event is reporter and two-time Pulitzer Mr. Bogdanich was award- co-sponsored by the Port Washington Prize winner Walt Bogdanich pre- ed the Pulitzer Prize for national Friday, November 3 at 12:10 p.m. Public Library, The Landmark on Main sents a thought-provoking talk on reporting in 2005 for his series Author Yanek Mieczkowski will dis- Street and Dolphin Bookshop. a truly timely topic — the future “Death on the Tracks.” He won cuss his book on Gerald Ford and the politics of the ‘70s. of investigative reporting — on the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for his Hearing screening Saturday, November 4 at 1 p.m. articles in The Wall Street Jour- Friday, November 3 at 3 p.m. Mr. Bogdanich, a Port Wash- nal on substandard medical Professor Edmund Epstein con- The Adelphi University Speech & Hear- ington resident, will also show laboratories. He has also won cludes his popular 8-part lecture se- ing Center will be here December 8 clips from documentaries he has four George Polk Awards, an ries on the Bible. from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to conduct free produced for 60 Minutes and ABC IRE Award and an Overseas screenings; no appointment necessary. News. Press Club award. Friday, November 3 at 8 p.m. The Brewery Puppet Theatre pre- Walt Bogdanich became the sents The Crowtations, a wise-crack- investigations editor for the Busi- ing Motown-and-hip-hop-inspired ness and Finance Desk of The New revue for older children, teens and York Times in January 2001. He adults. Story inside. was named an assistant editor for the paper’s newly expanded Inves- Saturday, November 4 at 11 a.m. Vaudevillian Silent Clown Chip tigative Desk in 2003. Bryant presents Listening with Your Before joining The Times in Eyes, a “physical comedy theater 2001, he was an investigative pro- stage show” for children. ducer for “60 Minutes” on CBS and before that for ABC News. Saturday, November 4 at 1 p.m. Previously, he worked as an inves- Port resident, New York Times inves- tigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize tigative reporter for The Wall winner, Walt Bogdanich discusses Street Journal in New York and the future of investigative reporting Washington. He has also worked at the Gray Lady. Story at left. for The Cleveland Press and The Plain Dealer. Saturday, November 4 at 4 p.m. Born in Chicago on October Family Film: Born Free. 10, 1950, Mr. Bogdanich gradu- Sunday, November 5 at 2 p.m. ated from the University of Wis- The Gospel Sons perform traditional consin in 1975 with a degree in po- down-home and contemporary gos- litical science. He received a pel selections; Celebration Weekend Join us for a Buddy Holly tribute on Friday, master’s in journalism from Ohio closing ceremony. November 17 at 8 p.m. See the Calendar of Events for details. More Film Noir on DVD This month we screen twelve She Shoulda Said No! (1949). classic crime films, plus a docu- A nightclub dancer (Lila Leeds) mentary on the hard-boiled genre starts selling marijuana to put her known as film noir. Here are some kid brother through college. Sam lesser-known noir titles in our cir- Newfield directed. culating DVD collection: Teenage Doll (1957) by Roger The Bloody Brood (1959). Corman. Good girl June Kenney Jack Betts determines to catch falls into bad company. psychopath beatnik Peter Falk, The Violent Years (1956). who murdered his kid brother for High schooler Jean Moorhead kicks. Julian Roffman directed. moonlights as the boss of a gang Forgotten Noir: Vol. 1 in- of female thieves. William M. Mor- cludes Harold Schuster’s Portland gan directed, from a screenplay by Exposé (1957), in which mobsters Edward D. Wood, Jr. take over a cafe. Also, Kurt Neu- Without Warning! (1952). Los mann’s They Were So Young Angeles police track down a mild- (1954), a tale of white slavery. mannered gardener (Adam Will- Gangster Story (1959). Bank iams) who is murdering beautiful robber Walter Matthau hides out blondes. Arnold Laven directed. in the home of lonely librarian Woman on the Run (1950) by Carol Grace. This was Matthau’s Norman Foster. With the help of a only directorial effort; actress tabloid reporter (Dennis O’Keefe), Grace was Matthau’s wife. a wife (Ann Sheridan) seeks her High School Big Shot (1958). estranged husband (Ross Elliott), When loner Tom Pittman falls for who has witnessed a mob hit and classmate Virginia Aldridge, he gone into hiding. determines to win her admiration by robbing local mobsters. Direc- tor Joel M. Rapp also scripted. Dialogues with Nature Man in the Vault (1955). Gangster Berry Kroeger hires Dan Goldman is an award- the spiritual aspects of people, honest locksmith William Camp- winning photographer living in places and things in their relation- bell to break into a safety deposit Douglaston, who specializes in ships to each other and how this is box. Burt Kennedy scripted for di- both fine art and corporate adver- revealed in everyday life.” rector Andrew V. McLaglen. tising photography. He’ll exhibit Through his disciplined tech- Naked Youth (1959) by Rob- his Dialogues with Nature series nique and a devoted appreciation ert J. Blach. A drug runner and November 3 through December for nature and its boundless his addict girlfriend give a lift to 30. beauty, Dan transforms his sub- three teenagers, unaware that Dan Goldman teaches work- jects into timeless photographs, they have escaped from juvenile shops in digital photography and compelling the viewer to a deeper detention. Photoshop in New York and Ver- appreciation for all of nature. The Rebel Set (1959). A crook mont, and his work has appeared Meet the artist at a reception named Tucker the Butcher (Ed- in national magazines, newspapers on Saturday, November 4 at 2 ward C. Platt) recruits mama’s and galleries. p.m., and attend his slide talk on boy Leland (Don Sullivan), would- Goldman writes, “My work December 18 at 7:30 p.m. be actor John (Gregg Palmer) and reflects my aspiration to explore alcoholic novelist Ray (John Lup- ton) to “direct a masterpiece of Border Incident will be shown Monday, crime.” Gene Fowler, Jr. directed. November 13 at 7:30 p.m. Move over Temptations . Jean Ritchie, continued By 1950, Jean Ritchie was an if she’d consider launching their . The Crowtations are com- important figure in the New York folk music division. The result — ing! Older children, teens and folk scene, her influence probably the first record for Elektra and for adults are invited to join us at 8 best shown by the fact that dulci- Jean — was the 10-inch LP Jean p.m. on Friday, November 3 as mers, almost unknown instru- Ritchie, Singing Traditional Songs of four life-size birds perform an en- ments in New York, were suddenly Her Kentucky Mountain Family. gaging revue of Motown and hip- in demand. Today she is credited Since then, she has recorded more hopping choreography. with reviving interest in the moun- than 30 albums for different labels, The Crowtations are part of tain dulcimer and with helping to including her own Greenhays la- the Brewery Troupe.