MAC Announces Fall 2011 Season
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A monthly guide to your community library, its programs and services Issue No. 268, August 2011 Summer hours The library will be open Saturdays Library Foundation Gala celebrates our from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday hours resume after Labor Day. nautical heritage This year’s Foundation Gala outstanding contributions to the Fun and games at the on September 24 will center around HarborFest Model Boat Regatta library the nautical theme “Navigating the and her dedication to teaching the If you enjoy Scrabble and/or chess, Future of the Library.” Community children of Port Washington about join fellow devotees for a game. See honorees are Andrea Watson and the joys of sailing. the calendar of events for details. Guy LaMotta, both of whom have One can easily attribute Guy been intimately involved with boats, LaMotta’s success in life to his keen sailing and Manhasset Bay for many interest in boats. After graduating Text us your question years. college with a B.S. in environmen- Try our free text message reference Andrea Watson has chaired tal science, LaMotta served in the service. Text us at 66746 and start your the library’s Nautical Advisory United States Army and received a question with ASKPWPL. Service is Council since 2006 and has written certificate from General Montgom- available during library hours. the column “On the Bay” for the ery for serving as Senior Harbor Port Washington News since 1999. Craft in the Eastern Military Area. Get ready for school Andrea currently works for Yacht After his military service, Visit pwpl.org and click on “Live Racing Association of Long Island LaMotta returned to Long Island, Homework Help” to connect to a live Sound. She was on the library’s where he served as captain of the tutor for one-to-one help. Also, check Board of Trustees for nine years, Town of North Hempstead’s Patrol out Tutor.com To Go™ for iPad, and a director on the Friends’ board Boat and joined the Manhasset iPhone & iPod Touch — it’s the free for ten years before that. She is a Bay Sportsman’s Club. In 1966 mobile companion for Tutor.com. director of the Community Chest, LaMotta purchased a piece of land Made possible by the Friends of the member of Manhasset Bay Sailing on Manhasset Isle that was eventu- Library and the Bernard L. Fendrich Foundation, and board member of ally developed into Manhasset Bay Memorial Youth Fund. Historically Significant Structures, Marina. By 1980, LaMotta owned a group that is planning to turn and managed over 1000 boat slips Execution Rock Lighthouse into a on Long Island, including the Mon- Save the date: FOL bed and breakfast. Andrea is also tauk Club, the Bath and Tennis Club the chair of the Knickerbocker Cup, in West Hampton, Manhasset Isle University October 2 an internationally known match race Yacht Club and the Manhasset Bay See notice inside. Aditional informa- regatta that attracts top skippers Marina. tion will be available in next month’s from around the world to Manhas- Today LaMotta’s Manhasset issue. set Bay. Bay Marina is a full-service 300-boat In 2009, the Chamber of Com- facility, one of the largest on Long merce honored Andrea for her Island. Receive text message notifications SMS ALERTS provide you with mo- bile text messages as a supplement to e-mailed notices. Once you opt in through your online library account, you will receive texts for courtesy notices, overdue notices and pick-up notices. Texts are simply alerts —- not complete or detailed notifications. If you choose to receive SMS alerts, you will continue to be notified by phone or e-mail as well, and you may opt out at any time. If you need assistance, library staff members are here to help. Pay your library fines online You can now log on to your library ac- count to pay library fines using a Visa or Mastercard credit card or a bank MAC announces Fall 2011 Season card with the Mastercard or Visa logo (no Discovery or American Express at The Music Advisory Council’s Fall Season opens Sunday, September 11 at 3 p.m. with an appearance by the Linden String Quartet. Other fall this time). Minimum payment amount programs include pianist George Li (above left) on October 16, pianist Marija Stroke (center) on November 13 and violinist Benjamin Beilman (right) on December 11. Music Council programs are privately funded by donations to the Port Washington Library Foundation. is $5. Make us your summer destination Make the library your des- tination for summer. Our pro- gram schedule is packed with music, movies, lectures, games, workshops, exhibits, discussion groups and more. Our shelves are stocked with the latest books, DVDs, CDs and audiobooks, as well as the classics. There’s no place in town that can provide you with the “one stop shopping” experience that’s available at your library or that has the views from our ter- race garden. And keep in mind, if you just need to beat the heat, visit us. We have plenty of comfortable seat- ing and work space. Friends welcomes new members to board The library welcomes three able additions to the FOL, taking and outreach. As Library Director new members to the Friends of on projects from the onset of their Nancy Curtin puts it, “Friends’ sup- the Library Board of Directors. tenures. port helps to transform the library’s Margaret DeSiervo, Lauren Smith The Friends of the Library activities from the ordinary to the and Karen Gordon (pictured above) supports the library through volun- extraordinary.” have proven themselves to be valu- teerism, programming, fundraising Songwriters and performers gather for library “hootenanny” Throughout the 1950s and Traguardo and Reno Bracchi will 1960s, nightclubs and venues in also join in the musical fun, and at every major city were brimming some point, a sing-a-long will most with young singers and songwrit- likely take place. But please note … ers trying to get their music heard. there will be no “passing of the hat!” Many venues would offer them a Soloists or duo acts interested chance to play for audiences dur- in being a part of this or future hoo- ing a weekly or bi-weekly program tenanny events should contact Tony comprised of four or five perform- Traguardo at 883-4400, Ext. 142. ers playing separately and together, supporting one another both musi- cally and socially. This was the era of the “hootenanny,” and as part of our monthly SoundSwap program, the library will bring back the spirit of those times for a “hoot” of our own on Tuesday, August 16 at 7:30 p.m. Local singer/songwriter Glenn McCready will host the event, which will feature a number of talented musicians, each playing The North Shore Audubon Society joined forces with the library to encourage children and a handful of their original songs their parents to identify birds and learn about their habitats and behavior. NSAS recently installed feeders in the Children’s Garden and assisted in choosing informational materials. and spirited covers. With Glenn’s Head of Children’s Services Rachel Fox, pictured above with NSAS’s Peggy Maslow (r), encouragement, the evening will hopes to start a young birders club sometime in the future. The funding for this project offer our audience some unique came from library trustee Myron Blumenfeld, who gave a grant to NSAS to educate children musical team-ups and spontaneous about birds. He recalls a Brooklyn Museum Children’s Program supported with funds from the WPA when he was a child during the Depression. He attended free classes on birds, song performances. insects and minerals, and to this day credits his interest in the natural world with these early Library staff members Tony Glenn McCready experiences. He hopes to provide Port children with similar opportunities. Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune On Tuesday, August 23 at 7:30 of his complex political and per- p.m. Sonny Ochs will introduce sonal life. By 1968, the mood of the and discuss Kenneth Bowser’s country had changed; all that had documentary about her legendary seemed possible just a few years brother. Phil Ochs rose to fame in earlier began to fade and Phil Ochs the early 1960s during the height of took this to heart as if the failings of the folk and protest song movement. the movement were his own. As prolific as he was passion- By the time of his death, the ate, Ochs released seven acclaimed FBI had a dossier on Ochs that was albums and wrote hundreds of songs over 400 pages long; they would during his career. His songs, with argue that he had no respect for lyrics ripped straight from the head- government and stood against his lines, spoke to those emboldened by country in a time of war. Unyield- the hopeful idealism of the day. Ochs ing in his principals and unbending himself believed to his core that in his artistic vision, Phil Ochs, he and his music could change the though branded a traitor by critics, world for the better. From protest- was above all a fiercely patriotic ing the Vietnam War to supporting American. striking miners, from his attacks on Sonny Ochs has been in- Library at the LIRR sitting presidents to mocking the volved in the folk music scene The library’s service to Long Island politically disinterested, he struck Railroad commuters continues through since the early 1980s. Starting out September 7. Library staff are on-site at at the heart of both the right and as a DJ on WFMU in New Jersey, the station on Wednesdays from 7 to 9 left wing political establishment with she joined the People’s Music a.m., weather permitting.