Newsletter of the Hewlett- Woodmere Public Library APRIL I MAY I JUNE 2017 VOLUME 52, NUMBER 4 OverlF eaf WHAT’S INSIDE Ì 1st Annual OVER LEAF JR. REMOVABLE INSERT Friends of the Library Afternoons@the Library Page 4 Author Luncheon Events & Performances Pages 2-3 Films Page 6 In Memory of Lenore Kramer Great Books Page 3 featuring Delia Ephron, Great Decisions Page 4 H-WPL Readers Page 7 author of Siracusa, a novel Health Page 3 I Thursday, June 22, 11:30 am Lectures & Courses Pages 4 t At: T he Royalton at Lawrence Yacht & r Teens Page 5 e b i e

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BUDGET VOTE E : o t o h Hewlett-Woodmere Bestselling author and screenwriter P Public Library Delia Ephron will be the guest of the Proposed 2017/2018 Friends of Library for their 1st Annual Delia Ephron Annual Budget Vote Author Luncheon. Ms. Ephron will speak and Trustee Election and do a signing of her latest book, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Siracusa. 7:00 am to 10:00 pm Her other novels include The Lion Is In and Hang - Woodmere Education Center ing Up . She has written humor books for all ages, One Johnson Place, including How to Eat Like a Child and Do I Have to Woodmere, New York 11598 Say Hello? ; and nonfiction, most recently Sister For information concerning the Mother Husband Dog (etc.). Her films include You’ve library budget, call William Ferro, Got Mail, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Library Director at 516-374-1967. (based on her novel), and Michael . For questions regarding petitions, Her journalism has appeared in The New York registration, absentee ballots, and Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. voting, please call Barbara Randazzo, Her hit play Love, Loss, and What I Wore (co-written with ) ran for District Clerk at 516-792-4800. Regis - more than two years off-Broadway and has been performed all over the world. She tration is required if a resident has not lives in . voted in a Hewlett-Woodmere School No tickets will be issued. Price for luncheon, all inclusive: $50.00 per person. District or Library referendum within Reservation forms will be at the Information Desk and all Friends’ programs. All the last 4 years, or in a General Elec - reservations should be mailed to FOL, using the address on the form, by Thursday, tion within the last 4 years. To be June 1, 2017 . For further information, please call Mrs. Irene Levy, 516-637-5561. eligible to register you must be 18 years of age or older by May 16, 2017 and must have been a legal resident of Adult Summer Reading at H-WPL the district for at least 30 days prior to the referendum. U.S. citizenship is also BUILD A BETTER WORLD required. I Registration begins Monday, June 5, 10 am BOARD OF TRUSTEES Shari H. Braverman, President This summer the library is inaugurating our Frank Zaret, Vice President BUILD A BETTER WORLD summer reading David A. Adler Ayanna Layne program just for adults- complete with shared Leslie Eisenberg, Treasurer book suggestions, fun prizes for books lovers, Marilyn S. Cranin, P resident Emerita Presidents Emeritus and other special gifts. Donald A. Davidson, Jack J. Kahgan When you register you will receive a book Benjamin A. Elibott log, and other items to inspire your reading. Over the summer you will read at least William Ferro, Director 2 books; submit your reviews or play a game of H-WPL Book Bingo. At the end of the Nadine Connors, Editor and Programs summer we will conclude with a special event for participants. 1125 Broadway, Hewlett, NY 11557 Tel: (516) 374-1967 Programs: (516) 374-166 7 www.hwpl.org SPECIAL EVEN TS & PERFORM ANCES

New Talent/New Ideas WHAT’S THAT SOUND? Stephen Whale, Pianist I Sunday, April 30, 2:30 pm Stephen Whale, from Australia, recently graduated from Yale School of Music with a Master’s in Piano Per - formance. He has won numerous Frank Vignola I-Heung Lee awards and scholarships in Australia, & Vinny Raniolo and has played at such venues as the EDYTHE BRENNER Bulgarian Embassy in Washington D. C F Ì FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MEMORIAL CONCERT and the Lotos Club in Manhattan. SPECIAL CONCERT Featuring pianist, Tickets may be picked up beginning Frank Vignola Wednesday, April 19, 10 am & 7pm. I-Heung Lee and Vinny Raniolo I Sund ay, May 21, 2:30 pm Hiroya With special guest Tsukamoto Gary Mazzaroppi Ms. Lee has performed all over the United States and Asia. She has per - I Sunday, April 23, 2:30 pm formed at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall Frank Vignola is one of the most and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. extraordinary guitarists performing Through financial support from the before the public today. His virtuosity Chou Foundation, Ms. I-Heung Lee has made him the guitarist choice of studied and trained in the United Ringo Starr, Madonna, Donal Fagen, States, receiving a Master’s degree Hiroya Tsukamoto, Wynton Marsalis, The Boston Pops, and in Piano Performance, a Piano Post- Cinematic Guitar Poetry more. Guitar legend Les Paul named Graduate Diploma and a Piano I Sunday, May 7, 2:30 pm Vignola to his “Five Most Admired Gui - Professional Diploma. She studied at Hiroya Tsukamoto is a one of kind tarists List” for The Wall Street The Juilliard School of Music and the composer, guitarist, and singer/song - Journal. Vignola’s jaw-dropping tech - City University of New York. writer from Kyoto, Japan. At 13 he nique explains why District residents may pick up tickets beginning began playing the five-string banjo deems him “one of the brightest…stars Wednesday, May 10, 10 am & 7 pm. and later moved onto guitar. After of the guitar.” graduating Osaka University he District residents and Friends of the Library received a scholarship to The Berklee may pick up tickets beginning Vinnie Knight Wednesday, April 12, 10 am & 7 pm. School of Music in Boston, MA. He is a recipient of the Professional Music 5 Towns Indian Association Achievement Award. He and his group Presents often perform with The Kennedys, the Muddy Waters Band, and more. Children’s Day He performs an eclectic acoustic I Sunday, April 9, 2 pm music, often with vocals, poetry, and A wonderful afternoon of celebra - Japanese folk songs. tion! Beautiful costumes! Performed Tickets may be picked up beginning and conceived by the children and their Wednesday, April 26, 10 am & 7 pm. ÌF Hi ghlights in Jazz teachers to celebrate India’s rich These programs are made possible with cultural heritage. Presents funds from the Decentralization Program, Tickets are not required. A Salute to Ellington a re-grant program of the New York State Ms. Vinnie Knight, and Black Pearls Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York and White Diamonds in Harlem State Legislature and is administered by I Thursday, April 27, 7: 30 pm The Huntington Arts Council, Inc. A musical review recalling the glory days of Harlem and the music of Duke UNITED CHORAL Ellington featuring Vinnie Knight, I vocals; Alex Gressel, bass; Ian Mc Donald, Sunday, June 11, 2 pm piano, and Dan Cooksey, drums. Beautiful music from an all-volun - District residents and Friends of the Library teer chorus with professional up and may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, coming soloists. April 12, 10 am & 7 pm. No tickets required.

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LONG ISLAND READS ÌF LENORE KRAMER Essentrics/Classical Stretch One Island-One Book LECTURE SERIES with Betty Ng Dead Wake AUTHOR VISIT I Friday, April 21, 1 pm by Erik Larson First One In, Last One Out – Essentrics is also known as “Classical Stretch” on public television (WLIW in On May 1, 1915, a Auschwitz Survivor 31321 NYC). Using fluid, rotational move - luxury ocean liner as With author, Marilyn Shimon ments, Essentrics rebalances all 650 richly appointed as I Wednesday, April 26, 1 pm muscles in our body, in addition to con - an English country ditioning our bones, joints, and fascia house sailed out of (connective tissues). The event at the New York, bound for library will give an overview of how Liverpool, carrying a Essentrics works and why it is thera - record number of peutic for so many people. Following children and infants. The Germans had the talk, participants can join guest declared the seas around Britain to be instructor Betty Ng for a demo/tryout. a war zone and for months its U-boats Betty is one of eight Level IV fully brought terror to the North Atlantic. It certified Essentrics instructors in the is a story that many of us think we US. She is also an appointed mentor for know but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it other Essentrics instructors. In addi - thrillingly, switching between hunter While growing up in New York, tion, Betty is a certified personal and hunted while painting a larger por - Marilyn Shimon often visited her uncle trainer and Red Cross-certified in CPR, trait of America at the height of the in California. She saw his scars, gaped AED, and First Aid. Progressive Era. at his “31321” tattoo, and listened to his horrific stories of the Holocaust. M.E.L.T. However, she could not relate to the with Dana Morissey, instructor suffering he endured or understand the I significance of his accounts—until now. Wednesday, June 7, 10 am In this grisly memoir, Marilyn resur - The MELT Method® (MELT®) is a sim - Erik Larson rects Murray Scheinberg’s stories of six ple self-treatment that reduces chronic hellish years in Nazi concentration pain and helps you stay healthy, youth - Dead Wake, a radio drama camps during World War II. The Polish ful, and active for a lifetime. MELT was with actors Diana Heinlein Jew was one of the first eight men to created by New York City manual thera - and David Houston enter Auschwitz, as a political prisoner pist and connective tissue specialist I Thursday, April 6, 1 pm in 1940, and one of the last to escape Sue Hitzmann. Using specialized tech - niques, a soft body roller, and four A one hour program in the style of Dachau. different balls, MELT is designed to read drama featuring excerpts from the Rejected by a publisher in the 1960s reconnect whole-body communication, book includes a narrative and character because of its incredible details, this rebalance the nervous system, rehy - voices over a background of sound true story, finally available to the pub - drate the connective tissue, and effects and music. lic, will shock, horrify, and touch readers. release compression in joints. Ms. Shimon is a resident of Hewlett. She will District residents may register beginning F Wednesday, May 24, 10 am & 7 pm. Ì Great Books Discussion be there to speak about her book and sign Class is limited to 15 participants. Group 2017 copies of her book. Reading the Classics for Pleasure NORTHWELL HEALTH SYSTEMS ÌF LENORE KRAMER With Dr. Allen Lanner Aging: How To Stay Young and LECTURE SERIES Vital: A Guide to the Perplexed I Tuesdays at 7:30 pm Thomas Jefferson: with Dr. Penny Stern I April 18 Colossus or Conundrum Wednesday, June 14, 11 am The Story of Nobody Dr. Stern serves in a variety of With Prof. Philip Nicholson, Ph.D. Anton Chekhov capacities at Northwell Health. She is I ASIN: BOO7FP98EW Kindle Edition Tuesday, June 27, 1 pm the Director, Preventive Medicine at In this lecture, we will seek to May 16 the Dept. of Occupational Medicine, reassess Jefferson more realistically as The Custom of the Country Epidemiology, and Prevention, and founder, philosopher, president, and Edith Wharton more. This delightful lecture on aging man. Is the dilemma of Jefferson the Bantam Classics will give you some ideas to think about same as that of the nation? Or, was he ISBN-10-0553213938 and help you navigate through the end - guilty of monumental hypocrisy? less information on aging. 3 LECTURES & COURSES

Afternoon s@ the library A New York Experience A Constant Affair With Louise Cella Caruso I Thursday, May 18, 1 pm New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world con - verge. This presentation will give a visual survey of the city, featuring artists such as Childa Hassam, Robert

Rachel Carson Henri, George Bellows, Ben Shahn, Francis Criss, Edward Hopper, and Knit...Purl...Knit more. Our journey will travel from Afternoon s@ the library With Care To Knit,Inc. 1800 to the 1950s. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE I Thursday, June 15, 1 pm Documentary: Rachel Carson’s Office of NYS Comptroller, Attention all knitters, whether new Silent Spring to this craft or an old timer! The library Narrated by Oliver Platt, written & directed by Thomas P. DiNapoli Michelle Ferrari, 120 min. is j oining with Care To Knit, Inc. to Search Online for Lost Money collect knitted hats for Hats For I Thursday, April 13, 1 pm With Leah Solomon, Community Backpacks: Brooke Jackman Foundation. Featuring the voice of Mary-Louise Liaison, Intergovernmental and These hats are for school age Parker as the influential writer and Community Affairs children 4-10 years old. For this scientist, Rachel Carson is an intimate I project, we are knitting simple caps in portrait of the woman whose ground - Thursday, June 8, 1 pm all colors in acrylic yarn. The caps breaking books revolutionized our Search online for money in your should not be too short that they will relationship to the natural world. name. Unclaimed funds are old not cover the ears. You can be as When Silent Spring was published in accounts or money left behind at creative as you like; the size of the hat September 1962, it became an instant banks, utilites, insurance and invest - is what matters. We will have more bestseller and would go on to spark ment companies or items such as information at our meeting and collect dramatic changes in the way the forgotten security deposits and wages. hats you may have already made. government regulated pesticides. Ms. Solomon will be on hand to show Printed patterns will be available Drawn from Carson’s own writings, you how to do it. starting Wednesday, April 5, 10 am at letters and recent scholarship, the film District residents may register beginning Thursday, June 1, 10 am. the Information Desk. Please visit their illuminates both the public and private website: www.caretoknit.org or their life of the soft-spoken, shy scientist Facebook page; Care To Knit, Inc. who launched the modern environmen - Genealogy for Beginners CARE T0 KNIT, INC. is a non-profit organization tal movement. with Diana Warmsley whose mission is to provide hand knit and cro - I Part One : Tuesday, June 13, 7 pm cheted items such as scarves, lap shawls, hats Afternoon s@ the library and other related accessories to those in shel - An introductory class gets beginners ters, hospitals, nursing homes, and hospices. AUTHOR VISIT started on researching their family his - Long Island tory. Participants are introduced to Food: A History genealogy basics and a 5 Step Research GREAT DECISIONS 2017 from Family Model to guide genealogical research. Foreign Policy Association Farms and Vital records are reviewed to illustrate With Stanislao G. Pugliese, Oysters to how to properly mine them for Craft Spirits genealogical information. Free geneal - Hofstra University by T.W. Barritt ogy resources are provided I Wednesdays at 7:30 pm I Thursday, May 11, 1 pm April 26: Gulf Cooperation Council - Genealogy for Beginners Saudi Arabia T.W. Barritt explores how immigrant families built a thriving agricultural and I Part Two : Thursday, June 15, 7 pm May 10: Geopolitics of Energy maritime community, producing every - Part Two goes beyond vital records May 24: Latin America to cover census, military, social secu - thing from crunchy pickles, hearty June 7: Afghanistan/Pakistan potatoes, briny oysters, to succulent rity, and immigration records. Each Nuclear Security duckling. record set is illustrated and mined for June 21: Mr. Barritt is an exceptional speaker its genealogical detail. Special atten - Registration began December 10, 2016. Book - lets are $8. Exact titles, order of discussion and will be on hand to speak and do a tions given to the 1940 US Federal topics, and dates may be subject to change. book signing. Census for its value to family research. ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program. 4 TEEN LECTURES & COURSES Painting with Ceramics For Grades 6-12 I Thursday, June 8, 7 pm Paint either a ceramic frog, turtle or snail! Everything you will need to com - plete this project will be included in the class. District residents may begin registering Wednesday, May 24 at 10 am & 7 pm in the Free SAT or ACT Children’s Room. Practice Exam Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them For Grades 9-12 Starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine I Sunday, April 2, Waterston, Colin Farrell 1 to 4:15 pm Directed by David Yates , PG-13, 133 min. Students will get the chance to take I Wednesday, April 12, 6:30 pm a full-length SAT or ACT in an official It opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander testing environment. Please choose the has just completed a global excursion test you want to take at the time of to find and document an extraordinary registration. Students are then invited Decorating Wooden Letters array of magical creatures. Arriving in For Grades 6-12 to attend Test Scores Back Night. New York for a brief stopover, he might I Monday, May 15, 7 pm District Residents may register NOW in the have come and gone without incident, Children’s Room. Come in and personalize your own were it not for a No-Maj (American for wooden letter using duck tape, yarn, Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced glass beads and other craft supplies! Test Scores Back Night magical case, and the escape of some District residents may begin registering For Grades 9-12 of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could Wednesday, April 26 at 10 am & 7 pm in the I Thursday, April 6, 7 pm spell trouble for both the wizarding and Children’s Room. No-Maj worlds. Students who took an exam on *If you would like to decorate the first initial April 2, are invited back to receive *Your Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library Card is of your name, you must register a week before your ticket to admission. the program. their test scores. Test strategies and helpful techniques will be discussed with time for questions. Film: Rogue One: A Star District Residents may register NOW in the Wars Story Children’s Room. Starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Forest Whitaker The New Rules of College Directed by Gareth Edwards, Rated PG-13,133 min. Admissions I Thursday, April 13, 6:30 pm For Parents and Students in In a period of great conflict, a group Grades 9-12 of unlikely heroes led by Jyn Erso, a I Wednesday, May 17, 6:30 pm daring fugitive, and Cassian Andor, a Build a Better World: Teen rebel spy, band together on a desperate Michael Binder is one of the premier mission to steal the plans to the Death Summer Reading Contest college consultants on Long Island, hav - Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of For Students Entering ing successfully guided hundreds of destruction. Grades 6-12 students through the college planning *Your Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library Card is Enter for a chance to win an and admissions process. your ticket to admission. Amazon gift card by filling out In this hour and a half session, stu - a contest entry form available dents and parents will learn: The key at www.hwpl.org/teens or in the steps students must take to maximize Chess Nuts For Grades 6-12 Children’s or Teen sections. For more their admissions and scholarship poten - I Tuesdays: April 25 & May 2, 7 pm chances to win, fill out a contest tial are: determining which colleges are Have you always wanted to learn entry form for every book you read best for you, how to differentiate your - how to play chess or just want someone this summer! Many will enter and self from other applicants, secrets to to play chess with? The Long Island MANY will win! make your college visits the best, how Chess Nuts will provide chess instruc - District residents may begin submitting to get a college to say yes! tion followed by playing time. entries June 1. All entries must be received District residents may begin registering District residents may begin registering for one by Monday, August 14, 2017. Winners will Wednesday, May 3 at 10 am & 7 pm in the session at a time beginning Wednesday, April 12 be notified Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Children’s Room. at 10 am and 7 pm in the Children’s Room.

5 H-WPL NEWS WEDNESDAY FILMS SCHEDULE CHANGES La La Land Monday, April 10 9 am - 5 pm Rated PG-13; 2 hours, 8 minutes Friday, April 14 9am - 5 pm Directed by Damien Chazelle Sunday, April 16 CLOSED Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone Monday, May 1 1–9 pm I June 14, 2 pm Sunday, May 14 CLOSED The story of Mia, an aspiring actress, Sunday, May 28 CLOSED and Sebastian, a dedicated jazz musi - Monday, May 29 CLOSED cian, struggling to make ends meet Sunday, June 18 CLOSED Sunday, June 25 CLOSED while pursuing their dreams in a city known for destroying hopes and break - BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ MEETINGS Scene from La La Land ing hearts. Monday, April 3 7:45 pm Open budget meeting 7:15 pm Sully Monday, May 8 7:45 pm Rated PG-13; 1 hour, 36 minutes Tuesday, June 12 7:45 pm Directed by Clint Eastwood Starring Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart SUMMER LOANS 2017 I April 5, 2 & 7 pm June 1 through Sunday, On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, Hidden Figures September 10 the world witnessed the “Miracle on Rated PG, 2 hours, 7 minutes the Hudson” when Captain Chesley Sul - Directed by Theodore Melfi Summer vacation loans are available to Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, HWPL cardholders. Ten (10) items may lenberger, nicknamed “Sully”, glided Kevin Costner his disabled plane onto the frigid be borrowed for a summer loan, which I June 21, 2 pm waters of the Hudson River, saving the include: All (twenty-eight)28- day As the US raced against Russia to put a lives of all 155 aboard. books, books on CD, except travel man in space, NASA found untapped books. Items may be renewed for the Florence Foster Jenkins talent in a group of African-American standard loan period, provided that female mathematicians that served as there are no reserves. Rated PG-13; 1 hour, 51 minutes Directed by Stephen Frears the brains behind one of the greatest Starring Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant operations in U.S. history. AARP SMART DRIVER COURSE I April 19, 2 & 7 pm Call 516.374.1967 x231 for informa - FLASHBACK FRIDAY MOVIES tion about our on-going defensive The true story of Florence Foster Flashback Friday films are great films driving classes. Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, you might like to see again or films IN CASE OF WEATHER despite having a terrible singing voice. that you somehow missed. EMERGENCY Defending Your Life (1991) Arrival Rated PG; 1 hour, 52 minutes Please call the library or check out Rated PG-13; 1 hour, 56 minutes Directed by Albert Brooks our website www.hwpl.org for informa - Directed by Denis Villeneuve Starring Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn tion regarding closings and delayed Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest I Friday, M ay 12, 1 pm Whitaker openings. Please note that if the In this high-concept comedy, Daniel I Hewlett-Woodmere UFSD is closed, the May 3, 7 pm Miller is killed in a car accident and library will not open before 1 pm. When mysterious spacecraft touch goes to Judgment City, a waiting room down across the globe, an elite team - for the afterlife. During the day, he TAX HELP IS AVAILABLE led by expert linguist Louise Banks - is must prove in a courtroom-style Volunteer Income Tax brought together to investigate. process that he successfully overcame Assistance (VITA) his fears. A Man Called Ove I Tuesdays, through April 4, Rated PG-13; 1 hour, 56 minutes (1990) 10 am to 1 pm Directed by Hannes Holm The Grifters Rated R; 1 hour, 50 minutes Starring Rolf Lassgard, Bahar Parrs By appointment only. Call 374-1967 Directed by Stephen Frears ext 231 to schedule an appointment. I May 17, 2 pm Starring John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Tax help is available for the Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated Annette Bening elderly, persons with disabilities, retiree who spends his days enforcing I Friday, June 9, 1 pm low-income taxpayers. This program block association rules and visiting his A small-time conman has torn loyalties is offered under the auspices of the wife’s grave, has finally given up on life between his estranged mother and new Town of Hempstead Office of Senior just as an unlikely friendship develops girlfriend—both of whom are high- Enrichment. Please bring last year’s with his boisterous new neighbors. stakes grifters with their own angles to income tax return, 1099s, W-2s, and Based on the novel by Fredrik Backman. play. Seduction. Betrayal. Murder. any other pertinent documents. Note Time changes Who’s conning who? 6 H-WPL READERS IN THE GALLERY A Monthly Book Discussion Group H-WPL Staff & Relatives District residents may reserve copies of the books well in advance of the Art Show discussions. Review packets are available at the Information Desk. The staff of the Hewlett-Woodmere Public library will showcase their artis - tic talent and will also showcase the art of their artistic relatives. I March 30 -April 27, 2017 Reception: Thursday, April 20, 12-3 pm

Hewlett-Woodmere School District Art Show, May 2017 The Hewlett-Woodmere School dis - trict showcases student artwork ranging from grade school to high school. Henna House Party. Together with his beloved Julia, I May 2- June 1, 2017 by Nomi Eve he hazards his life in a deadly match Receptions: Monday, May 8 and against the powers that be. 1984 was Tuesday, May 9, 3-5 pm Discussion leader: begun in 1947, and completed in 1948. Candace Plotsker-Herman George Orwell (1903-1950) was born AP Students Art Show I Monday, April 24, 2 pm in India and served with the Imperial The AP students at Hewlett High This vivid saga begins in Yemen in Police in Burma before joining the School showcase their artwork. 1920. Adela Damari’s parents’ health is Republican Army in the Spanish Civil I failing as they desperately seek a War. Orwell was the author of six nov - June 6 - June 20, 2017 future husband for their young daugh - els as well as numerous essays and ter, who is in danger of becoming nonfiction works. IN THE BOEHM ROOM adopted by the local Muslim community Barbara Lewin if she is orphaned. With no likely mar - Our Souls at Night Barbara Lewin paints landscape riage prospects, Adela’s situation looks by Kent Haruf scenes and uses unusual frames for dire—until she meets two cousins from Discussion leader: each painting, making her work unique. faraway cities: a boy with whom she Mira Rosenfeld Sennett I March 6 - April 25, 2017 shares her most treasured secret, and a I Monday, June 19, 2 pm girl who introduces her to the powerful Reception: Thursday, April 13, In the familiar setting of Holt, Col - 6–8 pm rituals of henna. Henna House is an orado, home to all of Kent Haruf’s intimate family portrait interwoven fiction, Addie Moore pays an unex - with the traditions of the Yemenite pected visit to a neighbor, Louis The Art of Jackie Emanuel Jews and the history of the Holocaust Waters. Her husband died years ago, as I June 5 - July 17, 2017 and Israel. did his wife, and in such a small town Reception: Saturday, June 10, “A welcome glimpse into this histori - they naturally have known of each 2-4 pm cal moment and little-known culture.” other for decades; in fact, Addie was —Booklist quite fond of Louis’s wife.Addie and Louis have long been living alone in 1984 empty houses, the nights so terribly by George Orwell lonely. But maybe that could change? Discussion leader: Esther Davidson As Addie and Louis come to know each I Monday, May 15, 2 pm other better,-a beautiful story of sec - In 1984, London is a grim city where ond chances unfo lds, Big Brother is always watching you and “A fitting close to a storied career, a the Thought Police can practically read beautiful rumination on aging, accommo - your mind. Winston is a man in grave dation, and our need to connect. . . As a danger for the simple reason that his meditation on life and forthcoming memory still functions. Drawn into a death, Haruf couldn’t have done any bet - forbidden love affair, Winston finds the ter. He has given us a powerful, courage to join a secret revolutionary pared-down story of two characters who organization called The Brotherhood, refuse to go gentle into that good night.” dedicated to the destruction of the —Lynn Rosen, The Philadelphia Enquirer Jackie Emanuel 7 1125 Broadway Hewlett, New York 11557-2337 Non Profit Org. U.S. Postage Telephone (516) 374-1967 Programs (516) 374-1667 PAID Permit No. 70 Weather Emergency (516) 374-1667 Hicksville, NY 11801 Contact the library during a weather emergency before coming to the library or check our website at www.hwpl.org. If HW UFSD is closed the Library cannot open before 1 pm.

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APRIL 26 • Wednesday (cont.) 24 • Wednesday ÌF Great Decisions* 7 :30 pm Residents register for 6 /7 Free SAT & ACT* 1 pm MELT 10 am & 7 pm 2 • Sunday 27 • Thursday Teen residents register for 3 • Monday ÌF Highlights in Jazz * Vinnie Knight 7:30 pm Next Chapter Book Club 1:30 pm 6/8 Painting /Ceramics 10 am & 7 pm 30 • Sunday ÌF Great Decisions * 7:30 pm 5 • Wednesday Film: Sully 2 & 7 pm New Talent/New Ideas: Stephen Whale, pianist * 2:30 pm 6 • Thursday JUNE Long Island Reads Radio Drama featuring Dead Wake 1pm MAY 1 • Thursday Teen residents begin to submit Test Scores Back Night * 7 pm 1 • Monday contest forms 10 am 9 • Sunday Next Chapter Book Club 1:30 pm 5 • Monday 5 Towns Indian Association: Children’s Day 2 pm 2 • Tuesday Chess Nuts * 7 pm Next Chapter Book Club 1:30 pm 12 • Wednesday 3 • Wednesday 7 • Wednesday Teen residents register for Teen residents register for M.E.L.T. demonstration/class 10 am Chess Nuts 6-12 grade 10 am & 7pm College Admissions 10 am & 7 pm ÌF Great Decisions 7:30 pm Resident and Friends pick tickets for Film: Arrival 7 pm 4/27 Highlights in Jazz & Special 8 • Thursday F 7 • Sunday Ì Concert Frank Vignola 10 am & 7 pm Afternoon@the library: Workshop/Seminar on New Talent/New Ideas: Hiroya Tsukamoto, Teen Film: Fantastic Beasts… 6:30 pm Unclaimed Funds 1 pm Cinematic Guitar Poetry* 2:30 pm 13 • Thursday Paint with Ceramics * 7 pm 8 • Monday Afternoons@the library: 9 • Friday Next Chapter Book Club 1:30 pm Film: Rachel Carson 1 pm Flash Back Fridays Film: The Grifters 1 pm Art Reception 6 pm Art Reception 3-5 pm 10 • Saturday Art reception 2-4 pm Teen Film: Rogue One:… 6:30 pm 9 • Tuesday Art Reception 3 -5 pm 11 • Sunday 17 • Monday 10 • Wednesday United Choral Society Concert 2 pm Next Chapter Book Club 1:30 pm Residents pick up tickets for 5/21 Edythe 12 • Monday 18 • Tuesday Brenner Memorial Concert 10 am & 7 pm F Next Chapter Book Club 1:30 pm ÌF Great Books: The Story of Nobody 7:30 pm Ì Great Decisions* 7:30 pm 19 Wednesday 11 • Thursday 13 • Tuesday Genealogy Part 1 7 pm Pick up tickets for NTNI 4/30 F Afternoons@the library: Author Visit Stephen Whale, pianist 10 am & 7 pm Thomas Barritt-LI Food 1 pm 14 • Wednesday Film: Florence Foster Jenkins 2 & 7 pm Health: Aging 11 am 12 • Friday Film: L a La Land 2 pm 20 • Thursday Art reception 12- 3 pm Flash Friday Film: Defending Your Life 1 pm 15 • Thursday 21 • Friday 15 • Monday Knitters (Care to Knit) 1 pm Health: Essentrics/Classical Stretch Next Chapter Book Club 1:30 pm Genealogy Part II 7 pm demostration and class 1 pm HWPL Readers: 1984 2 pm 23 • Sunday Decorating Wooden Letters * 7 pm 19 • Monday F Next Chapter Book Club 1:30 pm Ì Special Friends Concerts: 16 • Tuesday HWPL Readers: Our Souls at Night 2 pm Fra nk Vignola and Vinny Raniolo * 2:30 pm BU DGET VOTE 7 am - 10 pm 24 • Monday ÌF Great Books* 7:30 pm 21 • Wednesday Film: Hidden Figures 2 pm HWPL Readers: Henna House 2 pm 17 • Wednesday ÌF Gr eat Decisions* 7:30 pm Next Chapter Book Club 1:30 pm Film: A Man Called Ove 2 pm 25 • Tuesday Chess Nuts * 7 pm New Rules of College Admission* 6:30 pm 22 • Thursday ÌF Author Luncheon at 18 • Thursday 26 • Wednesday Lawrence Country Club 11:30 am Pick up tickets for NTNI 5/7 Afternoons@the library: Art lecture: Hiroya Tsukamoto, guitar 10 am & 7 pm The New York Experience 1 pm 26 • Monday Next Chapter Book Club 1:30 pm Teen residents register for 21 • Sunday 5/15 Wooden Letters 10 am & 7 pm Edythe Brenner Memorial Concert: 27 Tuesday Afternoons@the library: Author Marilyn Shimon, I-Heung Lee, pianist 2:30 pm Afternoons@the library: Lecture: First One In… 1 pm Thomas Jefferson 1 pm 22 • Monday Next Chapter Book Club 1:30 pm

F Co-sponsored by Friends of the Library ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program. * Previous registratio n/tickets required.