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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 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 Country Club, 101 Causeway Rd, S a n e Lawrence NY 11559 l 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. Hanging Up (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 Nora Ephron) 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 New York City. 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 The New York Times 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. 2 SPECIAL EVEN TS HEALTH 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.
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