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Environment Day at the Library P P POUGHKEEPSIE PUBLIC L D LIBRARY DISTRICT The Rotunda S PRING 2 0 1 7 E XPLOR E • D ISCOV E R • C ONN E CT FOR THE CARING APRIL 22 - EARTH ENVIRONMENT DAY AT THE LIBRARY AUTHOR ERIK LARSON IPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY ERIC THE REPTILE GUY AUTHOR CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE Contents Spring 2017 Vol. 17, Issue 3 Caring forADR: the Adriance Environment BRD: Boardman Road If program is marked (*) please register at poklib.org > Events General Information Earth Day 2017 is Saturday, April 22, but caring for our environment is a year-round event. The Library District is proud to be a community leader in environmental education and Adriance Memorial Library engagement. See environmental programs for kids on pages 16-19. 93 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (845) 485-3445 Mon-Thurs: 9 am-9 pm Pitch-in and Help Keep Container Gardening Fri & Sat: 9 am-5 pm Sun: 2-5 pm the Libraries Beautiful Sat, April 22, 10 am, ADR Free parking and easy access off Noxon Street. Join us for a special volunteer Guest presenter Michelle GPS locator: 22 Noxon Street. opportunity at Adriance Keeley is a lifelong gardener Boardman Road Branch Library Memorial Library (9:30-11:30 and a Cornell Master Gardener 141 Boardman Rd, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603 am) and Boardman Road Branch Volunteer since 1995. Her (845) 485-3445 Library (12-2 pm) on Earth Day, April 22. We’ll be doing a presentation will provide Mon-Thurs: 9 am-9 pm light cleanup of the grounds and mulching the flower beds. inspiration and practical tips to Fri & Sat: 9 am-5 pm Sun: Closed The mulch will help keep our plants and flowers healthy start your own container gardens. The Auditorium and beautiful year-round by controlling weeds and pests and Concert with Caroline Doctorow 105 Market Street, Poughkeepsie retaining moisture and nutrients. Families are welcome. Saturday, April 22, 2:30 pm, BRD Location Key Pick up Your Free Come celebrate the earth in song and enjoy the folk sound ADR - Adriance of Caroline Doctorow. Caroline is a chart-topping singer- BRD - Boardman Road Balsam Seedling 6 To make Poughkeepsie a little songwriter. In addition Friends' Book Store greener, PPLD will be giving away to eleven solo albums, 141 Boardman Rd, at rear of Library Lincoln Center Local seedlings at both Adriance (morning) she released the first Adult Programs (845) 485-3445 x 2423 retrospective of the Tues, Thur, Sat: 10 am-4 pm and Boardman Road (afternoon) on Earth Day, April 22, while work of folk icons 3 Caring for the Environment 10 Finance, Health & Safety Donating See poklib.org > Giving supplies last. We have 200 Balsam Fir Richard and Mimi 4 Words of War 11 La Plaza del Aprendizaje On the Web poklib.org seedlings raised at the NYS Department of Environmental Farina, to wide critical 6 Literature & the Arts 12 Public Computer Center Email administration@ poklib.org Conservation Tree Nursery to distribute. The Balsam Fir is acclaim. Caroline is the daughter of the 8 World Affairs & Jewish Culture 20 Friends Facebook a traditional Christmas tree species prized for its wonderful Poughkeepsie Public Library District fragrance. The tree will improve air quality, produce food and late, world-renowned cover for wildlife, and add beauty to your yard. author E.L. Doctorow. Library Director Tom Lawrence Trustees Dianne Blazek, Town Grace Calella, Town Amy Haight, Town The Spring Run: Lila Lynch, City Fish that Return to Edna Lyons, City Tom McGlinchey, Town, Treasurer the Hudson River Mary E. Moore, Town, Vice President Wednesday, April 12, Joan Nicholls, City, Secretary 7 pm, BRD 14 16 Margaret Prescott, Town, President Fisheries biologist Amanda Fred Timm, City Higgs has been working in the Hudson River Fisheries Earth Day for kids with Eric the Reptile Guy Miriam Zimet-Aaron, Town Unit of the NYSDEC since 1999. The Unit is responsible Youth Programs Editorial Staff for collecting data on fish that use the Hudson to spawn, Editor: Gareth Davies including sturgeon, American shad, and striped bass. 14 Teen Connection 17 Early Learning Assistant Editor: Jewel Ratzlaff Poughkeepsie Prints! Seed Paper 16 Familes & Children 18 Children & Tweens Designer: Julie Hering The Recovery of Hudson Valley Bald Eagles Saturday, April 1, 10 am, BRD Saturday, April 15, 2-4 pm, ADR Vision In 1997, a nesting pair of Bald Eagles in Greene County Make seed paper with Anita from Registration The Poughkeepsie Public Library District Barrett Art Center. Meet on the will have vibrant libraries where people want produced the first fledgling in the Hudson Valley in Most adult programs do not require registration. When specified, please register at to be. It will meet the needs of a diverse and 100 years. This past breeding season, nineteen years ground floor - we hope to do this poklib.org>Events>Calendar or (845) 485-3445 x 3702. growing constituency by providing services later, local Bald Eagles produced more than three dozen outside! Later, you can create a card and partnering with other community new eagles. Join Tom Lake, DEC Estuary Naturalist and or letter and send it to a loved one. Cover Photo: The Eze family of Poughkeepsie organizations. The Board of Trustees and the editor of the Hudson River Almanac, as we follow the Then they can plant your seed paper staff will work together to serve the public tending the raised beds at Boardman Road in the ground and watch it grow! and to respond to the changing nature of recovery of America’s national symbol. 2 library services. 3 Words of War ADR: Adriance BRD: Boardman Road If program is marked (*) please register at poklib.org > Events Exhibit: World War I and America America at War May 1-May 23, ADR As part of the Library District’s ongoing series of For some events, exhibit will travel to Boardman Road Branch Library programs titled Words of War, in each issue of our The Library District is one of several sites across the nation selected to host newsletter we are noting the anniversaries of significant this exhibit marking the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War events during the two world wars. I. The exhibit is presented by The Library of America in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the National World War 100 Years Ago (1917) I Museum and Memorial, and other organizations, with support from The National Endowment for the Humanities. In April 1917, America entered World War I after two The sections of the exhibit tell the story of the and a half years of efforts by President Wilson to keep war, including “The Road to War,” “The Experience of War,” “The Home Front,” and “Coming Home.” Erik Larson and the the United States neutral. Earlier that year, Germany The exhibit is part of a broader program that aims to bring members of the veteran community in had resumed all-out submarine warfare on every particular, together with the general public, in libraries and museums around the country to explore the Making of Nazi Germany* commercial ship headed toward Britain. Germany transformative impact of warfare. also offered to help Mexico regain territories lost in Sunday, April 9, 2:30 pm, BRD the Mexican–American War. Publication of that offer, Erik Larson will primarily focus on his 2008 book, In the Zimmermann Telegram, outraged Americans just the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in as German U-boats started sinking American ships in Hitler’s Berlin, which describes the experiences of the U.S. the North Atlantic. President Wilson asked Congress for Ambassador to Germany and his family during the rise of “a war to end all wars” that would “make the world safe the Nazis. Within months of their arrival, the family became for democracy”, and Congress voted to declare war on aware of the evils of Nazi rule. Books will be available for Companion Programs Germany on April 6. purchase and signing after the presentation. Please register. Workshop: The Lecture: About Erik Larson Veterans’ Voice America on the Erik Larson graduated summa cum laude from the University Saturday, May 6, World Stage of Pennsylvania, where he studied Russian history, language 11 am-4 pm, ADR Saturday, and culture. He went on to earn a master’s degree in World War I produced May 20, journalism from Columbia University. After a brief stint at significant narrative 1:30 pm, BRD the Bucks County Courier Times, Larson became a staff writer literature from the Join Michael for The Wall Street Journal, and later a contributing writer veterans' point of view. Neiberg (United for Time Magazine. He has written articles for The Atlantic, 75 Years Ago (1942) Join us for a writing workshop and reading event that States Army War College) for a discussion on how World Harper’s, The New Yorker, and other publications. features the writing of veterans and their families. Light War I forced the United States onto the world stage. In addition to In the Garden of Beasts, Larson has written • April 9: Bataan in the Philippines falls to the lunch will be served. Register. Movie: Wings several best sellers including Devil in the White City, about a Japanese. 60,000 to 80,000 Filipino and American Movie: All Quiet on Sunday, May 21, 2:30 pm, ADR series of murders at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, and captives are marched to detention camps. the Western Front The story of two men who have gone to war and the most recently, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. • April 18: First American assault on the Japanese Sunday, May 7, 2:30 pm, ADR girl they both leave behind.
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