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Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY & MUSIC HALL NEWSLETTER A National Historic Landmark FALL/WINTER 2015 Library Celebrates Restoration With Festive Open House The Library isn’t usually open on Sundays. October 25 was However, the renovation was far more than cosmetic. The an exception. The interior restoration of the Library is Library’s egregiously bad electric lighting (and invisibly bad complete, it is lovely and it was cause for celebration! wiring) has been replaced. For the first time in its history, the Staff and board put a big metaphoric bow around the facility, Library is well illuminated. “People keep asking if the stained and offered three floors of special programming and activities glass skylight is new,” says Maggie Forbes. “It just wasn’t bright for toddlers through seniors. Cello Fury and Carlynton Choir enough to notice.” Lamps with soft lighting (and patron- delighted friendly outlets for audiences in the laptops or Music Hall; Phil smartphones) Salvato, and grace the Haywood respectfully Vincent, as well as refurbished oak Reni Monteverdi tables in the main brought music to reading room. The the Studio; surface of the children’s author iconic circulation Judy Press desk has also been engaged children refurbished. It has with Halloween been the craft activities; centerpiece of Kyiv Dance Library operations Ensemble not since 1901, but only danced, but explained Ukrainian cultural traditions; scores many patrons are seeing it with new eyes. of people visited the Espy Post and Library patron Jeff Keenan Plaster throughout the Library and its lobby has been offered free caricatures in the Lincoln Gallery. meticulously restored. “There are no more swaths of painted- More than 250 people from Carnegie and beyond streamed over duct tape holding up crumbling plaster,” say Forbes. “We through the building to see the Library. Regular patrons were fixed the water problems years ago, but not the damage the re-assured that the Library’s historic character is intact. Others water caused.” who hadn’t seen the Library in years, were floored by the New paint completes the Library’s brightening, while lush transformation. Either way the verdict was unanimous: the carpeting adds depth and warmth to the space. Though the Library is beautiful! See “Renovation”, page 3 Carnegie Celebrates the Season Crafts, ornament-making, holiday cartoons, refreshments – and a visit from Santa! Add an ornament to the Library’s tree Saturday, December 5 from 10–noon Holiday festivities on Main Street continue throughout Saturday, and Carnegie’s Light the Night tree lighting (complete with hot chocolate, cookies and Santa) takes place Friday, December 4 from 6-7 in the PNC Bank parking lot A collaboration between the Library & Music Hall and Carnegie Borough’s Carol Covi Children’s Event Committee ACFL&MH Board A Message to Library & Music Hall Supporters of Trustees Isabel J. Ford Dear Friends, President What a remarkable year 2015 has been! In February the ACFL&MH opened the Lincoln Gallery, Kathleen R. Green Vice President and marked the occasion with Congressman Murphy narrating Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait. In Robert E. Moll March we presented “Road to Appomattox,” our first and very well received Civil War symposium. We Treasurer produced the Broadway musical drama The Civil War in April. Then in May library operations moved John J. Luke Secretary downstairs to the Studio as we undertook a complete renovation of the Library’s interior. We showcased this restoration on October 25 with a celebratory Open House attended by more than 250 people. Jordan Parkerton-Gross Lisa A. Moretti Our beloved Library is more beautiful than it’s ever been. Fine lighting, restored plaster, fresh paint, Amanda H. Sargent, Esq. Krista Pecknyo lush carpeting and new furnishings carefully chosen to complement the historic character make the Marlene Smith-Pendleton Len Walnoha Library a place to curl up with a good book, to settle in for serious studying or an inviting place to Ex-Officio Members check your email or read the morning paper. Patrick Catena Richard D’Loss Yet for all our accomplishments this year, 2016, our 115th year of service, approaches with Mike Sarsfield uncertainty. Due to the budget impasse in Harrisburg, the amount of state funding, and when we will Library Hours receive it, is in question. But state funding is only a portion of the money we need to continue to offer Monday exceptional services and programming. We need your support. 2 p.m.—7 p.m. Tues., Wed., Thurs. Please be as generous as you can. Every dollar makes a difference. So too does the number of people 10 a.m.—7 p.m. who support the “Carnegie Carnegie.“ Strong community support is the absolute bedrock of the Library Friday & Music Hall’s wellbeing; it is also a critical factor in successful grant applications. 10 a.m.—5 p.m. Saturday Thank you, and all best wishes for a joyous holiday season and a good 2016 for us all…. 10 a.m.— 5 p.m. Sunday Closed Summer hours (Memorial Day to Isabel J. Ford Maggie Forbes Labor Day) Saturday President, Board of Directors Executive Director 11 a.m.—3 p.m Contacts Make Your Family’s Name a Proud Part of the Phone: 412-276-3456 ACFL&MH’s Restoration! Fax: 412-276-9472 ACFL&MH Staff The Library & Music Hall continues to grow more Executive Director vibrant and more beautiful. Put your name or a loved Maggie Forbes, x8 one’s on a plaque that keeps you part of the Library Director/Espy ACFL&MH forever. Post Curator Diane Klinefelter, x9 • Music Hall Seats...$500 Assistant Library • Periodical Display Rack (1)...$500 Director/Archivist Nate Wyrick, x5 • Children’s Room Book Case (1)...$500 Music Hall/ • Adult Library Table (1)....$500 Rental Manager, Geoff Zak, x6 • Child’s Library Table (4)...$400 Public Services Manager • Adult Library Chairs...$200 Katie Byerly, x6 • Child’s Library Chairs...$150 ACFL&MH Website & Social Networks • Book Shelves...$100 www.carnegiecarnegie.org Find us on Facebook: In addition, the ACFL&MH has a limited number of Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall oak library tables and children’s bentwood chairs available and for purchase. For information about plaques or purchase Andrew Carnegie Free Library contact Maggie Forbes at 412-276-3456, x 8. & Music Hall Special Events 2 “Renovation”, from page 1 footprint is unchanged, many patrons comment the Library feels more spacious. Carefully chosen new furnishings fit right in with the old. Beautiful oak chairs, a coffee table and Tiffany-style lamps create an inviting seating area around the handsome fireplace. A matching loveseat in the children’s area encourages “reading together.” A new periodical shelf puts magazines on display, and is low enough to allow Music Hall attendees to look into the Library from the elevator lobby. Patrons love the comfortable new computer stations – one long gracious table that echoes detailing on the circulation desk. “New arrivals” are now featured on a slat wall mounted to one of the Library’s columns. “The Library looks the way it’s supposed to look – warm, inviting and very beautiful,” says Library Director Diane Klinefelter. “Andrew Carnegie must be smiling down on us. It certainly makes me happy!” Sound of Music: Voces Solis Returns The first performance of the New Year, and the first concert of Listen Locally: The 115th Anniversary Season brings back an audience favorite. Voces Solis will perform a free end-of- the-holidays concert at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall (ACFL&MH) on Sunday, January 3 at 3:00 p.m. This is the ensemble’s third performance in the Music Hall. Voces Solis is an offshoot of “The Summer Singers”. The group is made up of professional musicians, music educators and singers who performed with elite choirs in college, but have had little opportunity to perform since graduating. The Summer Singers’ goal is “to elevate our own standards of musicianship while rekindling our love for music making, enabling us to pass this fire on to our students and fellow musicians.” “The sound of this largely a cappella choir in our Music Hall is simply gorgeous,” says Executive Director Maggie Forbes. Voces Solis brings together musicians in the art and fellowship of choral music, “but we the audience are the extraordinary beneficiaries.” Voces Solis’ free Yuletide Concert is a great opportunity to introduce children to live choral music and to the Music Hall. The intermission-less concert will last about an hour, and will be followed by a dessert reception with the singers. Listen Locally: The 115th Anniversary Season is made possible through the generosity of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation. 3 150TH ANNIVErsary FOUNDING THE G.A.R. The Founding Of The Grand Army Of The Republic: April 1866 by Diane Klinefelter Regardless of their ethnic background, nationwide. The Captain Thomas Espy Post was founded early men in the United States have formed in the formation of posts in Pennsylvania (1879) and moved groups of mysterious brotherhoods since into the Andrew Carnegie Library in 1906. before the American Revolution. The very The July 13, 1866 edition of the Springfield Journal reported earliest of American fraternal organizations, the “object of the organization is not political in a mere party the Freemasons, dates to 1733 when the first sense, but is to render all material aid and assistance in lodge opened in Boston, Massachusetts. The supplying the wants of the widow and the fatherless, and in profound national experience of the Civil furnishing employment to the poor, and to those wounded in War helped stimulate the rise of military the service of our country.” However, according to the elected organizations and secret societies in the Commander-in-Chief Robert Beath, the returning veterans had last decades of the 19th century.
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