MARCH / APRIL 2017

The 2017 North Shore Reads! Tuesday, April 4th @ 6:45PM, The Swan Club, 90 Glenwood Road, Roslyn

Come to The Swan Club for the 2017 North Shore Reads and enjoy an

This annual event for book lovers from eight local public libraries: Bayville, Bryant (Roslyn), Glen Cove, Gold Coast, Locust Valley, Manhasset, Oyster Bay - East Norwich, and Sea Cliff has become very popular. Please register early starting February 23rd! Visit northshorereads.org for more information.

This Year's Selection is Dead Wake by Erik Larson! This year’s L.I. Reads selection is Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. Mr. Larson’s previous popular books include Thunderstruck, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and An American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, Devil in the White City, and Isaac’s Storm. Copies of Dead Wake are available at your public library in a variety of formats: print, large print, CD audiobook, e-book, and downloadable audiobook. Reserve your copy today!

Dead Wake tells the tale of the sinking of the Lusitania against the backdrop of America at the height of the Progressive Era, bringing to life a cast of characters including famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat, pioneering female architect Theodate Pope, and President Woodrow Wilson.

Can't Make It To The North Shore Reads? Discuss the Book with Page Turners! Join Librarian Deborah Kinirons for an afternoon discussion on Monday, April 3rd @ 2PM.

Like the Book? Learn More at the Library!

Exploring Long Island's Shipwrecks Bus Trip! Greenwood Cemetery / Brooklyn Navy Yard Sunday, April 30th 2PM Thursday, April 27th In this informative, First take a two-hour trolley tour of the historic Greenwood exciting Cemetery in Brooklyn, then have lunch on your own. In the presentation by Eco afternoon, take a one-hour guided bus tour of The Brooklyn Navy Photo Explorers, Yard. A non-refundable $80 fee hear the history of is due at time of registration. shipwrecks from the Revolutionary War through modern Bus departs from American Legion Post times and see what marine life inhabit the 336, 190 Glen Head Road, Glen Head at 8AM and returns at approximately 5PM.

50 Railroad Avenue, Glen Head, NY 11545 • Phone: 516-759-8300 • Fax: 516-759-8308 www.goldcoastlibrary.org THE CHILDRENS ROOM Registration begins Thursday, February 23rd at 2PM for Gold Coast Library residents. Registration for non-residents

Play Hooray Kids (10AM)- Ages 25 Mos. to 4 Years A Time for Kids Play Hooray (11AM) - Ages 3 to 24 Months Ages 18 Months to 5 Years. Thursday, March 16th A Time for Kids presents a fun, Thursday, April 6th interactive, and educational Friday, April 28th experience designed to Thursday, May 11th help children gain important school readiness and developmental skills. movement activities based on a theme. Tuesday, March 7th 1PM Thursday, March 23rd 10AM OR 11:15AM Play Hooray Families Tuesday, April 4th 1PM Saturday, April 22nd 10:30AM Friday, April 21st 10AM OR 11:15AM All Ages. Play Hooray Families pro- Tuesday, May 2nd 1PM gram is designed to entertain the whole family. This

gross motor skill development and socialization! Tots' Night Out Tuesdays, March 28th; April 25th 7PM Let's Move with Play Hooray! Ages 18 Months to 5 Years. Hey, kids! Come enjoy an evening at the Library with A Time for Kids! Saturday, March 25th 10:30AM 3 Months to 6 Years. This family-oriented "grown- up and me" light exercise program is a fun way to get everyone up and moving. Play with hula hoops, STEM Storytime: St. Patrick's Day Green Slime balls, shakers; run an obstacle course and much more. Friday, March 10th 4:30PM Creative play makes exercise fun! Grades K-2. Come to the library and listen to St. Patrick's Day stories, then SPRING FUN AT THE LIBRARY! make your own green-colored slime! Sports Storytime Tuesday, March 14th 6PM Tea Cup Planters Ages 2-5. Come to the storytime stairs and hear heart- Friday, April 14th 11AM pumpin’ stories about sports! Grades K-2. Come to the Library and listen to the story of Fran's Tea Time Flower. Have fun planting your Friday, March 24th; Thursday, April 20th 11AM decorate your own darling little tea Ages 12 Months - 3 Years. Tea Time is an enjoyable, cup planter any way you like. Let your easy way to meet other parents and discuss the imagination bloom! challenges of parenting while the children play together and make new friends! Tea and coffee served.

Mr. V's Facebook Live Storytime! Storycraft Time Everyone in the family will be Grades Pre-K - K: Friday, March 17th 3PM entertained by Mr. V. reading a story Grades 1-2: Saturday, April 1st 3PM on Facebook Live! Watch as he makes your favorite book come to Listen to popular books, talk about the books, and life! Like us on Facebook and be the make a craft related to the stories.

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SERIES PROGRAMS

Movin’ and Groovin’ Lego Duplo Storytime Wednesdays, April 5th, 19th, 26th 10:30AM Tuesdays, March 14th, 21st, 28th 10AM Ages 3 to 5 Years. Ages 2 to 4 Years. independent storytime! Stories, songs, and building time! music, and lots of fun.

Picture Book Films Fridays, March 10th; April 7th 10AM Ages 2 to 5 Years. This 30-minute Father Goose favorite children’s books. Mondays, March 13th, 27th; April 10th, 24th 9:05AM OR 10AM Ages 12 to 35 Months. This 30-minute Circle Time Spanish for Preschoolers features nursery rhymes, stories, and songs. Tuesdays, April 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th 10AM Ages 3 to 5 Years. Introduce your child to Spanish through music, movement, and stories in this unique Weekend Family Storytime immersion program. Saturdays, March 18th, April 15th 11:30AM All Ages. You are invited to a storytime that promises to be fun for all ages! Crafty Kids

Wednesday, March 15th 4:30PM Grades K-2. Make a craft and hear stories after school!

GREAT PROGRAMS FOR GRADES K-5

Silly Pinwheel Pencil Guy Tuesday, March 21st 4:30PM Crazy 8s Math Club Grades K-5. Shirley Ruby shows you Tuesday, April 11th 5PM how to put together a silly wooden face, Grades K-2. The Gold Coast Public decorate a pencil holder with it, and Library and Crazy 8s help kids love then design paper pinwheel pencils! numbers! Learn ‘real-life’ math just Hold your pencils in style! by playing games with you friends!

Oreo® Dirt Cake Fancy Bird Houses Tuesday, April 4th 4:30PM Tuesday, April 18th 4:30PM Grades K-5. Learn to follow a recipe. Measure and mix Grades K-5. Decorate a birdhouse for your feathered friends with paint, gems, crush Oreos®, add worms and goodies and enjoy your “dirt cake” right away or wrap to go!

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St. Patrick's Day Rainbow Suncatcher Crazy 8s Math Club Saturday, March 11th 3PM Saturday, April 22nd 1PM Doris Benter shows you how to make a fun rainbow Come join this program which helps mosaic suncatcher just in time for St. Patrick's Day! to give kids a love of numbers so they can handle math in the real world. Orzobots Saturday, April 29th 3PM Ozobots are small robots that Pizza and a Movie!! help kids learn about simple Saturday, April 15th 1-3PM code language and deductive We will bring in pizza pies from several reasoning while empowering local pizzerias, and you will have the learners to play, create and opportunity to sample all of them and vote connect the physical and digital on your favorite! While you’re eating, worlds. This program expands STEM and computer watch the newly-released movie Trolls! science learning through a collection of game-based activities. YOUNG ADULTS (GRADES 6-12) Registration for Young Adult programs (Grades 6 through 12) begins Thursday, February 23rd at 2PM for Gold Coast Public Library residents and one week later for non-residents. Registration is required for all programs through the online calendar or in-person at the Reference Desk. Irish Soda Bread and Hot Cocoa ACT Prep Classes Thursday, March 9th 6:30-8:30PM Thursdays, Mar. 30; Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27 6:30-8:30PM For Grades 6-12. Chef Julie For Grades 10-12. Don't miss this opportunity for Reilly will teach you how to affordable ACT test prep! A $90 non-refundable check make homemade Irish soda made payable to the Gold Coast Public Library is due bread and Irish hot cocoa from at time of registration. Each registrant scratch. must purchase the “Princeton Review – Cracking the ACT” with 6 practice tests, 2017 edition, ISBN-13: 978-

Parent - Teen Manicures with Kathy G.! session. This class is being held Saturday, March 25th 1:00-2:30PM in conjunction with the Sea Cliff Library. Sea Cliff residents may also For Grades 6-12. Kathy Giouvalakis, register on February 23rd at 2PM. licensed nail technician, will show you and your parent or caregiver how to give yourself a professional manicure Strawberry Tiramisu at home! Each participant receives a Monday, May 1st 5PM nail kit to bring home. For Grades 6-12. Elena Florenzano is back to teach you how to make homemade tiramisu with strawberries Mother's Day Book Bundles from scratch. Tuesday, May 2nd 4PM For Grades 6-8. Create a gift for Mom using old books. Liz Open Study at the Annex Arceolo will show you how to Thursdays, Mar. 30; Apr. 6, 13, 20, 27 4-6:30PM repurpose books into cool pieces For Grades 6-12. Come to the Library Annex with of art that can be enjoyed for your friends and do your homework in a space all your years to come. own! Light snacks will be provided. No registration required.

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Registration is required for all adult programs. Unless otherwise noted, adults only please. Registration begins Thursday, February 23rd at 2PM for Gold Coast Public Library residents and one week later for non-residents.

Irish Songs and Stories with Jim Hawkins Origami

Sunday, March 5th 2PM Wednesday, April 5th 6:45PM Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day! Jim’s stories will Ancient Japanese legend make you laugh, and his songs inspire you to sing along. promises that the Gods will grant a wish to anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes. Intermediate Canasta Sadako Sasaki, a two-year- Mondays, March 6th, 13th, 20th 2PM old burn victim of Hiroshima, made this her mission. Hear a Instructor Jacqui Palatnik is back to teach the strategy of representative from the Japan Canasta. If you already know how to play the game, but Center at Stony Brook tell Sadako's story, and learn the need to master the strategies, then this class is for you! history of the art of paper folding.

Essential Oils: Poo-Pourri Sunday Concert: A Soulful Springtime Monday, March 6th 7PM Wednesday, April 23rd 2PM Make your bathroom smell fresh and clean. Andrea Naomi Zeitlin sings the songs of spring! Hear favorites Giordano shows you how to use the essential oils to make from singers Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Patsy Kline, it happen! Shania Twain, Loretta Lyn, Etta James, Aretha Franklin,

Introduction to Twitter and Instagram Warwick, and Adele.

Wednesday, March 22nd 6:45PM If you're wondering what a Landmark and Historic Sites of Europe hashtag is, come to this class! Wednesday, April 26th 7PM Learn about tweeting, posting Using his spectacular collection of color photographs taken over a twenty-year period, Mr. Ralph Brady following your interests and so discusses the history of sixty landmarks, both the much more! well-known and those that will surprise even the most seasoned travelers! Color Me Calm Monday, March 27th; April 24th 2PM OR 7PM Book Bundles with Liz Arceolo

Having a bad day? Life driving you crazy? Color away Tuesday, May 2nd 6:30PM the stress! Choose from a variety of pictures, suitable for Create a lovely keepsake using books,paint, ribbons, framing. Light refreshments served. twine, lace, specialty paper, and more! A $3 non- refundable materials fee is due at time of registration. Hand Painted Flower Pot Wednesday, March 29th 6:45PM Identity Theft and Internet Scams Seminar Get ready for Spring with Irene Marchese. Hand paint a Wednesday, May 3rd 6PM A non- Protect yourself from identity theft and internet scams! refundable $20 materials fee is due at time of registration. Join Assemblyman Ed Ra and a representative from Nassau County Consumer Affairs to learn how.

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COOKING CLASSES AT THE LIBRARY

Taste of Ireland with Chef Rob Scott Springtime in Paris with Chef Sheridan PM Wednesday, March 8th 6:30PM Monday, April 3rd 6:30 Come make a delicious molasses raisin bread for St. In this introduction to bistro Patrick's Day! Everyone goes home with a full loaf cooking, learn the techniques ready to bake. Please bring the following: 7"x4" loaf of making a classic French pan, medium bowl, mixing spoon. A $7 non-refundable Onion Soup, a wonderful fee is due at time of registration. Mussels Mariniere, and Coq au Vin! Taste of Japan with the Japan Center

Monday, March 13th 6:45PM Tiramisu Monday, May 1st 7PM Under the guidance of a representative from The Japan Elena Florenzo from Thinking Center at Stony Brook, learn how to make the fried Italian explores the recipe and noodle dish Yaki Udon as well as the dessert Dango, the secrets of this most loved and rice dumplings with a variety of toppings. A $3 non- famous Italian dessert. Learn how refundable fee is due at time of registration. easy it is to make it at home.

GARDEN INSIDE AND OUT THIS SPRING! Spring Gardening with the Plant Doctor Terrariums

Monday, March 20th 7PM Wednesday, April 12th 7PM It’s not your grandmother’s Josephine Early teaches hydrangea anymore! you all you need to know to Christine Doctor, The Plant build your own terrarium. A Doctor, introduces you to non-refundable $3 fee is due new and improved cultivars at time of registration. All for 2017 and how to use materials provided. them to best effect.

GOOD READS WITH SARAH SIEGEL BOOK DISCUSSIONS - RESERVE YOUR COPIES TODAY!

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Wednesday, March 15th 2PM Wednesday, April 19th 2PM In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov Spanning the tribal wars in is sentenced to house arrest in the 19th century Ghana, slavery Metropol, a grand hotel across the and Civil War in America, the street from the Kremlin. Living northern coal mines, the Great in an attic room while decades of Migration, and 20th century tumultuous Russian history unfold Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's modern outside the hotel doors, his reduced circumstances enable him to enter masterpiece moves through the much larger world of emotional histories and geographies while discovery and to learn what it means capturing the troubled spirit of to be a man of purpose. our own nation.

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Doors open 20 minutes prior to showing. Movies begin promptly at 2PM unless otherwise noted. Movies listed subject to change.

New Release Tuesdays Film Buff Fridays

Loving March 14th Two for the Road (1967) March 10th The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, whose challenge of The time-jumping chronicle of a 12-year relationship between their anti-miscegenation arrest for their interracial marriage in an architect (Albert Finney) and his wife (Audrey Hepburn). Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the Supreme Court. (111 minutes) (123 minutes)

Out of the Past (1947) March 24th Lion March 28th A private eye (Robert Mitchum) is hired by notorious gangster thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many and ran off with $40,000. (97 minutes) challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25

(118 minutes) Cat Ballou (1967) April 7th Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin star in this spoof about a Manchester by the Sea April 11th tough schoolmarm who becomes a gunslinger to avenge the death of her father. (97 minutes) Lee Chandler is a grumpy handyman living a secluded life. After his brother passes away, he is named the legal guardian of his The Ladykillers (1955) April 21st (136 minutes) Five oddball criminal types planning a bank robbery rent rooms from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are Jackie April 25th classical musicians. With Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers. (91 minutes) Taking place in the days following the assassination of President Kennedy, Jackie chronicles the experiences of First Lady Friday Night is Movie Night at the Library! Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman) as she copes with tumultuous grief, change One Friday night each month see a recent blockbuster and the scrutiny of both America and the hit or critically-acclaimed movie at the Library Annex! international community. (91 minutes) Arrival March 24th at 7:30PM To Be Announced April 21st at 7:30PM

GOLD COAST MEMORIES

Will Hutchins Those old enough to recall the golden age of TV westerns will likely remember “,” which ran on ABC from 1957 through 1961. The title character was played by actor Will Hutchins, who has made Glen Head his home since 1995.

extra in a W.C Fields movie at the age of 9 before a casting call while a student at UCLA marked a formal start to his career. Guest roles in shows like “,” ”Perry Mason,” “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour” and “” followed, along with big-screen appearances alongside stars like , Clint Eastwood and . When Hollywood roles grew scarce, Hutchins turned to the theater, worked as a circus clown and ringmaster and spent time in London, Australia and Sri Lanka. His marriage to Barbara Torres brought Will to Glen Head where they have resided for over 20 years. He contributes a regular column to Western Clippings, a newsletter devoted to Western fans. Will Hutchins will be speaking at the Library soon to show clips, tell some Hollywood stories and answer your questions. Check out the Library website and May/June newsletter for details!

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Library Hours St. Francis Health Van MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY - 9AM to 9PM FRIDAY AND SATURDAY - 10AM to 6PM Tuesday, May 2nd 10AM-2PM SUNDAY - Noon to 5PM The St. Francis Health Van will be in the parking lot giving free basic health checks and referrals! Come THE LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED ON: down and get a free check up. Participants must be SUNDAY, APRIL 16TH (EASTER SUNDAY) 18 years or older.

Save Money on Your Car Insurance! Books in Bloom Sunday, May 7th 2PM Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving! Saturday, April 8th 10AM-4PM Local authors Aimee Ackell, Andrew Montante, and Maria This course is designed for Gauriel speak about their all licensed and insured experiences, the writing process, drivers. The fee is $38 for and the books they’ve recently drivers up to age 60 and written. Light refreshments served. $33 for drivers ages 60 and older. A non-refundable check payable to Empire Safety Council is due at time Friends of the Library Program! of registration. Cash is not accepted. Please bring a Growing Up With Radio brown-bag lunch to class. Sponsored by Friends of the Gold Coast Library. Spaces remain for the Thursday, March 9th AARP Driving Class. Visit the Library to register. Monday, May 8th 7PM Did you grow up listening to the radio Library Board of Trustees or are you curious about the old-timers who did? Let’s reminisce about those Nancy Benchimol, President wonderful days! Rosemarie Ryba, Vice-President Barbara Palermo, Treasurer Upcoming Meetings and Events Amy Kempton, Secretary Jennine Bernesby Library Board of Trustees Meetings Rudolph Hertlein Wednesdays, March 15th, April 19th - 7PM Tobi Kupferman Friends of the Gold Coast Library Meetings David Martin Mondays, March 6th, April 3rd - 7PM Anthony Papiro Bus Trip to Greenport and More! Library Director — Michael Morea Tuesday, September 19th, Details to Come! Newsletter Editor — Susan Zaremba