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May holidays The Library will be closed on Me- Ten years of student support morial Day weekend: Saturday, May 23, Sunday, May 24 and Monday, “It really helps Derrick with his Board member Ellen Fox, and musi- May 25. homework. He loves the socialization, cian and educator Doreen Gamell. the teens and especially the singing. The Center provides teens FOL Book & My wife and I are so happy that he and adults with an opportunity for uses the library and is able to get the meaningful community service by Author Luncheon books he needs for school. This pro- acting as mentor/tutors each week. There’s still time to reserve your seat gram has our entire family using the Volunteers range from high school at the FOL Book & Author Lun- library.” -Manuel S., parent students to retired educators, a mix cheon on Friday, May 15 at 11 a.m. Congratulations to the Port which provides multiple types of The featured authors will be Jules Washington Education Foundation expertise and points of view to share Feiffer and Mary Gordon, with Su- Support Center on its tenth anniver- with the students. It is a unique learn- san Isaacs returning as moderator. sary! The Center provides after-school ing opportunity for all involved: the See page 2 in this issue for more in- academic support, homework as- teens learn how to mentor and work formation. sistance and arts enrichment to forty with adult volunteers, and the third third graders each year, with one-on- graders get the help they need in a one and small group instruction. This positive, nurturing environment. The New Catalog partnership between the PWEF, the enrichment curriculum covers a wide Our online catalog, shared with Library and School District provides range of activities, and benefits from most Nassau public libraries, has a a unique learning opportunity for the diverse backgrounds of the vol- new look and new search functions. all: teens become mentors, they col- unteers. Many local artists, authors, We’ve also added a search bar to our laborate with adult volunteers, and and other experts come to share what website homepage (www.pwpl.org) the third graders work in a positive, they do. to make it easier to access. If you nurturing environment. The Library is proud to partner need assistance with the new cata- On any given Tuesday, you’ll with PWEF and to help further their log, stop in and speak to a librarian, see Director Jane Tafarella gathering goal of fostering academic confidence or call us at 516-883-4400, ext. 136. the children together, Doreen Gamell through positive learning experi- teaching a song and Ellen Fox, the ences. Center’s founder, discussing the day’s Meet Colm Toibin activity with the teen tutors. Then the Save the date: on Thursday, June 11 teen and adult tutors start working at 7:30 p.m., the author will join us with the children and the Lapham to read from and discuss his latest Meeting Room hums with productive novel, Nora Webster. Toibin, whose activity and engaged 8-year-olds. The previous books include Brooklyn PWEF Support Center is in session. and The Testament of Mary, is one of The Center was created in 2005 contemporary literature’s bestsell- by the PWEF with PWPL, which ing and most critically-acclaimed recognized that the goals of the pro- authors. gram fit in well with our own mis- sion. Due to more rigorous demands on students, there is a great need for assistance in third grade, which the Model Boat Regatta Support Center meets at no additional This year’s Harborfest, on June 7, cost to families. The program is run by will again feature the Model Boat PWEF Director Jane Tafarella, PWEF Regatta, which allows Port’s third graders to race their model boats at Baxter Pond. This exciting event is made possible through the sup- port of the Marvin and Elise Tepper Pianist Steven Lin peforms Haydn, Brahms and more Intergenerational Fund of the Port Washington Library Foundation as Pianist Steven Lin is an im- no Competition. well as the Library’s Nautical Advi- mediately engaging and imaginative In 2014, Lin’s dynamic playing at sory Council. young artist, applauded by The New Israel’s Arthur Rubinstein Piano Com- York Times for playing that is “…im- petition was recognized when he was maculately voiced and enhanced by awarded the Silver Medal. This honor Boat Tours admirable subtleties of shading and resulted in numerous performance Summer is on the way and the very dynamics.” prize engagements in Israel and inter- popular Manhasset Bay boat tours His growing list of awards in- nationally. are once again being planned by the cludes the 2012 Concert Artists On Sunday, May 17 at 3 p.m., the Library’s Nautical Advisory Coun- Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition Music Advisory Council is pleased to cil. Dates and registration informa- and the John Giordano Jury Chair- present this renowned pianist perform- tion will be announced in the June man Discretionary Award at the ing selections from Haydn, Brahms newsletter. 2013 Van Cliburn International Pia- and others. You can still reserve your place Joan Kent remembered for the FOL Book & Author Joan Kent once wrote, “I firmly believe the best way of furthering one’s educational or Luncheon on May 15! career goals is through the regu- lar use of a library card.” There’s still time to reserve tor Jules Feiffer, author of the graphic For the 45 years she lived your seat at the Friends of the Li- novel Kill My Mother, and renowned here, Joan advanced the mission brary’s 46th Annual Richard D. novelist Mary Gordon, whose latest of the Port Washington Public Whittemore Book & Author Lun- book is The Liar’s Wife. Port’s own Library with verve, enthusiasm cheon on Friday, May 15 at 11 a.m. bestselling novelist Susan Isaacs re- and perseverance. She reached at the North Hills Country Club in turns as program moderator. The out to readers, researched and Manhasset. Reservation brochures deadline for mailing in ticket requests wrote books and articles, advo- are available in the library or can is May 6. After May 6, late registrants cated for the Library, served on be printed via the library website at should contact the Luncheon’s event the Board and the Foundation, www.pwpl.org/fol. The cost is $75 registrar, FOL board member Mary and supported staff develop- per person. The featured authors will Alice Kohs at 516-883-9434 or email ment and opportunities. Her be Pulitzer Prize-winning illustra- [email protected]. particular love, local history and archives, also benefitted from her vision, intelligence and dedication. Joan made sure that our new building would house a Local History Center, a per- manent place for preservation, learning and discovery. We will always remember her words at the library gala in 2010: “The best love affairs are reciprocal. I’ve loved libraries since I was a small child…But it is to the Port Washington Public Library that I owe my greatest debt and greatest love.”

Elly Shodell

Looking back on FOL’s Friends & Family Weekend BEST. KID’S LIBRARY. EVER. The planning process for our new Children’s Room is moving ahead! New constructionHave you drawings seen have been the sent to plans?New York State for approval, furnishings and finishings are being chosen, and Port is FOL president Amy Bass, vice president and FOL U co-chair Ellen Zimmerman, Dr. Powell, Dr. Chotiner, and board member and FOL U co-chair Carol Hiller. Photos: Seth Ehrlich. rallying behind the project. www.pwpl.org/anewleaf end”–that drew hundreds of For all the latest, visit www.pwpl.org/anewleaf attendees this past March. The weekend included a lecture by noted horticulturalist and au- thor Thomas Christopher, the return of the popular Paper- back Swap, and an FOL Uni- versity lecture program fea- turing two notable scholars. The Paperback Swap drew hundreds of patrons who exchanged thousands of gently used books, and as usu- al it proved particularly popu- lar with children. FOL U featured NYU professor Dr. Harry Chotiner speaking on the film industry The Friends of the Library (FOL) and BU professor Dr. Russell sponsored a weekend full of events Powell speaking on conver- for all ages–“Friends & Family Week- gent evolution. Soundswap presents singer-

On Thursday, May 14 at 7:30 musical cinema.” p.m., Soundswap presents Susan In addition to being the young- Cowsill performing in the Library’s est artist to ever score a Billboard hit Lapham Meeting Room. single, Susan has also lent her voice Cowsill first entered the pop- to albums by , Giant culture consciousness at the age of Sand, , Carlene Carter, eight, as the youngest member of the Nanci Griffith, Redd Kross, Jules Shear ’60s musical family , who and Hootie and the Blowfish. She was graced the AM airwaves with such the first artist to cover a song by future enduring pop hits as “Hair” and “The cult legend and current comeback star Rain, the Park and Other Things,” and Sixto Rodriguez, releasing her version who were the real-life inspiration for of his “Think of You” as a solo single TV’s Partridge Family. in 1977. She also recently teamed with In adulthood, Cowsill has fellow troubadours emerged as a singer-songwriter of and as the Hobart singular emotional insight and musi- Brothers & Lil’ Sis Hobart on the criti- cal resonance, first as a key member cally lauded album At Least We Have of beloved alt-roots-pop supergroup Each Other. The Continental Drifters and more recently on her widely acclaimed second solo album Lighthouse. ‘s David Fricke described Lighthouse as “the hardy, heartbreaking sound of a woman in the prime of her singing and song- writing life,” while The Huffington Post noted, “Every song is a high- light… this work of art is akin to

Artist Bascha Mon exhibits WATER–2 Degrees of Separation in the Main Gallery

of water passed en route. When this “I hope that this wide-ranging Join the artist for a reception in show was offered to me, I began to group of works will appeal to a com- the Main Gallery on Sunday, May 3 think how water had affected my life munity itself so close to the water.” from 2 to 4 p.m. and my art and decided that could be the theme of this exhibition. “As a small child, I spent sum- mers at my grandparents’ farm ad- jacent to a lake. Later summers were spent on the Jersey shore. I learned to row and attended summer camp at lakes. The Caribbean and Cuba in- troduced me to new colors and beauty. Vacations in the Cape and Maine The Art Advisory Council pres- expanded my views of water and its ents WATER–2 Degrees of Separation capacity to reflect the light. The amaz- by Bascha Mon, on display from May ing changes associated with weather 2 through 31 in the Main Gallery. increased my respect for its potential Bascha Mon has been creating to give pleasure and fear. and exhibiting art since 1971. She has “In 2004, the Indonesian tsuna- had grants in painting, drawing and mi hit. The destructive power of water sculpture. She has received a grant informed my new work. The result from the New York Foundation for was an extensive series: TSUNAMI: the Arts Relief Fund and was invited LOSS. Many are included in this show. to a residency at Byrdcliffe in Wood- In 2011, the intensity of water had a stock, NY. personal effect when Irene destroyed Mon studied at the Art Students my studio. League, the School of Visual Arts, “A new studio prompted me to Pratt and the China Institute. She change directions both in imagery and teaches privately and at the Hunterdon media. I switched from encaustic wax Art Museum in Clinton, NJ. to oil paint. I allowed my early stud- Regarding her technique, Mon ies of Proust and Freud to influence a says, “My approach to art is both series of paintings both fanciful and additive in process and intuitive in experimental. I allowed my uncon- nature. My paintings, monotypes and scious to guide my brush. The com- sculptural installations evolve from the bination of the highs and lows of the interaction of media and narrative. experiencing of water are explored in “I first visited the beautiful town this exhibition. Contemplative pieces of Port Washington to see the show like “Adrift” combine with amusing of one of my private students, Tracey works like “Beneath the Surface” with Luckner. I was delighted by the bodies its lavender octopus. Photography Club of Long Island’s at 100 36th Annual Exhibition May 6, 2015 marks the centen- 2nd Season * Shogun nial of the birth of master filmmaker and actor Orson Welles. Film historian Documentaries: Philip Harwood will discuss Welles’ The Battle Over * The career and screen his noir masterpiece Dominici Affair * Don Quixote * on May 1 at 7:30 p.m. Ex- It’s All True plore further with these titles, available in our circulating collections: Books:

DVDs: Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of As director: Fake News by A. Brad Schwartz Citizen Kane * Don Quixote * F for (2015) Fake * Falstaff () * * Macbeth In My Father’s Shadow: A Father * The Magnificent Ambersons * Mr. Remembers Orson Welles by Chris Arkadin * Othello * The Stranger * Welles Feder (2009) Touch of Evil * The Trial Making Movies With Orson Welles: May 6 through June 30, 2015 As actor: A Memoir by Gary Graver (2008) Black Magic * The Black Rose * Casino In the Martin Vogel Photography Gallery Royale * Catch-22 * Citizen Kane * Orson Welles by Simon Callow (2 Compulsion * Duel in the Sun * History volumes: 1995, 2006) Club members will exhibit their landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, still of the World, Part I * Falstaff (Chimes lifes, portraits, travel pictures and abstractions at the Library. at Midnight) * Genocide * Jane Eyre * Orson Welles At Work by Jean Journey into Fear * King of Kings * The Pierre Berthome and Francois Look for “Musical Images,” a digital slide presentation with music, on Lady from Shanghai * The Long, Hot Thomas (2008) Wednesday, May 13 at 7:30 p.m. and again on Friday, May 15 at 12:10 Summer * Mamma Roma * A Man for p.m. All Seasons * Moby Dick * Mr. Arkadin Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and * The Muppet Movie * Prince of Foxes Popular Culture by Michael An- * Start the Revolution Without Me * deregg (1999) The Stranger * The Thief of Bagdad * The Third Man * Tomorrow Is Forever Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles The Health Advisory Council * Touch of Evil * Trent’s Last Case * The by David Thomson (1996) Trial * The War of the Worlds (on CD) This Is Orson Welles by Orson presents On TV: Welles, , Jona- than Rosenbaum (1992) ADVANCES IN MODERN DENTISTRY The Dean Martin Variety Show * I Tuesday, May 19 at 7:30 p.m. Love Lucy: Season 6 * Magnum P.I. * The Merv Griffin Show: Hollywood Welles edited by Paul Duncan Dr. Sultan S. Salem will discuss cutting-edge Legends * Night Gallery: The Complete (2006) dental technologies, such as the use of mini- implants, advances in tooth and jaw recon- struction, and whitening techniques.

YOUNG INVESTIGATORS Thursday, May 21 at 7 p.m. Medical researchers from the Feinstein Institute at the North Shore-Long Is- land Jewish Health Care System will visit the Library to discuss their recent work. Each year, the Institute holds a competition to determine who can best explain the intricacies of their original research in lay terms, eas- ily understood by a general audience. These presentations are also designed to inspire young people to enter the field of medical research. Teachers and students are particularly encour- aged to attend. For more information, please visit feinsteininstitute.org. Co- sponsored by the Fay J. Lindner Foun- dation.

Sandwiched In: “A JOCKEY’S LIFE” Friday, May 1 at 12:10 p.m. A 15-year racing veteran, Janice L. Blake will talk about her life as a professional jockey. She will share her experiences, display her equipment and explain its uses and evolution. To register or inquire about the following programs, call Children’s Services at 516-883-4400, ext. 150 or email [email protected]. Please comply with the age guidelines for these programs. Priority given to Port Washington Stay up to date residents; please be prepared to show proof of local residency. on the plans Early Childhood for the new Children’s Room. Sing and Swing Story Time A Time For Kids Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 1 at 10:15 a.m., 11:30 Visit www.pwpl. For children ages 18 months to 2 ½ a.m., or 1:30 p.m. years with an adult. No registration Join Miss Donna for educational org/anewleaf required. Last day for the season is activities that combine preschool May 26. concepts and fun. For children ages 18 months to 5 years with an adult. Baby Rhyme Time Registration begins May 18. Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. For children ages birth to 17 months Tummy Time Screen Smart Week with an adult. No registration re- Fridays, June 5, 12, 19 from 10:30 quired. Last day for the season is to 11 a.m. Celebrate Screen Smart week, a national program during which children, May 28. Babies are spending more time on families, schools and communities spend seven days reducing screen-based their backs than ever before due entertainment and turning on life! It’s a time to BE SCREEN SMART. Play, Tell Me a Story to the recommendations set by the create, explore and join us at the Library for the following special activities: Fridays at 3:30 p.m. American Academy of Pediatrics. Mother’s Day Drop-In Craft For children ages 3 to 5 years with- Babies need lots of Tummy Time out an adult. No registration re- to develop their muscle strength Sunday, May 10 quired. Last day for the season is and coordination. You and your Children ages 4 and up with an adult May 29. child will be led in song, rhymes are invited to visit anytime between and simple stories. There will be 2 and 4 p.m. and create a special gift time for playing with rattles, soft to give to mom on Mother’s Day. No Story Time with Miss Susie blocks and other developmentally registration required. and Mr. Mike appropriate toys. This program is for Monday, May 11 at 10:30 a.m. parents/caregivers with babies from For children of all ages with an adult. 3 months old up to pre-crawlers. No registration required. Limited registration begins May 21. Drop-In Craft Wednesday, May 6 Spring Preschool Craft and Thursday, May 7 Monday, May 18 at 11 a.m. or 12 Children ages 4 and up with an noon adult are invited to visit anytime between 4 and 6 p.m. and create a Join Miss Jeannie for a seasonal fun craft.No registration required. craft, stories and songs. Ages 18 to 36 months with an adult at 11 a.m. Ages 3 to 5 years with an adult at 12 noon. Registration begins May 11.

Pajama Story Time Parenting Wednesday, May 27 at 7 p.m. Baby Bump Come in pajamas and listen to bedtime stories. For children of all Thursdays, June 4, 11, 18 and 25 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. ages with an adult. No registration Are you pregnant? Expectant moms and dads are invited to participate in required. a four-week program preparing you for childbirth and parenthood. Each week a different professional will facilitate the class. Professionals include a midwife, a board certified lactation consultant, an assistant professor of early childhood education and child development, and a certified Red Kindergarten through 6th Grade Cross/CPR/AED/First Aid instructor. Limited registration begins May 21. Birthday Bash Story Time Wednesdays at 4 p.m. Each week will highlight an author’s Homework help from tutor.com or illustrator’s birthday that takes Get ready for end-of-year tests place during the month of May. For with tutor.com, a Friends of the children ages 4 to 7 years without an Library-sponsored initiative that adult. No registration required. Last gives you real-time contact with an day for the season is May 27. online tutor. The service, available in English Page Turners and Spanish, is designed for grades Book Bunch K to 12, college prep and adult learn- Tuesday, May 19 at 7:15 p.m. ers. You can access the link from our Thursday, May 28 at 4 p.m. Monthly book discussion for chil- homepage and from the kids and teen dren in grades 5 and 6. Call for Monthly book discussion for children pages. You’ll need your library card availability. in grades 3 and 4. Call for availability. to log on. Published by the TEEN son of corrupt the coach. hero—andquarterback is alocal the may not play, first-string the because quarterback spot on team, the but he by John Feinstein Walk On changes are difficult too toaccept. black, but become friends, some two players, football one white, one segregated 1960s, inthe by John Bradley. Ed Growing up in Call Meby MyName pionship game. team from playing state inthe cham the Alyx, could which disqualify court threatensbasketball to reveal identity as agirl, but abully on the stateschool inanew with anew by Bridget Alyx Atlas Bridsall. starts Exposure Double titles: sports Celebrate with some fast moving teen May isPhysical Fitness Month! PORT WASHINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY One Library Drive

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