P u l Doing Life ADR: Adriance BRD: Boardman Road NEA Big Read Home Buying 101 Hiking Club! O- Thursday, Sept 12, 7 pm, BRD Select Sundays, 9 am, weather permitting O c t o b e r 1 2 - N o v e m b e r 1 6 P o u g h k e e p s i e P u b l i c L i b r a r y D i s t r i c t Workshop for renters, first time There are many hiking spots throughout the Hudson u t buyers, or home-owners looking Valley, but did you know there are several right here in Exploring to sell or buy. Topics will include Poughkeepsie (or nearby)?! Please arrive promptly as everything from start to close: we will set out on time. Please also wear appropriate Appalachia home buying checklist, how your realtor can help, why the right real clothing and footwear and bring your own water/ estate attorney is important, financing options, and insuring your snacks. Registration required. Where is Appalachia? What is investment. Q and A. Registration required. “Appalachian”? How does one September 15: even pronounce Appalachia? Yoga for Back Pain Franny Reese Welcome to the world of Ron Saturday, September 28, 10 am, ADR State Park Rash, “one of the best writers in America writing about Appalachia” Learn yoga poses to help keep your back healthy, and ways to treat Meet in the parking (San Francisco Chronicle). This year’s NEA Big Read book selection Saving Wonder commonly occurring spinal injuries and conditions that come lot of Johnson-Iorio is Rash’s collection of short stories from Appalachia entitled Burning with aging. Terry Roth Schaff, the author of Medical Yoga Therapy A For the past five years, the Library District Park located at 281 Bright. Practical Guide for the Yoga & Medical Community, is a leading teacher has selected a companion book for younger Haviland Road, The twelve short stories in this book tell the story of Appalachia at Kripalu and Omega Institute. Registration required. readers, creating a Little Read component to Highland. Hike will from farm to subdivision, Civil War to the present, love to heartbreak. the Big Read. The selected literature has similar be approximately 2 The Shred Truck is Coming! Traditions face off against progress and survival trumps all else. The themes and settings as the Big Read book. Friday, October 4, 9-11 am, BRD ½ miles with a moderate climb in parts. stories are inhabited by flawed characters facing wrenching moral This year’s companion book is Saving Wonder What can I shred? Personal documents with staples or paper clips, October 20: College Hill Park dilemmas. written by Mary Knight, who is coming to binders, books, small amounts of discs and CD ROMs, and credit Meet in the parking area closest to the white pavilion Ron Rash’s ancestors have lived in the southern Appalachia Poughkeepsie! cards. Thank you to HV Legal Shred for this service. 3 garbage bags located at 149 N. Clinton Street, Poughkeepsie. Mountains since the mid-1700s. He grew up in the Carolinas in a Many local middle schools are using Saving maximum per person. Questions? Visit www.hvshred.com/faq/ The parking area is up a long driveway. Hike is family of readers and storytellers. He has written numerous acclaimed Wonder in their classrooms this fall. The Library novels, collections of poetry and short stories, and hundreds of articles. Defensive Driving approximately 1 mile and fairly flat. District is bringing Mary Knight to eight Saturday, October 5 OR November He currently teaches poetry and fiction writing at Western Carolina schools and also to the Boardman Road Branch 2, 9:30 am-3:30 pm, BRD University. Library on Wednesday, October 30 at 6 pm. Completing the course may Connecting While every tale in Burning Bright is set entirely in Appalachia, as The whole family is welcome - teens and adults provide a 10% discount on your Rash says, “You go deep enough into a place and you’re going to hit will also enjoy the presentation. Q and A will auto insurance as well as the elimination of up to 4 points from Board Game Mondays the universal, because you’re hitting what’s true of people.” So, join us follow. Mary will also have time to sign student your NYS license. Cost: $25/person, cash or check. NO credit cards Mondays, 1-4 pm, BRD on this literary journey and we might just learn something new about copies of the novel. accepted. Bring your own lunch. Registration required. Pay the Bring a friend and play board games like our world, our community, and ourselves. Author Mary Knight has always loved day of the class. Instructor Staci Cussick. SCRABBLE®, Mah Jongg, even cards! reading and telling stories. She’s been a librarian, The following pages contain a calendar of 2019 Big Read events Brain Games a freelance writer, and a writer-in-residence and descriptions of programs happening across the Mid-Hudson teaching kids how to write. Saving Wonder is her First and Second Fridays, 10-11 am, ADR region. These events are designed to broaden our appreciation of Exploring Online With Dutchess County Office for the Aging first novel, set in Wonder Gap, Kentucky. It is a Appalachian literature, culture and history. tale of abiding friendship and love of the land, Select Fridays, 3 pm, ADR, registration required Knitting Groups Many book clubs are reading Burning Bright as part of the NEA and illustrates the power of words for telling Stitch Your Heart Out Pick Up Stitches Big Read too (register your book group for a chance to win a free Sept 27 OR Nov 22: truth to power. Fridays, 10 am, BRD Saturdays, 10 am, BRD lunch at Paula’s Public House: poklib.org/events/nea-big-read-2019/). Research Tools The NEA Big Read, coordinated by the Poughkeepsie Public Library Learn how to find reliable District, also provides thousands of copies of the books and author articles on any topic using Complementary Lunch & Learn - Conversational Spanish visits to classrooms for six school districts. amazing databases. Workshop Beginner/Intermediate To become a Big Read Volunteer, contact Jewel Ratzlaff at Enrichment will focus on topics that Oct 18 OR Dec 20: Weekly on Fridays, September 13-December 13, [email protected] or 845-485-3445 x 3372. For complete details and participants suggest. Your Family Tree 12-1:30 pm, ADR. Check the online event calendar to register for events visit www poklib.org. Place and Story: Book Discussion Oct 11 OR Dec 6: Begin a search using library for occasional cancellations. Series led by Lea Graham, Associate Entertaining resources, HeritageQuest, and Regular practice is the best way to learn a new Professor of English at Marist e-Resources Ancestry.com. language. Meet weekly with our experienced instructor NEA Big Read is a program of the National College. Registration required. Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts An orientation to e-Library Nov 8: Legal Resources to practice Spanish conversation with other language • September 7: The Ninemile Wolves by Rick Bass services including e-books, Learn about some of the best enthusiasts. Bring a bag lunch. Midwest. It is designed to broaden our understanding • October 5: Winter in the Blood by James Welch e-magazines, and music/video websites and print resources of our world, our communities, and ourselves through downloading and streaming. to answer your legal questions. the joy of sharing a good book. • November 2: Red-Tails in Love by Marie Winn 8 • December 7: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 9

Saturday, October 12 Thursday, October 17 Sunday, October 20 Thursday, October 24 A Conversation Thoughts of Home* with Mary Knight Kick-Off Event: Literary Luncheon* Gallery Reception Scholar-led Book Discussion 2 pm, Cunneen-Hackett 6 pm, PPLD- Author Ron Rash 12 pm, Millbrook Library 2:30-3:30 pm, PPLD-Adriance 3 pm, Howland Public Library Arts Center Boardman Road 2 pm, PPLD-Boardman Book discussion of Burning Bright. 100 Years Removed: Appalachia Discussion of Burning Bright with Dr. The popular curated live series The author of this year’s companion Big Read author Ron Bring a lunch. through the lenses of Cecil Sharp and James Cotter of Mount Saint Mary Read650 presents a dozen regional book for younger readers, Saving Rash introduces us Roger May. College. Light refreshments. Library Book Discussion writers performing their five- Wonder, shares her thoughts on writing, to the people and 2 pm, PPLD-Adriance Not Your Mama’s Book Group minute, 650-word essays on the empowering youth through literature, mountains that shape Monday, October 21 Join Big Read coordinator Jewel 6:30 pm, PPLD-Boardman Road theme “Thoughts of Home”. Post- and the wisdom she’s learned from his work. Multi-instrumentalist Tom Ratzlaff to discuss Burning Bright. Big Read Double Feature Discussing Amity and Prosperity, the show reception and book sale. A her readers along the way. Bring your Walker sets the tone for an afternoon in 10 am-3 pm, Howland Public Library collaboration between Read650. YA Book Club 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner for general questions. Book signing will follow. Appalachia. Enjoy one or both films; Songcatcher at 6:30 pm, Hyde Park Library non-fiction, set in Pennsylvania’s org, PPLD, and Cunneen-Hackett 10 am and Glass Castle at 12:30 pm. Spooky Sunday, October 13 Discussion of Saving Wonder by Mary western mountains. Art Center. Register at PG-13. Light refreshments. read650.org/events. $5/$8 at door. Mountain Knight. For grades 6-9. Beekman Book Club Appalachian Themes Tales Library Book Discussion 6:30 pm, Beekman Library in Classical Music Friday, October 18 7 pm, Hyde Park 6:30 pm, Hyde Park Library Discussion of Burning Bright. Monday, October 28 Library 3 pm, Hyde Park Library Discussion of Burning Bright. Composer Peter Gilmore highlights Library Book Discussion Eleanor and Storyteller Bill 12 pm, Hyde Park Library Library Book Discussion* Joel spins some spooky tales for a Big Appalachian themes in the work of Tuesday, October 22 Arthurdale 6 pm-LaGrange Association Library Copland, Delius, and Hovhaness. Discussion of Burning Bright. 7 pm, Hyde Park Read Halloween special. For all ages. Appalachian Apple Dessert* Discussion of Part I of Burning Bright. Concert of Library Tuesday, October 15 3:30 pm, PPLD-Adriance Friday, November 1 Appalachian Exploring Eleanor Food Literature & Teen cooking workshop with a Chef Cookbook Bookclub Documentary Music Roosevelt’s interest Big Read Film Fest from Blueprint Consulting. Space limited. 7 pm, Staatsburg Library Series: 4 pm, Millbrook in the planned 7 pm, Hyde Park Library homestead community of Arthurdale, Discussion of The Potlikker Papers: A Matewan, 1987, with Chris Cooper and Appalachia Musician Mark Documentary Food History of the Modern South by John James Earl Jones. 6:30 pm, Rust performs Series: WV, with Jeff Urbin of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum. T. Edge. PPLD-Adriance on guitar, fiddle, spoons, and keyboard. Appalachia Saturday, November 2 Part I of the PBS Light refreshments. 6:30 pm, Friday, October 25 Tuesday, October 29 PPLD-Adriance The Wink of Immediacy: series, Appalachia: A Big Read Film Fest Part II of the Documentary Series: History of Mountains 7 pm, Hyde Park Library Big Read Film Fest The Art of the Short Story* PBS series, Appalachia: A History of Appalachia and People. This 2009 series explores the October Sky, 1999, with Jake Gyllenhaal 7 pm, Hyde Park Library 10 am-12 pm, PPLD-Adriance Mountains and People. 6:30 pm, PPLD-Adriance natural and human history of the oldest and Chris Cooper. Winter’s Bone, 2010, with Jennifer Author Sandi Sonnenfeld leads a Lawrence and John Hawkes. Part III of the workshop on short story writing. Using mountains on the planet: part one is Wednesday, October 23 Saturday, October 19 PBS series, Ron Rash’s story ‘Waiting for the End entitled Time and Terrain. Discussion will Saturday, October 26 follow. Appalachian Appalachia: of the World’ as a model, participants Collage A History of Fiddle Music* Exploring the Complexities will explore various narrative elements Staatsburg Literary Book Club Workshop* Mountains and 6-7:30 pm, LaGrange of Appalachian Identity essential to a short story’s success. 7 pm, Staatsburg Library 1:30-4:30 pm, People. This Association Library 2:30 pm, PPLD-Boardman Road Registration required; bring pen and Discussion of Burning Bright. PPLD- 2009 series explores the natural and A presentation with Siena College paper. Adriance human history of the oldest mountains Wednesday, October 16 music on the history and Professor and Create on the planet; part three is entitled Sunday, November 3 distinctive characteristics of mountain poet/author Spack Readers postcard-sized collages evoking home Mountain Revolutions. Discussion follows. fiddle tunes, with Ambrose Verdibello. Todd D. Ramp Hollow: The 3:15 pm, Laura's Family Restaurant or “place”. Bring photos, or use ours. Snyder shares Ordeal of Appalachia Discussion of Burning Bright. Uncovering Place: Wednesday, October 30 Appalachian Fusion perspectives 2:30 pm, PPLD-Boardman Road Burning Bright Cookbook 7 pm, Bardavon 1869 Opera House from his Appalachian roots, including 12 Friends of PPLD Bus Trip Fordham Professor and author Steven 7 pm, PPLD-Boardman Road Club Goes to An Rounds in Lo’s Gym. to Bear Mountain Inn*$ Stoll provides a fresh perspective into Marist professors from the Departments Appalachia evening of All day, Bear Mountain Park Appalachia through its agrarian history. Appalachian of History and English explore the role Sunday, October 27 Presentations 6 pm, PPLD- Report from Appalachia music, of place, sounds, history, and literary Boardman Road Appalachia Themed Open Mic on the 7 pm, Freedom Plains United dance, photo naturalism in Ron Rash’s short stories. Bring a dish with 1:30 pm, Hyde Park Library Appalachian Presbyterian Church montage, Panelists Stephen Mercier, Nicolas Appalachian heritage and enjoy the Featured artist: Loretta Hagan. Mountain Teens share experiences and and short Marshall, and Steven Garabedian, sampling. Suggested donation $5. Range and the perspectives from their summer work stories read moderated by Sally Dwyer-McNulty. development trip to West Virginia. Library Book Discussion aloud. A collaborative project of Vanaver Readers Rendezvous of the Appalachian Trail at the Bear 7 pm, Pleasant Valley Library Caravan, the Bardavon, PPLD, and the 7 pm, Grinnell Public Library District *Program registration and location Mountain Inn. Includes lunch at the Discussion of Burning Bright. FDR Presidential Library and Museum. Discussion of Burning Bright. information on page 15. Inn and time to relax by the lake. $63 Programs continue on page 14. 10 11 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday October 12 Details on Facebook & poklib.org Kick-Off Event: NEA Big Read October 12 - November 16 Author Ron Rash * Program requires registration 2 pm, PPLD-Boardman

With multi-instrumentalist $ Fee involved Burning Bright by Ron Rash Tom Walker.

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Spack Readers: Burning Bright Appalachian Themes Documentary Series: Literary Luncheon* Book Discussion: Burning Bright Collage Workshop* 3:15 pm, Laura's Family Restaurant in Classical Music Appalachia 12 pm, Millbrook Library 12 pm, Hyde Park 1:30-4:30 pm, PPLD-Adriance 3 pm, Hyde Park 6:30 pm, PPLD-Adriance Cookbook Club Book Discussion: Burning Bright Concert of Appalachian Part I: Time and Terrain Goes to Appalachia 2 pm, PPLD-Adriance Appalachian Music Fusion Literary Book Club: 6 pm, PPLD-Boardman YA Book Club 4 pm, Millbrook 7 pm, Bardavon Burning Bright Book Discussion: 6:30 pm, Hyde Park, Big Read Film Fest: 1869 Opera 7 pm, Staatsburg Burning Bright Grades 6-9 October Sky House 7 pm, Pleasant Valley 7 pm, Hyde Park

20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Appalachia through the Lenses Big Read Double Appalachian Apple Dessert* Appalachian Fiddle Scholar-led Book Discussion Big Read Film Fest: of Cecil Sharp and Roger May Feature 3:30 pm, PPLD-Adriance, for teens Music* 3 pm, Howland Winter's Bone Reception: 2:30-3:30 pm 10 am-3 pm, Howland Documentary Series: Appalachia 6-7:30 pm, LaGrange Not Your Mama’s Book Group 7 pm, Hyde Park Songcatcher @ 10 am, 6:30 pm, PPLD-Adriance Uncovering Place: Burning Bright 6:30 pm, PPLD-Boardman Part II: New Beekman Book Club Glass Castle @ 12:30 pm 7 pm, PPLD-Boardman Exploring the Complexities Green World 6:30 pm, Beekman Book Discussion: Burning Bright Marist Scholar Panel of Appalachian Identity Eleanor and Arthurdale 6:30 pm, Hyde Park Readers Rendezvous: Burning Bright 2:30 pm, PPLD-Boardman 7 pm, Grinnell Public Library 7 pm, Hyde Park

27 28 Book Discussion: 29 30 Friends Bus Trip to 31 November 1 2 Appalachia Burning Bright, Part I* Documentary Series: Appalachia Bear Mountain Inn* Big Read Film Fest: The Wink of Themed Open Mic 6 pm-LaGrange 6:30 pm, PPLD-Adriance All day, Bear Mountain Park, $ Matewan Immediacy: 1:30 pm, Hyde Park, $ Food Literature Part III: Mountain Revolutions A Conversation with 7 pm, Hyde Park The Art of the Mary Knight Thoughts of & Cookbook Short Story* 6 pm, PPLD-Boardman Home* Bookclub: The 10 am-12 pm, Spooky Mountain Tales 2 pm, Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, $ Potlikker Papers PPLD-Adriance 7 pm, Staatsburg 7 pm, Hyde Park, all ages

3 4 5 6 Appalachian Craft Session 7 8 9 Ramp Hollow: Book Discussion: Little Read Word Collage* 4 pm, Hyde Park, elementary grades Photographing Big Read Film Fest: Bluegrass Concert: The Ordeal of Burning Bright 4-4:45 pm, PPLD-Boardman Book Discussion: Burning Bright, Appalachia* Nell Oxford Depot Appalachia 6:30 pm, PPLD- Documentary Series: Appalachia Part II*6 pm-LaGrange 5:30 pm, Frances 7 pm, Hyde Park 7 pm, Our Lady of Lourdes High 2:30 pm, PPLD- Adriance 6:30 pm, PPLD-Adriance Folk Concert: Lehman Loeb Art Literary Salon* School Auditorium Boardman Part IV: Power The Malvinas Center 7-9 pm, Beekman

Report from Appalachia and Place 7 pm-Taconic 7 pm, Freedom Plains United Regional Office Presbyterian Church Auditorium, Staatsburg

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Pack Mule Exploring the Big Read Film Fest: Closing Program Librarians in Appalachian Songcatcher 2:30 pm, PPLD-Boardman 7 pm, Hyde Park Appalachia Trail Tales of Appalachia 6 pm, FDR 7 pm, Unitarian with the HV Presidential Universalist Church Philharmonic Library and Museum AAUW sponsored 8 pm, Bardavon 1869 12 Opera House, $ 13 Monday, November 4 Thursday, November 7 Wednesday, November 13 Location & Registration 100 Years Removed: Appalachia Photographing Appalachia* Pack Mule Bardavon 1869 Opera House Library Book Discussion 35 Market Street, Poughkeepsie 6:30 pm, PPLD-Adriance 5:30 pm, Frances Lehman Librarians in through the Lenses of Sharp and May 845-473-2072, bardavon.org Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Join Big Read coordinator Jewel Appalachia The Big Read exhibit on display between October Beekman Library Ratzlaff to discuss Burning Bright. Photographers 6 pm, FDR 1 and November 13 at Adriance is a unique 11 Town Center Blvd, Hopewell Junction have been 845-724-3414, beekmanlibrary.org Tuesday, November 5 Presidential Library collection of photographs capturing Appalachia drawn to and Museum approximately 100 years apart. These two sets of photographs are the work of Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center Little Read Word Collage* document the Sandra Opdycke English musicologist Cecil Sharp and Appalachian native and documentary 12 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, 845-486-4571 Register at read650.org/events. $ 4-4:45 pm, PPLD-Boardman Road Appalachian explores the New Deal program of photographer Roger May. Make a collage inspired by Curley’s 1981 Ewald, Wendy region’s people librarians delivering books in the From 1916 to 1918, Cecil Sharp and his assistant Maud Karpeles spent Grinnell Public Library District and culture for well over a hundred 2642 East Main Street, Wappingers Falls weekly words in Saving Wonder by mountains of Kentucky. 46 weeks traveling through Appalachia in search of traditional English folk 845-297-3428, Grinnell-library.org Mary Knight. For Grades 5-8. years. While many images, particularly ballads. The goal was to capture this transatlantic cultural connection before it those taken by outsiders during Thursday, November 14 FDR Presidential Library and Museum disappeared. Sharp photographed the people he visited as he collected ballads. 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park Documentary Series: President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Exploring the Roger May left Appalachia as a teen, returning as an adult with a hunger 845-486-7770, fdrlibrary.org Appalachia Poverty” in the 1960s, cemented a visual Appalachian for home. His work explores the history of place, faith, and identity in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center 6:30 pm, PPLD-Adriance idea of Appalachia as a place only of dire Trail coalfields. In 2014, he started the crowdsourced ‘Looking at Appalachia’ Vassar College, 124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie Part IV of the deprivation, the stories told through 845-437-5237, fllac.vassar.edu PBS series, 7 pm, Unitarian project, seeking positive, beautiful representations of an oft-maligned region. both historic and contemporary Friends of PPLD Universalist Church Appalachia: photographs of the region are much 141 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, 845-485-3445 x3422 A History of more diverse and nuanced. This program AAUW presents https://friends_bear_mountain_trip.eventbrite.com or at the Friends' Book Store Mountains and People. This 2009 series will examine several photographs of the avid hiker Rich NEA Big Read is a program of: explores the natural and human history region held in the permanent collection Keyes sharing The National Endowment for the Arts Freedom Plains United Presbyterian 1165 Route 55, Lagrangeville, 12540 of the oldest mountains on the planet; of the Art Center. stories and slides from the hundreds of in partnership with Arts Midwest part four is entitled Power and Place. miles of the AT he has hiked. He’ll be 845-452-0684, fppchurch.org And these generous local Discussion will follow. Friday, November 8 joined by Kevin and Carol Becker for Howland Public Library some bluegrass-inspired music to round sponsors: 313 Main Street, Beacon 845-831-1134, beaconlibrary.org Wednesday, November 6 Big Read out the evening. Norman and Jeannie Greene Fund Film Fest FairGame Arts Grant Hyde Park Library & Annex ADMIT ALL Appalachian Craft Session 7 pm, Hyde Park Friday, November 15 2 Main Street, Hyde Park

Paula’s Public House ADMIT ALL FOR THE THEATER ARTS. 845-229-7791, hydeparkfreelibrary.org 4 pm, Hyde Park Library Library Big Read Film Fest Salisbury Bank Let’s get crafty! For children in Nell, 1994, with Laura's Family Restaurant 7 pm, Hyde Park Library H.W. Wilson Foundation Hudson Plaza, 2585 South Road elementary grades. Jodie Foster and Songcatcher, 2000, with Aidan Quinn and The Friends of PPLD Poughkeepsie, Bonnie: 845-876-5696 Library Book Discussion* Liam Neeson. 6 pm-LaGrangeAssociation Library Janet McTeer. LaGrange Association Library Coordinated by the Poughkeepsie Public Library District 488 Freedom Plains Road, Suite 109, Discussion of Part II of Burning Bright. Literary Salon* Saturday, November 16 with the cooperation of the following partners: Poughkeepsie, 845-452-3141, laglib.org Folk Music Concert 7-9 pm, Beekman Library Millbrook Library Big Read Closing Program School Districts Millbrook Library by The Malvinas Annual Big Read Salon presents works 3 Friendly Lane, Millbrook 2:30 pm, PPLD-Boardman Road Arlington Central School District Pleasant Valley Free Library 845-677-3611, millbrooklibrary.org 7 pm-Taconic Regional from the Creative Writer’s Group at Staatsburg Library Celebrate our Appalachian literary Dutchess County BOCES Salt Point Our Lady of Lourdes High School Office Auditorium, Green Haven Correctional Facility Catholic Schools Region of Dutchess and the public. Wine and light desserts journey and be the first to learn about Arts Organizations 131 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie Staatsburg next year’s Big Read book selection. Hyde Park Central School District The Art Effect 845-463-0400, ollchs.org served. Registration required. Our Lady of Lourdes High School This female folk Our book discussion group winner will Arts Mid-Hudson Pleasant Valley Free Library Poughkeepsie City School District trio from upstate Saturday, November 9 also be selected. Bardavon 1869 Opera House 1600 Main Street, Pleasant Valley New York, Quebec, Poughkeepsie Day School Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center 845-635-8460, pleasantvalleylibrary.org Spackenkill Union Free School District and Louisiana performs a broad range Bluegrass Tales of Appalachia with Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Poughkeepsie Public Library District Wappingers Central School District of regional music: from blues-tinged Concert the HV Philharmonic Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra 845-485-3445 x 3707, poklib.org grooves and spicy Cajun tunes of the 7 pm, Our 8 pm, Bardavon 1869 Opera House, $ Higher Education Read650 -Adriance Memorial Library 93 Market Street, Poughkeepsie American South to Celtic sounds Lady of Lourdes Jay Ungar, Dutchess Community College SUNY Other Local Organizations -Boardman Road Branch Library of Eastern Canada and the groovy Molly Mason, Dutchess County BOCES Adult Learning Inst. American Association of University Women, High School 141 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie troubadour tradition of the Catskills. Auditorium and Cellist Marist College Poughkeepsie Branch Vassar College Staatsburg Library The Malvinas offer tight harmonies and Concert by the local band Oxford Zuill Bailey Arc of Dutchess County Day Hab Program Book Clubs across the Region 70 Old Post Road, Staatsburg quirky instrumentation for high-energy Depot. join the Public Libraries (and Friends) 845-889-4683, staatsburglibrary.org Hudson Valley Beekman Library DC Regional Chamber of Commerce fun for the whole family. Taconic Regional Office Auditorium Philharmonic Friends of Poughkeepsie Public Library District FDR Presidential Library and Museum Freedom Plains United Presbyterian Church 9 Old Post Road, Staatsburg,845-889-4100 for a literary musical finale. Tickets Grinnell Public Library District *Program registration and location Howland Public Library Green Haven Correctional Writers’ Group Unitarian Universalist Fellowship available only at the Bardavon Box Office or 67 S. Randolph Ave, Poughkeepsie information on page 15. Hyde Park Library Marist College Center for Lifetime Study online at bardavon.org/box-office/ Monique Jones, 845-849-1692, [email protected] 14 LaGrange Association Library Poughkeepsie Journal 15