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Visit us at www.hwpl.org Monday -Thursday 9 am to 9 pm Friday 9 am to 6 pm Saturday 9 am to 5 pm Sunday 12:30 pm to 5 pm Closed on Sundays beginning June 28, 2015 Sunday service resumes September 13, 2015 12:30 – 5 pm SCHEDULE CHANGES Sunday, June 28 CLOSED Friday, July 3 CLOSED Saturday, July 4 CLOSED Saturday, August 15 CLOSED 22 • Wednesday 17 • Monday Saturday, August 22 CLOSED District residents register for Film: Monk with a Camera 2 pm Saturday, August 29 CLOSED 8/12 Lao Cooking 10 am Saturday, September 5 CLOSED 18 • Tuesday For Your Health: Drumming* 11 am Sunday, September 6 CLOSED Blood Drive 2:30-8:30 pm Film: Snatch 2 pm Monday, September 7 CLOSED 19 • Wednesday Monday, September 14 1 – 9 pm 23 • Thursday Film: Finding Vivian Maier 2 pm Tuesday September 22 9 am – 6 pm Art Lecture II: Modern Art and Dictators 1 pm Wednesday, September 23 CLOSED 20 • Thursday 27 • Monday Author Visit: From a Nickel to a Token 1 pm NoveList: with Ellen Getreu 11 am JUNE Part 1: The Pacific War: Film: Unbroken 2 pm 26 • Wednesday Film: Into the Wild 2 & 7 pm 28 • Tuesday 30 • Tuesday District residents register Part 2: The Pacific War: Book Discussion for PowerPoint classes 10 am SEPTEMBER Fly Boys by James Bradley with Philip JULY Ritzenberg 1 pm 2 • Wednesday Intermediate PowerPoint* 7 pm Film: Imitation Game 2 & 7 pm 1 • We dnesday Registration for 7/15 Social Security 10 am 29 • Wednesday 9 • Wednesday Film: Boyhood 2 & 7 pm For Your Health: Family Kitchen Organic* 11 am Residents & Friends of the Library Film: Into the Woods 7 pm pick up tickets for 2 • Thursday Art Reception 6 pm 30 • Thursday 10/4 Stuart Fishman Concert 10 am & 7 pm 7 • Tuesday ÌF Highlights in Jazz* 7:30 pm 10 • Thursday Introduction to PowerPoint * 7 pm Film: Beyond Right & Wrong 2 pm 8 • Wednesday AUGUST Art Reception 7 pm For Your Health: Food Pairing 10 am 3 • Monday 17 • Thursday Residents register for7/22 Spirit Sky drumming Genealogy: with M. Vollono 2 pm 92YLive: Film: Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2 pm & 7/29 Kitchen Organic 10 am 4 • Tuesday Residents & Friends pick up tickets for 7/20/& 20 • Sunday Lecture: The Good Old Days: 7/21 Broadway Showstoppers 10 am & 7 pm Big Screen: Wings of Life 2 pm Pop Culture in the Roaring 20s 1 pm Film: Rififi 2 pm 21 • Monday 5 • Wednesday 9 • Thursday Dept. of Assessment 1 – 3 pm HWPL Readers: Casebook 1 pm For Your Health: Life Energy 101 1 pm F Courtyard: Shenole Latimer & Friends 7 pm Film: The Usual Suspects 7 pm 29 • Tuesday ÌF Great Books 7:30 pm 13 • Monday 6 • Thursday 30 • Wednesday Film: Selma 2 & 7 pm Genealogy for Beginners: Part I 1 pm F Courtyard: LI Harmonica Club 7 pm 14 • Tuesday OCTOBER 10 • Monday HWPL Readers : Euphoria 11 am Genealogy Part II: 1 pm 4 • Sunday Author Visit: Exit Berlin 7 pm So You Want to be a Bee Keeper? 7 pm Stuart Fishman Memorial Concert* 1:30 & 4 pm 15 • Wednesday 11 • Tuesday Residents & Friends of Library pick up tickets HWPL Readers: The Book of BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ MEETINGS for 7/30 Highlights in Jazz 10 am & 7 pm Unknown Americans 11 am Film: American Sniper 2 pm Monday, July 13 7:45 pm Book to Film Discussion Part I: Social Security Workshop* 7 pm Film: Stand By Me 2 pm Wednesday, September 16 7:45 pm 16 • Thursday 12 • Wednesday BOARD OF TRUSTEES Art Lecture: Modern Art and Dictators 1 pm For Your Health: Summer Lao Cooking* 11 am Benjamin A. Eilbott, President F Courtyard: Ed Ryan & Tom San Filippo 7 pm Film: Still Alice 2 & 7 pm Shari H. Braverman, Vice President 20 • Monday David A. Adler Donald A. Davidson 13 • Thursday F Broadway Showstoppers* 7:30 pm Frank Zaret, Treasurer Book to Film Discussion Part II: 21 • Tuesday The Body by Stephen King William Ferro, Director Blood Drive registration begins 10 am with A. Buchsbaum 2 pm Nadine Connors, Editor and Programs F Broadway Showstoppers* 7:30 pm Art reception 7 pm F Co-sponsored by Friends of the Library ÌF Indicates a Friends of the Library program. * Previous registratio n/tickets required. Newsletter of the Hewlett- Woodmere Public Library OverlJULY I AUGUST I SEPTEMBER e2015 VOLUaME 51, NUMf BER 1 WHAT’S INSIDE ÌF STUART FISHMAN OVER LEAF JR. REMOVABLE INSERT MEMORIAL CONCERT Big Screen Page 6 Events & Performances Pages 2-3 Ola Fresca Films Pages 6 I Sunday, October 4, Great Books Page 7 1:30 & 4 pm H-W PL Readers Page 7 Weaving musical bridges Lectures & Courses Pages 3 -5 that connect traditional mod - Author Visits Page 5 ern Cuban dance music with Teens Page 5 salsa, funk,and world beat rhythms, Ola Fresca, assisted FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY by the creative energy of Jose The Friends of the Hewlett- Conde, have evolved into a Woodmere Public Library take pride swinging, fearless tropical and pleasure in enhancing the library sound directly from Brooklyn! experience for the community From their rustic Cuban roots 2004 debut album Ay! Que Rico to the funky, eclectic through cultural programs, concerts, Best Latin Album 2008 Independent Music Awards, Evolucion, the band wandered children’s programs, book bags, and through the many Latin roots styles and formats before settling on a trombone led giving “gifts” to enhance the facility octet. As relations continue to change between Cuba and the US, Ola Fresca brings beyond the budgeting process. As a an evolved Cuban sound to audiences once again. Friend you will have the satisfaction New York based painter, dancer, musician Carlos Mateu and partner, will per form of knowing you are helping your com - typical cuban and salsa dances to selected Ola Fresca songs. T O Praised by the NY TIMES for making munity. Members also participate in U Q I S music with an “emphasis on songs with R advance ticket distribution days for U O characters, wordplay and mild social B N all Friends’ ticketed events such as E ideas...good for dancing and thinking,” V R A Ola Fresca garnered support from fans concerts and special programs. Out- C of-district supporters are welcomed! © worldwide in a 2014 kickstarter for “Elixir” (6-1-2015), their lyrical antidote So, be a Friend, and join today! A to factional bickering everywhere in the Friends’ membership makes a great world, in which Conde skillfully blends gift!! Cuban son, rumba, and timba, and Puerto The Friends have received gift Rican-style salsa, for a fresh sound that embraces the best of New York’s Latin donations from members of the com - scene. munity to show their appreciation District residents and Friends of the Library and support of Friends’ activities or may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, to commemorate a lifetime mile - September 9, 10 am & 7 pm. One ticket per Herencia D’Cuba featuring Carlos Mateu stone such as a special wedding library card and Friend’s membership card. anniversary. When considering gift giving, please consider making a gift to the Friends. And of course, we 92Y LIVE: FROM THE DVD VAULT thank all our members for their con - Supreme Court Justice tinuous support of the Friends. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Interview To join or purchase a gift mem - with Nina Totenberg, bership, please fill out a form avail - NPR’s Legal Affairs correspondent able at the Information Desk, I Thursday, September 17, 2 pm Circulation, or at Friends’ programs. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has written widely in Irene Levy, Sarah Knecht, Iris Gorenberg, Marlene Berman, Pearl Cande, Gitty the areas of civil procedure, conflict of laws, Greene, Claire Zimmerman, Ruth Hirsch, constitutional law, and comparative law. Hear Hazel Malkes, Sallie Prisyon, Gita her discuss this and more as Nina Totenberg interviews her. Scheinman, Blanche Silver, Carlene Toron This is not a live broadcast from the 92Y. SPECIAL EVENTS & PERFORMANCES A LITTLE SUMMER NIGHT GENEALOGY WORKSHOP MUSIC IN THE COURTYARD Trace your Roots! Chairs are provided. In case of Three Mondays inclement weather, we move indoors. All evenings begin at 7 pm. No tickets Genealogy for Beginners: required. Part I Co-sponsored by The Friends of the Library. With Diane Warmsley I Monday, July 13, 1 pm Adrian Cunningham Roots Run Deep This is an introductory class for Highlights in Jazz presents beginners who wish to research their The Art of Swinging family history. Participants are introduced to I Thursday, July 30, 7:30 pm genealogy basics and a 5 Step Research Australian Adrian Cunningham, reed Model to guide genealogical research. Shenole Latimer player and vocalist, returns to the Vital records are reviewed to illustrate library with an all-star Quintet, playing how to properly mine them for early Jazz and Swing classics. genealogical information. Free geneal - Shenole Latimer & Friends Adrian Cunningham, clarinet saxo - ogy resources are provided. I Thursday, July 9 phone and flute; Charlie Caranicas, Come hear jazz saxophonist Shenole trumpet ; Rob Garcia, drums; Dalton Learn to Use Ancestry.com Latimer and Friends. Besides being a Ridenhour, piano; Daniel Foose, bass with Local History Librarian, wonderful musician, Shenoles is an District residents and Friends of the Library Millicent Vollono may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, I entertainer with a bigger than life July 15, 10 am & 7 pm.