Community Reads 2011 Kick-Off Concert: NY Swing Exchange
The New York Swing Exchange, a big band orchestra, performs the swinging compositions popular in the 1940's.
The New York Swing Exchange, a big band orchestra, performs the swinging compositions popular in the 1940's.
Swing is improvisational, energetic and as fun to dance as it is to watch. Dance instructor Diane Newlander will teach the fundamentals of swing dancing. Learn or brush up on the dance craze of the 1940's and 50's that is still quite popular today.
Join English professor Diane Tomko for a discussion of famous correspondents in literary history. Their letters stand in marked contrast to our fleeting tweets, texts and emails. What can we learn from this more literate form of expression?
The Library will host a discussion of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society with Wendy Dembeck. All are welcome!
Members of the storytelling guild will beguile withtales of ghostsand mystery thathave been passed down in our communitythrough the years. Historic sources have been mined, and the old stories will rise from their graves and live again! Adults, teens and attentivechildren age 10 and up with parent. Pre-registration required.
A classic Disney film set during WWII, Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a fantasy adventure for kids (and adults, too) starring Angela Lansbury as an apprentice witch who, with the help of three blitz evacuee children and a "Professor of Witchcraft," thwart a Nazi invasion.
Come meet local artist Lorrie Sniderman and view her works on display in the Gallery and Community Room.