Past Events
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Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 4:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 3 and OlderLet's celebrate the snowy season with a flurry of stories.
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Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, June 22, 2023 - 11:00 AM | The Writing Life | On the Zoom Meetings platform | for members only | free of charge | registration required
Join author and playwright Diane Richards and your fellow writers for a fun and stimulating hour and a half of prompts, writing, and sharing. Sessions are separate - attend any or all.
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Monday, January 23, 2023 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredA revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winner about the most essential Founding Father—the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution.
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Monday, January 23, 2023 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Livestream | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredA revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize-winner about the most essential Founding Father—the one who stood behind the change in thinking that produced the American Revolution.
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Saturday, January 21, 2023 - 3:00 PM | Children | Members’ Room | open to the public | for all ages | free of charge | registration requiredCome sing along while making music and discovering fun folk tales with musician and storyteller Bobaloo.
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Friday, January 20, 2023 - 10:00 AM | Children | Whitridge Room | Ages 2 and Up | For Members Only
Enjoy favorite nursery rhymes, picture books, and songs.
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Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM | Reception | Members' Room | for members and guests | free of charge | drop in
Members and guests are cordially invited to join us for an informal opening reception for Grace Notes. Drop in for light refreshments and a first glance at our new short-term exhibition.
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Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 3:30 PM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | registration requiredWriters in narrative forms - novelists, short story writers, playwrights, screenwriters, epic poets - find their art requires an element other arts don’t: a plot. We choose to work in these forms, yet many of us find plot a difficult element to wrangle. This talk will explore why that is and what a writer can do about it.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, February 15, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members only | $100 for the six sessions | registration required“Never say you know the last word about any human heart.” That’s one of the great sentences of this great writer, Henry James (1843-1916). In this seminar – which welcomes both experienced readers of James and novices – we’ll discover many more.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Livestream | open to the public | $10 per person | registration requiredThe Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family, and users of our Library. In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age.
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Members' Room: David N. Gellman, Liberty’s Chain: Slavery, Abolition, and the Jay Family of New York
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredThe Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family, and users of our Library. In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. -
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 - 10:00 AM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 24 Months and Younger
Join us for songs, stories, and movement for babies and toddlers.
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Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 4:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 3 and OlderRaise a howl for these stories about happy hounds.
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Thursday, November 10, 2022 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 11:00 AM | Reading Group | Whitridge Room | for members only | $75 for the four sessions | registration requiredHomer's Iliad is being read and reread. This seminar reads Homer's Iliad to discover why today's writers and artists are fascinated with an epic composed about 2800 years ago.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2023 - 4:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Kindergarten and upLet's make lava lamps for these longer nights.
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Friday, January 6, 2023 - 10:00 AM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 2 and OlderEnjoy favorite nursery rhymes, picture books, and songs.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023 - 10:00 AM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 24 Months & YoungerJoin us for songs, stories, and movement for babies and toddlers.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022 - 10:00 AM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 24 Months & YoungerJoin us for songs, stories, and movement for babies and toddlers.
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Friday, December 16, 2022 - 10:00 AM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 2 and OlderEnjoy favorite nursery rhymes, picture books, and songs.
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Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 6:00 PM | The Writing Life | Members’ Room | for members and guests | free of charge | registration requiredMembers and guests are cordially invited to a celebration of Library members who have published books in 2022.
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Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 3:30 PM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room | for members only | free of charge | registration requiredWhy are writers such creatures of habit? Does it actually make a difference? During this conversation, novelist and former editor Anna Pitoniak will discuss how routines and rituals are a vital part of the creative process—and how to incorporate them into your own writing practice.
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Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, November 17, 2022 - 11:00 AM | Thursday, December 15, 2022 - 11:00 AM | The Writing Life | On the Zoom Meetings platform | for members only | free of charge | registration required
Join author and playwright Diane Richards and your fellow writers for a fun and stimulating hour and a half of prompts, writing, and sharing. Sessions are separate - attend any or all.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022 - 4:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Kindergarten and upLet's construct contraptions to help storm the castle!
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Monday, December 12, 2022 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room | open to the public | $15 per person | registration requiredIn connection with our Fabulous Fashion exhibition (open through January 15, 2023), an evening with the author of the definitive classic Couture: The Great Designers.
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Thursday, December 8, 2022 - 4:00 PM | Children | Whitridge Room | For Members | Ages 3 and OlderLet's cozy up with tales to welcome the coming of winter.
