Past Events
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
Johanna Hurwitz is one of the most popular children's authors in the country, and her books are especially appreciated in New York City, where she lived and worked as a librarian for many years. In this visit, Ms.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The Landmark editions of Thucydides and Herodotus have become the new standard for elegant and accessible editions of classical works. To this monumental work, editor Robert B.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
Our panelists discuss the history and issues surrounding copyright protections and what you need to know to gain the rights to work or protect your own work.
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Sunday, November 8, 2009 - 7:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room
The Century for Contemporary Opera presents the Prima le Parole series to give lovers of opera and literature a first glimpse of exciting new works, and their writers a first hearing of their text.
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Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 7:00 PM | Lecture | Temple IsraelThe story of the Trojan War is immortalized in Homer's epic of epic poems, the Iliad, and brought to new life in Caroline Alexander's The War That Killed Achilles.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 10:00 AM | Technology | Whitridge Room
Learn how to create lists, save searches, register for events and keep track of the books you've checked out through the library catalog.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
When Isabel Gillies's husband took a teaching job at a Midwestern college, Isabel and their sons moved with him from New York City to Ohio. But within a few months, the marriage was over. The life Isabel had made crumbled.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Performance | Members' Room
Although most famous for her fiction, Oates is also a prolific and widely produced writer of drama.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
A panel of distinguished journalists and news professionals talk about where the industry is headed and how they and their organizations have adapted to the new paradigm in news coverage.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 6:00 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
William Jay Smith has been one of the most respected figures on the literary scene for more than half a century. Two of his thirteen poetry collections were finalists for the National Book Award.
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Friday, September 25, 2009 - 9:00 AM | Reception | Offsite - Sagamore Hill
Library members visit the home of Theodore Roosevelt and his family in the company of Harriet Shapiro, curator of the exhibition The President's Wife and the Librarian.
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Merkin Concert Hall
An Imperfect Offering is a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms, from one of the greatest living humanitarian activists. This event is co-sponsored by WNET/Thirteen New York.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
In 1870 a group of wealthy and culturally ambitious New Yorkers founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a Manhattan brownstone with a lackluster collection and not a single major work of art.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
Alida Brill has suffered from a rare and chronic autoimmune illness since childhood. For more than twenty-five years, one spot of brightness in her situation has been her medical relationship with her doctor, Michael D. Lockshin.
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Temple Israel
Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne, a lively dialogue has persisted about the pros and cons of travel - its excitement and novelties, its perils and misadventures.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
New Yorkers are constantly enriched by exemplary works of public art; Public Art New York gives the opportunity to become truly acquainted with it. In this event Ms.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
Poet Brian Bartlett reads from his most recent collection, The Watchmaker's Table, and talks about his experiments blending his voice with those of others in glosas, haiku sequences, sonnets about teaching, and found poems.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
The author of Mrs. Roosevelt's definitive biography introduces the wider world of the First Lady's influential life and tumultuous era.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 2:00 PM | Technology | Taught by George Munoz
The basics of buying and selling on eBay.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 10:00 AM | Technology | Taught by Matthew Haugen
Covers basic terminology, methods, and tools for starting your own blog, including creating a new blog, posting and managing your content, and developing your readership.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 4:00 PM | Children | Members' Room
In Eudora Welty's The Shoe Bird, Grammy-award-winning performer and Guinness World Records holder Jim Dale brings to life a flock of unforgettable bird characters - Arturo the parrot, Gloria the goose, Minerva the owl, even the extinct Do
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Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 3:00 PM | Performance | Members' Room
This innovative theater company performs a full-cast, creatively staged production of The Heiress, which has had two successful Broadway runs following its premiere in 1947 and was also made into a classic 1949 film.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 6:30 PM | Lecture | Members' Room
As part of the National Endowment for the Arts' The Big Read, Professor Kraft shared context and critical thought and led discussion on Henry James's Washington Square.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 5:30 PM | Children | Members' Room
Born in southeast Poland in 1934, Lola Rein lost everything at the age of eight when her parents died in the Holocaust.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 10:00 AM | The Writing Life | Whitridge Room
A panel of veteran authors and publishing insiders lead a discussion on the new realities of book marketing and publicity today and share practical advice on what authors can and need to do for themselves.