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Blood Shortage on Long Island
Great Neck Library
Community Blood Drive
Thursday, July 3, 2008
1:30 - 7:00 p.m.
159 Bayview Avenue, Great Neck
Eligibility Criteria:
*Bring valid ID and know your social security number
*Minimum weight is 110 lbs.
*Age 17-75
*Age 16 with parental permission
*Age 76 or older, a doctor’s note is required
*Eat well (low fat) & drink lots of fluids
FOR MEDICAL QUESTIONS CONCERNING
BLOOD DONATIONS
CALL 1-800-688-0900
Please Save A Life! Be generous and donate at the Library Blood Drive which will be given by the
Long Island Blood Services.
More than 800 donations are needed daily in 50 Long Island Hospitals. Please roll up your sleeves and help the community by donating blood today.
To make an appointment call Grace Ferrara at 466-8055, ext. 246 or ext. 208.
July 9
Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.
Current Nonfiction
Write It When I’m Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford by Thomas M. DeFrank
led by Michael D’Innocenzo
Write It When I’m Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007) reveals the special perspectives that can be gained from the oral history of a man who was at the center of politics for decades, and who continued to be an observer of our changing times into his 90s. Gerald Ford’s stipulation that his views could not be published until after his death gives this volume a distinctive quality.
July 10
Thursday from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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August 13
Wednesday from 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
STAR Exemption Applications Assistance
A representative of the Nassau County Assessors Office will be at the Library to assist homeowners with filling out a STAR Exemption Application.
STAR is the New York State School Tax Relief program that provides an exemption from school property taxes for owner occupied, primary residences. This state financed exemption is authorized by Section 425 of the Real Property Tax Law. You must file an application with the Department of Assessment to qualify for the exemption.
July 14
Monday at 1:30 p.m.
Avoiding Home Improvement and Repair Rip-Offs
presented by Tom Philbin
This program offers a blend of information that includes how to hire a good contractor and how to protect yourself against the most common scams in five different areas: roofing, termites, mold, wet basements and chimneys. For example, some people spend thousands on intricate drainage systems when they have a wet basement. Meanwhile, in 99% of the cases the problems can be solved by simply cleaning the gutters and/or sloping the ground away from the foundation so water drains harmlessly away.
Art/Slide Lecture
July 15
Tuesday at 2:00 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum’s Remember the Ladies: Images of Women in American Art (1750 – 1990)
presented by Maribeth Flynn Coordinator, Museum Guides and
Access Programs, Education Division
Using portraits, family groups, genre painting and sculpture from the Brooklyn Museum ‘s landmark
collection of American paintings and sculpture, “Remember the Ladies: Images of Women in American Art 1750-1990” examines the various ways artists – women and men – portrayed women in work spanning nearly two hundred and fifty years, from the colonial period to Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party.
July 17
Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
The Great Neck Library and the Persian Culture Committee present
Author: Dalia Sofer A Reading and Discussion of her book, Septembers of Shiraz
In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known. As Isaac navigates the tedium and terrors of prison, forging tenuous trusts, his wife feverishly searches for him.
A page-turning literary debut, the Septembers of Shiraz simmers with questions of identity, alienation, and love, not simply for a spouse or a child, but for all the intangible sights and smells of the place we call home. - HarperCollins Publishers
July 18
Friday at 3:00 p.m.
Discussion Group
Socrates’ Salon
GIVING: Tender Feelings, Tough Decisions
presented by Bea and Ron Gross
How do you give? For what reasons? When not? What’s “enough”? (Princeton University philosopher Peter Singer says: “Not til it hurts!” Do you agree?) How might we share more of ourselves?!
Think of the liveliest conversations you have ever had, about the most provocative topics, with people worth listening to -- who also want to hear what YOU have to say! That's what you'll find brewing alongside the coffee, at this nationally-recognized group (Time, New York Times). Our Socrates Salon has pioneered in reviving the art of Great Talk in America today. Your chair is waiting!
July 19
Saturday
9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Empire Safety Council Defensive Driving Class
Instructor: Steve Donnelly, Empire Safety Council
NYSDMV Approved. All principle vehicle operators are eligible. Students who take and complete this six hour classroom workshop can save ten percent on their automobile insurance premiums for THREE YEARS and may reduce up to FOUR TRAFFIC VIOLATOR POINTS on their driving record. The fee is $35.00 (non-refundable). Checks should be made out to: Empire Safety Council. Please call the Programming Office at (516) 466-8055, ext. 208 for registration information. This class is limited to 40 participants. Registration begins on Monday, July 7.
July 22
Tuesday at 1:30 p.m.
Moving Wealth from One Generation to Another
presented by Fern Reidman, Esq.
The movement of wealth is more complicated than ever. Fern Reidman, Esq., elder law and trusts and estates attorney reviews elder law basics and more complicated strategies. These strategies include ideas for asset protection from a tax perspective and to avoid nursing home liens on the primary residence. Learn how to protect your assets and move your wealth to the next generation, should you desire.
July 24
Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
Baseball in ‘41
presented by Bud Livingston
The Library is pleased to welcome back Bud Livingston to talk about this most exciting year in baseball. Baseball in ‘41 includes the memorable exploits of Joe DiMaggio (56 game hitting streak), Ted Williams (.406 batting average) and the Brooklyn Dodgers, who won the National League pennant for the first time in 21 years, having come from decades of second division finales. Baseball in ’41 has to go down as one of the most amazing years in our national pastimes’ fascinating history.
July 30
Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
Station Branch Summer Book Club
The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
led by Librarian Judy Snow
A heartbreaking first adult novel from the author of the multimillion-copy, #1 bestselling series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Set on Long Island's Fire Island, The Last Summer (of You and Me) is an enchanting, heartrending page-turner about sisterhood, friendship, love, loss, and growing up. It is the story of a beach community friendship triangle-Riley and Alice, two sisters in their twenties, and Paul, the young man they've grown up with-and what happens one summer when budding love, sexual curiosity, a sudden serious illness, and a deep secret all collide, launching the friends into an adult world from which their summer haven can no longer protect them.
July 30
Wednesday at 2:00 p.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York Exhibit
PowerPoint Presentation
Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940
On view through September 1, 2008
presented by John Welch, Docent
The exhibition tells the story of photography’s first 100 years through the work of key figures who helped shape the aesthetic and expressive course of the medium: Gustave Le Gray, Roger Fenton, Carleton Watkins, William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Nadar, Édouard Baldus, Charles Marville, Eugène Atget, Walker Evans, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Brassaï. The exhibition will present 10 to 12 iconic works by each of these artists to convey a broad sense of their contributions to photography. Many of the works are drawn from the Museum’s 2005 acquisition of the Gilman Collection.
Drawings, Prints, and Photographs Galleries and The Howard Gilman Gallery, 2nd floor.
August 4
Monday at 2:00 p.m.
Author Talk
Jones Beach: An Illustrated History
presented by John Hanc
Jones Beach looms large in the hearts and lives of millions of New Yorkers. From its windswept beginnings on the far edge of an empire to its 20th-century status as the greatest public beachfront resort in America, Jones Beach State Park has been home to countless memories.
John Hanc has done a wonderful job of illustrating the beauty and the history of Jones Beach…Any historian will be pleased, and any citizen of New York will be proud to have this book in their collection.
- Donald Trump
August 8
Friday at 3:00 p.m.
Discussion Group
Socrates’ Salon
FAKING IT
presented by Bea and Ron Gross
Do you ever feel that you're faking it? Do you sense it in others? What’s the role of faking it in our culture, entertainment, arts, politics, business, and professions?
Think of the liveliest conversations you have ever had, about the most provocative topics, with people worth listening to -- who also want to hear what YOU have to say! That's what you'll find brewing alongside the coffee, at this nationally-recognized group (Time, New York Times). Our Socrates Salon has pioneered in reviving the art of Great Talk in America today. Your chair is waiting!
August 14
Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
Book Talk
Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize
People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks
presented by Ellen Parker
Inspired by the true story of a mysterious codex known as the Sarajevo Haggadah, a rare illuminated Hebrew manuscript, People of the Book is a sweeping adventure through five centuries of history. From its creation in Muslim-ruled, medieval Spain, the illuminated manuscript makes a series of perilous journeys: through Inquisition-era Venice, fin-de-siecle Vienna, and the Nazi sacking of Sarajevo.
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed manuscript, which has been rescued once again from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with figurative paintings. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she becomes determined to unlock the book’s mysteries. As she seeks the counsel of scientists and specialists, the reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its creation to its salvation.
August 21
Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
The Ed Sullivan Really Good Show
presented by Seena Edelman
For over two decades, Sunday nights at 8 p.m. found most families gathered around their television for a “really big show”. From Elvis to the Beatles, from Johnny Carson to Jackie Mason and others in between, Ed Sullivan launched many careers. In addition, there were acrobats and novelty acts to provide entertainment for Ed’s legions of viewers.
Join film historian Seena Edelman at the Library for a nostalgic look back at budding talents such as Totie Fields, Joan Rivers, Judy Garland and dozens of others who graced the small screen in its early days.
August 25
Monday at 1:30 p.m.
Video Presentation/Discussion
The Road to New York from Eastern Europe
presented by Charles Fine, Docent 92nd Street Y
This program features an award-winning video, produced by Phyllis Greenspan, a retired educator from the Jewish Museum in New York, that records the sharing of oral histories and the presentation of artifacts of immigrants’ lives in Europe and America. Hosted by Charles Fine, a tour guide and historian of the Lower East Side, The Road to New York from Eastern Europe has been successfully received by adult audiences in synagogues, YMHAs, public libraries, and religious schools.
August 27
Wednesday at 7:00 p.m.
Station Branch Summer Book Club
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
led by Librarian Judy Snow
Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport – the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the instant babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate: an “arrival party” that from then on is repeated every year as the two families become more and more deeply intertwined. Even Maryam is drawn in – up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by Bitsy Donaldson’s recently widowed father, all the values she cherishes – her traditions, her
privacy, her otherness–are suddenly threatened.
A luminous novel brimming with subtle, funny, and tender observations that immerse us in the challenges of both sides of the American story. - Random House, Publisher
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