Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. With music pulsing on every page, A Visit from the Goon Squad is a startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption.
To reserve a copy of the book for Curbside Pickup email vberlin@beekleylibrary.org.
The Beekley Book Club is a book discussion group that meets via Zoom on the third Wednesday of each month from 7pm to 8pm. All are welcome to join in.
Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link. A reminder email with the Zoom will be sent out 60 minutes before the event starts.
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Music in America:
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Jazz music was born in the vernacular, one might say, slowly gathering focus and form in the streets of New Orleans and the fields of the Cotton Belt. By 1900, it was taking visible structure, but it was with the advent of recorded music that jazz came into its own. World War I exported this new and thrilling sound to Europe, and with that, jazz was vaulted to the front ranks of American cultural achievements. Today, jazz continues its reign as a universally practiced and popular art form. This presentation will offer a brief look at the history of jazz, its major periods and the people who marked them. Some of the more popular and groundbreaking recordings will accompany the presentation, which will culminate around the turn of the 21st Century.
Hamish Lutris is an Associate Professor of History, Political Science, and Geography at Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has worked in some of America’s premier natural and historical sites, leading hiking and historical programs. He has also lectured extensively in the United States, Europe, and Canada, presenting programs on wide-ranging historical topics, including Native American history, the Civil War, Scientific, Social and cultural history, World Wars I and II, and the American West.
Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link. A reminder email with the Zoom will be sent out 30 minutes before the event starts.
Hamish Lutris is an Associate Professor of History, Political Science, and Geography at Capital Community College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has worked in some of America’s premier natural and historical sites, leading hiking and historical programs. He has also lectured extensively in the United States, Europe, and Canada, presenting programs on wide-ranging historical topics, including Native American history, the Civil War, Scientific, Social and cultural history, World Wars I and II, and the American West.
Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link. A reminder email with the Zoom will be sent out 30 minutes before the event starts.
For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mother’s whereabouts.
As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing finish.
To reserve a copy of the book for Curbside Pickup email vberlin@beekleylibrary.org.
The Beekley Book Club is a book discussion group that meets via Zoom on the third Wednesday of each month from 7pm to 8pm. All are welcome to join in.
Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link. A reminder email with the Zoom will be sent out 60 minutes before the event starts.
As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing finish.
To reserve a copy of the book for Curbside Pickup email vberlin@beekleylibrary.org.
The Beekley Book Club is a book discussion group that meets via Zoom on the third Wednesday of each month from 7pm to 8pm. All are welcome to join in.
Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link. A reminder email with the Zoom will be sent out 60 minutes before the event starts.
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The Peace in the World Exhibit:
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The world premiere of “The Peace in the World” exhibit will be held at the Beekley during the months of June and July in the front entry foyer. Drawings from Children’s Art School No. 1 features 14 pieces of artwork from students, under the direction of Natalia Nikolaevna. Located in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, the school has nine classrooms and a variety of pre-professional programs in the fine arts including a five-year “Painting” and a three-year “Fundamentals of Drawing and Painting” course. With over 400 students and 18 teachers, the school that was established in 1940, is located on two floors of the most beautiful buildings in Ekiyat Children’s Center.
This exhibit has been held in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, in February 2020. On March 18, 2021, the drawings were finally able to ship to Avon, Connecticut to prepare for its world premiere. Stop by during normal library hours to absorb the pieces.
This exhibit is sponsored by Fermata Arts Foundation, dedicated to promoting peace through arts and culture. The Beekley is the first to hold the exhibit, before it travels throughout the other New England states, including New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, until January 2023.
This exhibit has been held in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, in February 2020. On March 18, 2021, the drawings were finally able to ship to Avon, Connecticut to prepare for its world premiere. Stop by during normal library hours to absorb the pieces.
This exhibit is sponsored by Fermata Arts Foundation, dedicated to promoting peace through arts and culture. The Beekley is the first to hold the exhibit, before it travels throughout the other New England states, including New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, until January 2023.
You Tube Programs
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the Beekley Historical Lecture Series
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Hamish Lutris, Associate Professor of History, Political Science, and Geography, Capital Community College presents talks on: