The Beekley Book Club
Wednesday, March 17th
7:00-8:00 pm.
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.
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 30 minutes before the event starts.
Music in America: Somebody Bending the Note
with Hamish Lutris
Saturday, March 20
1:00-2:00 p.m.
The United States has been blessed by a variety of resources, yet few have exerted more influence on the nation and the world than the human traditions that make up the unique cultures that arose throughout the Americas after 1492. This presentation will examine the beginnings of American music though the traditions that have given rise to the wildly popular sounds of blues, jazz, salsa, country, and rock music. We will then see how the traditions slowly morphed into a cohesive American sound, culminating in the birth of blues and jazz music around the turn of the 20th Century. Participants will be able to hear and enjoy the first threads of what would later become some of the world’s most notable music.
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.
Virtual Tea Party Games
Thursday, March 25
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Let’s come together virtually for an evening of tea and games. We’ll take time to make our place settings before we put on our white gloves and have fun with scoreless party games. Popular tea-worthy topics include Bridgerton, Downton Abbey and Jane Austen. Answer sheets will be emailed to party goers to print out at home for a contactless experience. This is a great way to connect with family members and friends you haven’t seen in a while, too. Share the link with them so they can register, drink tea, and play with you.
Brew yourself hot water just before 7:00 p.m. and BYO Tea Cup.
For a more interactive experience, you can pickup a grab bag at the Beekley. Grab bags will include a pen, answer sheets, a tea party name tag, a snack plate, a coaster, tea biscuits and crumpets, and a tea bag. (Please be aware that “tea biscuits” include wheat, dairy, gluten, and peanut ingredients.) The grab bag is not crucial to game play.
Pickup at Curbside during Beekley hours from March 15-25.
Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link. A reminder email with the Zoom will be sent out 30 minutes before the event starts.
Virtual Trivia Night
Thursday, April 15
7:00-8:00 pm.
In this pub-style of trivia, participants will play virtually in the comfort of your own “pub.” Each section of the Dewey Decimal Classification section will be included. Questions will be fun and light to begin and grow increasingly hard and more obscure as the game clock counts down. Instructions will be explained at 7:00 p.m. and you will be able to keep score for yourself or for your home trivia team. Answer cards will be emailed to contestants to print out at home for a contactless experience. This is a great way to connect with family members and friends you haven’t seen in a while, too. Share the link with them so they can register and compete with (or against) you.
For a more interactive experience, you can pickup a grab bag at the Beekley. Grab bags will include a pen, answer cards, a trivia team name tag, a snack plate, pub snacks and bonus clues. (Please be aware that trivia snacks and bonus clues include wheat, dairy, gluten, and peanut ingredients.) The grab bag is not crucial to game play.
Pickup at Curbside during Beekley hours from April 5-15.
Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link. A reminder email with the Zoom will be sent out 30 minutes before the event starts.
In this pub-style of trivia, participants will play virtually in the comfort of your own “pub.” Each section of the Dewey Decimal Classification section will be included. Questions will be fun and light to begin and grow increasingly hard and more obscure as the game clock counts down. Instructions will be explained at 7:00 p.m. and you will be able to keep score for yourself or for your home trivia team. Answer cards will be emailed to contestants to print out at home for a contactless experience. This is a great way to connect with family members and friends you haven’t seen in a while, too. Share the link with them so they can register and compete with (or against) you.
For a more interactive experience, you can pickup a grab bag at the Beekley. Grab bags will include a pen, answer cards, a trivia team name tag, a snack plate, pub snacks and bonus clues. (Please be aware that trivia snacks and bonus clues include wheat, dairy, gluten, and peanut ingredients.) The grab bag is not crucial to game play.
Pickup at Curbside during Beekley hours from April 5-15.
Upon registration, you will receive a Zoom link. A reminder email with the Zoom will be sent out 30 minutes before the event starts.
The Beekley Book Club
Wednesday, April 21st
7:00-8:00 pm.
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 30 minutes before the event starts.
Music in America: If You Have to Ask What Jazz Is, You'll Never Know
with Hamish Lutris
Saturday, April 24
1:00-2:00 p.m.
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.
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