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The Beekley Library, in partnership with BookFriends, will be offering Homebound Delivery Service to New Hartford residents who are unable to come to the Library due to restricted mobility or health problems. This service is free and based on volunteer’s availability.
This program is open to any New Hartford resident who is having difficulty getting to the Library due to illness or restricted mobility. Circulation Library Assistants will select materials for you at your request and can include a variety of fiction, non-fiction, DVDs, audiobooks, magazines, CDs, and Large Print items. Materials will circulate for an extended period of time. When you finish your materials and need another delivery, just call the Library and let us know. We will be in touch with a BookFriends Volunteer to schedule a Drop Off/Pickup. Library items will be delivered in a plastic bag and hung on your door. Returns can be placed on your doorknob ahead of time for a contactless experience.
Call the Beekley, 860-379-7235, for more information or to schedule a delivery.
This program is open to any New Hartford resident who is having difficulty getting to the Library due to illness or restricted mobility. Circulation Library Assistants will select materials for you at your request and can include a variety of fiction, non-fiction, DVDs, audiobooks, magazines, CDs, and Large Print items. Materials will circulate for an extended period of time. When you finish your materials and need another delivery, just call the Library and let us know. We will be in touch with a BookFriends Volunteer to schedule a Drop Off/Pickup. Library items will be delivered in a plastic bag and hung on your door. Returns can be placed on your doorknob ahead of time for a contactless experience.
Call the Beekley, 860-379-7235, for more information or to schedule a delivery.
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: World Premiere
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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.
If you are approaching or in retirement, this virtual workshop will assist you in making plans for your future. The American Automobile Association, or more commonly known as AAA, will teach you about a variety of topics including how to protect yourself from retirement's greatest threats, understanding new tax and stimulus laws, and receiving and replacing income after a spouse's passing.
In 1580’s England, Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.
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 on the third Tuesday of each month
from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. All are welcome to join in.
A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.
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 on the third Tuesday of each month
from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. All are welcome to join in.
This virtual workshop, led by the American Automobile Association, or more commonly known as AAA, will go over important topics to think about as you head toward retirement. The five tips include: the advantage of an individual retirement account, how to supercharge your ROTH IRA, how to get tax savings on company stock, how the new government debt can impact your retirement, and the difference between saving for retirement and distributing for retirement.
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.
The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.
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 on the third Tuesday of each month
from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. All are welcome to join in.
The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.
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 on the third Tuesday of each month
from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. All are welcome to join in.
You Tube Programs
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To view our current selection of YouTube programs, click here .
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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: