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Want to stretch your reading habits while having fun? Stop by the Beekley beginning September 11 to pick up your choice of a reading game: Tic Tac Toe, Connect Four or BINGO. Game cards will be available at the circulation desk or available to download. A variety of tasks such as “Read to learn a new skill,” “Re-read a childhood favorite,” and “Return an item you didn’t read/watch.” Each time you complete a row, show a librarian to receive a raffle ticket. Make sure to fill out your raffle tickets by November 13. Winners will be chosen and notified on Monday, November 15. There’s no limit to how many you complete!
Prizes will be:
Tic-Tac-Toe: $15.00 gift card to Barnes and Noble
Connect Four: $25.00 gift card to Barnes and Noble
BINGO: $50.00 gift card to Barnes and Noble
Pick up your game cards at the Beekley or download copies here:
Tic Tac Toe Adult
Connect Four Adult
BINGO Adult
Prizes will be:
Tic-Tac-Toe: $15.00 gift card to Barnes and Noble
Connect Four: $25.00 gift card to Barnes and Noble
BINGO: $50.00 gift card to Barnes and Noble
Pick up your game cards at the Beekley or download copies here:
Tic Tac Toe Adult
Connect Four Adult
BINGO Adult
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.
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.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.
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 purpose of this hour is to give a brief history of poetry, an explanation of its main parts, and a review of three poems from different periods, Participants should read three poems before the program: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, Langston Hughes “Mother to Son” and Bob Dylan's “With God On Our Side.” We will read these three poems aloud and review them together. Finally, Jim Kelleher will narrate his own life as a poet and what that means for him.
Jim Kelleher has published 3 books of poetry and individual poems in Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, The Country And Abroad, the Litchfield County Times and many other venues. He teaches Literature and Composition at NWCC and does workshops at libraries, museums, and schools. Jim believes poetry should be accessible to all readers, and really is accessible to all, not exclusively to academia.
Jim Kelleher has published 3 books of poetry and individual poems in Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, The Country And Abroad, the Litchfield County Times and many other venues. He teaches Literature and Composition at NWCC and does workshops at libraries, museums, and schools. Jim believes poetry should be accessible to all readers, and really is accessible to all, not exclusively to academia.
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The international exhibition “The Ideal House” is a part of the Fermata Arts Foundation's project "Let's Build a Roof over the World" endorsed by UNESCO for 2010, a year of Rapprochement of Cultures. In this exhibition you will see works of art from youth ages 6 – 22 years old. Youth were invited to submit works of art that reflect their impressions and reflections on two themes: a fairy tale house of the country they live in (up to 14 years old) and a house of the future, ecological house (14 years old and up).
"The Ideal House" has been exhibited in Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Connecticut, New York, and Massachussetts. The Fermata Arts Foundation is dedicated to promoting peace through arts and culture. For more information visit fermata-arts.org.
"The Ideal House" has been exhibited in Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Connecticut, New York, and Massachussetts. The Fermata Arts Foundation is dedicated to promoting peace through arts and culture. For more information visit fermata-arts.org.
Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides, the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
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.
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
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.
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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.
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield, this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep.
Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. A classic novel of love during wartime, “A Farewell to Arms stands, more than eighty years after its first appearance, as a towering ornament of American literature” (The Washington Times).
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.
Hemingway famously rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. A classic novel of love during wartime, “A Farewell to Arms stands, more than eighty years after its first appearance, as a towering ornament of American literature” (The Washington Times).
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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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: