Special Events at The Nyack Library
La bell’America: From La Rivoluzione to the Great Depression: An Italian Immigrant Family Remembered by Anthony Graziano
Friday June 18, 2010 6:30-8:30
In "La bell’America: From La Rivoluzione to the Great Depression: An Italian Immigrant Family Remembered", Anthony Graziano details his Italian family’s move to America in the 1920s and their survival through poverty, prejudice, and the Great Depression. Mr. Graziano was born in Nyack Hospital, attended Liberty Street Grammar School and graduated Nyack High School.
Please register at the reference desk or by calling 845-358-3370 ext. 214.
Past special events at the Nyack Library:
A Celebration of the Life & Music of Nina Simone
Saturday February 27th
2:00 - 3:00 Book discussion and signing featuring award-winning Nadine Cohodas, author of the newly-published Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone
3:15-4:30 Performance by Sam Waymon & the Magic Band
Registration required, call 845-358-3370 ext. 14 or 15
Toni Morrison at the Nyack Library - Saturday October 17th
photograph by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
A Benefit for the Nyack Library Teen Room (Reservations are required and space is limited)
Ticket contributions: (your contributions are 100% tax deductible)
$150 per person for private reception, reading, question & answer, and book signing
$50 per person for the reading, question & answer, and book signing
for tickets please contact: development@nyacklibrary.org or 845-358-0734
Discussion moderator: Jonathan Demme, Director of Beloved
Reception 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Reading 3:30pm-4:00pm
Question & Answer 4:00pm-4:30pm
Book Signing 4:30PM-5:00pm
Past Events:
Island at the Center of the World: the Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Changed America by Russell Shorto
Friday September 11, 7pm
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September 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of explorer Henry Hudson’s exploration the Hudson River. We mark this important date with a lecture by Russell Shorto based on his widely-acclaimed and landmark account, Shorto explores Hudson’s discoveries, as well as the roots of the Dutch colony on Manhattan, which existed before the thirteen “original” American colonies. Shorto used centuries-old correspondence, legal contracts and reports to tell the story of the virtually forgotten society that predated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that definitively impacted American history. In fact, it was clashes between Dutch and English settlers that created the foundation for Manhattan’s beginnings, and it was the Dutch who cultivated a free-trade, upwardly mobile melting pot that would shape not only New York, but America. Mr. Shorto is the Director of the John Adams Institute for American Studies in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. Registration essential.
THIS SUMMER: The Nyack Villages Read Island at the Center of the World!
In commemoration of the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial, the Nyack Library is sponsoring a community read of Russell Shorto's book Island at the Center of the World: the Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Changed America. This book has helped to popularize a renewal in the historical examination of the Dutch influence in American culture. The mayors of the three villages, Mayor John Shields of Nyack, Mayor Patricia DuBow of South Nyack, and Mayor Michael Esmay of Upper Nyack have announced their support of this community read.
Please enquire at the Reference Desk for copies of the books. There will be library copies to borrow, or a copy may be purchased either at The Reference Desk, or at Pickwick Books.