Sunday Discoveries: Basket Weaving
Sunday, November 19 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Joyce Flower will share her talents with us as she leads a workshop on basket weaving for children ages 7 and up on Sunday, November 19 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Each participant will make and take home a lovely small basket, just in time for the holidays! The class is limited to ten children, so be sure to register early. Due to extensive preparation and materials involved, we will not be able to accomodate walk-ins for this Discovery.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Author Talk: William B. Patrick
Thursday, November 9 at 7:30 p.m.
The Kinderhook Memorial Library welcomes William B. Patrick, author of Saving Troy: a Year with Firefighters and Paramedics in a Battered City on Thursday, November 9 at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Patrick will read from and discuss his compelling and unique chronicle of a year with professional firefighters and paramedics in Troy, New York. While riding along with the members of the Troy Fire Department’s 1st Platoon, Mr. Patrick crafted a vivid story that takes the reader not only inside the action but to the dramatic core of every call he re-creates for us --- so close you can almost hear the heart monitor’s buzz.
Dennis Smith, who is perhaps America’s best-known firefighter and who is the author of Report from Engine Co. 82 and Report from Ground Zero, has called Saving Troy “an important, exciting, and extremely-well-done narrative.” Joseph Persico, author of Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918, and co-author of My American Journey with Colin Powell, has said, “This story crackles. It positively tingles with immediacy,” and Times Union’s reporter Paul Grondahl praised the book as “ . . . that rare find, a book that touches your heart and challenges your mind, filled with flesh-and-blood characters who will stick with you long after you’ve turned the last page.”
Mr. Patrick has taught writing at the University at Albany, the College of St. Rose, Old Dominion University, Salem State College, and Onondaga Community College. Since 1996, he has served four times as a Visiting Writer for the New York State Writer's Institute at the University at Albany, teaching courses in screenwriting, adapting short stories for the screen, fiction and film. During the spring of 2007 he will serve as primary Writer-in-Residence at the University. Mr. Patrick founded and teaches at The New York State Summer Young Writers Institute in Silver Bay, NY and has taught screenwriting at the Chautauqua Institute and to inmates at Raybrook Federal Correctional Center in Saranac Lake, NY.
Mr. Patrick’s reading at the Kinderhook Memorial Library is free and open to the public. Saving Troy will be available for sale through Blackwood and Brouwer Booksellers.
Book Clubs at the Library
Fiction or Non-Fiction, We've Got You Covered!
The Next Page Book Club will meet on Wednesday, November 8 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss the book Hudson River Bracketed by Edith Wharton. Vance Weston is an aspiring young poet who leaves his midwestern roots to discover himself in New York. He finds himself torn between the social and literary setting of New York City and the historically encrusted past of the Hudson Valley. As the novel develops, he struggles to combine success with a meaningful life.
Circle of Readers will meet on Monday, November 13 at 1:00 p.m. to discuss the book My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
The Non-Fiction Book Club will not meet in November. The next meeting will be Monday, December 18 at 7:00 p.m. when they will discuss the book E=mc² : A Biography Of The World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis. Generations have grown up knowing that Albert Einstein's equation E=mc² changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so significant, and how it informs our daily lives today-governing, as it does, everything from the atomic bomb to a television's cathode ray tube to the carbon dating of prehistoric paintings. In this book, David Bodanis writes the "biography" of one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history, made a century ago-that the realms of energy and matter are inescapably linked. Through his skill as a writer and teacher, he turns a seemingly impenetrable theory into a dramatic human achievement and an uncommonly good story.
