Serving the Villages of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown
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The Warner Library
121 North Broadway
Tarrytown, New York - 10591
Phone: (914) 631-7734
Fax #: (914) 631-2324
Maureen Petry, Director
director@warnerlibrary.org
Most Wanted Classic Books
Warner Library is trying to freshen up the fiction stacks. We have created a list of some well loved but worn classics that need replacing. If you have any of these books in your personal collection and would like to donate them to the library, please contact the Reference Desk at 631-7734. If you wish to adopt a title by donating $20.00 to replace it, a bookplate with either your or a loved one's name will be placed inside the front cover of a classic library book.
Here's the list of wanted books:
WRITING WORKSHOP: Writing What’s Real with Instructor Carin Rubenstein
If you want to write an essay, a memoir, a blog, an op-ed piece, or a personal journal, this course will help you develop and polish your work. You will learn how to construct a powerful lead paragraph, how to develop your own style, in your own voice, and how to edit yourself.
The 5-week course can be used to create and hone a single, short piece of writing or a longer, more comprehensive effort. Students must provide email address, and submit no more than 10 pages each week by the Friday morning before Monday’s class. Writing will be read and edited by allmembers of the class, as well as by the instructor.
Carin Rubenstein holds a Ph.D. in social/personality psychology and was a regular
contributor to the Westchester section of The New York Times. She is the author
of four nonfiction books, including The Sacrificial Mother, Beyond the Mommy
Years, and The Superior Wife Syndrome. Her work has been translated into seven
languages and her articles and essays have appeared in More, The New York Times,
Parenting, Parents, Redbook, Mademoiselle, and Self. You can read about her work at
www.CarinRubenstein.com.
Class meets on Mondays, from 7:00 to 8:30, beginning in October.
Please call 631-7734 and ask for the Reference Desk to register. Class size is limited.
Hudson River School of Landscape Painting
Thursdays at 1:30 PM in October
Learn about America’s first real school of national painting, and its origins in the writing and art of notable residents who were inspired by New York’s beautiful landscape.
Session 1. New York at the start of the nineteenth century. European landscape painters in New York. The American wilderness as a metaphor. Three New York writers and editors: Washington Irving; James Fenimore Cooper; William Cullen Bryant. The writers’ influence on artists. Historic houses and haunts.
Session 2. The founder: Thomas Cole. His career and influence. Asher B. Durand and other followers. Kindred Spirits. New York City as an art center by mid-century.
Session 3. Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt. Hudson River School gains international attention and spreads across America and the continents. Cropsey, Kensett and the later Hudson River school adherents. American Luminism.
Session 4. The Hudson River School falls out of favor in the late nineteenth century. It gains its name as a pejorative term by disgruntled critics. Studying the changing arts in America at this time. Twentieth century reappraisal. The Hudson River School is canonized as an important art historical movement. Key exhibitions and publications. The Hudson River School legacy today.
Sue Carpenter of the Westchester Community College Mainstream Institute for Mature Adults is the course instructor.
Please call 631-7734 and ask for the Reference Desk to register.
September Book Group: The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin
Monday, September 13, 2010 @ 7PM
In New York, in the 1970's, Edward Day joins his fellow actors for a summer weekend on the Jersey shore and his life changes forever. He is saved from drowning by the mysterious Guy Margate, a fellow actor, with whom he shares both a physical resemblance and an attraction to the beautiful and talented Madeleine Dalavergne...
The Confessions of Edward Day reveals the mysterious world of actors in New York in the 1970s re-creating in stunning detail a recent decade that feels as glamorous and remote as the 1890s or 1920s.
Books available at the Circulation Desk. Please call 631-7734 to sign up.
Water Your Mind Adult Summer Reading Program
The Adult Summer Reading Program is officially over, but we will be honoring all late entries up to one week.
If you have a log sheet you can fill it out and bring it in to get a prize, however, no log sheets will be further distributed.
The Raffle Basket winner has been chosen! Our lucky winner has been called and will be coming in to claim their prize.
We hope everyone has enjoyed this program. Congratulations to everyone who won a prize ( or two, or three).We hope you had a great summer.
New! Check out the list of books Water Your Mind participants have been reading this summer on our new Patron Picks page.
Senior Benefits Center
Senior Benefits Information Center
Wednesdays, from 10a.m. - 1 p.m. Conference Room C on the 3rd Floor
A representative from the Medicare Rights Center will be on hand every Wednesday to give advice and answer questions. Sign up at the Reference Desk or Call 631-7734.
