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Dear Residents,
The July/August newsletter is extra-special, celebrating the 125th anniversary of your library. I am very grateful to Information Services Manager, Ellen Drucker-Albert, and Cold Spring Harbor Library trustee & Town of Huntington Historian, Robert Hughes, for their research. A community-wide party is planned for Saturday, July 16 at 7:00 p.m. We hope you add this event to your calendar and join the celebration. Invitations were mailed in early June, but you may pick one up at the library, or purchase tickets online.

The librarians have planned an exciting 8-week program for all ages based on the internationally-themed statewide summer reading clubs. There will be art workshops, a concert, films, book discussions, even belly dancing and pretzel making. On Thursday, July 14, Juliet Eilperin will talk about her new book, Demon Fish. On Saturday, July 16 at 1:00 p.m., the cast from Go, Dog. Go! will be here to entertain the children. Also, this summer we are proud to show the work of a premier American Impressionist painter, Stokely Webster (1912 – 2001).

All of these programs clearly demonstrate our commitment to “Expanding Your Horizons.”

Hope to see you soon!

Happy Father’s Day!

Father’s Day is Sunday, June 19! Celebrate with one of these books about fatherhood.

A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children by Joan Paterson Kerr

A Father’s Love: One Man’s Unrelenting Battle to Bring His Abducted Son Home by David Goldman

Almost a Family: A Memoir by John Darnton

Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father by John Matteson

Family Business: Selected Letters Between a Father and Son by Allen and Louis Ginsberg

Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant by Jennifer Grant

Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love by Myron Uhlberg

Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood by Michael Lewis

My Father’s Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn

My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar

Reading My Father: A Memoir by Alexandra Styron

Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern

The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me by Bruce Feiler

The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma

Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love by Matthew Logelin

Memorial Day Movies

Monday, May 30 is Memorial Day, which commemorates the men and women who died while in the military service. Watch a movie featuring the experiences of soldiers during war and in its aftermath.

Apocalypse Now & Apocalypse Now Redux

The Best Years of Our Lives

Black Hawk Down

The Bridge on the River Kwai

From Here to Eternity

Award-Winning Mysteries

The Edgar Awards and the Agatha Awards were recently awarded to mysteries published in 2010.

EDGAR AWARDS

Presented by the Mystery Writers of America, the Edgar Awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television.

BEST NOVEL
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard

BEST FACT CRIME
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvouz with American History by Yunte Huang

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER – MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

AGATHA AWARDS

Named in honor of Agatha Christie, the Agatha Awards honor the “traditional mystery,” mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous violence.

BEST NOVEL
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

BEST FIRST NOVEL
The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames

BEST NON-FICTION
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran

2011 Days of Remembrance

Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. This year’s Holocaust remembrance week is May 1–8, 2011. The theme designated by the Museum for the 2011 observance is Justice and Accountability in the Face of Genocide: What Have We Learned?

Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. This year’s Holocaust remembrance week is May 1–8, 2011. The theme designated by the Museum for the 2011 observance is Justice and Accountability in the Face of Genocide: What Have We Learned?

The Boy: A Holocaust Story by Dan Porat

The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response by Peter Balakian

Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide by Gérard Prunier

The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II by Alex Kershaw

The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory, 1942-1943 by Chil Rajchman

Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond by Don Cheadle & John Prendergast

A Promise at Sobibór: A Jewish Boy’s Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland by Philip “Fiszel” Bialowitz, with Joseph Bialowitz

A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akçam

Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends by Tom Segev

The Witness House: Nazis and Holocaust Survivors Sharing a Villa During the Nuremberg Trials by Christiane Kohl

2011 Hugo Award Nominees

The Hugo Awards, awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy, have announced the 2011 nominations. The nominees for Best Novel are:

The Hugo Awards, awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy, have announced the 2011 nominations.

The nominees for Best Novel are:

All Clear by Connie Willis
Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Feed by Mira Grant
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

Letter from the Director

Dear Residents,

We hear you and we are very grateful for your support of our programs, services, and dedicated professional staff. Your vote of confidence will enable us to purchase more materials, sponsor informative lectures and entertaining events, and maintain the building and grounds.

Dear Residents,

This summer will be extra special, as we plan to celebrate our 125th anniversary. Special Collections Librarian Marie Horney carefully combed through our archives and prepared the timeline featured on page 2 of the May/June newsletter. Look for more details about our 125 year history in the next newsletter. Since this is a milestone for the entire community, a party committee, chaired by Robert Hughes, is planning a celebration on Saturday, July 16 at 7:00 p.m.

Please read about all the different types of programs we offer for all ages. On page 6 of the newsletter, we also list events that are important to our community partners. These programs and many more are added to our Community Events Calendar, available at www.cshlibrary.org.

The Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary has chosen me to receive their Legacy of Conservation Award on May 7, in recognition of my efforts to educate this community on local environmental issues. You can learn more about TR Sanctuary programs at ny.audubon.org.

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