Story Time
11/04/2022 @ 9:30 am
Children’s Room
Join your favorite librarians for stories, songs, and fingerplays. Admittance is on a first-come, first-served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time.
Story Time
11/04/2022 @ 10:30 am
Children’s Room
Join your favorite librarians for stories, songs, and fingerplays. Admittance is on a first-come, first-served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time.
Virtual Sandwiched In with Marie Ruggles – Preventing Cognitive Decline with a Nutrition Prescription
11/04/2022 @ 12:00 pm
Online
Research has revealed that there are specific foods and lifestyle enhancements that create a healthier brain and reduce your risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease. Join Marie Ruggles, MS, RD, CN, CDE, nutritionist, and award-winning author, for a colorful presentation with expert tips that you can start right away. Register at www.pwpl.org/events
November Noir: “The Web” (1947-87 min)
11/04/2022 @ 7:00 pm
Lapham Meeting Room
A businessman hires an ex-convict as a bodyguard, and soon the bodyguard is called upon to shoot the businessman’s former associate. Stars Edmond O’Brien, Ella Raines, William Bendix, and Vincent Price.
The Business of Being an Author: A Workshop Series with Natalie S. Harnett – Week 1: The Basics
11/05/2022 @ 2:00 pm
Hagedorn Meeting Room
Award-winning author Natalie S. Harnett will discuss publishing basics. She’ll cover the different types of publishers, what they offer, and how best to approach them. She’ll explain the differences between a query, synopsis, and proposal, discuss helpful resources, and the recent changes in the industry. Participants are welcome to share their own experiences, brainstorm, or simply listen to the group. Made possible by the Career & Personal Finance Center.
FOL University Featuring John McWhorter – The History and Oddities of Our Alphabet
11/06/2022 @ 1:30 pm
Lapham Meeting Room
The FOL’s lecture series, FOL U, returns with John McWhorter, who is a New York Times Opinion Columnist, Columbia University Professor of Linguistics, and Bestselling Author. He will explore the history and oddities of our alphabet. As basic as it seems to us, the alphabet is a highly counterintuitive way of inscribing language and has never occurred to any humans originally.
Rather, our alphabet developed from writing as pictures, as people gradually figured out that you could use the first sound of a picture-word as a symbol for that sound in all words. Workers in Egypt were the ones who had this insight almost 4000 years ago, and their alphabet became, first, a vowel-less one used by Phoenician traders and eventually the full Roman alphabet we still use today.
This talk will describe highlights of how the first alphabet became ours. This will illuminate why we use C and K for the same sound and then C and S for the same sound. We will see how Z began looking like a capital I and almost got lost from the rotation completely, what the emergence of the letter F had to do with that of the letter W, why we don’t call H “hee,” why pioneering lexicographer listed words beginning with J as if they began with I, and other things that will show the role that sheer serendipity has played in how we got our ABCs.” Register at www.pwpl.org/events
A Time For Kids
11/07/2022 @ 10:00 am
Lapham Meeting Room
Ms. Karen presents educational activities, movement, music, and a craft. For children ages 2 to 5 years with an adult. Registration required.
A Time For Kids
11/07/2022 @ 11:00 am
Lapham Meeting Room
Ms. Karen presents educational activities, movement, music, and a craft. For children ages 2 to 5 years with an adult. Registration required.
Preschool Story Time
11/07/2022 @ 1:30 pm
Children’s Room
Enjoy great stories, songs, and fingerplays, while your child develops essential early literacy skills. For children ages 2 1/2 to 5 years with an adult. Registration required.
Post-Secondary Planning for Students with Disabilities
11/07/2022 @ 7:00 pm
Hagedorn Meeting Room
This two-hour workshop will provide families with an understanding of the college process as it relates to students who are seeking support services in college. This includes students who currently have a diagnosed disability and are receiving accommodations in high school or students with a documented disability but are not currently receiving services. This overview will also discuss how colleges review, approve and provide accommodations and the documentation that may be required. For Teens in grades 9-12 and their parents. Register at www.pwpl.org/events
Sing and Swing
11/08/2022 @ 9:30 am
Children’s Room
Interactive stories, rhymes, and songs emphasize early literacy skills and help instill a lifelong love of learning. For children ages 18 months to 5 years with an adult. Admittance is on a first-come, first-served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time.
Poetry and Prose Meeting
11/08/2022 @ 10:30 am
Hagedorn Meeting Room
Poetry and Prose Meeting
Sing and Swing
11/08/2022 @ 10:30am
Children’s Room
Interactive stories, rhymes, and songs emphasize early literacy skills and help instill a lifelong love of learning. For children ages 18 months to 5 years with an adult. Admittance is on a first-come, first-served basis for 40 participants. Numbered tickets will be available 20 minutes before the start time.
Hypertension Screenings – St. Francis Hospital Outreach
11/08/2022 @ 11:00 am
Reading Room
Blood pressure screenings in the Joan and Arnold Saltzman Reading Room.
Teen Gaming
11/08/2022 @ 3:30 pm
Mezzanine Meeting Room
Teens in grades 7-12 are invited to come play Nintendo Switch games with other teens after school. No registration required.
1-2-3 Play with Me
11/09/2022 @ 11:30 am
Lapham Meeting Room
Spend time with your child and meet new people in an educational and creative environment. Each week a different resource professional will be on hand to discuss sign language, the importance of play, language development, movement, and dental hygiene. For children ages 18 months to 5 years with an adult. Registration required.
Medicaid Signup Help
11/09/2022 @ 2:00 pm
North Study Room
Free, walk-in assistance from the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council.
Grassroots Series: Raising Healthy Kids in a Toxic World
11/09/2022 @ 7:00 pm
Lapham Meeting Room
What is causing the disturbing rise in the incidence of chronic childhood illnesses and disabilities, like asthma, learning disabilities, diabetes, precocious puberty, and childhood cancer? Emerging scientific studies suggest that common environmental exposures may play a significant role. Presented by Patti Wood, Founder and Executive Director of Grassroots, a local environmental health non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about the health risks of common environmental exposures. This will be a hybrid event. Register at www.pwpl.org/events
Nonfiction Book Club: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Unger
11/10/2022 @ 1:30 pm
Hagedorn Meeting Room
Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the incredibly intimate bonds of platoon life. The loss of closeness that comes at the end of deployment may explain the high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by military veterans today.
Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, Tribe explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning. It explains the irony that war feels better than peace for many veterans and civilians, adversity can be a blessing, and disasters are sometimes remembered more fondly than celebrations. Tribe explains why we are stronger when we come together and how that can be achieved, even in today’s divided world. Copies of the book are available on Libby and may also be reserved for pickup at the Library.
Teen Babysitting Workshop
11/10/2022 @ 4:00 pm
Hagedorn Meeting Room
Topics for this workshop include basic childcare and minor first aid. For teens in grades 7-12.
STEAM Event
11/10/2022 @ 4:00 pm
Lapham Meeting Room
Come for an afternoon of technology and robot-themed activities with a raffle prize to continue your STEAM journey! Build circuits and hovercrafts, control robots, learn secret codes, and more! No registration required.
Sandwiched In with Ross Lumpkin – The Historic Monfort Cemetery
11/11/2022 @ 12:00 pm
Lapham Meeting Room
Join us for a special program in honor of Veteran’s Day. How have we and how should we honor our veterans? Ross Lumpkin, Town Historian for the Town of North Hempstead, will consider this question from the perspective of the historic Monfort Cemetery in Port Washington, where twelve revolutionary patriots are interred. Mr. Lumpkin will explore the history of the cemetery and its restoration that is just getting underway. He will share a story of two families who were united in marriage and became ardent patriots, suffered parallel fates in the British Occupation, and were laid to rest in this “Old Dutch Burying Ground.” Mr. Lumpkin has written articles for the Port Washington News, Port Washington Times, and the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society’s journal. He spear-headed the Historic Distinction Plaque Program and has begun an informational panel project at Mill Pond. Since his appointment as Historian for the Town of North Hempstead in 2021, he has led the charge to renovate and revitalize the Monfort Cemetery. This will be a hybrid event. Participants are invited to join us in person or virtually over Zoom. Register at www.pwpl.org/events
Gold Coast International Film Festival Series – FAMILY SHORTS!
11/11/2022 @ 3:00 pm
Lapham Meeting Room
The Gold Coast International Film Festival is proud to present FAMILY SHORTS, a fantastic and fun program of short films perfect for the whole family! This 60-minute program is suitable for all ages and includes take-home movie-themed art activities. Register at www.pwpl.org/events
Bodega Fire In Concert: A “Live at Lapham” SoundSwap Event
11/11/2022 @ 7:00 pm
Lapham Meeting Room
Join us for an exciting live performance by a young band that performs original music and pays tribute to classic rock. Influenced by groups from Paramore to Fall Out Boy, this event will surely be a vibrant and fun night. Bodega Fire includes lead singer and rhythm guitarist Cam Motley, Schreiber High School graduate and Bach to Rock Port Washington Music School teacher, guitarist Jonathan Goldberg, bassist Ghibbi Moure-Quiñones, Port Washington native composer Aden Neuwirth, and singer, drummer, writer, and producer E.J. Baracewicz. All band members are current Berklee College of Music students studying songwriting, professional music, music production, and contemporary writing and media production.
The Business of Being an Author: A Workshop Series with Natalie S. Harnett – Week 2: From Query Letter to Self-Publicity
11/12/2022 @ 2:00 pm
Hagedorn Meeting Room
Interested in getting an agent? Learn how to construct a successful query letter with award-winning author Natalie S. Harnett. She will also discuss ways to begin self-promotion even before you are published. Made possible by the Career & Personal Finance Center.
