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Caitlin Stewart: Storytime and craft

Day: July 8th

Time: 1-2 pm

Free. All welcome. No registration required.

Celebrate lakes appreciation month at the library! Caitlin will be reading from the book, Good Morning Loon, followed by a craft session.

Dylan Perrillo Orchestra

FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2022 AT 6:00 PM

Location: CVW Long Lake Public Library

“The Dylan Perrillo Orchestra from Albany, NY performs popular American music from 1890-1950 taking a particular liking to the songbook of the
1920’s.”


“This project is made possible with funds from the Restart NY Regrants 2021-22 Mini-Grant program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts.”


The event is free and family friendly!

Oceans of Possibilities: Library Scavenger Hunt

The theme for this year’s summer reading program is, Oceans of Possibilities. To kick off this year’s program, we have an ocean themed scavenger hunt. A flyer is available at the circulation desk with ocean themed clues of books to find in the children’s room.

Once you complete the scavenger hunt-return the flyer to the circulation desk to choose a book or coloring book. (We were able to purchase brand new, ocean themed books/coloring books for this program).Registration not required.

Just pop on in and head to the circulation desk for a flyer!!

Let the adventure begin!

Environmental and Culture of Tibet: Continuity and Change

Date: Saturday, June 4th

Time: 1:00-1:40

Location: CVW Long Lake Public Library

This is a free and family friendly event.

This presentation is a live, zoom presentation from The Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (IAUNRC) at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

Program Overview:
This program uses the example of Tibet to explore how physical geography, environment and biodiversity influences peoples’ livelihoods and culture, and how this is changing in recent times with urbanization and development.

Latino Art & Culture

FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2022 AT 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM

Location: CVW Long Lake Public Library

“Live, zoom presentation by Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM).Program

Information:
“The concept of a collective Latino identity began to emerge in the United States in the mid-20th century. Explore how Latino artists shaped the artistic movements of their day, often using their work to communicate with a larger public about social justice and themes of diversity, identity, and community.”Format: “Videoconference presenters show American artworks from the museum’s collection using green screen. Through inquiry-based questions and discussion, presenters engage with participants as they explore artworks together.”

*​Please know the presentation will be via zoom and a live broadcast here at the Library. The presenter will be engaging with the audience during the presentation.*

Image:
Domingo Ulloa, Braceros, 1960, oil on masonite, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Eugene Iredale and Julia Yoo, 2014.20
Domingo Ulloa painted this canvas after several visits to a Bracero camp in Holtville, California. The Bracero Program (1942−64) was a bi-national effort that brought Mexican guest workers, known as braceros, to fill in agricultural labor shortages caused by World War II. Ulloa’s crowd of workers, who peer dejectedly through a barbed-wire fence, reinforce the mounting public protest against their poor living and working conditions. His composition recalls photographs of concentration camp inmates, which Ulloa – a World War II veteran – was familiar with. Ulloa later stated, ​“Most of my paintings are inspired by the common people in their work, in their joy, and their struggle.”

Author Dana Fast: New Book, “Good in the Midst of Evil” 

SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2022 AT 1 PM
CVW Long Lake Public Library

Presentation is free and open to the general public. Masks are optional.
(Picture: Daughter, Yvona Fast, with her mom, Dana Fast)

Dana Fast has released a new book telling the story of her incredible childhood experiences-life among the horrors of the Warsaw ghetto, studying at a forbidden secret school there, escape to relatives, in hiding passing as a Catholic girl in the countryside, under a new identity.In 1943, the German occupiers systematically demolished Warsaw, leaving the entire city in rubble. But not before compelling some 400,000 or more Jews from throughout Poland to move into the Warsaw Ghetto, confining them to a living space that was clearly meant to degrade and diminish them. About 100,000 Ghetto inmates died from starvation. The rest – about 300,000 – were deported to Treblinka and other death camps.But for the courage of Dana Fast’s parents, she would have been among the victims. Smuggled out of the ghetto in the summer of 1942, 11-year-old Dana had to rely on an inner strength and ingenuity to survive the next two years until the Nazis were defeated.

Dana tells a nearly unbelievable story of how she was able to stay hidden, sometimes in plain sight, by taking on a new identity as a Catholic child.A new publication of her memoirs is being released April 5, 2022. Dana’s message for many years has been that it has been unfair to deny the heroism of many Poles who risked their own lives as well as the lives of their families. In her memoirs she describes the individuals who helped her find Good in the Midst of Evil.

Dana is now retired and lives in Lake Clear, New York. After the war, she graduated with a degree in Chemistry from Warsaw Polytechnic. She moved to Israel in 1962, then came to the US in 1964 and to the Adirondacks ten years later. There, Dana worked in Medical Research for the Trudeau Institute and the Walton A. Jones Cell Science Center until her retirement. After that, she worked tirelessly in the community, as a volunteer at the Paul Smith’s Visitor Interpretive Center, the Saranac Lake Free Library, the Village Improvement Society in Saranac Lake, and as a Master Gardener Volunteer through the Cornell Cooperative Extension. An avid hiker, she is an Adirondack Forty-Sixer. She and her daughter Yvona hiked across England in 2000.