Children`s Department WELCOME BACK TO

A Guide to Your Library’s Programs, Events and Services Children’s Department
Children’s Librarian, Julie Anne Korpi
This was an amazing summer at the Montauk Library! Thank
you to everyone who joined the Summer Reading Club. 286
books were recorded this year!
Below are some events you can attend this fall. Stop by the library
to fill out a Children’s Department Survey. Tell us what you would
like to have at the library! Visitors are welcome at all events.
Story Time with Miss K
Every Monday at 10am. Listen to stories, sing songs, and make
crafts! All are welcome to listen. The crafts are most appropriate
for preschool age children.
Fall into Family Fun!
Saturday, October 13th from 4-4:45pm. Bring the whole family
down for crafts and games. Spooky Snacks for Grades 4-6
Wednesday, October 17th from 5-5:45pm. We will make
simple snacks and listen to scary stories! **
Fall Fun for Grades K-3
Friday, October 19th from 5-5:45pm. Let’s listen
to stories and make a fun fall craft. **
Trick or Treat at the Library!
Wednesday, October 31st. Stop by anytime on
October 31st for a few treats!
International Games Day @ Your Library Family Time
Saturday, November 3rd at 3pm. Let the world unite to play
games at libraries!
Turkey Time for Grades K-3
Wednesday, November 14th from 5-5:45pm. Listen
to stories and make a terrific turkey craft.
Native American Month Celebration for
Grades 4-6
Friday, November 16th from 5-5:45pm. Learn information and listen to stories about Native Americans. We will make native American crafts and enjoy snacks. **
**Registration is appreciated, but not required.
More events may be added this fall. Ask Miss K about new programs when you visit the library, go to our website, or check out our
facebook page for event updates: http://www.facebook.com/pages/
Montauk-Library/163891127000124
Mikayla Martinsen
Volume XXII Number 4
At the end of Summer Reading,
each Suffolk library was asked to
enter the names of the top four
readers for a special raffle. One of
Montauk’s own — 4th Grader, Mikayla Martinsen, was the fortunate
winner of a SONY e-Reader! Congratulations and ‘Happy e-Reading’
Mikayla!
WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL
Your Montauk Library offers a variety of materials to support the
learning atmosphere which begins each day at school. Books, periodicals and non-fiction DVD’s can be borrowed to further the
understanding of the subjects you are learning each day.
Remember that research can be done 24/7 through our Montauk
Library Website: http://montauk.suffolk.lib.ny.us/.
There you will find:
LIVE-brary, your gateway to: Homework
Help for Elementary and High School in
English and Spanish. Also LIVE-brary for
Kids — a wonderful resource that all families can access
Tumble Book Library — interactive books to facilitate reading, along with National Geographic videos
Free Downloads — students who have a Montauk
Library card can download eBooks, Audio Books,
Music and Videos to a computer, and transfer to Nooks, MP3
players, cell phones, Apple i devices, and many other digital
devices.
And when the library is closed; the Library Catalog (OPAC); and
even a Mobile Catalog on your various hand-held devices, are
available. Download the LIVE-brary app. Interlibrary loan is
available to you as you browse at home, just establish a password
in your Patron Account and order!
Do you get the Rainy Day Blues? Come to the Library to read
stories, play puzzles, and much more! Ask Miss K for new special
rainy day activities
HOLIDAY CLOSINGS
Columbus Day: Monday, Oct. 8
Veteran’s Day: Sunday, Nov. 11
Thanksgiving: Wednesday, Nov. 21
and Thursday, Nov. 22
FRIENDS NEWS
The Friends of the Montauk
Library is proud this year to
donate $12,000 to the Library
to assist funding for general
programs, and an additional
$3,000 for children’s programs.
The remaining money raised at
the July book fair will be used to
fund special offerings, such as the museum pass program, and the
Friends’ own educational and entertainment efforts.
This year we mourn Charlotte Schorr, who was with the Friends
since its beginning and a treasured Library employee for over 32
years. To honor Charlotte, a Jane Austen fan and accomplished
cook, the Reading Group of the Friends donated to the Library’s
collection a complete set of Jane Austen novels and a copy of The
Essential New York Times Cook Book. The Friends, the Library
and the Trustees are working to determine how best to use additional donations made in Charlotte’s memory.
2013 officers are: Sally Krusch, president, Monica Brennan, vice
president, Gloria Nichols and Marie Ottimo, co-treasurers, Joyce
Whitman, secretary, and Terry Coppola, corresponding secretary.
UPCOMING FRIENDS PROGRAMS
In October, we celebrate Montauk’s history with a Local Film
Series. Four films about Montauk’s History (listed below) will be
accompanied by a display of material from the Library’s archives.
In addition, the Friends will present Henry Osmers, the noted
historian from the Montauk Lighthouse, on Saturday, November
10. Mr. Osmers will discuss “American Gibraltar: Montauk in the
Wars of America,” his fourth book on the history of Montauk.
The Winter Film Series, featuring popular movies, begins Thursday, Nov. 8. Titles will be listed at the Library.
Our Holiday Book Sale is on Saturday, Nov. 24 from 10 am. to
3 pm, in the Library’s meeting room, with $2 books, coffee-table
books, children’s titles, holiday decorations, gifts and jewelry.
Saturday, Dec. 8, is the popular “Do as You Like” bus trip to
New York City. The round trip cost is just $30, with pickup at
the Montauk Post Office in the morning and return pickup in
Manhattan at the 42nd Street Library late in the afternoon. Sign
up early for this popular trip; we will have to cancel if we do not
have enough people signed by November 14.
Montauk Local Film Festival
“Voices in Time: An Oral History of Montauk 1926-1943”
Thursday, October 11th, at 7pm
“Leisurama-A Documentary”
with Producer/Writer Jake Gorst as Host
Saturday, October 20th, at 7pm
“Tides of Time: An Oral History of Montauk 1942-1950”
Thursday, October 25th, at 7pm
“The Hurricane of ‘38”
from the PBS American Experience Series
Thursday, November 1, at 7pm
How to have a successful book fair:
First, gather over 150 dedicated, hard-working volunteers. Then
collect over 700 cartons of books, a truckload of yard sale items,
and a treasure chest of jewelry from the whole wonderfully
giving community. Add in raffle prizes generously donated by
almost every merchant in town, and don’t forget the gardeners
and bakers and hot dog makers. Have t-shirts, storytime with
Sima, Debbie singing the National Anthem, and lots of lollipops
for the kids. Move it all to the red-white-and-blue Green and
invite about 2 or 3 thousand book-loving friends.
That’s how our July Book Fair made an amazing $24,000, thanks
to all of you. Now we need you to start donating your books in
good condition (no magazines, encyclopedias or text books),
jewelry and yard sale items for the July 2013 Book Fair. Please
bring your contributions to the front desk during regular Library
hours.
Thanks again, with appreciation,
Bob-E/Barbara Metzger, Book Fair Chairperson.
Tai Chi Classes will begin at the library again this fall in
October. The format for the class will be slightly different this year. The fall unit will have 10 sessions, starting
on Monday, October 15 and running until Monday,
December 17. New students will be welcomed on
October 15 and 22 where basic concepts will be
explained and we will start learning the choreographed form from the beginning. If you cannot
make any of these dates, you are welcome to come and observe a
class, or even follow along, but the focus will be on the continuing
students who have made a commitment to the work. In January,
a new session will begin, with the focus once again on the basic
concepts.
The Book Discussion Group meets
once each month on a Sunday at 12:30 for lively,
thought provoking insight on the book they have
just read. Please plan to join the Group for the upcoming dates. Books are available at the circulation
desk for one month prior to the discussion date.
October 21st American Pastoral by Phillip Roth
November 18th The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
December 16th Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
January 20th, 2013 The Secret Scripture: A Novel by Sebastian Barry
September is Library Card
Sign-up Month
A Library card is the smartest card you can carry! If
you can write your name,
you should own a library
card! Apply at the circulation desk
Programs
Carolyn Balducci, Program Director
Sing a song of seasons Something bright in all
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!
From, “Autumn Fires” by Robert Lewis Stevenson
During the hectic and hot, hot, hot summer of 2012, everyone
seemed happy to escape the heat (not to mention the crowds and
the traffic!) by coming to the library’s cool and calming Wednesday
night cabarets and Saturday evening concerts. But now that summer is over and as the ocean and bay gradually grow too chilly for
swims, and the sun sets earlier each night, it’s time to discover what
exciting programs the Montauk Library has planned for the fall and
mark your calendars accordingly!
Cleverly disguised as virtuoso tuba and euphonium
players, The Long Island
Tuba Quartet will return
for the fifth time to haunt
the library’s Suzanne Koch
Gosman Room on Saturday October 27th at 7:30.
They will perform a sassy
but classy concert entitled
“A Halloween (sort of)
The Long Island Tuba Quartet
Concert”. Blowing their
own horns, as usual, will be Bill Troiano and Jeff Furman (tubas)
and Don Sherman and Michael Canipe (euphoniums) performing a witch’s brew of classical, Broadway show music, movie music, early pop standards, jazz and rock. A good time will be had
by all — especially by LITQ themselves!
Fall 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of
the premiere of Edward Albee’s masterpiece, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ”.
Thanks to the support given by the Friends
of the Montauk Library, the Library is delighted to be able to provide theatre tickets
plus transportation at an affordable price
for the Wednesday, November 7th matinee
at the Booth Theatre.
Edward Albee
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production features Tracy Letts and Amy Morton as George and Martha with Carrie Coon and Madison Dirks as Honey and Nick. (A prix fixe
lunch is an additional option.) Fliers and sign up sheet can be
found at the library’s circulation desk.
On Sunday November 18th at 3:30, courtesy of the New York
Council for the Humanities’ Speakers in the Humanities program,
the multi-talented balladeer and music historian, Linda Russell
will present “Remember the Ladies: A History of American Women in Song.” This
program portrays the lives of 18th and 19th
century American women through ballads,
love songs, suffrage anthems, work songs
and dance tunes. Accompanying herself on
mountain and hammered dulcimers, penny
whistle, guitar and limberjack, Ms. Russell
will intersperse music with readings from
diaries and letters in which the women tell
Linda Russell
their stories in their own words.
On Sunday December 2nd, at 3:30, actress-dramatist Prudence
Wright Holmes will perform her one-woman play, “CALL ME
WILLIAM: The Life and Loves of Willa Cather”. The brilliant, prolific but unconventional Pulitzer Prize winner, Willa
Cather wrote several best-selling books
including My Antonia and Death Comes Willa Cather
for the Archbishop but her personal life
was fraught with conflict. Prudence
Wright Holmes has appeared in feature films, numerous off-Broadway and
Broadway shows.
We will celebrate winter under
Montauk’s star filled skies on Saturday December 15th at 7:30
pm, when a young virtuoso duo,
Maksim Shtrkyov, clarinetist, and
Alina Kiryayeva, pianist will enchant us with “Dreams of Paris”—
a mesmerizing program of works
written for clarinet and piano
lina Kiryayeva and Maksim Shtrkyov
by the most preeminent French
composers of the twentieth century—Debussy, Ravel, Windor,
Poulenc and Francaix. What a beautiful way to start a happy,
blissful holiday season!
On August 3rd, library directors from the East End
met to thank Senator Kenneth LaValle for his ongoing support of New York's libraries, especially his
involvement with Suffolk's Libraries. The directors
expressed our appreciation for Senator LaValle's
leadership to award 2012 'Bullet Aid' to libraries
(aid via education funding) throughout the state.
Acknowledging the cuts in aid to libraries over
the past decade, Senator LaValle led the Senate in
designating these funds to community libraries.
Montauk appreciates Senator LaValle's support.
Senator Ken LaValle meets with Library Directors.
Karen Rade, Montauk’s Library Director, to the right of Senator LaValle
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Robin Strong, Archivist
The summer months were filled with activity, serendipitous surprises
and donations!
I had a delightful visit with Kevin Miller and Milton Miller, who at
the age of 97, has a treasure trove of local history. We shared stories of
Promised Land and the bunker fishing industry. He also shared first
hand knowledge of the last of the whaling days in East Hampton! We
were privileged to record an audio interview with Captain Miller, who
still speaks with a disappearing local accent. This was important to me
as it captures a way of life that is in decline.
I was invited to the Montauk Lighthouse National Historic Landmark
celebration in late August. What a wonderful afternoon we had and
especially poignant for me as a great-great granddaughter of lighthouse
keeper Captain James G. Scott, who kept the light from 1885-1910.
We shared some of our hurricane of 1938 Montauk photographs with
the East Hampton Historical Society’s exhibit at Clinton Academy.
Richard Barons has done a wonderful job curating this exhibit and it
should be viewed. The exhibit is up until October 8th.
In a serendipitous surprise, not long after being contacted for information on summer resident and poet, Hyman Sobiloff, George Kryaminski, Proprietor of Certain Books in West Hampton generously
donated 2 films by Sobiloff!
For the month of September, we have an exhibit of Hurricane Carol,
1954 the forgotten storm, making use of photographs recently donated
by Bill Akin and Alice Houseknecht. Bill has written an account of
A. J. Thomas boathouse circa 1930’s. Jean Lieblein collection
Montauk boats in Point Judith for a tuna tournament when the hurricane struck. These photographs serve as a sober reminder of the dire
straits Montauk would be in should another big hurricane hit here.
October is National Archives Month. We will be celebrating by hanging an exhibit of photographs from the archival collection as well as
exhibiting items in the display case on the lower level of the library.
Along with items from the Library’s Archive Room, please look for
the local history art by the Montauk School 2nd graders.
Jean Lieblein shared photographs and memories of her mother’s visit
to Montauk in the 1930s. She and her party stayed at the A. J. Thomas
boat house and has generously allowed us to create digital copies of
these images.
Bruce Beckwith also has allowed us to create digital copies of his
Montauk commercial fishing photographs, encompassing the heady
times of the 1970s and 1980s.
Many researchers, scholars and folks interested in local history, are
making use of our vertical files which Malgorzata has painstakingly
organized and catalogued. We have been told more than once that our
vertical files are the best and most organized that they have seen! Great
job, Malgorzata!
Keep an eye out for the Montauk local film festival. The Friends of the
Montauk Library will be showing the two documentaries the library
produced with film producer extraordinaire, Abianne Prince. These
films are always well attended and received when shown.
Bruce Beckwith in stern, Ed Beckwith, Lake Montauk, 1981. Bruce Beckwith collection
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