(Cazenovia, NY – May 2015) Book Signing: Wednesday, May 27 at 7 p.m.
All are invited to join author Jerome Antil in the Cazenovia Public Library Community Room as he shares his latest book Mary Crane and the Pompey Hollow Book Club Séance with Sherlock.
This book continues the group’s spirited adventures. The club members—all boys except for the steadying influence of President Mary Crane—make their early-teen way through 1950s upstate New York with the help of guardian angel and former neighbor Charlie Pitts, best known as “Ole Charlie.”
In the autumn of 1953, the Book Club and friends find themselves caught up in a caper involving a former war pilot and a crafty British pickpocket, while Ole Charlie meets fellow angel and revered author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There are barn chores and barn dances, the state fair, a traveling theater group, and a grade school teacher with some pretty impressive skills as a con artist. The tone of the novel is wholesomely earnest, peppered with a dash of old-school mischief and fun. .
To add to the narrative, Antil includes historical photos along with “Paracoustics” sound effects. These sound snippets in the form of QR codes allow smartphone users to scan and hear relevant moments of action. (Amazon.com)
Antil was born in Cortland. He moved with his family to Delphi Falls after first grade and lived there until after eleventh grade. As a result of a year his father had spent in a TB sanitarium and subsequent failed businesses, the family moved from Delphi Falls to North Syracuse and then to Milwaukee. Following high school, Antil went on to attend Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Antil’s event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Movie: Friday, May 29 at 2 and 6:30 p.m.
Mr. Turner, described by the Los Angeles Times as the “best film of the year,” spans the last 25 years in the life of Britain’s most revered painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). The film is a remarkably rich portrait of a complex, contradictory man whose relationships with his family, fellow artists, and lovers were often as turbulent as the canvases he painted.
Throughout, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty. (Imdb.com)
Mr. Turner is rated R and runs for 150 minutes. Admission and popcorn are always free at the movies.
For more information on these or other events at the Cazenovia Public Library, call 655-9322 or visit www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org.