(Cazenovia, NY – May 2015) Mark your calendars—June at the Cazenovia Public Library offers something for everyone.
Art Gallery: “Celebrating the Architectural Design of Lorenzo” on display until June 30.
By popular demand, this exhibition will remain in the Cazenovia Public Library Art Gallery for a second month. Constructed over the period of 1807-08, the Lorenzo mansion is considered one of Central New York’s finest examples of neoclassical design. The show illustrates this exquisite design in works by Gene Gissin, Deborah Wester, Roger DeMuth, Judy Goldthwait, Norm Dann, Christian Phillips, Scott Phillips, and Kevin Mann.
The Art Gallery is open during regular library hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
2-Day AARP Smart Driver Course: Monday June 8 and Wednesday June 10
From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Library Community Room.
AARP began its Driver Safety courses in 1979 and continues today to meet the needs of older drivers through educational programs led by more than 4,000 volunteers.
While AARP’s mission to promote the independence of older Americans and enhance their quality of life hasn’t changed since then, a lot has changed. Roads and cars have changed, including the technology inside of cars. Even the people behind the wheel have changed. If drivers don’t keep up with these changes, they put others and themselves at risk.
AARP’s new and improved Smart Driver Course is the nation’s largest driving refresher course. Its new curriculum was designed with participants in mind and uses an easy-to-follow format that incorporates adult-learning principles and features reader-friendly print types, full-color pages, an easy-to-follow format, and videos to supplement course content. It also offers new opportunities for participants to learn state-specific information throughout the course in a way that is easy to access and understand.
The 2-day course will be taught by Victor DeBenedittis. Call him at 315-637-4522 to reserve a spot. Participants are required to attend both days and pay a course fee of $20 for AARP members and $25 for non-members. Light refreshments will be served.
LEGO My Library: Monday, June 8 at 3:30 p.m. in the Community Room
Children’s Coordinator Jenna Wright invites children ages 4 and older and their families to the popular “LEGO my Library” program. Using the Library’s collection of LEGO and Duplo blocks, children and their families will have the opportunity to build and create something spectacular.
The Library is a place for discovery and imagination, and this building program fits that mission. Building offers children the experience of making their imaginative musings come to life. By introducing them to these hands-on experiences with science and math, children not only learn how to build different structures but how to also make them stronger and taller.
Open Afternoon Book Club: Wednesday June 17 at 1 p.m. in the Story Garden
Selection: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Ten years in the writing and an instant New York Times bestseller, All the Light We Cannot See is regarded by the Washington Post as “enthrallingly told, beautifully written, and so emotionally plangent that some passages bring tears.”
Here readers will meet Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, an orphaned German boy, whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Deftly interweaving their lives, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, that people try to be good to one another. (Amazon. com) Books are available at the circulation desk.
Watch for more details on these events in June:
Two presentations by Norm Dann, Gerrit Smith scholar and author:
Greene Smith and the Wildlife, a biography of Gerrit and Ann Smith’s son on Wednesday June 17.
Cousins of Reform: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Gerrit Smith bring together the women’s rights movement and the antislavery movement on Wednesday, June 24th.
Art presentations: Tuesday June 30
Paul and Anna D’Ambrosio “Monet to Matisse and Maxfield Parish: A Season of Art in Utica and Cooperstown.”
For more information on these or other events at the Cazenovia Public Library, call 655-9322 or visit www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org.