Upcoming Events

Folk Traditions and Origins of Valentine’s Day [ZOOM]

7:00pm–8:00pm

Adult

Virtual Event

Library Branch: Virtual Programming

Age Group: Adult

Program Type: Educational Lecture, History

Event Details:

Join Professor Danielle DiMauro for this engaging talk about Valentine’s Day traditions. Learn how the practice of sending valentines originated in the Middle Ages, with boys drawing the names of girls at random.

Presidents' Day

9:00am–9:00pm

Closing

Branches:

Emma S. Clark Memorial Library

Galapagos: Darwin’s Enchanted Islands

12:15pm–1:45pm

Adult

Upcoming

Registration Required

Upcoming

Library Branch: Emma S. Clark Memorial Library

Room: Vincent R. O'Leary Community Room

Age Group: Adult

Program Type: Educational Lecture, World & Wildlife

Registration Required

Event Details:

In 1835, Charles Darwin reached the Galapagos Archipelago, a cluster of islands straddling the equator 600 miles off the west coast of South America.

Ingenuity And Resistance: The History of African American Foods in Early New York

6:30pm–8:00pm

Adult

Upcoming

Registration Required

Upcoming

Library Branch: Emma S. Clark Memorial Library

Room: Vincent R. O'Leary Community Room

Age Group: Adult

Program Type: Cooking & Tasting, Educational Lecture, History

Registration Required

Event Details:

Local historian Melanie Cardone-Leathers will discuss the culinary history of African Americans in the New York area.

Remember Liss: A New American Founding Figure [ZOOM]

7:00pm–8:00pm

Adult

Virtual Event

Library Branch: Virtual Programming

Age Group: Adult

Program Type: Educational Lecture, History

Event Details:

Join historian and author Claire Bellerjeau for a captivating program exploring the remarkable story of Elizabeth “Liss”, an enslaved woman owned by the Townsend family of Oyster Bay.