October 22, 2009 by palisadesfreelibrary
THE PALISADES FREE LIBRARY
PRESENTS ITS FOURTH SEASON OF AWARD-WINNING
Sunday Symposia : a community cultural series
Bracco & Burstyn
In Conversation
November 15, 2009
3:30 – 5:00
At the IBM Palisades Executive Conference Center, 334, Route 9W, Palisades, NY
Tickets $10 ($5 for Students) to benefit the Palisades Free Library. Tickets are available in advance at the Library or at the door on the day of the event.
Lorraine Bracco was nominated for an Oscar for the role of Karen Hill, a mobster’s wife, in Goodfellas, and is a three-time Emmy nominee for the role of Dr. Jennifer Melfi, a mobster’s psychiatrist, in The Sopranos.
Ellen Burstyn, a Tony and Oscar winner and a multiple Emmy nominee, may be best known for her star turns in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Same Time, Next Year, and The Exorcist, and has starred in well over one hundred films, television series and dramas.
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September 17, 2009 by palisadesfreelibrary
Join us from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at the Esplanade at Palisades, 640 Oak Tree Road, Palisades, NY
Reservations required. Please stop by the Library or call
845-359-0136
Suggested donation at the door: $10 ($5 for students)
Mapping Our River in the Footsteps of Henry Hudson by Bill Ryan
Synopsois:
Had Henry Hudson realized in the fall of 1609 that the native
American name “Muhheakunnuk” for his “River of Mountains” meant
“great waters constantly in motion” he could have deduced that it
was not a river but a giant estuary influenced by twice-daily tides
as far inland as its first cataract. Within a decade mariners of the
East India Company had charted the estuary with lead line soundings all the way to this cataract at Troy.
Ten years ago a team from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
repeated the Dutch survey, but instead of just obtaining a hundred
or so soundings, we recorded millions. About every square yard of
the river bed deeper than six feet now has its own sounding.
Examples of the new maps will be on display and illustrated in the
talk.
In addition to soundings, the Lamont researches also obtained
several hundred sediment cores of the river bed mud and sand. The
cores and soundings revealed oyster beds, some buried, but many
still exposed extending from the New York Harbor to the Newburgh
Bridge. The location of these beds turned out to be fascinating.
The top of the exposed beds is very firm mud that provides an unsure footing for mooring and anchors. The river edge towns settled by the Dutch were located always between the beds, such that their ship captains could be assured of a good anchorage. Thus the river bed itself determined settlement patterns.
Bill’s talk will show that shape and content of the Hudson and East
Rivers even determined the street plans for the 17th, 18th and 19th
century development of Manhattan.
The excavations for the building of the World Trade Center beginning
in 1966 and the disposal of soil and rock for the foundations of
Battery Park City at the river’s edge on the west side of Lower
Manhattan has constricted the river causing it to cut a new and deep channel further towards New Jersey. This downcutting is a potential threat to the security of the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. Had the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey appreciated the power of the “great waters constantly in motion”, perhaps they would have had more foresight.
Bill Ryan is a Doherty Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor Emeritus at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and co-author of the book “Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History.”
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August 10, 2009 by palisadesfreelibrary
Saturday and Sunday, September 12 & 13, 2009
From the collection of Vivian Yess Wadlin www.hrvh.org
Presented by the Palisades Free Library Historical Committee
Palisades Hudson River Open House
Saturday Sept 12, 2pm – 5 pm
Current and former local residents Bill Knudson, Don Finck, and Lee Sneden share their stories about growing up along the Hudson River. On display will be maps, pictures, 1909 postage stamps and artifacts found over the years, such as old bottles and arrow heads.
At the Palisades Free Library. Free and open to the public.
“The Mystery of Hudson’s Voyage of Discovery”
Sunday Sept 13, 3pm – 4:30pm
Professor and author Charles Stark will present the history of Henry Hudson’s voyage up the Hudson River and explore questions regarding his orders, his intent, and his return to England when in the employ of the Dutch East Indies Company.
At the Esplanade at Palisades, 640 Oak Tree Road, Palisades, NY.
Suggested donation, $10 adults, $5 students.
Please call the Library to register 845-359-0136
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July 31, 2009 by palisadesfreelibrary
New Fiction
Ghost Town by Richard W. Jennings
Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen
Riesling Retribution: a Wine Country Mystery by Ellen Crosby
Rules of Vengeance by Christopher Reich
New Non-Fiction
Acceptance: A Legendary Guidance Counselor Helps Seven Kids Find the Right Colleges – and Find Themselves by Dave Marcus
Library: An Illustrated History by Stuart Murray
New Audiobooks
Fire and Ice by Judith Jance
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July 9, 2009 by palisadesfreelibrary
New Fiction
Black Hills by Nora Roberts
Free Agent by Jeremy Duns
Plague of Secrets by John Lescroart
Killer Summer by Ridley Pearson
Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Bird Catcher by Laura Jacobs
The Year that Follows by Scott Lasser
About Face by Donna Leon
Angels Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafron
Last Night in Montreal by Emil St. John Mandel
Brooklyn by Colm Tobin
Strain by Guillermo de Toro
Ignorance of Blood by Robert Wilson
Embers by Hyatt Bass
Fragment by Warren Fahy
Obsession by Gloria Vanderbilt
Rain Gods by James Lee Burke
Jericho’s Fall by Stephen L. Carter
Cherry Bomb by Joe Konrath
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
Non-Fiction
Mark Bittman’s Kitchen Express by Mark Bittman
The Road to Woodstock by Michael Lange
The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works by Henry A. Waxman
The End of Overeating by David A Kessler
Packing the Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming
Crisis of the Supreme Court by James Macgregor Burns
Glenn Beck’s Common Sense by Glenn Beck
Real Change by Newt Gingrich
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture by Ellen Ruppel Shell
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