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	Liz Welch reading from her memoir at the Millbrook Library Saturday, March 27, 2010 2 PM Millbrook Library Liz Welch is an award winning journalist whose work has appeared in Glamour, Real Simple, Vogue, O, the Oprah Magazine, The New York Times Magazine and many others. Her first memoir, The Kids Are All Right, was published in September 2009 and was co-written with her younger sister, Diana Welch, a journalist based in Austin, Texas. more details...
	Sunday April 11, 2010 1-4 at the Adriance Library, 93 Market St Celebrating Libraries at Adriance Some of the activities will be poetry reading, discussing books, sharing art, drawing, and reading. Meet and greet Lesa Cline-Ransome,James Ransome, Charles Smith, Sandra & Myles Pinkney, Susanna Hill and more more details...
	Every Dog Has a Gift: True Stories of Dogs Who Bring Hope & Healing Into Our Lives Saturday April 10, 2010 Millbrook 11 and Red Hook 2 Rachel, a native Mississippian, brings to The Good Dog Foundation her experience as an entrepreneur and community activist. Prior to creating The Good Dog Foundation, she was a producer for film and television. Her company, Southern Voices, produced dramatic adaptations of southern literature, including “The Wide Net,” an adaptation of a Eudora Welty short story, in 1985. In 1984, her film “Signals through the Flames,” a feature-length documentary on the history of Julian Beck and Judith Malina’s Living Theatre Company, received an Academy Award nomination for documentary film of the year. It was featured in film festivals, was broadcast on Canadian and European television, and enjoyed theatrical release in the United States and in Europe. Good Dog has been honored several times on the floor of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Rachel was named New Yorker of the Week by New York 1 News in May 2006 for creating and running The Good Dog Foundation. Rachel lives with her husband, two children, three dogs, including Fidel, a Good Dog, and a rabbit in New York City. more details...
	India Edghill at Locust Grove Saturday, April 18, 2010 3:00 PM This event is open not only to American Association of University Women but to the public, and the price is $45 per person, including high tea with catered sweets, a professional Italian classical singer, the authors 15 to 20 minute speech and then the Q/A more details...
	Lance Donaldson-Evans a reading & discussion Saturday, April 24th, 2010 Millbrook 11:00 AM & 2:00 PM in Red Hook LANCE DONALDSON-EVANS is Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught courses on all periods of French literature and culture for some forty years. In 2008, the French government awarded him the rank of Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for his services in helping spread French literature and culture. He lives in suburban Philadelphia. more details...
	52 Loaves by Bill Alexander Saturday, May 1, 2010 11:00 AM in Millbrook & 2:00 PM in Red Hook Bill Alexander has a new book coming out. This time around, it’s not about gardening -- but bread-making! Bill decides to embark on a year long odyssey to recreate the perfect loaf of bread from scratch. His mission takes him to Morocco, to use an ancient communal oven; to Paris, where he enrolls in a famous bread-baking course; and even to a baking contest at the New York State Fair! Of course everything from growing his own wheat to building a lop-sided brick oven is told with Bill's trademark humor. more details...
	Lionel Tiger shares his latest book, God's Brain TBA God’s Brain is not about whether God exists or not. It is not an assertion about whether or not religions are good, noble, necessary, a sign of infirmity, or catalogues of grand silliness. It is about the fact that virtually all societies show signs of elaborate religious behavior. This behavior is generated and mediated through the human brain. Religion is organic, part of nature, part of human nature. Whether someone is for it or against it or doesn’t care a fig, it is with us all as a fact of life. God’s Brain describes why, how, and what the brain does as part of religious experience and organization. Neurophysiology and neuroanatomy are as necessary to understanding religion as knowing about the leg’s muscles and blood circulation is necessary to train hurdlers. Lionel Tiger is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology. His title reflects his pioneering role in introducing biosocial data into the social sciences. Since the mid-1960s he has been deeply involved in bridging the gap between the natural and social sciences. He has asserted that the words used appear to imply that human social behavior is somehow not natural. But of course it is. Exploring how and why is Tiger's central adventure. As a teacher, writer of books and articles that have been widely published and translated, and co-research director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, he has been an influential figure in broadening our knowledge about why we do what we do. Lionel Tiger is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology. His title reflects his pioneering role in introducing biosocial data into the social sciences. Since the mid-1960s he has been deeply involved in bridging the gap between the natural and social sciences. He has asserted that the words used appear to imply that human social behavior is somehow not natural. But of course it is. Exploring how and why is Tiger's central adventure. As a teacher, writer of books and articles that have been widely published and translated, and co-research director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, he has been an influential figure in broadening our knowledge about why we do what we do. more details...
	Lee Kravitz ..unfinshed business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things Saturday, May 15, 2010 Lee Kravitz is former editor-in-chief and senior vice president of PARADE, the Sunday magazine distributed by 350 newspapers throughout the United States. He attended Yale and Columbia universities. He lives in NYC and Clinton Corners with his wife and three children. Lee coaches his children's baseball teams. more details...
	Gerald Imber, MD tells the tale of the bizarre double life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted Feb or March 2010 A major new biography of the doctor who invented modern surgery. Brilliant, driven, but haunted by demons, William Stewart Halsted took surgery from a horrific, dangerous practice to what we now know as a lifesaving art. more details...
	Millbrook Central School K -12th Grade Student Art Exhibition Saturday, April 10th to Sunday, May 23rd 2010 Reception Saturday, May 15th 12 – 2 PM Merritt Book Store’s ‘Upstairs Gallery ’ A wide variety of Visual Art Lessons, will be exhibited to illustrate student development, from their first Kindergarten Experiences through their final Senior Projects, from our K – 12 Curriculum. Pictures are from the 2009 Show by Michael Spross. more details...
	Lee Kravitz ..unfinshed business: One Man's Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things Saturday, June 19th in Red Hook 4:00 PM talking and sharing Lee Kravitz is former editor-in-chief and senior vice president of PARADE, the Sunday magazine distributed by 350 newspapers throughout the United States. He attended Yale and Columbia universities. He lives in NYC and Clinton Corners with his wife and three children. Lee coaches his children's baseball teams. more details...
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