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Tune In to One Poem a Day Won't Kill You: A Community-Wide Poetry Month Podcast Share your own favorite poems all month long through our annual Community-Wide Poetry Podcast brought to you by the DFPL and Highlands Current. To submit your poems for the podcast, simply email an audio recording of yourself reading the poem to ryan@desmondfishlibrary.org (Not sure how to do that? We’ve made this helpful video: bit.ly/record-poem). Alternately, you may call 845-202-3519 and leave your reading as a voicemail message (please note that voicemail recordings may only be three minutes or shorter).
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Stop by the DFPL to check out our outdoor Story Walk featuring Your Name is a Song through the month of April!
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Celebrate National Library Week with Children's Author Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow!
We are so excited to partner with our friends at the Butterfield and Howland Libraries to bring you a very special story time with author, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow sharing her book Your Name is a Song.
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This workshop is co-sponsored by the Field Library and the DFPL.
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Spring Cleaning with Jamie Novak Get on track for an organized spring! Join Organizing Humorist and bestselling author Jamie Novak for this not-to-be-missed virtual program. She’ll share her laugh-out-loud funny approach for how to finally get that winter stuff put away. You’ll learn simple strategies to clear the closets, get the top of your table back, and so much more. Log on, laugh & learn with us.
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The online event will include musical performances by DarWilliams and Tall County, the Town Board signing a local carbon neutrality resolution, the launch of the interactive Philipstown Fights Dirty website, and a chance to win an electric lawn mower! Please register at bit.ly/PFDlaunchevent
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Philipstown Fights Dirty this Earth Day (April 22nd from 6-7pm) Join your neighbors on Earth Day (4/22, 6pm-7pm) to launch the Philipstown Fights Dirty campaign and to learn about how you can take action to help Philipstown reach its goal of carbon neutrality by 2040.
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Amphibian Friday Night In! Dan Liebel a professional reptile keeper, breeder, and lecturer located in Greene county will join us for a discussion on amphibians and reptiles of the Hudson Valley. Learn about their annual migration, their nesting, and possible encounters you may have with them along the way.
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Facts Meet Fiction in a New Historic Novel Join local author
Bevis Longstreth for a discussion of his new book, Chains Across the River, a Novel of the American Revolution based on real events that took place here in Philipstown!
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Climate Smart Community Read Throughout the month of April, pick up copies of All We Can Save from your local libraries and Split Rock Books and read along with your friends and neighbors ahead of a Community-Wide Discussion led by Philipstown's Climate Smart Coordinator Krystal Ford.
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Friday Night In FilmFriday Night In watches “A Quiet Passion” to celebrate poetry month! Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson as she personifies the wit, intellectual independence, and pathos of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death.
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Desmond-Fish Public Library
472 Route 403 (Corner of Rte 9D) Garrison, New York 10524 845.424.3020
desmondfishlibrary.org
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