Friends of the West Palm Beach Public Library, Inc. Events

Local Birds of Florida’s Wetlands (30 Jan 2012)

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:00:00 GMT

Linda Humphries, President of the Audubon Society of the Everglades, has a passion for all birds. She will present a program on local wetland birds, their young, and their behaviors. These are birds you will see along the intra-coastal and local wetland areas. Linda enjoys going on walks and trying to identify the birds she sees. She has been President of the Audubon Society of the Everglades for the past three years and was also President of Friends of Okeeheelee Nature Center for three years.

This is a Free program.

Friday Night Jazz (03 Feb 2012)

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Friday Night Jazz - February 2012

Featuring the Lynne Simone Quartet

This monthly event will feature musicians from the The Jazz Arts Music Society of Palm Beach and is a great opportunity to see our Library at its finest. Wine and sparkling water will be available for a small fee and light snacks are complimentary. The series will take place on the first Friday of the month from November through April 2012.

Presented by the Friends of the West Palm Beach Public Library.

Friends Members $ 5.00/General Public $ 10.00

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this event is not necessary, seating is first come, first served. We look forward to seeing you at Friday Night Jazz, doors will open at 5:15 pm.

Friday with the Friends - Book Club (10 Feb 2012)

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Digging to America by Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler’s richest, most deeply searching novel–a story about what it is to be an American, and about Iranian-born Maryam Yazdan, who, after 35 years in this country, must finally come to terms with her “outsiderness.”

Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport – the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam’s fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the instant babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate: an “arrival party” that from then on is repeated every year as the two families become more and more deeply intertwined. Even Maryam is drawn in – up to a point. When she finds herself being courted by Bitsy Donaldson’s recently widowed father, all the values she cherishes – her traditions, her privacy, her otherness–are suddenly threatened.

11:30 - 12:00 - Book Chatter

12:00 - 1:00 - Moderated Book Discussion

The discussion will be moderated by West Palm Beach Public Library's Book Goddess, Tina Maura.

This is a brown-bag lunch event. Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch before you arrive from the Library Café or any downtown Merchant.

This event is free and open to Friends members and the public. All are welcome.

Lifestyles of Butterflies in the Garden (27 Feb 2012)

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:00:00 GMT

Alana Edwards, the Education and Training Coordinator at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Environmental Studies, will share insight into the thoughtful and creative ways one can employ to invite butterflies to visit and live. Edwards has been an avid butterflier for twelve years and was formerly lead coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s survey of rare and endangered South Florida butterflies.

This is a Free program.

92Y Live - Gloria Steinem with Budd Mishkin (28 Feb 2012)

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:45:00 GMT

This program, broadcast live from 92^nd Street Y in New York City, features Gloria Steinem talking about her work as organizer, lecturer and frequent media spokesperson on issues of equality and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine and became founding president of the Ms. Foundation for Women. Budd Mishkin is the host and reporter for NY1’s “One on 1 with Budd Mishkin.”

FRIENDS members can attend for $ 5.00.The General Public can attend for $10.00.

Live from NY's 92nd Street (92YLive) is a live, satellite-broadcasted event, that allows people all over the nation to access the Y's cultural and educational programs.

This program will provide an opportunity for the audience to ask questions of the presenters, as if they were in the New York audience. For more information about the 92YLive programs go to:http://www.92y.org/live

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this event is not necessary, seating is first come, first served.

Friday Night Jazz (02 Mar 2012)

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Friday Night Jazz - March 2012

Featuring the Phill Fest Quintet

Presented by the Friends of the West Palm Beach Public Library.

Friends Members $ 5.00/General Public $ 10.00

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this event is not necessary, seating is first come, first served. We look forward to seeing you at Friday Night Jazz, doors will open at 5:15 pm.

Friday with the Friends - Book Club (09 Mar 2012)

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:30:00 GMT

Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean - Les Standiford

Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford’s fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad, one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. Brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler’s dream fulfilled, the Key West Railroad stood as a magnificent achievement for more than twenty-two years, heralded as “the Eighth Wonder of the World.” Standiford brings the full force and fury of 1935’s deadly “Storm of the Century” and its sweeping destruction of “the railroad that crossed an ocean” to terrifying life. Last Train to Paradise celebrates a crowning achievement of Gilded Age ambition in a sweeping tale of the powerful forces of human ingenuity colliding with the even greater forces of nature’s wrath.

11:30 - 12:00 - Book Chatter

12:00 - 1:00 - Moderated Book Discussion

The discussion will be moderated by West Palm Beach Public Library's Book Goddess, Tina Maura.

This is a brown-bag lunch event. Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch before you arrive from the Library Café or any downtown Merchant.

This event is free and open to Friends members and the public. All are welcome.

Friday Night Jazz (06 Apr 2012)

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 21:30:00 GMT

Friday Night Jazz - April 2012

Featuring the Steve Ahern Quartet

Presented by the Friends of the West Palm Beach Public Library.

Friends Members $ 5.00/General Public $ 10.00

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this event is not necessary, seating is first come, first served. We look forward to seeing you at Friday Night Jazz, doors will open at 5:15 pm.

Friday with the Friends - Book Club (13 Apr 2012)

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:30:00 GMT

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin

In the 1970s, Larry Ott and Silas "32" Jones were boyhood pals in a small town in rural Mississippi. Their worlds were as different as night and day: Larry was the child of lower-middle-class white parents, and Silas, the son of a poor, black single mother. But then Larry took a girl to a drive-in movie and she was never seen or heard from again. He never confessed . . . and was never charged.

More than twenty years have passed. Larry lives a solitary, shunned existence, never able to rise above the whispers of suspicion. Silas has become the town constable. And now another girl has disappeared, forcing two men who once called each other "friend" to confront a past they've buried for decades.

11:30 - 12:00 - Book Chatter

12:00 - 1:00 - Moderated Book Discussion

The discussion will be moderated by West Palm Beach Public Library's Book Goddess, Tina Maura.

This is a brown-bag lunch event. Bring your own lunch or purchase lunch before you arrive from the Library Café or any downtown Merchant.

This event is free and open to Friends members and the public. All are welcome.