Library notes

Times Herald-Record

Library offers award-winning

Storycrafters program

CORNWALL – On July 23 from 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Cornwall Public Library will host The Storycrafters, an award-winning storytelling duo. Library patrons will be able to view on youtube (with a password) a one-of-a-kind experience. It is the perfect way for your child to experience the 2020 Summer Reading theme, Imagine Your Story. Check the online calendar listing on our website a few days before the program for password access to the video.

Barry Marshall and Jeri Burns, PhD have been working together as The Storycrafters since 1991. They are the 2018 recipients of the National Storytelling Network's "Circle of Excellence" Award. The Storycrafters have produced twelve award-winning CD recordings. Their 2018 book, “Storytwisting,” was the winner of the 2019 Storytelling World Award.

In addition to their work as performers, Jeri and Barry are healing storytellers at the Stamford, CT Hospital psychiatric unit, and were adjunct college faculty at Southern CT State University. Jeri is currently an adjunct at SUNY New Paltz, and a communication coach of public defenders for the New York State Defenders’ Institute. Barry is a sound engineer and producer of storytelling recordings at Our Old House Studio in Hudson, NY.

Jeri and Barry believe in the time-tested wisdom of traditional stories, and share that wisdom with today’s audiences. They strive to honor world cultures by telling the old stories in respectful ways, often integrating the musical instruments, songs or dances indigenous to that region.

Tuxedo Park Library Authors’

Circle presents Lili Anolik

TUXEDO PARK - On July 27 at 7:30 p.m., The Tuxedo Park Library Authors’ Circle presents Lili Anolik, author of “Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.” and the return of Katie Rosman, editor and columnist, SundayStyles at The New York Times in “Conversation with Katie” via BlueJeans Video Conferencing, registration is necessary. 

Anolik and Rosman will discuss her book, part biography, part cultural analysis and part memoir of the fascinating life of Eve Babitz. A onetime "It" girl who had affairs with Harrison Ford, and Jim Morrison; partied with Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson and Sharon Tate; designed album covers for The Byrds and wrote "fiction" from the '70s through the '90s that mirrored her adventures.

The number of virtual attendees is limited. Register for this virtual program at tuxedoparklibrary.evanced.info/signup or call the library at 351-2207.

Cornwall Public Library will host The Storycrafters on July 23 with Barry Marshall and Jeri Burns.