The Library and the Potapaug Audubon Society present Tom Savoy, an employee of the Marine Fisheries Division of the Connecticut DEEP who will talk about sturgeon in the Connecticut River.

Historically, Connecticut has two species of Sturgeon: Shortnose and Atlantic. While both species can still be found here, it is thought that the Atlantic Sturgeon, native to Connecticut, is extinct. Shortnose Sturgeon were among the first fish species listed as endangered by federal officials.

Shortnose Sturgeon are the smallest of the sturgeon family and doesn’t get much larger than 3 feet long despite being a long-lived species. In Connecticut, Shortnose Sturgeon are generally confined to the Connecticut River but a few have been found in the Thames and Housatonic Rivers. Atlantic Sturgeon were recently listed as endangered in April 2012. This species can get much larger (exceed 12 feet) and their range is the entire east coast of the United States.

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Wednesday May 15th at 6:30 PM.

Join local specialist Tom Perrone who will explain little known, “Switch and Timing Strategies”, which can increase benefits by 32% or more, up to lifetime benefits of $100,000 more.

In the one hour program you will learn:

• How to receive benefits from former spouse or deceased spouse’s earnings.
• The key questions you need to ask to maximize your retirement income, and not lose out on other benefits.
• How savvy social security recipients increase their benefits by thousands of dollars just by knowing about “SWITCHES”.
• Learn how to use social security timing, how you can eliminate risk and guarantee yourself that you will not run out of retirement income.
• 3 Ways to increase benefits and reduce taxes on benefits.
• Free Timing Analysis Report for attendees.

This workshop will strip away the conventional wisdom and myths of social security retirement benefits. The program is free and open to the public.

Thomas J. Perrone, CLU, is the owner and founder of New England Consulting Group of Guilford, Inc., a 42+ year planning firm. Tom has authored many white papers on subjects such as asset protection, tax free planning, income tax strategies, college funding, and a variety of other reports. He has also contributed to Insurance Selling Magazine, and published A Worry Free College Funding Book.

To Register: Click Here

Tuesday, May 14^th at 5:30 pm

Enjoy a free, spring bird walk with naturalist and photographer, William Burt. Mr. Burt will lead the early evening walk along the forest road and through the wet and dry woodlands of Nehantic State Forest in Lyme. May is the best time of year for viewing migrant warblers and other songbirds and the walk will focus on identifying a variety of species through their appearance, habitat and song.

This is an easy walk of approximately one hour that can be enjoyed by bird watchers of all levels. Wear comfortable shoes, and bring binoculars.

We will meet at the small parking area approximately one-quarter mile from the forest entrance at 5:30 pm. Those who wish to carpool can meet at the library at 5:00 pm.

For additional information and to register for the program call the library 806-434-1684. For updates in case of inclement weather, call the library on the day of the event.

Registration encouraged: Click here.

Directions to Nehantic State Forest

From I-95 Southbound: Take Exit 70 and go straight at bottom of exit, travel through 2 traffic lights, turn right at the third light at the intersection of Route 156 and Route 1. Follow Route 156 for approximately 3.5 miles. Forest entrance is on the right.

From I-95 Northbound: Take Exit 70 and turn left off the ramp onto Route 156 Northbound. Follow Route 156 for approximately 3.5 miles. Forest entrance is on the right.

Introduction to Basic Photography:
Saturday, May 18th 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Basic Photography Course: 4 Classes
Wednesdays: May 22nd, 19th, June 5th and 12th 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Registration required, class size limited to 8.

One Day Introduction to Basic Photography
Have you just bought or are in the process of buying a new digital camera? Are you doing a lot more traveling and want to make sure you capture all those once in a lifetime images? Have you been taking more photos of your children or grandchildren playing sports and find them blurry? Do you find the User’s Guide incomprehensible? Would you just like to take a good picture without being anxious about which button to press and which setting to use?

You are not alone! Most of us want to get it right the first time. This 4 hour class will serve as an introduction to the Basic Photography course that will take place in May and June.

The class will consist of an overview of camera settings and common terms found in your User Guides. Aperture, shutter speed and ISO  will be discussed. Lighting and composition will also be examined.

Required Materials
Bring your camera and Users Guide.
The cost of the one day class is $75.00.

Register for the Introduction to Basic Photography Class here.

Basic Photography Course (4 Classes)
This course is designed to allow photographers to obtain the skills they will need to achieve their individual photographic visions.

Students who want to photograph what they are seeing and have that image come out looking the way it should is what this course is all about. If you want to end the frustration of under or over exposed images, blurred or off color photos and scenes that never quite have the impact you were looking for then this course is for you.

Through extensive in field photo taking with hands on individual instruction students learn to create high visual impact landscape, portrait, close up and action images. Each photographer’s individual vision will be reflected in the scenes they capture. Defining a good image and consistently capturing and processing that image are the skill sets you will be acquiring.

Understanding composition, lighting, exposure, color balancing and how your camera works are the keys to good image capture. All these elements are explored through both in field and classroom sessions. Classes meet once a week for a period of four weeks. Each class will consist of 1½ hours of in field photo taking and 1 hour of classroom critique. Field work will be at various locations throughout southeastern Connecticut and all class work will be in the Community Room at the Old Lyme – Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library.

Course Requirements
Students are expected to come prepared to operate their cameras. Camera user guides should be brought to every class for reference purposes in the course of photo taking. All camera memory cards should only have the session images on them and all other pre-class images should be off the card. All images to be critiqued must be on flash drives for viewing purposes. All homework assignments should be completed by course end.

Required Materials
Any Single Digital Lens Reflex or Point and Shoot camera.
Course Fee (4 Classes) is $150.00.

Register for the Basic Photography Course here.

Checks payable to Steve Nadler Photography payment due one week before class.
Please mail checks to:
Steve Nadler Photography
23 High Street
Essex, CT 06426

“I’m very interested in the forces shaping the landscape, our surroundings. Of course I include my fellow humans in there, but people rarely make it into these images. For the most part, these digital photographic prints represent a personal effort to bring a sense of landscape closer to the surface of ordinary experience. To visualize at least some of what often goes unseen.” – Randall Anway

Randall is a registered architect in Connecticut and New York. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. An avid amateur photographer, he is currently Principal at New Tapestry, LLC offering consulting and services for design innovation sensitive to human-environment interdependency since 2008.

Open to the public. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

This is a two part series that will re-examine why two films, Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window starring Grace Kelly and Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot featuring Marilyn Monroe are considered iconic cornerstones of film.

The program will include three parts: a pre-discussion to focus the audience on certain aspects of the film, the screening of the movie, and a discussion. The discussion will explore themes, characterization, set design, visual effects, music, setting, the importance of place and how these films created themes and patterns that influenced future films, literature and art.

April 3rd, 6:00 – 9:00 PM: Rear Window Click Here to Register

April 10th, 6:00 – 9:00 PM: Some Like It Hot Click Here to Register

Thursday, March 28th 7:00 – 9:00 PM in the Community Room.

Well-known journalist for the New London Day, Rick Koster covers music, books and dining, and is an online video columnist as well as host of the paper’s online Behind the Scenes feature. Rick’s first novel, Poppin’ a Cold One, a comic crime story set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, debuted in December 2012.

He will give a presentation on his career as a journalist and author, including the path to getting published. Rick will share readings from his latest work, anecdotes and allow time for a Q & A session.

A native Southerner, Koster is the author of two books, Louisiana Music and Texas Music. He thinks, for the most part, dogs are better than people. He also likes to think he resembles Paul Newman. This event is sure to be fun, entertaining and informative!

Copies of the author’s non-fiction works Texas Music and Louisiana Music will be available for purchase and signing. Complimentary beverages and snacks will be served. The program is free and open to the public. Registration strongly encouraged for our planning purposes.

Register Here.

The series will now run from March to June, each discussion has been moved back one month.

In Victorian England, the status and role of women were subjects of political debate, literary discourse and pictorial representation. From the idealization of The Angel in the House (the domestic guardian of morality and virtue) to the imprisonment of The Madwoman in the Attic (the closeted hysteric), various images of women suffuse Victorian literature and art. Through discussions of four great novels of the period, we will consider the depiction of women in an age in which women were both worshipped and subjugated.

March 4th – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

April 1st - Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

May 6th - Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

June 3rd – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.” (Amazon.com)

 

 

 

Saturday, March 2, 2013 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Saybrook Point Inn & Spa
2 Bridge Street
Old Saybrook, CT

Light fare, dancing, silent and live auctions, cash bar.
Fifties attire encouraged, dressy or not.

Tickets go on sale Friday, February 1st. You can purchase your tickets at the Library or online by clicking the link below. Tickets: $50.00

**Please make a note in the comment field that you are purchasing Bookworm Ball Tickets**

Want to attend the Bookworm Ball but need a babysitter, LYSB has the solution!

Tuesday’s Beginning February 5, 2013 – March 19, 2013 6:30 pm – 8:00pm.

Generously sponsored by the Bring Our Music Back Foundation (BOMB).
NO CLASS TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2013 (School Vacation).

Come to the Library for an informative songwriting workshop. Grades 6 and up. Experienced musicians and beginners all welcome. This is a 6 class series over a period of 7 weeks, it is recommenced that students commit to the full class series as information will build upon previous classes. Material covered will be an overview of song lyric analysis, melody, harmony, rhythm and then it will progress into instruction and assistance for your own songwriting. Frank Natter, Jr. of Face Arts Music in Deep River, CT will run these classes. Bring your instruments!

Registration for each individual session is required.

Register for Week 1, Feb 5th Here.

Register for Week 2, Feb 12th Here.

Register for Week 3, Feb 26th Here.

Register for Week 4, March 5th Here.

Register for Week 5, March 12th Here.

Register for Week 6, March 19th Here.