Middleburgh Library Notes for Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Josh White Jr. will perform at the Middleburgh Library as part of the Not So Quiet Concert Series on June 13 at 7 p.m.
On June 13, at 7 p.m., Josh White Jr. will perform at the Middleburgh Library as part of the Not So Quiet Concert Series.
Josh White Jr. became a “hit” literally overnight at the age of 4, by performing with his legendary father, Josh White, one night at New York’s famed Café Society nightclub, America’s first integrated nightclub.
For the next five years, Josh,Jr. performed with his father from New York to Boston to Philadelphia. In 1949, Josh Jr. landed his first role on Broadway, and as Josh says, “It was type casting.”
He played his father’s son in “How Long Till Summer?” with Dorothy Gish and Don Hanmer. While continuing a solo acting career, Josh went on to perform and record with his father for the next 17 years on radio, television, and Broadway, and in concert halls and nightclubs around the world.
This event is made possible in part with public funds from the Decentralization Program and the NYS Council on the Arts, administered by the Community Arts Grant Program by the Greene County Council on the Arts.
No registration is required. Tickets are available at the door. A $10 donation is suggested. Please use the library’s back entrance.
Board meets
On June 10, at 6 p.m. the board of trustees will meet. This meeting is open to the public.
Mahjong Mahjong
On June 11, from 1 to 4 p.m., a spirited group of people will get together in the library’s Community Room, as they do every Tuesday, to play Mahjong.
Don’t know how to play? No problem! They will teach you how. No registration is required.
Insight Meditation
On June 11, at 5:15 p.m., a meditation group will meet at the library.
What do you want most deeply? Seeing your life calmly and clearly helps answer this. Insight Meditation is a simple way to steady your mind, stop wandering in daydreams, and end the suffering of troubling thoughts.
Our group is a place to sit quietly in safety, supported by others; to allow understanding and compassion to arise; to encourage loving kindness and patience. We welcome those with no experience to advanced mediators, teens to seniors.
Give it a try. No registration is required. There is no fee. All are welcome.
Book discussion
On June 13, from 1 to 3 p.m. join us to discuss "Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens. Our discussion will be facilitated by Judith Prest. “The painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature....Owens here surveys the desolate marshlands of the North Carolina coast through the eyes of an abandoned child. And in her isolation that child makes us open our own eyes to the secret wonders—and dangers—of her private world.”—The New York Times Book Review.
Not all of programs have been scheduled at time of printing. Please check our Calendar on our website at HYPERLINK "http://www.middleburghlibrary.info" www.middleburghlibrary.info. for future programs.