Our Projects

• Programs for adults featuring authors, art experts, musicians, adventurers and theatre groups, often on Sunday afternoons
• Special Children's Programs and Events
• Summer Pajama Story Time, a weekly reading event for children during July and August
• Seed Funding for pilot programs such as wireless service, the Express Book Collection and the DVD collection
• Funding preservation of Local History material
• Magazine Subscription funding to enhance the Library's periodicals collection
• Larchmont Train Station Lending Library bookrack tended to and stocked by the Friends
• Books for the Homebound, enabling delivery of books and audiobooks to homebound individuals in the community
• Purchases of Equipment and Furniture for the library that were not included in the Library's regular budget
• A major contribution to the reconstruction of the Children's Library

To contribute your annual membership, fill in the attached form and mail to:

Friends of the Larchmont Public Library
c/o Larchmont Public Library
121 Larchmont Avenue
Larchmont, NY 10538

You may be able to double your contribution by taking advantage of your company's matching gifts policy. Just send us the appropriate form with your contribution.

When you join the Friends or renew your membership you will receive:

• The Friends newsletter
• Advance information on all programming
• The satisfaction of knowing you are supporting a worthwhile and vital community organization

Spring 2009 Programs

Lincoln Center returned to Larchmont Sunday, February 1! Violinists Kensho and Kisho Watanabe returned to Larchmont with their string quartet for the fifth straight year. The brothers, who studied for years at Juilliard, are members of the Yale Symphony Orchestra. Kensho, who is the concertmaster at Yale, has performed at Alice Tully Hall and the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall. Kisho, whose musical sensitivity is breathtaking, has also performed widely.

Acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann joined the Friends on Sunday, March 1, to read from his new book, The Lost City of Z. Called a “masterpiece of narrative nonfiction,” Grann’s book attempts to solve the mystery of what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished after venturing into the Amazon in 1925 to find an ancient civilization. Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals, says of Grann: “His superb writing style, his skills as a reporter, his masterful use of historical and scientific documents, and his stunning storytelling ability are on full display here, producing an endlessly absorbing tale about a magical subject that captivates from start to finish.”

On Sunday, March 29, Larchmont’s distinguished opera scholar Bridget Paolucci treated us to a lecture on Puccini's Tosca. This was her final lecture for the library, where she has spoken for more than 20 years. Paolucci is a frequent intermission speaker and panelist on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.

Finally, on Sunday, April 19, the Friends sponsored a reading by established and emerging writers and poets whose work was published in the 3^rd edition of the Westchester Review this spring.

We hope you enjoyed the Spring presentations. By joining the Friends, you can be assured that you will be the first to know of our exciting Fall 2009 schedule of events.

By the way, all programs sponsored by the Friends are free and open to the public. Please come early for refreshments, and by all means, bring your friends!

--by Jackie Paré, Program Chair