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Town of Clifton Park and Stewarts Holiday Match Program For Your Generous Contributions |
Two 2020 Books of the Year.....and we're taking Nominations for 2021 |
See Below for the Top 25 Books for 2020
Read about the 6 Contenders and the TWO 2020 Winners!
Learn about all our events for 2020
This event has been cancelled due to the challenges of dealing with Coronavirus epidemic.
Home Sweet Home: A Panel Discussion
Saturday, April 25, 2020 at 2:00 pm, Library Program Rooms
Registration Recommended
In Educated, the author, Tara Westover, reflects on how she changes what she views as ‘home’. “I wonder now if the day I set out to steal that tax return wasn’t the first time I left home to go to Buck’s Peak. That night I had entered my father’s house as an intruder. It was a shift in mental language, a surrendering of where I was from.” (page 206) What makes this story fascinating? Is it how different her background is or how fundamentally similar it is to everyone else's experience of leaving home, the topic of our panel discussion.
Gretchel Hathaway, Dean of Diversity and Inclusion at Union College, will facilitate our panel discussion. Our panelists include Library Director, Alex Gutelius; Shenendehowa Superintendent, Dr. Oliver Robinson; FOL Board Member, Andreas Harnecker; and Clifton Park-Halfmoon Library Trustee, Purushothaman Srinivasan.
Home Sweet Home: A Panel Discussion
Saturday, April 25, 2020 at 2:00 pm, Library Program Rooms
Registration Recommended
In Educated, the author, Tara Westover, reflects on how she changes what she views as ‘home’. “I wonder now if the day I set out to steal that tax return wasn’t the first time I left home to go to Buck’s Peak. That night I had entered my father’s house as an intruder. It was a shift in mental language, a surrendering of where I was from.” (page 206) What makes this story fascinating? Is it how different her background is or how fundamentally similar it is to everyone else's experience of leaving home, the topic of our panel discussion.
Gretchel Hathaway, Dean of Diversity and Inclusion at Union College, will facilitate our panel discussion. Our panelists include Library Director, Alex Gutelius; Shenendehowa Superintendent, Dr. Oliver Robinson; FOL Board Member, Andreas Harnecker; and Clifton Park-Halfmoon Library Trustee, Purushothaman Srinivasan.
Inspiring African-American Women
Sunday, May 3, 2020 at 2:00 pm, Library Proram Rooms
Kate Dudding, Storyteller
Registration Recommended
Michele Obama has been called inspiring and the world’s most admired woman. Come hear award-winning Clifton Park storyteller Kate Dudding share stories about other inspiring and admired African American women including:
Barbara Johns, a 16 year old junior in an all black high school in Virginia led an all school walk-out protesting the poor conditions in 1951;
Kate Dudding, Storyteller
Registration Recommended
Michele Obama has been called inspiring and the world’s most admired woman. Come hear award-winning Clifton Park storyteller Kate Dudding share stories about other inspiring and admired African American women including:
Barbara Johns, a 16 year old junior in an all black high school in Virginia led an all school walk-out protesting the poor conditions in 1951;
Fatima Knight who created an online fundraiser to help rebuild the Christian Churches burned after the shooting in Charleston, SC Emanuel AME Church in 2015
... and others.
... and others.
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Yes, Two Winners - It's a TIE!
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Becoming
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Educated
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Our Community Partners
Clifton Park-Hafmoon Public Library
Town of Clifton Park
Town of Halfmoon
Shenendehowa Central Schools
Halfmoon Senior Center
Clifton Park Senior Center
CAPTAIN Youth and Family Services
Southern Saratoga YMCA
Town of Clifton Park
Town of Halfmoon
Shenendehowa Central Schools
Halfmoon Senior Center
Clifton Park Senior Center
CAPTAIN Youth and Family Services
Southern Saratoga YMCA
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Neighboring Community Reads
To see what our neighboring communities are reading
One County One Book
Schenectady
Schenectady
Our goal is to bring people in our community together through the shared reading and discussion of a common book. Our choices inspire rich discussion and community activities and encourage younger readers to participate through companion books and related activities.
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