The Elements: An Annual Environmental Film Series was begun in 2015. The 2024-2025 series is co-sponsored by the Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District, Middletown Garden Club, Russell Library, The Rockfall Foundation, and Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts, College of the Environment, and College of Film and the Moving Image.
Friday, October 25, 2024
Free Film Screening: Follow the Drinking Gourd, October 28, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024
ZOOM Genealogy Club - Saturday, October 26, 2024
Host: Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT
Time: 1:30 p.m.
On Saturday, October 26, Pam Vestal will present Part II of "Deciphering Old Handwriting."
We've received rave reviews on Pam's Part I of Deciphering Difficult Handwriting last month. Now join us for Part II of her presentation/workshop on deciphering early handwritten documents.
The Zoom presentation will take place at 1:30 pm (ET). Please register by 4:00 PM Friday, October 25. The invite will be sent out on that Friday.
Godfrey Premium members can register for free at the following email: zoomregistration@godfrey.org
If you are not a Godfrey Premium member and want to attend the presentation, you can pay $10 via PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/us/home) with the payment sent to Godfrey Memorial Library. Then register using the above email.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. Foreword by Quincy Jones.
Martin Luther King, Andrew Young, & their work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
by Andrew Young, Foreword by Quincy Jones
Friday, October 11, 2024
Wondering what to do on your Monday holiday?
is Almost too good to be true!___________
Do you have Pain & Stiffness
from Sitting Too Much?
Try these targeted exercises to
Revitalize your Legs & Hips
It only takes a few minutes a day to feel better.
Here are FIVE FREE Silver Sneakers exercise routines in one link, video demos are included, no login required. You may have seen these when they were shown on The Middletown Eye in 2021.
https://www.silversneakers.com/blog/pain-from-sitting-too-much-here's-how-to-fix-it/
SilverSneakers.com online has hundreds of on-demand video demos. Many are targeted so that you can easily identify the type of routine you need. Many Silver Sneakers routines are available on youtube, no login required. It only takes a few minutes a day to feel better.
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Imagine Connecticut with Fewer Cars and More Public Transport
From today's New York Times, "The Hunt," a weekly feature telling short-story versions of people looking for new homes.
Selene Plastiras, an in-house lawyer for an engineering firm, arrived in New York from California in April 2022 to fill in for a colleague on maternity leave. Her company put her up in corporate housing in TriBeCa for a few months. Within a week, she knew she wanted to stay.
“New York was such a good fit,” she said. “It was the energy I was missing. The people are really friendly because a lot of people are transplants and no one is sitting in their cars.”
It was easy enough for Ms. Plastiras, a Bay Area native, to transfer to the city permanently. After the TriBeCa place, she rented a one-bedroom in a fifth-floor walk-up on the Upper West Side for herself and her dog, Hula, paying just under $4,000 a month. ...
Read more at https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/03/realestate/brooklyn-apartment-search.html
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What's not to like?