MOFFAT LIBRARY OF WASHINGTONVILLE
MAY 2018
MOFFAT LIBRARY 
HAPPENINGS
Left: Ruth Manyin, Trustee, author Susan Randy Meyers, author Alison Gaylin & Mary Ann Marrero, FOML President
Right: Friends members, Julie Ploski, Sue Ann Vogelsberg, Pam Wisniewski, Bernie Mullady & Marion Bottomley
FRIENDS OF MOFFAT LIBRARY HOST
2018 AUTHORS' LUNCHEON
 
This year's Authors' Luncheon at the Round House in Washingtonville was a huge success.   Authors Alison Gaylin and Susan Randy Meyers both gave lively and entertaining talks and were an excellent complement to the other.
 
Alison Gaylin is the award-winning author of mystery and suspense novels, which include Hide Your Eyes and its sequel, You Kill Me, Trashed, Heartless, and the Brenna Spector series, which include And She Was, Into the Dark, and Stay with Me. Her most recent novel, What Remains of Me, was nominated for the best novel category of the Edgar Award. Ms. Gaylin is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is a Hudson Valley native and lives with her husband and daughter in Woodstock, New York.
 
Randy Susan Meyers is the bestselling author of Accidents of Marriage, The Comfort of Lies, The Murderer's Daughters and The Widow of Wall Street. Her books have twice been finalists for the Massachusetts Book Award and named "Must Read Books" by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.  She lives in Boston with her husband, where she teaches writing at the Grub Writer's Center.

Many thanks to  
THE FRIENDS OF THE MOFFAT LIBRARY  
& Alison Gaylin & Randy Susan Meyers
for a wonderful program! 
FAMILY
FAVORITE
TAIL WAGGIN' TUTORS
Have your child read to a furry friend!
Tuesday, May 8th / sessions between 4:30-5:30 PM

Help your child get ahead this spring by signing up for one of the only four-legged, furry tutors in town!

Space is limited for these one on one 15 minute sessions. 


Register online today, or call (845) 496-5483 x 327 for more information!
LOCAL
AUTHOR
A Talk with Author
MARINA ANTHROPOW CRAMER
Thursday, May 10 
@ 6:30 PM

Meet local writer Marina Antropow Cramer, whose latest novel, Roads, tells the riveting story of a Russian family and their attempts to survive Nazi-occupied Yalta during World War II.

Marina will explain her writing process and what inspired her to write this harrowing work of historical fiction.

ANCESTRY.COM
What We Found

When Librarian Matthew Thorenz sat down with his family to research 
on  ancestry.com they had always thought that Matt's  great-great-grandfather's name was Joseph but it was actually spelled "Jozsef." 

Jozsef had immigrated from Arad when he was 3 years old, according to the manifest of the ship they arrived on, the S.S. Saxon, ( pictured above). Arad was part of Hungary until 1920, when it became part of Romania. 

Ancestry.com is available for use at the Moffat Library. Any librarian can help get you started! Stop by today and find YOUR ancestors!

Ancestry.com is brought to you by the Friends of the Moffat Library
EGG DROP CONTEST BRINGS FAMILIES IN FOR STEM LEARNING!

Fifteen families participated in the Moffat Library Egg Drop Contest to save Daisy's Eggs on Saturday, April 7.

Armed with unlimited supplies and in teams and individually, participants were able to build contraptions to drop the eggs from over 9 feet high! 

The blue strip in the picture shows the heights they dropped their inventive egg-carrying contraptions from!
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