Monthly Archives August 2017

Meet Bobby Calero

Meet Bobby Calero

We are excited to welcome librarian Bobby Calero as the newest addition to the Trove. Bobby comes here from the Children's Library Discovery Center of the Queens Library in Jamaica, Queens. Despite the fact that he’s only five feet and six inches—and weighs about a 140 pounds—he was once the bouncer at an all-night jazz club in the West Village. But today he says that he “loves singing ‘The itsy-bitsy spider’ to two-year-olds at 10:30 a.m.!” Bobby is a big fan of children’s book authors Yuyi Morales, Emily Hughes, and Neil Gaiman. He also loves Roald Dahl, particularly The Witches.
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August 30, 2017 9:21 am | by | No Comments
Categories: Featured and Library News.

People & Stories Oral History Project: Jazz Fest 2017 Pt. 3

People & Stories Oral History Project: Jazz Fest 2017 Pt. 3

We are thrilled to continue our partnership with ArtsWestchester, The City of White Plains, and the White Plains Business Improvement District on White Plains Jazz Fest 2017! Below is a clip from the People & Stories Oral History Project, Jazz Fest edition. Each of the clips we post between now and September will include stories and music from musicians who live locally, but have performed all over the world. Tom Van Buren, of ArtsWestchester, co-produced the interviews. Check out the Jazz Fest 2017 webpage for tickets and more information about all the great music happening September 13-17, 2017.   Ray
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August 29, 2017 5:00 am | by | No Comments
Categories: Oral History.
Tags: ArtsWestchester, jazz, Jazz Fest, Jazz Fest 2017, local history, oral history, People & Stories, Ray Blue, westchester history, white plains collection, white plains history, White Plains Jazz Fest, and WPBID.

An International Film Festival ‘Bonus’ on Aug. 29

An International Film Festival ‘Bonus’ on Aug. 29

Cliffhangers were the rage during the 1980s (remember Dallas‘ hugh ratings from “Who Shot J.R.?”), and the French got their taste in 1986 with the hit movie Jean de Florette. It ended with the namesake killed in a dynamite explosion over a water dispute, and his widow and young daughter were forced to leave their property. The bad guys won, with “End of Part 1” heightening the suspense. Jean de Florette was screened Aug. 8 at the White Plains Public Library as part of the summer's International Film Festival, which was scheduled to end on Aug. 22. But by popular demand, the Library is
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August 22, 2017 8:51 am | by | No Comments
Categories: Library News.

People & Stories Oral History Project: Jazz Fest 2017 Pt. 2

People & Stories Oral History Project: Jazz Fest 2017 Pt. 2

We are thrilled to continue our partnership with ArtsWestchester, The City of White Plains, and the White Plains Business Improvement District on White Plains Jazz Fest 2017! Below is a clip from the People & Stories Oral History Project, Jazz Fest edition. Each of the clips we post between now and September will include stories and music from musicians who live locally, but have performed all over the world. Tom Van Buren, of ArtsWestchester, co-produced the interviews. Check out the Jazz Fest 2017 webpage for tickets and more information about all the great music happening September 13-17, 2017.    
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August 22, 2017 5:00 am | by | No Comments
Categories: Oral History.
Tags: ArtsWestchester, Jake Robinson, jazz, Jazz Fest, Jazz Fest 2017, local-history, oral history, People & Stories, westchester history, white plains collection, white plains history, White Plains Jazz Fest, and WPBID.

People & Stories Oral History Project: Jazz Fest 2017 Pt. 1

People & Stories Oral History Project: Jazz Fest 2017 Pt. 1

We are thrilled to continue our partnership with ArtsWestchester, The City of White Plains, and the White Plains Business Improvement District on White Plains Jazz Fest 2017! Below is a clip from the People & Stories Oral History Project, Jazz Fest edition. Each of the clips we post between now and September will include stories and music from musicians who live locally, but have performed all over the world. Tom Van Buren, of ArtsWestchester, co-produced the interviews. Check out the Jazz Fest 2017 webpage for tickets and more information about all the great music happening September 13-17, 2017.    
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August 15, 2017 9:48 am | by | No Comments
Categories: Local History and Oral History.
Tags: ArtsWestchester, Glenda Davenport, jazz, Jazz Fest, local-history, music, oral history, People & Stories, white plains collection, white plains history, White Plains Jazz Fest, and WPBID.

Come See The Mermaid, Chinese Blockbuster Aug. 15

Come See <em>The Mermaid</em>, Chinese Blockbuster Aug. 15

What Gone with the Wind, Star Wars and Titanic are to the U.S., The Mermaid is to China. The Stephen Chow-directed fantasy on a mermaid entangled in greed, love and revenge has grossed $553.8 million since its February 2016 release. That set a box-office record in China, which makes it all the more special that the White Plains Public Library will present a free screening of The Mermaid at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, August 15, in The Trove (second floor). The Mermaid, in Mandarin with English subtitles, is the sixth of the seven-movie International Film Festival being shown at the Library this
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August 10, 2017 9:30 am | by | No Comments
Categories: Events.
Tags: film. International Film Festival and movie.