Summer Reading at the Library!

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Join us for our annual summer reading program for children, teens and adults.  This year's theme is Color Your World.

Children & Teens:  Starting on June 2nd, visit the Children's Room to register and receive a reading log.

Adults:  Starting on June 2nd, sign up in person at the Reference Desk to receive a packet.  Click here for the Nonfiction and Fiction reading lists relating to the theme.

 

 

 

The Glenn Miller Band: Music that Inspired the Troops

Program Type:

Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
  • Registration is required for this event.
  • Registration will close on June 5, 2025 @ 1:30pm.

Event Details

Glenn Miller was America’s best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best-known big bands. Residing with his family at the Cotswold Mansion in Tenafly, NJ his band played many dates in New York at the Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle. Once World War II began he gave up a lucrative stateside career and toured Europe with his band entertaining the troops. The program combines a lecture with movie clips of Jimmy Stewart in The Glenn Miller Story.

Presenter: Rick Feingold teaches The Air Force in World War II at Bergen Community College. His
father, B-17 navigator Louis Feingold escaped occupied France with the help of the French Underground.

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