Summer of Learning with Great Fun & Prizes

Join the Adult Summer Reading Program and enjoy reading, learning and also earn a chance to win great prizes.  Prizes include $50 gift certificates to Piattino Bistro, The Black Horse Tavern and to our new local gift shop, Harmony Brookside.

Join the fun now:

Sign up and get a Summer Reading Bingo Card

Start Reading and cross off squares as you go.

Fill up one row, return your card to be entered into raffle.

Prize drawings will be in early September.

FBI: Consumer Fraud

Tuesday, July 31st

7:00-8:00pm

Have you been the unsuspecting victim of a fraud?  Have you received phone calls and emails from unknown parties requesting personal information?  Do you shred your discarded mail?  Do you check your monthly explanation of benefits from your health insurance plan?

Join us for a discussion with an FBI Special Agent to learn about different types of consumer frauds, the methods used by con artists to target specific individuals and ways to avoid being victimized in the future.

Registration is required.  To register click here.

Thursday, August 23rd

7:00-8:30pm

Join us to have fun painting on canvas together.  Meet artist Carla Carfora to learn techniques to paint a beach scene.  All supplies provided.  No experience necessary and all levels are welcome.

Donations are gladly accepted at this program

Registration is required.  To register click here.  Registration begins July 1st.

Thursday, September 6th

7:00-8:00pm

She was a Kennedy.  She was an Onassis.  Her enduring legacy would be her force of nature that was Jacqueline.

As a young mother she was catapulted onto the World Stage when her husband John F. Kennedy became the 35th President of the USA.  Her work helped bring about the Historic Preservation Act of 1966: the most far-reaching preservation legislation ever enacted in the United States.

Join us to meet Jackie.  A great American Legacy who wore many hats, not just her pillbox.

This program is funded by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities

Registration is required.  To register click here.

Thursday, September 20th

7:00-8:00pm

Meet Salvatore Presto, PhD., Professor of History (retired), Stevens Institute of Technology, for an in-depth study of the psycho-social factors in the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.  Understand the varied historical and current explanations which took the lives of twenty over three hundred years ago. Discuss the impact of class separation, contaminated grain, anxiety due to war in contrast to the contemporary explanation of parental conflict with adolescents in a repressed society with the introduction of Caribbean servants with unfamiliar customs.  Join us for an interesting study of this tragic historical event.

Registration is required.  To register click here.