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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery

Christine and Elliot Spero take you on a journey through Burt Bacharach’s greatest songs with some surprises.  Bacharach, considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music, has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, mostly in collaboration with lyricist Hal David.

Rick Nathan, consumer advocate, will give you many valuable tips on how to cut costs in difficult and uncertain times.  Some topics include:

Join Pat Foxx for an afternoon of watercolor painting!  At this session, participants will recreate a landscape by Paul Cezanne. 

All materials will be provided.  Space is limited; registration required.

Join Pat Foxx for an afternoon of watercolor painting!  At this session, participants will recreate Henri Matisse's The Goldfish, 1912.

All materials will be provided.  Space is limited; registration required.

Join Alex Prizgintas as he explores classical, jazz, and rock music on the cello. While playing the cello in its traditional form, Alex also employs an assortment of guitar pedals to generate altered tones. Some of these pedals include the distortion, delay, the iconic “wah-wah” pedal (symbolic of 1960s rock bands), and a Boss RC-300 looping station. This is arguably the most important piece of Alex's equipment, allowing him to pre-record musical tracks as well as offering the ability to record and loop various tracks live while creating the sensation of a modern one-man band.

Over time, vibrant, colorful paintings erode into dark, dirty and dingy fixtures on the wall. Using a series of procedures executed with patience and precision, restorers can peel back the veil of time. During this program, local artists Paul Gould and Matt Soltis will provide insights about cleaning, color matching, canvas repair and why have a painting restored in the first place.

In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter - all with a new spin informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek.

Join educator Paula Spector for this interactive workshop that will teach parents the skills children need to flourish in school and how they can help their children gain these skills through every day activities. Handouts will be made available.

Paula Spector - RN, MSHed, NYSPSP Parent, Educational Consultant, Parent Educator, Pine Bush Central School Universal PreK.