In this issue: The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City with Kevin Baker; Disability Film Club Screening – Warm Springs (2005); Annual Paul Sparrow Lecture with Basil Smikle, PhD; The Constitution Speaks: Rules, Rights and Responsibilities; Serve With Glory and #TheArtOfWar; FDR’s The Federalist.
Author Kevin Baker tells the entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II – a conversation with author Kevin Baker.
Kevin Baker (born 1958) is an American novelist, historian, and journalist. He was born in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in New Jersey and Rockport, Massachusetts.
Disability Film Club Screening
Warm Springs (2005)
Thursday, October 3
6pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
The stirring true story of FDR's battle with polio in 1921. In his search for a cure, he learns of a promising spa in Warm Springs, GA, only to find it dilapidated when he arrives. Presented in partnership with Taconic Resources for Independence.
ANNUAL PAUL SPARROW LECTURE
Foundations of a Movement: Black Americans, Civil Rights, and The Roosevelts
with Basil Smikle, PhD
Saturday, October 5
4pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
Basil Smikle, PhD examines the Roosevelt-era foundations of the Civil Rights Movement. Registered attendees can visit the Library's special exhibition, BLACK AMERICANS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE ROOSEVELTS, free of charge before the program, from 2-4pm.
This year's Sparrow Lecture is held in partnership with the Poughkeepsie Public Library District's BIG READ program, recognizing 60 years of the Civil Rights Act.
When the founding fathers forged the United States of America from the 13 British colonies, Benjamin Franklin was said to have proclaimed the creation of “a Republic...If we can keep it.” This presentation highlights some of the key rules, rights and responsibilities necessary for the maintenance of a healthy and successful democracy.
(Originally broadcast September 29, 2021; 43:36 minutes)
More than 100,000 American women served as nurses during WWII. This poster includes the local Nursing Council application location in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Known today as the Federalist Papers, the 85 articles and essays contained in The Federalist were originally published as a series of editorials in the Independent Journal, a New York newspaper, under the pseudonym Publius.
"Whatever our individual circumstances or opportunities, we are all in it, and our spirit is good... and do not let anyone tell you anything different." FDR, Oct 12, 1942, fireside chat.
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