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Sunday – 3/6/2016 – St. Lawrence Seaway, movie Requiem for the American Dream

Drove to see St. Lawrence Seaway. The Eisenhower Lock. It is undergoing repairs during the winter freeze over. Got chased away by security but not before we saw a bunch of things.

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Then long drive back to Hudson. Arrived back by 3:10 pm. 525 mile trip.

Went to see Requiem for the American Dream – a Noam Chomsky documentary. At TSL.images

Saturday – 2/20/2016 – HAL, Lecture, CPW Opening

HAL Finance Committee and BOT Meeting

9 am thru Noon.

Authorized paying Galvan the $500K that is our share of the cost for the new library. Lots of discussion of the April move to the new library.

Late afternoon lecture at Stair Gallery

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Saturday – 2/13/2016 – HAL Event & Music

Breakfast at Bob’s followed by grocery shopping

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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

a presentation sponsored by the library at the Montgomery C Smith Intermediate School. Sold out crowd – mostly school kids and parents – extremely cold and windy afternoon.
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Music at Bard in the Evening

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More Cold.
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Thursday – 2/4/2016 – Civil Rights – show and tell at the library

borrowed from HAL website.

borrowed from HAL website.

Civil Rights – show and tell at the library

I participated in this group discussion. Part of the run up to the weekend events with the Turning 15 on the Road to Civil Rights book dramatization. 2/13/16

http://hudsonarealibrary.org/civil-rights-a-uniting-topic/