08.06.2017 Around the Island At the Library: Let’s talk health care After seven-plus years of legislative debate, voting, media focus and public discussion on health care for Americans — not counting “The Original Medicare” (Medicare and Medicaid) legislative enactment and...
05.04.2017 Around the Island Friday Night Dialogues: The origins of language Linguistic scholars have traced the history of the English language as far back in time as 4,500 B.C., when the ancestors of much of Europe and Asia once spoke...
02.16.2017 Around the Island Friday Night Dialogues: Battle of the Brains Think you’re smart? Now’s your chance to prove it! The mid-winter, blues-busting “Trivia Night: Battle of the Brains” returns to the library’s Friday Night Dialogues on February 24 —...
10.06.2016 Around the Island Friday Night Dialogue: The Shah of Iran’s last days “The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran” is the newest book by noted historian and U.S./Iran relations expert, Andrew Scott Cooper. It is...
07.01.2016 Around the Island Tent Week at the Shelter Island Library Take the tykes, grab the guests and dust off your dancing shoes! Come one, come all for fun, fun, fun – and more fun at the Shelter Island Library’s...