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Sunday, April 6, 2025: 2:30 – 3:30pm
How Bookworms Beat the Nazis
Guest Speaker Elysse Graham, author
Register: www.montauklibrary.org/events
In honor of National Librarians Week and librarians everywhere, author Elysse Graham will present her book, Book & Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. Her talk will describe the untold story of how academics and librarians became spies for the USA’s OSS (the precursor of the CIA) and helped turn the tide of war.
Dr. Graham is a historian and professor at Stony Brook University, In addition to Book and Dagger, she is author of The Republic of Games: Textual Culture Between Old Books and New Media; A Unified Theory of Cats on the Internet; You Talkin’ to Me? – The Unruly History of New York English.
Friday Classic Film Series – Celebrating National Library Week: April 6-12, 2025 – LIBRARIANS & LIBRARIES
Friday, April 4 at 5pm: DESK SET (1957 – Rated G – 103 minutes) Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young. Efficiency expert (Tracy) becomes a threat to a TV network’s research department headed by Bunny Watson (Hepburn) when he is hired to install a computer which the staff fears will replace them. Directed by Walter Lang.
Friday, April 11 at 5pm: The Music Man (1962 – Rated G – 2h 31m) Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett. When con man Professor Harold Hill arrives in River City, Iowa intending to fleece the townspeople, librarian Marian Paroo (Jones) suspects he is not what he pretends to be. Directed by Morton DaCosta.
Friday, April 18 at 5pm: Foul Play (1978 – Rated PG – 1h 56m) Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith. A shy San Francisco librarian (Hawn) gives a lift to a hitchhiker whose car has broken down. This leads to her being stalked by a series of shady individuals but the good-looking but clumsy cop she met at a party keeps coming to her rescue. Directed by Colin Higgins.
Friday, April 25 at 5pm: The Name of the Rose (1986 – Rated R – 2h 10m) Sean Connery, Christian Slater. Franciscan friar William of Baskerville (Connery) is called upon to solve a murder mystery in a medieval Benedictine abbey. While investigating, he and his assistant discover a labyrinthine library containing classical works that were thought to have been lost. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
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