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When Staten Island-based author Rob Hart roamed the streets of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, several years ago, he decided to use the historic city as the backdrop of a crime novel that he titled “The Woman from Prague.”
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By Stephany Reyes
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12/6/17
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A short time ago, in a library nearby, dozens of children gripped blue and red light sabers in preparation for battle. They swarmed the East Meadow Public Library on Oct. 14 as part of the library’s annual Star Wars Reads Day.
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By Stephany Reyes
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10/19/17
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“I’m a lover of the arts,” Jude Schanzer said, propping her feet up on a bin filled with papers in an office she shares with colleagues at the East Meadow Public Library. “I always wanted to act — I mean, who didn’t want to be a star? — but I was kindly told to stick to playwriting,” she laughed.
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By Stephany Reyes
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10/5/17
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Packed in the lower-level all-purpose room, readers from across East Meadow and Salisbury clutched copies of books they discovered through the East Meadow Public Library’s Adult Summer Reading Club on Aug. 15.
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By Stephany Reyes
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9/14/17
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When New York City-based author Fiona Davis visited a renovated condominium in the famed Barbizon 63 building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in 2005 during an apartment search, she uncovered a history not explored since Sylvia Plath did so in her 1963 semi-autobiographical novel “The Bell Jar,” which details the life of a young woman who lives at the Barbizon in the 1950s while interning for “Mademoiselle” magazine.
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By Stephany Reyes
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8/9/17
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The staff at the East Meadow Public Library paid a special tribute to author J.K. Rowling’s famous character Harry Potter by throwing a birthday party in his honor on July 31.
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By Stephany Reyes
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8/9/17
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Thousands of costumed teenagers slipped into their best anime outfits and headed to the East Meadow Public Library last weekend for the library’s annual EMCon Animefest.
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By Stephany Reyes
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5/25/17
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A candidate running for one of the open seats on the Board of Education had a trick up his sleeve and shocked the audience as he announced his withdrawal from the race on Monday at a candidates forum, with only days left until the budget and trustee vote on May 16.
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By Stephany Reyes
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5/11/17
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A crowd at the East Meadow Public Library sat in awe as Paraguayan dance group Panambi Verá balanced pots and glass bottles on their heads during a special show on March 11.
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By Stephany Reyes
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4/3/17
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For the first time in East Meadow history, voters passed a joint bond, proposed by the school district and the public library, on March 7.
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By Stephany Reyes
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3/16/17
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