Jeff McKinney

Nassau Free Library Partners w/ Field-Goods for Weekly Local Produce Delivery

The Nassau Free Library has partnered with the local produce delivery service, Field Goods, to establish the library as a pick-up location for locally-grown fruit and vegetables. Every Thursday, Field Goods customers can pick up their bags of local produce at the Nassau Free Library.

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Field Goods is a year-round, local produce delivery subscription service. Customers select their preferred bag size, which range from the Single person subscription for $16 (about 5 items), and go up to the Family size subscription for $32 (designed for 3 to 5 people). Subscriptions can be put on hold at any time. Field Goods, is located in Athens, NY, and purchases directly from over 80 small farms in the region. All of the produce is non-GMO, and most is organically grown.

TO SIGN UP FOR NASSAU DELIVERY

Visit Field-Goods.com
Click “Order Now”
Choose “Nassau” from the drop-down menu
Click the “Find Location” button
Choose “Nassau Free Library” and follow the prompts

The Nassau Free Library is located at 18 Church St., Nassau, NY 12123
Phone:518-766-2715

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Banned Books Week September 25 – October 1, 2016

bbw-logo122h Banned Books Week is a Celebration of the Freedom to Read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries.

According to the American Library Association, more than 11,300 books have been challenged since 1982 . The top ten most challenged books of 2015 include:

Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James
Reasons: Sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and other (“poorly written,” “concerns that a group of teenagers will want to try it”).
I Am Jazz, by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
Reasons: Inaccurate, homosexuality, sex education, religious viewpoint, and unsuited for age group.
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, by Susan Kuklin
Reasons: Anti-family, offensive language, homosexuality, sex education, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“wants to remove from collection to ward off complaints”).
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
Reasons: Offensive language, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“profanity and atheism”).
The Holy Bible
Reasons: Religious viewpoint.
Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
Reasons: Violence and other (“graphic images”).
Habibi, by Craig Thompson
Reasons: Nudity, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group.
Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan, by Jeanette Winter
Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group, and violence.
Two Boys Kissing, by David Levithan
Reasons: Homosexuality and other (“condones public displays of affection”).

The Banned Books Week Coalition is a national alliance of diverse organizations joined by a commitment to increase awareness of the annual celebration of the freedom to read. The Coalition seeks to engage various communities and inspire participation in Banned Books Week through education, advocacy, and the creation of programming about the problem of book censorship. The 2016 celebration will be held September 25-October 1.

For more information, check out bannedbooksweek.org, and why not celebrate by stopping into your local library, and check out one of the books on the list.

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Chatham OctoberFeast – Saturday, October 1

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Chatham Village will host it’s first ever OctoberFeast this Saturday, October 1, 2016, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The day will celebrate the harvest season with local food and family activities throughout the village. The festivities will feature food, music, drink, and an interesting sounding contest.

Get Crocked Cooking Contest

The Get Crocked cooking contest is open to all, and will be a judged contest looking for the best Crock Pot meal. The winning recipe will be part of a round up press release and will be published on the Our Community Cares website and Facebook page. Judging will take place during the day, and participants are to arrive no later than 12:30pm with one large crockpot filled with their entry submission, along with a printed copy of the recipe. First prize is $100, and second prize is $50. There’s a $10 entry fee, and you must return a completed entry form, which can be found here. Proceeds from “Crockpot for a Cause” will benefit Tina and Rich Powers and family, of Canaan.

Schedule

OctoberFeast kicks off at 11am, and is centered on Main Street. Following is the full schedule.

11 a.m.

Our Daily Bread Gluten Free Bakery, 54 Main St. For sale: stuffed pretzels, Octoberfeast knishes of mashed potatoes, sauerkraut and corned beef.

Our Daily Bread Deli, 116 Hudson Ave. Smokers will be fired up. For sale: smoked turkey legs, pastrami on a stick, sausages and all the trimmings. Chatham Brewing’s Oktoberfest brew and other beer. Music noon to 2 p.m. and lawn/deck will be available for lawn games (bocce and more). Discounts to those in traditional lederhosen and free draft to those who purchase a beer stein from R.H. Van Alstyne Fine Jewelry.

11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Chatham Café & Deli, 41 Main St. Cider, hot chocolate, seasonal pastries and more will be sold as well as the full menu inside with specials featuring a seasonal flavor.

SomethinsGottaGive, 5 Main St. Artists serving refreshments.

R.H. Van Alstyne Fine Jewelry, 42 Main St. Beer steins for sale.

Chatham Wine & Liquor, 52 Main St. Wine and cheese sampling.

Chatham Brewing, 59 Main St. Pig roast.

People’s Pub, 36 Main St. Duck tacos and lamb sliders.

Friends of the Tracy, selling beer mugs with their logo.

Face painting.

Mando Fights Back, selling bows and pies.

11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Prepared, outside 20 Main St. Grilling bratwurst and sauerkraut in the beer and wine garden in the Prepared Plaza.

A La Mode, selling ice cream and root beer floats street side.

Noon

Musicians Laura Flemming and Phalen McGreal in the beer and wine garden in the Prepared Plaza outside Prepared.

Noon to 12:30 p.m.

Unicycling

Noon to 2 p.m.

Live music TBA at Our Daily Bread Deli, 116 Hudson Ave.

1-2 p.m.

Eric Thee Illusionist on the Brewery Stage.

1-3 p.m.

Get Crocked: Crockpot for a Cause Cooking Contest, location TBA.

2-3 p.m.

Balloon Art on the Brewery Stage.

3 p.m.

Ceremonial keg tapping on the Brewery Stage.

Breezy Grass Band on the Brewery Stage.

Games and contests at Chatham Brewing.

6 p.m.

Sitting Plush Band on the Brewery Stage.

8 p.m.

Side Show Willie on the Brewery Stage.

For more details, go to http://visitchathamny.com/OctoberFeast.htm.

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Basilica Non-Fiction Film Series, Cameraperson

The Basilica Non-Fiction Screening Series celebrates and interrogates the documentary genre through screenings and dialogue with visiting directors. Working in collaboration with Chris Boeckmann, film programmer for the Columbia, MO-based True/False Film Fest, the Basilica series follows a model of a vibrant film festival in a small city surrounded by a rural landscape, attended by dedicated regional residents and national film enthusiasts.

Up next for the series is Cameraperson.

The synopsis on the movie’s site describes the movie as:

A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into Cameraperson, a tapestry of footage captured over the twenty-five-year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Through a series of episodic juxtapositions, Johnson explores the relationships between image makers and their subjects, the tension between the objectivity and intervention of the camera, and the complex interaction of unfiltered reality and crafted narrative. A work that combines documentary, autobiography, and ethical inquiry, Cameraperson is both a moving glimpse into one filmmaker’s personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world.

Ratied: NR
Genre: Documentary
Directed By: Kirsten Johnson
In Theaters: Sep 9, 2016 Limited
Runtime: 102 minutes
Studio:Fork Films

Thursday, September 22, 2016
All Basilica Films Begin Promptly at 8PM
$5- $10 sliding scale at the door

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Chatham From Above

Check out this aerial footage of the beautiful town, Chatham.

The video was posted on trbojet’s YouTube page. The only info on the video’s creator, is the brief credit at the end that states “Chaos Studios Chatham NY”.

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