March 14 @ 7 PM - Book & Movie Discussion - Hound of the Baskervilles

SEE THE MOVIE – March 11 at 1:00 pm

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Presenter – Keith Crocker 

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program.

READ THE BOOK – March 14 at 7:00 pm

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Book Discussion Presented by the Reader Services Department

This will be a hybrid program. We will meet in-person at the library and Zoom will also be available. Please register by clicking on this link. When registering, please indicate if you will be attending in-person or through Zoom.

The eBook version of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Join us on March 14 at 7:00 p.m. as we discuss what has been called the greatest detective story of all time, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. We will also compare the book with Hammer Studio's 1959 film adaptation starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Additionally, we will discuss other film and television adaptations of the story, and how Sherlock Holmes and Watson have been depicted on screen over the years.

At Baskerville Hall on the grim moors of Devonshire, a legendary curse has apparently claimed one more victim. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead. There are no signs of violence, but his face is hideously distorted with terror. Years earlier, a hound-like beast with blazing eyes and dripping jaws was reported to have torn out the throat of Hugo Baskerville. Has the spectral destroyer struck again? More important, is Sir Henry Baskerville, younger heir to the estate, now in danger? Enter Sherlock Holmes, summoned to protect Sir Henry from the fate that has threatened the Baskerville family.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext. 1236.

Feb 14 @ 1 pm - Lunch 'N Books: Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

Join us on February 14 at 1:00 p.m. as we discuss The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. In this remarkable novel based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the "objectionable" words they omit. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the "Scriptorium," a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. As she grows up, she realizes that words and meanings relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.

Anna Katsavos will be the presenter.

Zoom Meeting – Register online by clicking on this link, or call us at 794-2570 and ask for Programming. You will be emailed the Zoom link the morning of the program.

Please reserve your copy at the Reference Desk or by phone.

The eBook version of The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams can be accessed through the Nassau Digital Doorway.

Discussion guide for The Dictionary of Lost Words.

For more information, please call the Reader Services Department at 516-794-2570 ext.1236.