Upcoming Events
	Spencertown Academy's Fifth Annual Festival of Books September 3-6, 2010 A Celebration of Books & Reading for the Whole Community Free Admissionwww.spencertownacademy.org The annual Festival of Books at Spencertown Academy Arts Center is a celebration of the written word, presenting thought provoking programs to an enthusiastic and engaged community of readers. For three day in early September, just as the leaves begin to turn, we welcome dozens of outstanding writers and poets to an 1847 schoolhouse in rural Columbia County, NY. Join us this year as we explore how books can change the world with twenty outstanding guest authors including William Alexander, Alice Eve Cohen, Ann Hood, Madhur Jaffrey, Emily Arnold McCully, and many more. As always, favorite storybook characters will be on hand to greet our young visitors. The Festival also features an extraordinary used book sale featuring over 10,000 gently used volumes meticulously sorted and organized for easy browsing, two gallery exhibitions, the on-site Cookbook Cafe. New this year, the Books & Blues BBQ on Sunday evening. For a complete list of authors, click here! You can keep up with Festival updates through more details...
	Jennifer Berne & Keith Bendis, author and illustrator of Calvin Can't Fly: Story of a Bookworm Birdie Tuesday, September 7th in Red Hook at 3:30 PM Keith will present fun art demonstrations for the children. more details...
	Millbrook Community Day 10 AM - 2 PM, September 11, 2010 We will be hosting Susanna Leonard Hill, reading at 11 AM Jennifer Berne & Keith Bendis, reading at 11:30 AM and illustrating throughout the day James Christopher Carroll, reading at 1:00 PM Jenny Nelson, reading at 1:30 PM on the lawn of the Millbrook Library from 10 AM- 2 PM. Throughout the day they will also be having readings and art presentions. Rain Location- Inside Library. more details...
	Paul Greenberg, author of FOUR FISH, at the Cary Institute Friday, September 17, 2010 at 7:00 PM BookPage Notable Title The history of four fish--bass, cod, salmon, and tuna--exposes a critical moment in our relationship with the truly last wild food we consume. Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. We stand at the edge of a cataclysm; there is a distinct possibility that our children's children will never eat a wild fish that has swum freely in the sea. In Four Fish, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey, exploring the history of the fish that dominate our menus---salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna-and examining where each stands at this critical moment in time. He visits Norwegian mega farms that use genetic techniques once pioneered on sheep to grow millions of pounds of salmon a year. He travels to the ancestral river of the Yupik Eskimos to see the only Fair Trade certified fishing company in the world. He investigates the way PCBs and mercury find their way into seafood; discovers how Mediterranean sea bass went global; Challenges the author of Cod to taste the difference between a farmed and a wild cod; and almost sinks to the bottom of the South Pacific while searching for an alternative to endangered bluefin tuna. Fish, Greenberg reveals, are the last truly wild food - for now. By examining the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, he shows how we can start to heal the oceans and fight for a world where healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception. more details...
	Fine Home Source Saturday, September 25, 2010 On September 25, 2010 from 10 AM to 5 PM, you are invited to visit over 40 exhibitors showing the very best products and services for your home. There will be traditional artisans as well as the latest in green solutions. We will feature AV systems, energy efficient appliances, wine cellars and so much more for the home. There will even be experts in landscape design and related products available to help you put the finishing touches on your home’s surroundings such as fencing, weathervanes, saunas and pools. A $2 suggested donation benefits the Dutchesss Land Conservancy. The Fine Home Source event will be held at 3327 Franklin Avenue at the Millbrook Bandshell in the Village of Millbrook, New York. We all look forward to meeting with you! more details...
	Susanna Hill Reading & Sharing Can't Sleep Without Sheep September 2010 To reserve a signed copy of Can't Sleep Without Sheep please send us an email! Whenever Ava can't sleep, she counts sheep. But Ava takes so long to fall asleep, it's the sheep that are getting tired - until they finally quit! The sheep promise to find a replacement that Ava can count on, but it might not be as easy as they thought... In this hilarious take on a familiar bedtime ritual, readers will be charmed by Ava and her fluffy friends. more details...
	Jane O'Connor, author of Fancy Nancy books, visits Millbrook! October 12th Jane O'Connor is the author of more than thirty books for children, including the Nina, Nina Ballerina stories, illustrated by DyAnne DiSalvo, and the Fancy Nancy picture book series. Ms. O'Connor lives with her family in ever-posh New York City. more details...
	New York State Sheep & Wool Festival October 16th and 17th The New York State Sheep & Wool Festival will be held October 16th and 17th at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, NY. More information about the Festival can be found here! For a list of authors, click here! More to come! more details...
	Jennifer Donnelly shares her new book, Revolution Saturday, November 6, 2010 Jennifer Donnelly is the author of four novels: Revolution, A Northern Light, The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose and Humble Pie, a picture book for children. She grew up in New York State, in Lewis and Westchester counties, and attended the University of Rochester. Jennifer lives in Tivoli, NY with her husband, daughter and two fat rats, who were bought as dog substitutes when the family’s last greyhound went over the rainbow bridge, but have since become beloved pets in their own right…but still, it all feels a bit Addams family. As a child, Jennifer loved to write and often inflicted really dreadful poems and stories on her family and friends. She loved to read, too, and the high point of her grade-school week was a Saturday trip to the library. more details...
	Liza Donnelly, Cartoonist for The New Yorker, Shares Her New Book November 7, 2010 at 2 PM in Millbrook Liza Donnelly is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker Magazine. Her cartoons have appeared regularly in the magazine since 1982, at which time she was the youngest and one of only three women cartoonists at the magazine. We will be celebrating her new book When Do They Serve The Wine?: The Folly, Flexibility, and Fun of Being a Woman For more information about Liza and her books, click here! more details...
	Lisa Ling as Health Quest presents Ladies Night Out with Lisa Ling Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 5:00 PM Lisa will speak and sign afterwards. The doors are opening at 5 PM at the Holiday Inn in Fishkill more details...
	Michael Korda reading and discussing Lawrence of Arabia Saturday, Dec 4, 2010 5 PM Talk in Millbrook The acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Ike returns with a definitive new biography of the legendary British scholar, adventurer, soldier, and hero who became a myth in his lifetime—T. E. Lawrence, “Lawrence of Arabia” About the author MICHAEL KORDA was born in London, in 1933, and has lived in the United States since 1958. He was educated at Le Rosey, in Switzerland, did his military service in the Royal Air Force, and then attended Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1956, he drove to Budapest with three friends to deliver medical supplies to the insurgents and took part in the Hungarian Revolution, for which he was made a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary in 2006. After working briefly for CBS-TV in New York City, Mr. Korda joined Simon and Schuster as an assistant editor in 1958, and subsequently became Managing Editor, Executive Editor and Editor in Chief. Over nearly five decades his authors have included presidents Carter, Reagan and Nixon, Charles De Gaulle, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Mayor Ed Koch, the Duchess of York, and such stars as Cher, Kirk Douglas, Shelley Winters, such media figures as Phil Donahue and Larry King, historians such as David McCullough, Richard Rhodes, Michael Beschloss, Cornelius Ryan, Larry McMurtry, Jacqueline Susann, Jackie Collins, Mary Higgins Clark, James Leo Herlihy, Susan Howatch, James Lee Burke and Stephen Hunter, and such theater figures as Tennessee Williams, John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier. Mr. Korda is now Editor in Chief Emeritus of Simon & Schuster. His books include the #1 bestseller Power, the bestselling novels Queenie and The Fortune, a widely acclaimed book about his family, Charmed Lives, and more recently With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain, Ike: An American Hero, Country Matters, Another Life, Horse People, Ulysses S. Grant and Journey to a Revolution. Films based on his books include the ABC-TV miniseries of Queenie, and Isn’t She Great, based on his friendship with Jacqueline Susann. He makes his home on a farm in Dutchess County, New York, with his wife Margaret, with whom he has, co-authored two books, Horse Housekeeping and Cat People. more details...
	Simon Winchester--Presentation at the Cary Institute Friday, December 10, 2010 7 PM British author and journalist Simon Winchester has been researching a new book, which he calls a "biography of the Atlantic Ocean." And his research took him to weird and wonderful parts of the globe. Please come and listen to Simon share his new book. Slide show too! more details...
	Marianne Schnall shares Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness and Finding Your Own Voice December 18th at 5 pm, Millbrook Marianne Schnall is a widely published writer and interviewer. She is also the executive director of the women's website and non-profit organization Feminist.com and co-founder of EcoMall.com, a website promoting environmentally-friendly living. Marianne has worked for many media outlets and publications. Her interviews with well known individuals appear at Feminist.com as well as in publications such as O, the Oprah Magazine, Glamour Magazine, In Style, The Women's Media Center, The Huffington Post and many others. Her book, Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness and Finding Your Own Voice will be out in November 2010. Through her writings, interviews and websites, Marianne strives to raise awareness and inspire activism around important issues and causes. more details...
	Millbrook Book Festival 2011 Saturday May 14th, 2011 The 4th annual Millbrook Book Festival will be taking place on Saturday, May 14, 2011! More information about authors and events to come! Mark your calendars now! more details...
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