Do you enjoy playing Mahjong and socializing with friends?  Join others who share your interest and meet every Friday at the Library.   Bring a set if you have one!

New Jersey State Parks

Heartfulness Mediation

Heartfulness meditation is a simple yet profound practice that helps individuals achieve a deeper sense of relaxation, inner calm, and emotional balance. By focusing on the heart, this practice encourages self-awareness, and a connection to one’s inner self. It offers a practical approach to managing stress, reducing anxiety, and cultivating better sleep habits.

Walk-ins are welcome!

Do you enjoy playing Mahjong and socializing with friends?  Join others who share your interest and meet every Friday at the Library.   Bring a set if you have one!

The Jersey Shore

The Jersey Shore has a great deal more to offer than soft sand, sun, and surf. Take the “plunge” and travel along on a photographic tour with Mario Medici from Sandy Hook to Cape May and you’ll discover an array of fascinating towns and history. Lighthouses, beaches, forts, historic buildings, and shipwrecks are among the discoveries, so be sure to bring your note pads, as you may wish to write down some interesting factoids and get started planning your next visit down the Shore!

This Jersey Shore presentation is “Shore to Please.”

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Paintings of the American Revolution

A Virtual Art Talk

We all know the story of the Revolutionary War, but how much of our understanding is colored by the way the war was depicted by artists? Paintings of the American Revolution have been essential in the way that the war was understood, both at the time of the conflict and for generations after. This lecture will explore well-known paintings such as Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware, John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence, and Asher Durand’s The Capture of Major André.

Presenter: Mallory Mortillaro is an art historian and educator. As a researcher, she consults for private collectors, museums, and organizations in the New York metropolitan area, with a primary focus on provenance research. Her discoveries in the art world have garnered her international attention. A popular lecturer, she has presented more than 400 art history lectures to audiences around the country. She studied at Drew University. Mallory resides in New Jersey with her husband and daughter. You can reach her at mallorymortillaro@gmail.com.

Hosted by the Kemmerer Library

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Heartfulness Mediation

Heartfulness meditation is a simple yet profound practice that helps individuals achieve a deeper sense of relaxation, inner calm, and emotional balance. By focusing on the heart, this practice encourages self-awareness, and a connection to one’s inner self. It offers a practical approach to managing stress, reducing anxiety, and cultivating better sleep habits.

Walk-ins are welcome!

Do you enjoy playing Mahjong and socializing with friends?  Join others who share your interest and meet every Friday at the Library.   Bring a set if you have one!

Heartfulness Mediation

Heartfulness meditation is a simple yet profound practice that helps individuals achieve a deeper sense of relaxation, inner calm, and emotional balance. By focusing on the heart, this practice encourages self-awareness, and a connection to one’s inner self. It offers a practical approach to managing stress, reducing anxiety, and cultivating better sleep habits.

Walk-ins are welcome!

The Tate Modern Retrospective of Whistler

A Virtual Art Talk

Join Mary Vahey on Zoom to experience the captivating world of rule-breaking American artist

James McNeill Whistler re-wrote the rules of what it meant to be an artist. He pioneered new and innovative techniques, creating astonishingly beautiful, ethereal visions of modern life that would earn him a place as one of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

This retrospective – the first major European exhibition of Whistler’s work in 30 years – brings together the artist’s world-famous paintings alongside rarely, or never seen, works. It includes exquisite portraits, drawings, prints, and designs, from as early as his teens in St. Petersburg to the enigmatic late self-portraits. His paintings, etchings, and pastels epitomize the modern penchant for creating “art for art’s sake”; an axiom celebrated by Whistler and others in the Aesthetic movement. They also represent one one of the earliest shifts from traditional representational art to abstraction that is at the heart of much of modern art.

Presenter: Mary Vahey.

Hosted by the Kemmerer Library

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