Sponsored by the Friends of the Hershey Public Library
Free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Registration is required; registration opens one month prior to the program, and seating is limited! To register, call 717-533-6555 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Woes of a Plant Geek: Gardening with the Un-Martha
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30 p.m.
Who wears white gloves in the garden? Definitely not Patriot-News garden writer George Weigel, who’s your basic down-and-dirty gardener facing the same lousy soil, erratic weather, and ornery groundhogs that you do. Commiserate with George as he shows you how he does battle in his own yard and occasionally backs into a few successes. Certified horticulturalist George Weigel is also the owner of Garden House-Calls, a gardening and landscape consulting service for do-it-yourself gardeners. The program is co-sponsored by the Hershey Horticulture Society in memory of Helen Linhart.
An Afternoon with Art Rosenbaum: Traditional Folk Music
Sunday, March 21, 2:00 p.m.
The program will begin with a slide and music presentation, with slides of Art Rosenbaum’s paintings and drawings and Margo Newmark Rosenbaum’s photographs, along with audio selections relating to their two volume Dust-to-Digital compilation “Art of Field Recording: 50 Years of Traditional American Folk Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum.” Following this will be some live playing and singing by Art, with banjo, guitar, fiddle, and harmonica. Art Rosenbaum is a Grammy Award-winning painter, muralist, illustrator and performer. He wrote and illustrated two books: Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia and Shout Because You’re Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition on the Coast of Georgia. He currently serves as Wheatley Professor Emeritus in Fine Arts at the University of Georgia.
12th Annual National Library Week Annual Author Visit
Presented by Friends of Hershey Public Library
Guest Author: Richard Russo
Sunday, April 11, 1:30 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo will be our guest for this special celebration of libraries. He will discuss his work and will answer questions from the audience. Russo earned a B.A., M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He taught English and creative writing for many years before turning to writing full time. His novel, Empire Falls, published in 2001, won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He has written six other novels: Mohawk (1986), The Risk Pool (1988), Nobody’s Fool (1993), Straight Man (1997), Bridge of Sighs (2007), and That Old Cape Magic (2009). Russo has also published a short story collection, The Whore’s Child and Other Stories (2002). In addition, he co-wrote the 1998 film Twilight with director Robert Benton, who also adapted and directed Russo’s novel Nobody’s Fool into a 1994 film of the same name, starring Paul Newman. Russo wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of Empire Falls, the screenplay for the 2005 film Ice Harvest and the screenplay for the 2005 film Keeping Mum, starring Rowan Atkinson. His books will be for sale before and after the program and a book-signing will be held after the talk.
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