Enjoy an evening out with the girls! Vera House is pleased to partner with Lord and Taylor in offering a private shopping and pampering event to benefit the programs and services of Vera House.

Creekside Books & Coffee will serve as the bookseller for Thom Filicia's best seller "Thom Filicia Style: Inspired Ideas for Creating Rooms You'll Love".

Sara Gruen speaks April 27, 2010. Best known for: The novel Water for Elephants, about a Cornell veterinary school dropout who joins a traveling circus in the 1920s.

We will be featuring local poets Elizabeth Patton,Bobbie Panek and Micheal Jennings as well as State Street School students reciting poetry.

"Gsus Forth"

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Free 

Nurse Megan FitzGerald shares her experiences working in “Haiti, After the Quake” 

  Pediatric nurse practitioner and local resident, Megan FitzGerald, shares her experiences working with two different non-governmental organization in Haiti providing disaster relief and medical care to victims of the earthquake.  Members of the community have asked how they can help so Megan and Creekside Books & Coffee are working together to provide a presentation and slide show to describe the situation in Haiti and discuss ways that residents can help.  Megan was a member of Crudems first trauma team in to treat victims of the earthquake at Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, 90 miles north of Port-au-Prince. Earthquake victims were brought in by the US Navy, Coastquard and the French.  She moved on to Project Hope on board of the USNA Comfort Ship which is a 1,000 bed floating hospital I the harbour of Port-au-Prince.  She will return for a third trip to the USS Comfort, another Navy hospital ship anchored off the coast of Haiti. Her photos from her trips show the dire circumstances that many Haitian’s endured. “Ninety percent of the children had traumatic injuries,” Megan said. “They weren’t scrapes. Building had been falling on these little kids.” Many children died due because they were unable to receive care in time.  After everything she’d seen, Megan faced a simple choice, “You give in to despair, or you try to save more children.”  For more information, please view an article printed by Sean Kirst in the Post Standard on Feb. 10, 2010. “Suffering of little children pulls her back” (to Haiti).  http://www.syracuse.com/kirst/index.ssf/20010/02/suffering_of_little_children_p.htmlMeghan

Author Thomas B. Clarke presents his book, A Garden of Love" featuring the Gethsemane Prayer.

Great Mother's Day Gift!

 "Tom's book presents the beauty of his Lord Jesus as revealed in the well-tended flowers of his church's Gethseman Prayer Garden." 

Friends of Seymour Library presents Amy Dickinson, Author of "Mighty Qeens of Freeville",  nationally sydicated "Ask Amy" columnist and contributor to National Public Radio's "Wait, Wait...Don't tell Me! and "Talk of the Nation" on Saturday, May 8th at 2:00 PM.

Hosted by the Springside Inn, join Creekside Books at this lovely event to support the Seymour Library.

Tickets on sale at Creekside Books for $25 or 2 for $45.

Call (315) 685-0379 for more information.  

The Fiction Book Club will be discussing John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row."

The next Gifford Book Club will be held at Creekside on Thursday, May  13th at 6:30 PM. We will be discussing The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court in time for Jeffrey Toobin's May 18th lecture. Please join us!

The next Gifford Lecture, and the last of the season, will be with Jeffrey Toobin, bestselling author of The Nine. The lecture will be held at The Civic Center on Tuesday, May 18th at 7:30 PM. 

Workshop #1:
PREPARING YOUR WRITING FOR PUBLICATION (or How to Perfect Your Prose Style and Story-telling Ability)

Goal: Whether you are a writer of fiction, essays, children's stories, novels, plays, memoirs - or whether you want to be a writer of such works - this course will help you plan, draft, and revise your material so thta it meets the standards of the publishing world.

It will help those struggling with coming up with ideas for stories; it will help those who struggle with what to say once they have an idea! The course will also cover a variety of literary techniques which can be applied to all  forms of creative writing; and it also show students how to structure what sometimes is an overwhelming sea of ideas, research notes, false-starts, and unmanageable drafts. At its core, however, the course will provide quidance in intensive revising and editing techniques.

The instructor
will help each participant develop that one piece of prose he or she
most wants to perfect, tailoring a plan to turn it into a publishable
work. Even if you don't wish to publish your material, this course will
be invaluable in helping you perfect both the substance and style of
your most cherished work.

Format: Workshops are conducted at
Creekside in an informal, interactive atmosphere. Instructor will offer
mini-lectures, conduct small group discussions, and facilitate peer
critiques. Participants will refine their own works-in-progress, in and
out of class.

Instructor: For 20 years Bob Comenole has taught
writing, literature and communications at several colleges, including
Miami University, Siena College, the State University of New York and
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Comenole, author of Bushel &
Lamp and the novella The Long Night of Clement C. Craggogre, has just
completed work on a collection of short stories, Perplexed by the Egg
& Other Stories, as well as a collection of essays. He recently
placed 11th in a pool of over 1,200 writers in a national screenwriting
contest.

Fee:
$89 for one 8-hour course. Register by replying to this email with your
request to save a seat. If you have questions about the workshop,
please contact Bob Comenole, snowcap2@hotmail.com or 685-1480.

The musician Jane Zell will perform.

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We will read from Kevin Henkes' book "My Garden" and have a coloring and seed planting activity featuring Mr. Potato Head! The snack for this garden party will be edible dirt with gummy worms! Please call the bookstore at 685-0379 in advance to reserve a spot. There will be a $5.00 registration fee.

Jamie Notarthomas will perform

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Jeffrey Tobin, Author and Senior Analyst for CNN Worldwide, will speak at the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series on Tuesday, May 18th at 7:30 PM.

His most recent book, "The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court", spent four months on the New YOurk Times Best-Seller List and earned the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Prize for Nonfiction.