Adult Services Department
About Us
Hampton Library’s Adult Services Department provides for the educational, recreational, and informational needs of adults of all ages. This is accomplished through our workshops, events and activities, as well as individual assistance and group instruction which assist library patrons in becoming literate users of information. Hampton Library strives to foster an atmosphere of free inquiry and provide information without bias or discrimination.
Featured Fall Programs
The W Connection
First Monday of the month at 4:30 pm
To join and attend a virtual meeting, please visit their website at www.wconnection.org
Breathe Together with Charyl Ozkaya via ZOOM
Tuesdays, November 3 – December 22 at 10:00 am via Zoom
Join Charyl for a quiet time to sit still and practice the kind of deep breathing that fosters calm and can improve health and well-being.
Find Your Psychic Self
Live via Zoom Wednesday, November 4 At 7:00 pm
Venture into the mysterious world of psychics and New Age practices. Discover how hypnosis, dream interpretation and meditation can help you develop your intuitive abilities. Psychic, ghost hunter and magician Ron Cain discusses palmistry, numerology, card reading, color analysis and pendulum dowsing.
Social Security Planning
Live via Zoom Thursday, November 5 At 7:00 pm
Learn not only the basics but also little known strategies for maximizing your benefits.
Tai Chi with John Turnbull via ZOOM
Thursdays at Noon Thursdays at Noon November 5 - via Zoom
Join John for his popular class to improve your energy, balance, body posture and alignment.
Wild Long Island with the Fish Guy
Live via Zoom Tuesday, November 10 At 7:00 pm
Great Books with Jill via ZOOM
Third Monday of the month at 10:00 am via ZOOM
November 16 - The Body of the Condemned (opening chapter) Discipline and Punish: The Birth or the Prison Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan
Painting with Barbara Freiberg
Live via Zoom Tuesday, November 17 At 7:00 pm
Pointillism Sea Scape Participants will learn how to create a pointillism art seascape inspired by Georges Seurat's artwork. First, they will learn how to sketch a seascape and then they will learn how to fill in their drawings using the pointillism art technique. Thin tip markers would be best for this class.
Art Talk with Jay Schuck: Raphael
Tuesday November 18 at 7:00 pm via Zoom
Explore the life, training, influences, historical period, social and economic conditions of the time to analyze key works of the artist’s oeuvre.
Why we crave the foods we do
Thursday, November 19 at 7:00 pm via Zoom
With Cornell Cooperative Extension Ever wonder why we crave certain foods given their sugar, fat and salt content? The answer lies in our hard-wired brains, not in our stomachs. Learn about the fundamental mismatch between our brains and our contemporary diets and what we can do to rethink our relationships with these evolutionary food triggers.
Gail Storm: Can You Woogie To The Boogie?
Sunday, November 22 via YouTube
Collection of piano boogie woogie tunes; exploring the meaning and variety of boogie woogie. One of the finest female piano players on the musical scene today,who can sing old and bold classics, and original pieces of recording work. Gail Storm creates a musical storm of her own with her exciting piano runs and vocals on her...cd ‘Live at the Vail-Leavitt’.
Winter Seed Sowing
Live via Zoom Wednesday, December 9 at 7:00 pm
With Cornell Cooperative Extension Winter is the time to start seeding, but NOT indoors. Learn how to successfully start seeds OUTSIDE in the winter. No greenhouse needed. Winter sowing techniques outside are easier than the windowsill or with light lamps in the basement.
Alba Consort
Sunday, December 13 At 3:00 pm via YouTube
Yuletide Revels: Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Christmas and Chanukah music from around Europe and the Middle East.
Bringing new life to ancient music, ALBA Consort specializes in Mediterranean and European early music on traditional instruments. Songs and ballads, instrumentals and dances - ALBA Consort explores secular Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Baroque music. Beautiful melodies, poetry and improvisation are a major part of this musical tradition.
Painting with Barbara Freiberg
Live via Zoom Tuesday, December 18 At 7:00 pm
Winter Scene Participants will learn how to draw a winter scene based on the artwork of Grandma Moses. They will learn how to use lines, shapes and angles to help complete their drawing. Drawings can be colored in with colored pencils, watercolor pencils, markers or watercolor paint. Note: Pictures can be turned into cards for the holidays.
Great Books with Jill via ZOOM
Third Monday of the month at 10:00 am via ZOOM
December 21 - Interpreter of Maladies (short story) Jhumpa Lahiri
What We Are Reading...
Non-fiction
Notes from a Young Black Chef, by Kwame Onwuachi
Chef Kwame Onwuachi has seen more and accomplished more than others twice his age. It makes perfect sense, then, that he has published his first memoir at age twenty-nine. His memoir, however, is more than a garden-variety recollection of dates, places, and names. What he really shares is a clear and unrestrained picture of his initiation into adulthood, using the culinary world as his canvas. While we learn about Onwuachi’s successes and celebrate with him in the retelling of them (Culinary Institute of America graduate; Top Chef contestant) his trials are the true teachable moments that lead us to reflection (the enticement of street life during his adolescence; the closing of his first restaurant three months after opening; dealing with the invisibility of people of color in the upscale world of haute cuisine). He holds nothing back, and, in doing so, reminds us – as we so often forget – to transform the disagreeable segments of our lives into experiences that enhance, not weaken, our existence.
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Literary Fiction
Where All Light Tends to Go, by David Joy
David Joy has written two additional novels since the publication of this, his first, in 2015, but if you intend to become a reader of his work – and you will (because he is that good) – you must begin with the title that first brought him literary recognition. Jacob McNeely, like any discontented young man, is looking to escape the hollow life his family has firmly established for him. Being the son of a violent, drug-dealing father makes the effort somewhat difficult. When his father involves Jacob in the murder of one of his suppliers, elements of noir and Southern landscape come together to drag Jacob further into the abyss and create a moving, mournful piece of literature. In a world where most novels are driven either by plot or character, Joy is a writer who lets neither suffer. Read this first, then get started on The Weight of This World.
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Fiction
Fall, by Neal Stephenson
What would happen if, upon your death, all the data your brain contained was uploaded and stored until a time when technology could reboot your consciousness? Dodge Forthrast lives in such a time – or rather, he “lives” in such a time. The place for his digital afterlife has a name, Bitworld, and it’s one where the genres of science fiction and fantasy merge to tell a tale unlike any you’ve read before. Stephenson has fashioned a story suited for our epoch, raising questions concerning technological innovation, digital consciousness, and life after death. The work is quite voluminous, so it’s best read over a period of time in quiet, small spurts – right before bedtime, for example – but travelling to Bitword will be worth every epic paragraph.
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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
Adult Program Calendar
