Library News

Checking out books: Over the past few years, we have purchased more Large Print books for the library, and also received audiobooks as donations.

Many are duplicates of books we have in regular print. It is therefore important that borrowers indicate on the sign-out slip which version they have taken by checking or putting “Y” on the appropriate line.

It would also be most helpful if borrowers could write clearly on the sign-out slips. Trying to interpret titles of books and residents’ names can be quite a challenge.

New DVDs: A number of new titles have been added to the library collection, and you will find them under the blue (NEW) arrow on the top shelf of the middle DVD section.

Art Classes

Wednesday Art Class
3:00 in the Art Room

Reproduction

May 18: Explore Rubber Stamping: the design on paper using repetitive motifs to create patterns.

Registration required for each class. Contact Gretchen Engler.

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Spring Art Workshop
Drawing or Painting a Memory

Instructor: Erin Carney (Sleepy Hollow resident)

The workshop explores personal narrative and memory in art. The instructor will guide participants through exercises designed to stimulate memory, generate images, and develop a visual vocabulary for use in creating a representational or abstract drawing or painting.

Participants can use a three-tone charcoal technique, ink, or mixed media.

Please bring a scrapbook, photos or personal memorabilia to prompt memories you wish to explore in your drawing. They will not be used in the artwork.

Two Sessions:
Friday, May 20 and Friday, May 27, 2:00 pm in the Art Room. Limited to 10 participants.

Cost:  $25 for the two sessions.

Contact Lynn Brady

Touring Westchester

A Kendal lecture program will take place on Monday, May 16 at 7:30 pm, in the Gathering Room

“Touring Westchester: Historic Treasures in Our Own Backyard” will be presented by Patrick Raftery, Librarian and Assistant Director, Westchester County Historical Society

 One of the most effective ways to tell Westchester Count’s rich and varied history is through the buildings and landscapes it has chosen to preserve.

 On Monday evening Raftery will provide a glimpse of Westchester sites on the National Register of Historic Places that have some public access.

 Raftery joined the Historical Society staff in 2006, earned his Master’s in Library and Information Science from LIU’s Palmer School in 2007, and became Librarian in 2011.  The Historical Society Library holds the County’s largest collection of local history and genealogy.

You can take the tour from your seat in the Gathering Room. You’ll love it.

Spring Art 2022 Workshop

There will be a Spring Art 2022 Workshop with two sessions: Friday, May 20 and 27 at 2 pm in the Art Room. Instructor: Erin Carney (Sleepy Hollow resident).

Drawing or Painting a Memory

This workshop explores personal narrative and memory in art. The instructor will guide participants through exercises designed to stimulate memory, generate images, and develop a visual vocabulary for use in creating a representational or abstract drawing or painting. Participants will have the option to use a three-tone charcoal technique, ink, or mixed media to develop their work.

Please bring an assortment of scrapbooks, photos, or personal memorabilia to prompt memories of a time you wish to explore in your drawing. We will not damage or use these materials in the artwork—they are for personal reference only.

Limit: 10 participants.  Cost: $25 for the two sessions. Contact Lynn Brady

River Trip June 1

The Trips Committee announced a new and exciting trip, this one on the Hudson.

On Wednesday, June 1, enjoy a two-hour narrated sightseeing cruise on the Hudson River starting in Newburgh. 

The ship the Pride of the Hudson, which holds up to 130 passengers, has snacks and beverages.  Pre-ordered box lunches are also available. 

The trip is rain or shine since, in addition to its spacious sundeck, the boat has a salon with huge wrap-around windows.

Sign-up, as usual, will be in the Trips Book.

Saturday Opera

Saturday Opera continues at Kendal.

Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi will be shown on Saturday, May 14, in a Metropolitan Opera performance from 2011.

The principal singers are Sondra Radvanovsky (Leonora), Marcelo Alvarez (Manrico), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Count di Luna) and Dolora Zajick (Azucena).

You are invited to join other opera lovers in the Gathering Room at 1:00 pm. Masks are optional.

MET Musicians Come To Kendal May 15

On Sunday afternoon, May 15, at 3 pm, a string quartet consisting of musicians from the MET Orchestra will perform works by Mozart, Ke-Chia Chen, and Dvorak in the Gathering Room. The program was organized for Kendal residents by violinist Nancy Wu, daughter of resident Shirley Wu Zanger.

Ms. Wu has served as Associate Concertmaster of the MET Orchestra since 1989. Also performing are violinist Caterina Szepes, violist Désirée Elsevier, and cellist Mariko Hiraga Wyrick.

All residents are welcome.

Hearing Impairment

An important program, “Living with Hearing Impairment”, will be presented by Jessica LaCorte, AuD on May 11, at 10 am, in the Gathering Room.

Jessica LaCorte has been at Phelps Hospital since 2016, where she is currently Supervisor of Audiology at The Speech & Hearing Center. Her clinical expertise is in the diagnosis of hearing and vestibular disorders in the pediatric to geriatric populations, and the management of hearing loss and tinnitus in adults.

Sponsored by the Health & Wellness Committee.

Poetry at Kendal

On Monday evening May 9, at 7:30 pm, in the Gathering Room, Kendal’s own poet-in-residence Llyn Clague returns for his fourth poetry reading “Unruly Rhythms: Toward a New Poetry”  

His previous presentations were: “Poetry in the Age of Trump”,” Poetry in the Age of Trump Part II”, and “Coming of Age”.

Don’t miss this new collection of poems. It’s a genuine treat to hear great poetry and see your own neighbor delivering it.

Trip Availability

There are Short Wait Lists or No Wait List for the following trips:

Saturday, April 30 - Museum of the City of New York, Manhattan

Wednesday, May 4 - Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah

Wednesday, May 18 - Wave Hill, Bronx

Saturday, May 21 - Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, White Plains