FOL in Action

Annual support from the Friends is counted upon to supplement each department’s programming budget. The following photographs illustrate recent events, speakers and programs funded in part, or in full, by the FOL.

                
Bestselling authors Philippa Gregory ...        ... and John Berendt         

 

                     

Filmmaker Doug Block, a                         NYTimes reporter James

Port native, screened his                          Barron spoke about his

award-winning documentary                      Steinway book while a

"51 Birch Street"                                      pianist demontrated on the

                                                              library's Steinway

 

 Award-winning theater and film composer Jeanine Tesori, a Port native,

performed for an enraptured Cabin Fever audience

                      

                    

Oscar winner Patricia Neal                        The mysterious Gael Greene

appeared with her biographer                     took off her hat for library patrons

                    

Slam poet Taylor Mali performed                  Silent vaudevillian Chip Bryant

at Schreiber High School                             wowed children of all ages

          

NY Times sports columnist George Vecsey and... two-time Pulitzer winner Walt Bogdanich

appeared in programs on sportswriting and investigative journalism, respectively (both are

Port residents)

         

        

PBS History Detective Elyse Luray regaled a "Cabin Fever" audience