Watch RPL Events With Live Streaming !
As of August, we have an exciting new offering available to anyone interested in our programming. If there's an event you just can't make, don't worry. You can click through our website to watch a live webcast of scheduled programs. Even if you were able to attend, but would like to catch a detail or go over the content later, you can easily access an archived version any time. The Friends of the Rye Public Library helped support the installation of audio and visual equipment to enable the streaming capability. Now, much like Town board meetings and other functions, you'll be able to view and review scheduled Rye Public Library events.
This will also ensure we'll never have to turn anyone away from an over capacity program. We can simply set up seating elsewhere in the Library and stream the event to our large screen monitor. To find the streaming link, just check out our quick access "I'd Like To..." area at the top right column of our website and click on "View Event Streaming" to see what is scheduled or to view the archive. You can also get to the same site through our Events tab in the top bar of the RPL website under "Event Streaming" in the drop down menu. Please enjoy, and as always, we'd love to hear what you think of this new option
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42
a film review  By Gwen Putnam-Bailey
42 was the number that Jackie Robinson wore for the Brooklyn Dodgers starting in 1947. He was the first African American man to play in Major League Baseball. This film chronicles the start of his career beginning with the Kansas City Monarchs. At this time he is being watched carefully by team executive Branch Rickey who has his sights set on bringing him on to the major leagues despite the rampant racial prejudice at the time.
Rickey believes that Robinson will be able to navigate the tough journey ahead due to his calm, intelligent demeanor. Robinson proves him correct by withstanding the taunting and abuse that come at him from all sides, including from his own teammates.
The movie does a good job of showing the hardship endured by everyone involved, and how ugly discrimination can be. I think this film would be very suitable for a (pre)-teen audience as it is truly a lesson in history, and an experience that would be valuable shared with a parent or grandparent.
Chadwick Boseman plays Jackie Robinson and his performance is amazing and quite authentic! The viewer feels the rage that he is going through and cheers when he is able to deflect the hatred aimed his way time and time again. The baseball scenes are first rate, but come second place to his winning at the racial divide! Lastly, Harrison Ford is fantastic as the scrappy manager who will not let the pressure get the best of him.... all in all, this film is a pleasure to watch and one that will be remembered by viewers for a long time to come!
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Book Tweeviews
Or, Can One Tweet A Book Review in 140 Characters Or Less?
By Andy RichmondThough my primary tweeting experience involves listening to the avian variety announcing dawn each morning, I decided to undertake an experiment based on the restrictions of communicating via Twitter. I wondered if the time-honored book review could be delivered in any comprehensive sense when limited to the minimum parcel of 140 characters designed into the Twitter program. This seemingly arbitrary number was actually chosen to conform to the Short Message Service (SMS) protocols associated with mobile messaging. (You actually have 160 characters, but Twitter chose to leave 20 spaces for the sender's username) Of course, about now you're probably framing the essential question: WHY? The short (and famous) answer is: Because It's There. Poets often set themselves challenges to conform to various structures and meters. Prose writers have carved the short short story into flash fiction. So why not? When I have tweeted in the past, I have tried to make them twooshes. These, from the "swoosh" in basketball parlance, are tweets of exactly 140 characters. So, since I was making up the book tweeview concept, I also figured they should be twooshes at the same time--140 characters --punctuation and spaces count. I figured it must exist on-line, and indeed found a twoosh counter utility that makes the process a lot easier. So, for better or worse, here are two of my favorite results. See if you can figure out the book being reviewed, but if you can't, the answers are at the end of this article. A. Cranky island bookseller learns to love again when an infant is abandoned amongst his bookshelves. Wonderful characters and human insights. B. Wife goes missing on anniversary & husband looks like prime suspect. Wife might have framed him,though. She's dangerously detail oriented.Well, thanks for indulging me. How'd you do? Please take on the challenge and send your results to me. I'll continue the book tweeview column in future issues, and include your entries. By the way: A. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin, and B. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn.
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