Mount Pleasant Public Library

Do you have a talent you would like to share? Come out to the Library for our Open Mic with a poem, some music, a short story, comedy, dance, or any other talent. Or please come just to listen.
There will be a 6-9 minute maximum for each participant. Please register and specify what you will be sharing. Registration is NOT necessary for spectators.

Author, Musician, and Historian Alex Prizgintas returns for part two of Riverside Moguls: Wealth and Power in the Hudson Valley’s Gilded Age. From Rockefeller’s Kykuit Estate in Westchester County to the elaborate estates of Tuxedo Park, the Ogden-Mills Staatsburgh Estate, the Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne Mansion now operated by Marist College, and Orange County’s two Spanish-Italianate Estates owned by Charles E. Rushmore and the Robert Goelet, Prizgintas combines rich information with photographs, imbedded videos, and audio quotes from noted biographies to trace together this extravagant and complicated era of the Hudson Valley’s history.
A graduate of Marist College with degrees in Hudson River Valley History and Public Administration, Alex has been published in the Hudson River Valley Review, New York Archives Magazine, and Orange County Historical Society Journal on topics including Hudson River railroad history, Orange County’s dairy farming history, and the region’s early settlers. He serves as president of the Woodbury Historical Society and town historian of Woodbury in Orange County, New York.

Join us for our monthly Friday matinee film screenings!

Showing today: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (running time 1 hour and 32 minutes).
Grossing the highest box-office of any British film in the US when released in 1975, this “cult classic” comedy from the Monty Python team loosely follows the legend of King Arthur (Graham Chapman), along with his squire (Terry Gilliam) and his Knights of the Round Table (John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin), as they embark on a fearless quest in search of the elusive Holy Grail. A hysterical, historical tour-de-force from Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.

Come in, take a seat, and enjoy. Popcorn included!
Films provided by the Kanopy collection.

Lisa Gutkin is a Grammy-winning fiddler, songwriter and singer. She is known widely for her work with The Klezmatics, and for her compositions in the Tony winning Broadway show Indecent. She had a cameo on Sex and the City, and has played with Irish greats John Whelan, Tommy Sands, and the Clancy Brothers. Lisa will draw from her time spent in Ireland singing and playing in sessions to create an atmosphere so warm you will think you are sitting around the fire in an old stone pub.