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Bilingual Storytime with Mary Jane: French ABC’s

Welcome to Bilingual Storytime with Mary Jane. Today, Mary Jane will be reading ABC French by Daniel Roode. Learn basic French by learning the French alphabet and French words that begin with each letter. For more books by the author, visit https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Daniel+roode&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

Montauk Library Seed Exchange- Seed Collection

Beginning September 27 Bring in seeds from your summer harvest! If you were able to grow and harvest flowers or vegetables, especially if your seeds were from the Montauk Library Seed Exchange, consider donating some of the seeds back to the Seed Exchange for next year’s sustainability. See the Seed Saving Guide for directions on how… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – A Toast to the Ebbing Days of Summer!

A toast to the ebbing days of summer! Color photograph of Alan and Christopher Yudt with their wives Jacqueline and Lisa, on the beach near the Surf Club, 1995 Beth Biondo, Photographer, Beth Biondo Collection, Montauk Library Archives.   August, with its oppressive heat and humidity, has stepped aside for Indian summer.  Mornings are chilly, but afternoons offer… Read more »

Twenty Years Later: World Trade Center 9/11

In honor and remembrance of September 11, 2001, we have compiled a list of books, events and resources to mark the twenty year anniversary of this day in history.  Let us move forward in hope and peace.   Events: On September 11 at 12:00pm, Suse Lowenstein will invite members of the public to her home… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – The Pelican

The Pelican, photographed by Evangeline Pitts, 1951 Damaged open party boat Pelican sits behind clammer Ben Pitts, Pitts-Burke-Cullum Collection, Montauk Library Archives The man clamming in the foreground of this photograph was known as Augustus Petitpas in his native Nova Scotia, and as Ben Pitts in the United States. The beached boat listing behind him… Read more »

Throwback Thursday – Two Pools

Postcard of the Wavecrest Motel. Printed by Color Photog. Assoc., Glen Cove, NY, ca. 1960s. Photographers, Olga Bedorf and Mona Shelley. Montauk Library Postcard Collection. Montauk Library Archives Postcard of the Blue Haven Motel, 1960s. J. J. Heatley, Smithtown, N.Y. Montauk Library Postcard Collection. Montauk Library Archives Knowledge about Montauk’s “Golden Age,” the period of sportfishing and vacationing that pushed our sleepy… Read more »

Trivia Junior!

Answer the trivia questions below and win a prize bag to be picked up at the library.  Email answers to kids@montauklibrary.org.  Good Luck!