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For Adults The Clarendon
Hills Public Library offers a wide variety of programming in support of the educational and recreational needs of our community.
Films, cooking demonstrations, travel lectures, author talks and tax preparation assistance are just a few examples of the
kinds of events you may find going on at the library on any given day. All programs are presented free of charge,
but space is limited. For program registration, please call the library at 630-323-8188. |
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Climb Your Family Tree: Genealogy on the Internet Learn how to trace your family history using your computer, resources from the library and the expertise of our guest
speaker, Nancy Shepherdon, the author os Ancestor Hunt: Finding Your Family Online. You'll learn how to use
the library's genealogy resources as well as many others that are available free online. Don't Pay the College Sticker Price Financial aid for college is available, but it won't come knocking on your door! To take advantage of it, you
need to learn the ins and outs of the system. Joe Orsolini, Certified Financial Planner, will help you through the maze
of scholarships, grants, student loans and tax-saving opportunities to help make a college education for your child more affordable
and less of a financial burden. Victorian London: Pleasures and Vices London is always a favorite vacation destination, partly because of its rich history. However, the notion that
Victorian London was tightly zipped up, prudish and window-dressed with flowered chintz curtains will be exploded in this
program. Anglophile Linda Putnam returns to our library with this look into the huge variety of "pleasures and
vices" that were popular with mid-19th century Londoners. Linda will show how everything from opium dens and prostitution
to the more "respectable" entertainments of music halls, freak shows, circuses and wax museums fit into the culture
of the time. Remembering Marshall Fields For
more than 150 years, Marshall Field and Company reigned as Chicago's leading department store. We welcome Leslie Goddard
for this lavishly illustrated talk which traces the store's history from its beginnings as a dry goods store in 1852 into
a world-class fashion and service trendsetter. Photographs, ads, postcards, and memorabilia trace the stores cherished
traditions--the Walnut Room Christmas Tree, the State Street window displays, and, or course, Frango Mints! Be inspired by these great sports-themed
films: Invictus (2009) rated PG-13 Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman star in this true story of South African President Nelson Mandela's efforts to unite
his racially and economically torn country through the universal language of sport. Glory
Road (2006) rated PG In 1965, Coach Don
Haskins and his players on the Texas Western University basketball team made a breakthrough comparable to when Jackie Robinson
was hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers. You'll be on the edge of your seat! Clint Eastwood plays a hardened trainer/manager who works with a determined young woman (Hilary Swank) as she attempts
to establish herself as a boxer. Won Oscars for best picture, director, actress (Hilary Swank) and supporting
actor (Morgan Freeman). |
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are please to partner with Indian Prairie Library in offering this series: Macbeth Lecturer: Carla Thorpe Carmen Lecturer: Belinda Potoma A Midsummer Night's Dream Lecturer: George
Meschel A Masked
Ball Lecturer: Virginia
Jach The Mikado Lecturer: Penelope Blake The Girl of the Golden
West Lecturer: Loretta
Caputo Lohengrin Lecturer: Margaret Fournier Hercules Lecturer: Mary Hobein |
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