Are you ready to transform your retirement dreams into reality? You’ll learn how to maximize income, minimize tax, and preserve your wealth. Erik Schuster CFP is a local retirement expert with a focus on tax planning, cash flow/income strategies, and investment management tailored for retirees.
Cosponsored by Radnor Conservancy and Philadelphia Mycology Club
Winsor Room
Get connected to the fascinating world of fungi! The class features Kevin Popowicz, an Ecological Risk Assessor, whose passion is expanding the Philadelphia Mycology Club’s mycelial network while promoting fungal conservation and biodiversity in our community.
Also, we welcome special guests from Primordia Mushroom Farm, a family-owned business and growers of quality mushrooms located in the
Finding Justice: The Untold Story of Women’s Fight for the Vote, tells the story of a band of intrepid women and their one-time bronze bell that became a celebrated icon of the women’s suffrage movement.
Amanda Owen, the presenter of the film, is an author and independent scholar of women’s history who co-founded the Justice Bell Foundation. Owen wrote and directed the documentary and is currently writing a book about the Justice Bell’s role in the American women’s suffrage movement.
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Learn how to get started selling things online. We’ll focus on Facebook Marketplace. Please bring your phone and any relevant passwords to follow along with Francis. Class is sponsored by Wayne Senior Center. Registration not required.
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Tech Thursday: WALK IN Tech Help for Adults 55+
3:30-4:15pm
Thursday, 3/21
Conference Room
Need some assistance with general smartphone instruction, photo & file organization, debugging tech problems and more? Francis from Wayne Senior Center will be waiting to help you on a first-come-first-served basis at Radnor Memorial Library in the Conference Room.
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Revisiting Jane Austen’s “dead silence”: Early Thoughts on Editing Mansfield Park
DR. PATRICIA MATTHEW, Montclair State University
Saturday, March 9, 2024 2:00-4:00pm
A Partnership with Jane Austen Society of North America, Eastern PA Region
Dr. Patricia Matthew is the author of the forthcoming book, What Sugar Taught Us: Gender, Race and the Afterlives of Abolition (Princeton University Press) and editor of the forthcoming Norton edition of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. Matthews teaches and writes on topics that include Austen, Bridgerton, race and gender, and literature and abolition.
In 2022-2023 the author was Anthony E. Kaye Fellow at the National Humanities Center.
Black Philadelphians have shaped Philadelphia history since colonial times. In Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape, Amy Cohen recounts notable aspects of the Black experience in Philadelphia from the late 1600s to the 1960s and how this history is marked in the contemporary city. She charts Charles Blockson’s efforts to commemorate the Pennsylvania slave trade with a historical marker and highlights Richard Allen, who founded Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church.
Cohen also describes the path to erecting a statue of civil rights activist Octavius Catto at Philadelphia’s City Hall and profiles international celebrities Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson who are honored in the city. At the end of each chapter, she includes suggestions to continue readers’ exploration of this important cultural heritage.
Showing how increased attention to the role of African Americans in local and national history has resulted in numerous, sometimes controversial, alterations to the landscape, Cohen guides readers to Black history’s significance and its connections with today’s spotlight on racial justice.
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Celebrate Black History Month with Radnor Memorial Library and Radnor Historical Society at the Library!
Reverend Dr. Manuel A. Howard, author, Transforming Male Leaders in the Twenty-First Century-Church Through Training in Transformative Learning and Transformational Leadership
Thursday, 2/22/24
6:30pm
Winsor Room
Cosponsor Radnor Historical Society
Rev. Dr. Manuel A. Howard is Pastor of Saint John AME Church in Garrett Hill, in Rosemont, and a Radnor native who attended Radnor schools where he was a standout athlete in football and basketball. After graduation from West Chester University, Dr. Howard earned a Master of Divinity degree followed by a Doctor of Ministry degree in 2018.
A well-regarded leader and founder of many local organizations, also chaplain for the Radnor Police Department, Dr. Howard has begun a new chapter in life as author of a new book on black leadership with the main objective of raising leaders. We are thrilled to host Dr. Howard, Radnor Township’s nationally recognized speaker, whose true mission is at home here, preserving our historic church and serving his congregation at Saint John AME Church in Garrett Hill.
Books will be available for purchase.
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Allen C. Guelzo, author, Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment (2024)
Thursday, 2/15
7:00pm
Cosponsored by Main Point Books and Radnor Historical Society
Abraham Lincoln grappled with the greatest crisis of democracy that has ever confronted the United States. In Our Ancient Faith, Professor Allen C. Guelzo captures the president’s firmly held belief that democracy was the greatest political achievement in human history. The book is an intimate study of Lincoln’s version of democracy by a bestselling historian – with Guelzo bringing his subject to life as a rigorous and visionary thinker.
Allen C. Guelzo is a three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize, and one of America’s foremost experts on Abraham Lincoln.
Reservations are requested at eventbrite. Books can be purchased in advance or at the event.
Here’s a little history on that event at RML with the author in November, 2009at the book signing in the library…
And now this year we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Bishop Allen, and when Allen Guelzo was here we were celebrating the bicentennial of the library and of President Lincoln!”
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For those interested in feeling more energized, more prepared and more content in 2024, come to the Winsor Room at Radnor Memorial Library for a discussion and interactive experience that is sure to highlight strategies often hidden in plain sight.
Our guest is Jen DiLella, a local OPTIMAL LIVING COACH who lives in Wayne and looks forward to meeting you.
Having worked as a physician assistant, DiLella draws heavily upon that experience, working now to individualize strategies that will arm you with the tools you need to build resilience and better realize your own personal pursuits.
Ultimately, your valuable time spent as a patient is kept to a minimum!
Jen believes that people (YOU!) are more capable than they realize.
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How can you and your family learn about birds and contribute to science? Join Bonnie and Phil Witmer for a presentation on how to participate in the 27th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count in 2024 when the world comes together for the love of birds. Radnor Conservancy is our cosponsor.
The GBBC is a fun and simple four-day event (February 16-19) that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds and submitting sightings to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Each checklist submitted during the GBBC helps researchers at the Cornell Lab, National Audubon Society and Birds Canada learn more about how birds are doing, and how to protect them and the environment we share.
Attend the event and enter a raffle to win seed, suet, and other prizes donated by Lou Muth at Do It Best Hardware of Wayne.
An evening with Laya Martinez, author of the deeply moving memoir When Your Family Says No, will surely leave you inspired.
Martinez, who was raised in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish home, takes the reader on her journey toward creating a new life. The author provides a unique and intimate look into a community that many readers may not be familiar with, and it does so in a way that is relatable and universal. This event is for anyone who’s ever prioritized love over tradition, felt alone in their community, or wished for love and acceptance. In other words, this event is for everyone.
Laya was destined to become a housewife… until her life took an unexpected turn. After initially studying at Yeshiva University, she began working in the world of computers, climbing the industry’s ranks to become one of MasterCard’s first female programmers. Laya went on to found two successful data processing companies serving Fortune 500 clients and was identified by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of Philadelphia’s Top 25 Women Business Owners. She is credited with founding the first female club (and business club) table at the Union League of Philadelphia.
Laya has three grown children and works in the Philadelphia suburbs where she resides with her second husband. As a two-time president of her local Rotary Club and a Paul Harris fellow, she regularly engages in international community service projects. When not writing, speaking, or spending time with her grandchildren, she travels extensively throughout the world.
Books will be available for purchase.
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LITTLE CAT: Did you hear those fireworks last night?? I hid under the bed.
BIG CAT: Yeah, I was in the basement. I think that’s what they mean by the big bang theory…
LITTLE DOG: Like how fireworks, and say, libraries, are two of America’s favorite thingsthat go together.Like that? Like that?
BIG DOG: Are you serious?
LITTLE DOG: I am serious.
BIG DOG: Well, it does combine two of America’s favorite things–fireworks and libraries.But how about footballand baseball–there’s some really big favoritesthat go together.More fireworks!
LITTLE DOG: And 4th of July, too!
BIG CAT: AndI thinkfireworks were set off for the signing of the Declaration of Independence and for the inauguration of George Washington in 1789. That’s probably part of that big bang theory…
LITTLE DOG: And to this day, libraries are still the biggest bang for your buck. Right? Right?
BIG DOG: Right, Little Dog!
The End
Lynn Ellis, RHS Board Member (back then, bookseller!)
Lynn and Tom Ellis (vintage Winsor Room photo!)Lynn Ellis and author DeWitt Henry –2012 Winsor RoomLocal historian, Phil Graham, presenting his revitalized RHS archival images in the Winsor Room, 2019
Join us in welcoming local author Steve Oskie who will read to us from his latest novel, Glassman.
Honest, often embarrassing self-examination is a hallmark of author Steve Oskie’s hilarious memoirish novel (Portnoy’s Complaint?) about a 20-something college dropout in search of his next low-wage job that he’ll laughably lose in record time…
Set in Philadelphia and Long Beach Island of the 1980s, the novel follows Mark Glassman as he evolves – from a “slacker” – pursuing any number of housemates, waitresses, co-workers, and the idealized, unattainable Teresa Devlin – into a mensch-in-progress. This is a much-needed poignant and flat-out funny book especially for those of us who grew up in the ’70s and ‘80s.
Steve Oskie is a novelist and playwright, whose plays have been produced in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia. Steve’s short fiction appears in many literary journals in addition to having written the book, Mean Thoughts, a semi-finalist for the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel.
He is also the ghostwriter of Jerry Blavat’s long-awaited autobiography, You Only Rock Once: My Life in Music.
… the wildly entertaining and unfiltered story of the man whose career began at age 13 on the tv dance show “Bandstand” and became a music legend.
That was copied from an overview of the book found at Barnes & Noble. Delaware County Libraries purchased 12 copies (countywide) of the book and an e-book. Philly is very grateful for this permanent “record” of the one and only, Geator.
On September 20, 1984, Philadelphia-born George Martorano was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, a practically unheard of sentence for a first-time non-violent offender that involved selling marijuana. Martorano’s father was connected to the Philadelphia mob and it is believed the son suffered for the sins of his father when in the hands of the justice system. While incarcerated, Martorano wrote books and taught other inmates, all the while never losing hope. After serving 32 years in prison, Martorano was released and is now a free man.
Author and former writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, George Anastasia, is our special guest at the screening.
Anastasia is an award-winning investigative reporter who is widely considered to be an expert on the American Mafia. He is the author of more than five bestselling books and has been featured on several network television news magazine reports about organized crime.
The Main Line Television team of filmmakers, Jill Frechie and John Ricciutti, are Emmy and Telly Award winners. The documentary filmmakers produce films that have social meaning, are inspirational, educative and informative.
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Sara Byala, author, Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African
Cosponsored by Main Point Books
In Bottled, Byala examines the ubiquity of Coke’s products in Africa and what it reveals about the realities of globalization, development and capitalism. Based upon extensive archival work and fieldwork in Africa, where Sara was born, the book suggests that the history and footprint of Coca-Cola in Africa is best understood as evidence of the company’s localness. The author’s research into the ways capitalist systems intersect with social and cultural forces in Africa culminated in Bottled–a first assessment of the social, commercial and environmental impact of one of the planet’s biggest brands and largest corporations.
Sara Byala is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Writing and a scholar of modern African history at The University of Pennsylvania. Byala holds a PhD from Harvard and a BA from Tufts University. The author lives in Wayne with her husband, 3 children, and a large dog.
MAJ. GEN. MARI K. EDER, AUTHOR OF THE GIRLS WHO FOUGHT CRIME: THE UNTOLD TRUE STORY OF THE COUNTRY’S FIRST FEMALE INVESTIGATOR AND CRIME FIGHTING SQUADS
Cosponsored by Main Point Books and Radnor Historical Society
In 1920’s New York City one woman, Mae Foley, cast aside her corset and picked up a police badge to become the city’s first-ever woman crime investigator. With a purse custom-made to hold a pistol, Foley learned that as a woman she made the perfect undercover agent. Over her career, Foley always strove to protect the innocent and vulnerable and to always be just.
Mari K. Eder is a retired U.S. Army Major General, a renowned speaker and author, and a thought leader on strategic communication and leadership. General Eder is the former Commanding General of the U.S. Army Reserve Joint and Special Troops Support Command, former Deputy Chief of the Army Reserve and former Deputy Chief of Public Affairs for the U.S. Army.
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The writer and director of The Invitation is a woman named Jessica M. Thompson. She worked alongside a co-writer named Blair Butler for the film. Jessica and Blair were inspired by Bram Stoker‘s novel Dracula, which was published back in 1897.
In the film, a young woman is invited to a luxurious destination wedding, unaware of the horrors that she will soon face.
After the death of her mother and having no other known relatives, Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel) takes a DNA test…and discovers a long-lost cousin she never knew she had. Invited by her newfound family to a lavish wedding in the English countryside, she’s at first seduced by the sexy aristocrat host but is soon thrust into a nightmare of survival as she uncovers twisted secrets in her family’s history and the unsettling intentions behind their sinful generosity.
•Spine-tingling suspense with a twist you won’t see coming
•A lavish wedding on the English countryside creates a fresh setting for the thrilling nightmare that is about to unfold
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In 2023, Mukherjee took a nine day trip to Mexico intent on learning its history from ancient times (Aztecs, Toltecs, the Maya) through the colonial era to the present. Seeing awe-inspiring ancient pyramids, places and ball courts, he wondered how were the stone blocks carved without iron tools and how were they transported without wheels and pack animals? No one knows.
Join Ranjan Mukherjee, world traveler, for a lively talk with images. An hour later, you will leave with a sense of having been there.
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In 1920’s New York City one woman, Mae Foley, cast aside her corset and picked up a police badge to become the city’s first-ever woman crime investigator. With a purse custom-made to hold a pistol, Foley learned that as a woman she made the perfect undercover agent. Over her career, Foley always strove to protect the innocent and vulnerable and to always be just.
Mari K. Eder is a retired U.S. Army Major General, a renowned speaker and author, and a thought leader on strategic communication and leadership. General Eder is the former Commanding General of the U.S. Army Reserve Joint and Special Troops Support Command, former Deputy Chief of the Army Reserve and former Deputy Chief of Public Affairs for the U.S. Army.
Books will be available for purchase.
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What really happened to the Jews in the garden next door? Jews in the Garden reads like the best of narrator-guided murder mysteries.
A globe-trotting detective story, this new book turns investigative eyes and ears towards the horrific actions taken by regular citizens during the Holocaust. The author and her elderly cousin Sam, a Holocaust survivor, never knew what happened to their family members who were hidden away from the Nazis by neighbors, and were never heard from again. Judy Rakowsky is an award-winning investigative journalist whose career of reporting for the Boston Globe and Providence Journal often led to coverage on major stories of the times from organized crime to security issues after 9/11.
Books will be available for purchase.
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Kensington in Crisis is the most comprehensive short film depicting the opium and fentanyl crisis that plagues the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington to date. Addressing addiction, homelessness, mental illness, relapse and rehab, the twice Emmy-nominated film was Co-Produced and Directed by Jill Frechie & John Ricciutti for MainLineTV.org.
Generously donated by Hooters band member David Uosikkinen, the film features music that dramatically drives the film, “Songs from a Rehab” by Gigi Nadine. Uosikkinen is one of the recovered drug users who is featured in Kensington in Crisis.
The 50-minute film is not YouTube “drug porn” designed for viewer shock value. The privately funded project was designed exclusively as an educational and informative project which brought attention to the drug crisis to our suburban communities. Along with special thanks to the Powell Foundation for their help and contribution in the making of the film, the filmmakers are grateful to all their supporters.
All are welcome to attend. There is no registration.
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After Antarctica is an award winning feature-length documentary directed by Tasha Van Zandt that follows renowned polar explorer Will Steger’s life journey as an eyewitness to the greatest changes in the polar regions of our planet. Now, thirty years after his historic expedition across the coldest continent on Earth, Steger is not only known for being the first in history to complete this historic feat – he is also the last.
Join us for this final, feature-length Jackson WILD documentary screening this summer of 2023.
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