If you love to scrapbook and are looking for space to spread out and work, these three -hour sessions are for you. Bring your own scrapbooks, photos, and other supplies; the library will supply a cropping station. A scrapbooking expert will be on hand to offer advice and will also lead a make and take session, where you can make a seasonal border or other accent for your pages.

To ensure adequate supply of materials, registration is requested. Please call the library reference desk at 609-924-9529 x220 or e-mail

The landscape is in constant flux. In highly disturbed areas -- like most of central New Jersey -- the change that is most dramatic is the invasion of a few alien species of plants that crowd out the native plants, reducing biodiversity and the ability of the landscape to serve as habitat for the wildlife that evolved with it over hundreds of thousands of years. This presentation by Jim Amon, director of stewardship for the D&R Greenway Land Trust, will explore the dynamics of the landscape and how to take actions that will enrich it and restore its

Let It Be No one changed more or influenced more change around them than The Beatles did during their relatively short time together. Following on the heels of the all-encompassing-engulfing White Album, the Beatles looked for an alternate approach to continue creatively together as a unit, writing, rehearsing, recording and performing a brand new album for the public, all the while filming the process.

This playful, game-like alternative to ordinary conversation is designed to enrich interpersonal relationships. Moderated by Alan Goldsmith, Noodle Talks begin with a container filled with 400 fettuccini-like paper strips being passed around. On each strip, there are one or two questions covering the full gamut of life experience. Some questions refer to the past, others to the future; some are concrete, others metaphorical; some invite us to laugh at our foibles while others bring us to tears. There are no right or wrong answers, just the truth of our own inner or outer experience.

Saxophonist Bradford Hayes brings his quartet to the library for an evening of cool jazz spotlighting songs from the ensemble's latest recording, The Jazz Life. A fixture on the regional jazz scene, Hayes's group has performed in clubs, colleges and concert halls, including Birdland, Tavern on the Green and the Beacon Theater. A native of Virginia, Hayes has been a music educator in the Newark Public Schools for 24 years.

A community of writers who are working to infuse true stories with emotional honesty, members of the group write memoir, essay and research-supported works in a flexible form that welcomes shifting voices and viewpoints, refined wordplay and the analytical modes of the essayist. The group publishes a journal, Solstice, to which members can contribute.
Registration required. Contact Janie Hermann: jhermann@princetonlibrary.org or call 609.924.9528 x228 for more information.

"Akeelah and the Bee": A precocious 11-year-old from South Los Angeles enters a spelling contest over the objections of her mother. Helped by a mysterious teacher and a cast of colorful characters from her neighborhood, she eventually finds herself at the National Spelling Bee.

Actor B.D. Wong and director Roger Rees will open a new season of McCarter Live at the Library with a discussion of Herringbone, a one-man, multi-character musical that kicks off McCarter's new season in September.

Wong plays all 11 characters in Herringbone, a ghost story with a vaudeville twist. When 8-year-old George discovers his gift for tap dancing, everyone wants a piece of him. As the adults around him exploit his talents, George finds himself in a profound supernatural struggle for control over body and soul.

If you love to scrapbook and are looking for space to spread out and work, these three -hour sessions are for you. Bring your own scrapbooks, photos, and other supplies; the library will supply a cropping station. A scrapbooking expert will be on hand to offer advice and will also lead a make and take session, where you can make a seasonal border or other accent for your pages.

To ensure adequate supply of materials, registration is requested. Please call the library reference desk at 609-924-9529 x220 or e-mail

In the spirit of Socrates' belief that the unexamined life is not worth living, participants pose questions, listen to others, raise challenges, and consider alternative answers. All are invited and no preparation is necessary.

A community of writers who are working to infuse true stories with emotional honesty, members of the group write memoir, essay and research-supported works in a flexible form that welcomes shifting voices and viewpoints, refined wordplay and the analytical modes of the essayist. The group publishes a journal, Solstice, to which members can contribute.
Registration required. Contact Janie Hermann: jhermann@princetonlibrary.org or call 609.924.9528 x228 for more information.