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Derby Public Library group to discuss 'The Namesake'

DERBY - Derby Public Library will hold its monthly Lunchtime Book Discussion at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 26.

February’s featured book is The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.

   
In The Namesake, Pulitzer Prize winner Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations.
 
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. 
The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world - conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.

Lunchtime Book Discussions are held the last Wednesday of the month and are free and open to the public. 

Multiple copies of the book will be available at the circulation desk. 

Drop-ins are welcome - no registration required. The Library is at 313 Elizabeth St. 

For more information contact the Reference

Desk, 203-736-1482.

This is a press release from Kathy Wilson, Head of Adult Circulation.

Seymour Historical Society program to present history of Ellis Island

Ellis Island in New York Harbor. (Photo from Wikipedia)

SEYMOUR - Ellis Island was the gateway to America – some called it the Golden Door – for more than 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954. 

The Seymour Historical Society will present a special program on this landmark in New York Harbor at 2 p.m. Oct. 25.

The program will be hosted by Arthur Gottlieb, a former administrator at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City. 
He will offer a detailed history of Ellis Island, where the typical immigrant spent less than five hours, but answered 29 questions examining their fitness to enter the country, underwent a medical exam and offered evidence that they had the money and skills to support themselves in America. 

Gottlieb will illustrate his talk with dozens of exceptional vintage photographs. 

The Seymour Historical Society is located at 59 West St., near Trinity Episcopal Church. 

The program is free to Seymour Historical Society members and $5 for non-members. Doors open at 1 p.m. 

For more information, call 203-881-2156, contact psussman@snet.net, or visit www.seymourhistoricalsociety.org. 


This is a press release from Paul Sussman, Seymour Historical Society member.