Posted in Arts | August 2, 2013
Adults at Queens Library at Steinway were invited to create keepsake containers using a recycled plastic flower pot. An old CD was used to make a lid for the container. Adults used glitter pens, scrap paper, plastic flowers and sequins to decorate their boxes. DID YOU KNOW:…
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Posted in General | July 15, 2013
They say music soothes the savage beast. Well, maybe, but it certainly has made life at Queens Library at Peninsula better since Superstorm Sandy hit.
On the book bus at Peninsula in the first few weeks after the library was destroyed, my colleague Kacper Jarecki brought in a…
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Posted in General | July 3, 2013
To mark the six-month anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, Queens Library, Queens Memory Project and Jamaica Bay Lives!, a documentary project about Jamaica Bay, invited the community to Queens Library at Broad Channel to record their personal experiences of Sandy, share their…
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