Art/Rich Poetry Roundtable: Tuesday, 4 p.m., Library.
CoreSyn with Trent: Tuesdays and Saturdays, at 8 a.m. at Fiske Field basketball courts. In bad weather, at the Legion Hall.
English as a second language: Thursdays, 7 p.m. with Teri Piccozzi, Library.
Functional Fitness with Susan on Zoom: Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 9 a.m. Email [email protected] to sign up and receive zoom link.
Intermediate French Conversation: Thursdays, 4 p.m., Library, Zoom.
Music Trivia & Light Movement: Mondays, 11-11:45 a.m., Senior Center via Zoom, [email protected]
Out of school fun zone for grades pre-K to 4: Shelter Island Youth Center, from 2:45-5 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, $10 per child, per day. 631-749-0309.
(Credit: courtesy art)
Bored? Let’s take a trip back to the Roaring Twenties, that era of Prohibition when, ironically, the booze flowed more freely than ever.
Fashionable young women flappers wore short skirts and bobbed their hair, the music was hot and boisterous parties lasted well into the night.
It was called The Jazz Age, a term coined early in the decade by F. Scott Fitzgerald who more than any other artist in any form captured its reckless essence, most notably in his masterpiece, “The Great Gatsby.”
Join us – remotely, via Zoom on Jan. 22 at the Library’s Friday Night Dialogues, for a discussion of the origins of the iconic novel, still regarded by literary critics and historians 100 years after its publication as the greatest American novel of the 20th Century. “Gatsby” is second only to “Ulysses” on the prestigious Modern Library 100 Best Novels list and is still a best-seller with worldwide sales of some 500,000 cop