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Dear Friends and Neighbors,

Today is International People with Disabilities Day. People with disabilities are all over the world from all cultures and backgrounds.

With so many holidays in a few short months, the end of the year is often a time filled with thankfulness, family and generosity. 

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a resolution declaring Thanksgiving a nationally recognized holiday to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.

The New York State Regents Advisory Council on Libraries announced that the 2023 Joseph F. Shubert Library Excellence Award has been awarded to Yonkers Public Library (YPL) for the Summer Reading Buddies program. 

Holy Week is a fascinating series about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the violence that erupted as a result of it.

If you read our recent blog post on the history of chocolate, you might be wondering why we’re publishing another cocoa-themed post so quickly.

As the year inches its way to a close, there are many holidays to be celebrated. There are many that probably come to mind - Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa. But there’s another major cultural holiday coming up: Diwali.

Children’s Book Week is a celebration of books for young people to foster learning and a love of reading.

The Family History Project is an opportunity for family members to interview each other and learn about their family's history. Participants of this project will be provided questions to ask during oral history interviewers.

When you think about Halloween, what images come to mind? Bony skeletons, spooky ghosts and black bats probably pop into your mind. Bats are majestic flyers, swooping across the sky or hanging upside down from a tree.

This past fall, Allee Manning (a Westchester based librarian) launched The Westchester LGBTQ+ History Project.

White, milk, dark, and bitter– there are enough types of chocolate to please almost everyone.