Children
come often to watch them fly by the HVWC, so we know how much trains delight
youngsters. This program features My Subway Ride, a brand new book
by Paul DuBois Jacobs and Jennifer Swender of Brooklyn;
Chugga-Chugga Cho-Choo by Kevin Lewis, train songs by David
Bernz of Beacon; Raleigh D'Adamo, the designer of the original
MTA map, and a few uniformed conductors from the MTA, and other special
train-related guests.
Those
who attended the Pete Seeger concerts at the HVWC a few years ago will
remember Jacobs and Bernz who performed with Seeger. Jacobs has co-authored
four books with Seeger and now he and his wife have their own book to
share (as well as the forthcoming A Children's Songbag). Jacobs
is also a poet whose work has appeared in Poetry, Black Warrior Review,
Third Coast, The Southeast Review, and Tikkun among other journals.
He has been a finalist in The National Poetry Series, The Yale Series
of Younger Poets Competition, and the Beatrice Hawley Award. Swender is
a veteran elementary school teacher and curriculum developer who has taught
in both the NYC and Houston public schools, and most recently, as a head
teacher at Brooklyn College's Lab School. Her fiction writing has earned
awards from Glimmer Train Press and a work-in-progress grant from the
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Maximum $10 per family
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; the Orchard Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.