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Yardley-Makefield Branch Library

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Yardley, PA  19067

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Save Your McCaffrey's Supermarket receipts and bring them to the library when you come.  Place your receipts in the small shopping cart at the desk reserved for these receipts.  Each month McCaffrey's give the Friends a percentage of the total of these tapes.  Tapes can only be redeemed for one month from the date of purchase, so please bring in your tapes promptly!!  Thanks for participating and thanks to McCaffrey's for their generosity.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile:  A Journey Through Modern Ancient Egypt
Presenter:  Dr. Stephen R. Phillips

Saturday, January 24, 2015     2:00 pm
FREE program:  Seating Limited.

On January 25, 2011 a series of huge public protests began in Cairo’s historic Tahrir Square. In less than a week, the protests spread to cities throughout Egypt, growing quickly into a popular revolution that resulted in the resignation of Egypt’s President of over 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, on February 11. Only five weeks later, on March 24, I left Philadelphia for Egypt as the professional guide for a group of 13 intrepid friends, including two children. This photographic essay takes the audience along with us on our extraordinary 14-day journey through post-revolution Egypt, from Abu Simbel to Old Cairo, from the Temple of Philae to the Pyramids of Giza. We were among the very first tourists to return to Egypt following the revolution - this lecture takes you not only on a virtual tour, it reveals that not everything we read in newspapers, or see on TV, reflects the reality of a distant land.

Sponsored by Friends of the Yardley-Makefield Library 

Abraham & Mary Todd Lincoln and the Lincoln Lineage
Presenters:  Professor Herb Kaufman and Sandra Kaufman

Saturday, February 7, 2015      2:00 pm
FREE program:  Seating Limited

Professor Herb Kaufman and his wife will do a program which examines the life and relationship of our 16th president and his first lady, dispelling the myths and exploring the events that shaped their lives.  The program examines their early lives, marriage, children, medical conditions, the assassination and their direct descendants. 
Sponsored by Friends of the Yardley-Makefield Library

 
Culinary Explorations in Paris
Presenter:  Gary Lee Kraut

Saturday, February 21, 2015   2:00 pm
FREE program:  Seating Limited

Award-winning travel writer Gary Lee Kraut, treats us to a tasty and entertaining exploration of food and drink in the great culinary city of Paris. In a wide-ranging illustrated lecture, Kraut will cover the history of markets and gastronomy in Paris, tell about some famous dishes and meals, explain the development of French cuisine as we know it, and give tips on how to enjoy culinary travels today in Paris and throughout France.
Sponsored by Friends of the Yardley-Makefield Library