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The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.

Orange Reads and this Web site are presented by OLA, the Orange Library Association, serving the seventeen member libraries of Orange County, New York.

Here's our calendar, with details on all of our upcoming events.

Orange Reads Poe 2010
Kickoff Weekend
October 1-3, 2010
Lycian Centre, Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY




David Keltz
 as Edgar Allan Poe
Friday, October 1, 2010
7:30pm

"Murder By Poe:" A Play
Directed by Annmarie Paoli, Library Assistant, Florida Public Library
 Saturday, October 2, 2010, 8:00 pm




Keynote Address: Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Anne Sandor, Writing Consultancy Coordinator, SUNY Orange
 Sunday, October 3, 2010, 3:00 pm




MONSTER BASH COSTUME PARTY
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 FROM 7-11 P.M.
AT THE GOLF CLUB AT MANSION RIDGE IN MONROE
For Adults Only

Join us for a fun-filled costume party to celebrate Orange Library Association's Orange Reads Poe project. Come in costume to win prizes!!! There will be music and dancing, great food and a cash bar! Admission is $5.

Call Catina at 783-4411 for more information.


Orange Library Association regrets having to cancel the Linda Zimmerman Luncheon on October 5 and the Murder Mystery Dessert Theater on October 24. We hope you will take time to enjoy some of the other 85-plus programs planned in conjunction with the Orange Reads Poe project.