July is a great month for reading outdoors! Relax by the pool, on the beach, at the park, or in your backyard with a good book. Going on vacation and need a book for the plane or car ride? Here are some of the popular books coming out this month that you can put on hold now! The Adult Summer Reading...
The New York Times, along with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is inviting people to explore birds in their area to help scientists fill in data gaps and give researchers a clearer picture of biodiversity in places that birders generally don’t frequent. The population of nearly half of all bird s...
Do you know what Juneteenth is? It is a day that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. You might know that on January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln shared the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared “that all persons held as slaves…are, and henceforth shall be free.”...
Return to Pandora this month as the blockbuster sequel to Avatar is the highlight among this month’s home video releases. Grossing over $2.3 billion worldwide, Avatar : The Way of Water is set more than a decade after the events of the first film. The sequel tells the story of the Sully fam...
It’s June and summer is right around the corner! That means our Adult Summer Reading Challenge, All Together Now, will begin soon! Sign up starting on June 24 here: Summer Reading Challenge or in person. This month, there are new beach reads and books from some of our favorite authors. Start putting...
Broadly speaking, folk horror is a genre of horror that taps into folk beliefs and practices. Beyond that basic element, it also has some more specific thematic characteristics. In We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror, Howard David Ingham identifies a “juxtaposition of the prosaic and ...
Since 2006, May has been designated as Jewish American Heritage Month. During this month, we celebrate the contributions that people from this culture have made to American society in a variety of ways. Here at the South Huntington Library we show our appreciation through books, of cours...
Monthly Community Service: Recycling Challenge As part of the Sustainable Libraries Initiative, we are “challenging” teens to consciously recycle and earn community service and money at the same time! This is what you do: You can recycle any bottles or cans that ha...
Did you know that hurricane season officially starts in June? Although we usually associate late summer and autumn with peak periods of hurricane activity, now is the time to be aware of and understand how these potentially dangerous storms can impact us. The National Weather Service, as part of its...
As Hollywood has big hopes for box-office success this summer, some of the biggest hits of 2023 so far will be released on home video this month. A childhood friend of Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison in Creed III. The face off between former fri...
