LPL Calendar of Events compiled by Elaine Rosenberger

Thursday, December 3
Friends Preview Book Sale
Memberships may be purchased at the door.
6:00 p.m. in the Friends Book Sale Room (basement)

Thursday, December 3
Origins Science Scholars West - From Atoms to Quarks
Presented by Glenn Starkman, PhD
Matter is made out of atoms, but what are atoms made of? In the process of answering that question, researchers have moved from small experiments in undergraduate teaching laboratories to the construction of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the largest machine in the world. In the process, scientists have come to uncover and understand the Standard Model of particle physics; the single best-tested theory in all of science. In this lecture, participants will experience that journey of discovery for themselves.
7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Saturday, December 5
Friends Holiday Bag of Books Sale
9:00 a.m. in the Friends Book Sale Room (basement)

Saturday, December 5
"River of No Return" (1954) Directed by Otto Preminger
As an actor, Robert Mitchum was best known for playing tough guys and antiheroes, but it could be argued that he was never more Robert Mitchumy than here where he plays a very decent man. After being released from prison for a crime he had to commit, a widower reunites with the son he barely knew and sets out to start a new life, setting up a little farm while other men around them seek their fortunes hunting for gold. Marilyn Monroe, best known as an icon, also surprises, not only with her acting, but with her singing and her action chops, too. (Don’t let anyone tell you that isn’t Marilyn singing.) Monroe plays a tired saloon performer in love with a professional gambler. When she and her no-good beau lose control of their raft, Mitchum rescues them and is robbed of his horse and rifle for his trouble. The gambler takes off to register a claim he’s won in a poker game, leaving his fiancee, the farmer and the boy all alone in hostile wilderness with no mean of protection. You may see it coming, but the lesson learned takes our breath away every time.
6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Sunday, December 6
Top of the Hill
As the trees bare their limbs, the greens of summer turn to brown and a blanket of white threatens to cover all, let’s escape to the Emerald Isle for an afternoon of traditional Irish music. Carefree jigs, reels, slides and airs will be performed on fiddle, mandolin, tenor banjo, tin whistle and uilleann pipes by a trio of accomplished musicians. Paul Dreisbach is a professor who teaches reeds at Hiram College. Kevin Johnson has traveled the world with his music—most recently in Tajikistan on behalf of the Department of State. And John Reynolds has been playing traditional music for over forty years, including a stint as a mandolin soloist with Akron Baroque. You will find that this timeless music has not a mote of dust on it when you hear it played in the spirit of spontaneity and fellowship.
2:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium