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From GFJ’s Digital Archives: Human Cannonball Blasts Off in Endicott
From GFJ’s Digital Archives: “The Great Wilno” aka “The Human Cannonball” is fired from a cannon 250 feet into the air (and thankfully into his net) during the annual E-J Workers Labor Day celebrations. The event took place in front of an estimated 50,000 spectators at En-Joie Park (behind U-E High School) on Sept,. 2,…
Ghosts at the Library!
GFJ will be hosting, via our brand new teleconferencing equipment, a program being held at the Port Jervis Free Library featuring Michael Worden, the Ghost Detective from the Paranormal Police Headquarters (www.paranormalpolice.com). Michael offers a unique perspective as an investigator of both the living and the dead! He is a police detective in Port Jervis…
New York State funding for public libraries now at less than 1994 levels!
New York State funding for public libraries is now as less than 1994 levels. Please contact your state legislators and ask them to increase funding for our libaries!
Happy Birthday, GFJ Library!
Today is the library’s hundredth birthday! Help us celebrate! Visit the library to enjoy a piece of cake while you watch a slideshow from our first hundred years. Visit the library on Tuesdays, March 24 & 31 at 7:00 PM for Tim Main’s two-part history of the library. We’ll have more cake! Click here to…
NYS Comptroller’s Financial Audit of GFJ
The New York State Comptroller’s Office has recently completed a financial audit of our library. The audit complimented the library’s financial management: http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/2016/08/08/auditors-gfj-library-watched-cut-expenses/88408320/ Read the full audit here: https://www.gfjlibrary.org/Audit%202016%20Library.pdf
GFJ Celebrates 100 Years
Local historian Tim Main and Library Director Ed Dunscombe following Tim’s March 31st program on the history of Endicott’s libraries.