Summer Reading

GFJ is crazy with quilts again this summer. Quilter Carol Bunnell has donated her latest creation Baltimore Fantasy” (pictured) to this year’s quilt raffle. Tickets are a dollar each of 6 for 5. The drawing will be held September 11, with proceeds going to support GFJ’s youth services. Many other quilts are also on display…

Author Michael Keene at GFJ on March 26, 1-3 PM Listen to author Michael Keene discuss his new book that uncovers how the Erie Canal opened up vital passageways that led to the advent of the major social, political, and religious movements that swept through upstate New York during the 19th century. Although employed for…

HELP! GFJ needs your help. We’ve been busy since June collecting signatures needed to place a library funding proposition on the ballot in the Town of Union this November to increase funding for the Endicott & Johnson City libraries. We need about 1,000 more signatures by the end of August. About 90% of the funding…

We’ve just added the Endicott Daily Bulletin newspaper years 1947-1951 to our Digital Archives. Our local newspaper coverage now includes years 1856-1951, along with the fantastic Endicott-Johnson Workers Review magazine and other E-J and U-E publications.  It’s a portal in time – Enter the Time Machine!  

There are only 2 weeks left to view the video from the Clearwater Marine Aquarium where they answered questions from our summer “Good Sports” participants. Check out the following info to watch before it’s too late!

Historian Tim Main will present his “Shadows on the Playground” talk at GFJ on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 PM in our Scott (basement) Meeting Room.  Tim bills this as “an informative presentation defining the ancestry and historical background of Endicott’s Mersereau Park.”  His talks always come with lots of photos, insight and humor.  Don’t…