Freeport Musician

Farewell Lou Reed

Musician

1942-2013

 

 

Born in 1942, Lou Reed was lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground from 1965 to 1970. Some of the Velvet Underground's songs were published by "Oakfield Avenue Music Ltd." a reference to the street in Freeport where Lou Reed lived.

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The Velvet Underground was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

 

Lou Reed signed his Freeport High School Yearbook during his induction into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame on November 16, 2010.

 

This yearbook is available for viewing at the Freeport Historical Society by appointment only: 350 South Main Street, Freeport, NY, (516) 623-9632.

 

 



Click here for material by Lou Reed.

Readers' Advisory

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
By Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr. (2013)

Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., a cousin of the book's subject, reconstruct the life of reclusive copper heiress Huguette Clark (1906-2011) in this riveting biography. The authors bring Huguette's odd past into clear perspective, including the hilariously corrupt political schemes of her father, W.A. Clark, who was a Montana senator. Though less celebrated than his compatriots Rockefeller and Carnegie, W.A. Clark was at a time wealthier than they, and by extension, so was his daughter. She was a regular in the society pages during her youth and even married for a short time, Clark later slipped into her own world and stayed there, quietly buying multi-million dollar homes for her dolls. Kind and unspeakably generous to those who worked for her and usually suspicious of family, she wrote a few big checks to people she hardly knew. Other family acquisitions, valuable musical instruments and jewelry among them, she simply gave away. The authors provide a thrilling study of the responsibilities and privileges that come with great wealth and draw the reader into the deliciously scandalous story of Clark's choices in later life, the question of Clark's presence of mind always at issue. Hewn from Huguette's stories, purchases, phone calls, gifts, and letters, the tale of where and how Huguette Clark found happiness will entrance anyone. (Publishers Weekly)

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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
By John Bradshaw (2013)

About one-third of US households have at least one cat. John Bradshaw examines the newest research on how cats think and why they do what they do. He understands that the cat is still, in essence, a wild creature, and it is his owners who must come around to being a better friend too them, at their level. He examines, and give good advice, on cats' learning how to be domestic, and how they respond to thoughts and feelings, and how they look at other cats and humans, and how they respond as individuals, and as wildlife. He closes with a very interesting chapter on cats of the future; given our human propensity for altering our companions genetically, it is all very possible. This is a worthy companion to Bradshaw's Dog Sense. (Book News).

Click here to listen to an interview with author John Bradshaw on NPR. 

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Farewell Tom Clancy

1947-2013

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Books by Tom Clancy.

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Book Adaptation

Author Melissa De la Cruz's best-selling "Beauchamp Family" series will premier as the television drama Witches of East End on Lifetime beginning October 6.

If you want to read the series, here are the books in order:

Book 1 - Witches of East End (2011)

Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. All three women lead seemingly quiet, uneventful existences. But they are harboring a mighty secret-- they are powerful witches banned from using their magic. When mysterious, violent attacks begin to plague the town and a young girl disappears over the Fourth of July weekend, they realize it's time to uncover who and what dark forces are working against them. (Novelist)


Book 2: Serpent's Kiss (2012)

Just as things are settling down for the Beauchamp witches, Freya, Ingrid, and their mother Joanna must deal with a series of events which culminates in an explosive Thanksgiving family reunion that results in magical mayhem. (Novelist)



Book 3: Winds of Salem (2013)

 

Transported back in time where she is forced to relive the horrors of Salem, Freya Beauchamp must find a way to survive the witch-burning hysteria, while her family, stuck in the present, must confront the trickster god Loki to save Freya. (Novelist)

Book Recommendations

Wilson
by A. Scott Berg (2013)

Pulitzer Prize winner A. Scott Berg presents a thorough, entertaining account of our 28th president. Wilson, a lawyer who became an academic—a professor of history, political science, and law—then president of Princeton University, was elected New Jersey's governor in 1910. Two years later he won the U.S. presidency in a landslide. Berg's detailed account of Wilson's presidency shows how Washington has changed over the past century. In Wilson's White House, the West Wing was staffed with six people. The president (until a late second-term stroke) walked the streets of Washington, DC, to and from appointments and visits. After ten years of research, Berg is unable to disguise his admiration for his subject; he tends to downplay Wilson's flaws, such as his obvious racism. But Berg shows us that in many ways Wilson was a trailblazer. He reformed Princeton's curriculum to what is now the standard for undergraduate education. As U.S. president, he took his isolationist nation on the path to world power, advocated for women's suffrage, instituted the income tax, and pushed for the direct election of U.S. senators. (Robert B. Slater - Library Journal).

Book Recommendation

Crazy Rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan (2013)

 

When Rachel Chu’s boyfriend, Nick Young, invites her home to Singapore for the summer, she doesn’t realize how much gossip she’s generated among Asian socialites around the world. To Rachel, Nick is a sweet, intelligent history professor—and the first man she’s imagined marrying. To the Asian billionaire set, he’s the gorgeous heir apparent to one of China’s most “staggeringly rich” and well-established families who virtually control the country’s commerce with their ancient fortunes. As soon as she steps off the plane, Rachel is ushered into the opulent world of castle-like estates and mind-boggling luxury. As if the shock of realizing the scale of Nick’s wealth is not enough, she must also contend with a troupe of cruel socialites who would absolutely die before they let Singapore’s most eligible bachelor get snapped up by a no-name “ABC” (American-born Chinese). There is also Nick’s family—his imposing mother, Eleanor, who has exact ideas about who Nick should be dating; his beautiful cousin Astrid, who the younger girls dub “the Goddess” for her stunning fashion sense (she was “the first to pair a vintage Saint Laurent Le Smoking jacket with three-dollar batik shorts”); and Nick’s cousin, the flamboyant Oliver, who helps Rachel navigate this strange new world. A witty tongue-in-cheek frolic about what it means to be from really old money and what it’s like to be crazy rich. (Publisher's Weekly)