Elizabethville Library Arts Series
2008 Schedule
The Elizabethville Library Arts Series is dedicated to presenting arts and cultural programs for the enjoyment of the residents of northern Dauphin County. The series provides free programs each year that celebrate the various aspects of the arts. Both local and nationally recognized artists are featured.
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Christine Beilharz
Flutist
Sunday March 9, 3:00 PM
Elizabethville Area Library
Chris, affectionately known as the “Flute Lady,” attributes her musical success to the variety of music she shares — anything from Gospel, Folk, Pop Classical, and Children’s Broadway etc. Chris visits nursing homes, churches, parties, Women’s Connection, weddings, Relay for Life, etc. Previously Chris played in the Sunbury City Band for approximately 18 years before branching out on her own. |
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Carol Laudenslager
Artist
Sunday March 9, 3:00 PM
Elizabethville Area Library
Carol Laudenslager has spent most of her adult life in Central Pennsylvania. Towards the end of her high school teaching career at Williams Valley, Carol pursued her love of painting.
Her travels around the world have inspired the wildlife depicted in most of Carol’s paintings. She is an artist and board member of the Millersburg Area Art Association. Many of her paintings can be found at the Millersburg Gallery on the Square.
When Carol is not in her studio painting, she can be found gardening, reading, or playing golf. Carol and her husband Bob reside in Elizabethville |
The Elizabethville Library Arts Series is supported by the Friends of the Elizabethville Library
and made possible by the Carole & Pete DeSoto Endowment.
Benefactor: Jane C. Esterline
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Cassandra King
Author
Sunday April 13, 3:00 PM
Author of four novels, numerous short stories, articles, and essays, Cassandra King was raised on a peanut farm in L.A. (Lower Alabama). Her best-selling novel, The Sunday Wife, was a People magazine Page-Turner, a South Carolina’s Readers Circle choice, named as one of Book Sense’s top reading group selections, and was chosen by the Nestlé Corporation for a national campaign to promote reading. The Same Sweet Girls, also a national best-seller, was the number one Book Sense selection when released in February ‘05. Both novels were nominated for SIBA’s Book of the Year award. A fourth novel, Queen of Broken Hearts, a Literary Guild and Book-of-the-Month Club selection, was released in March ‘07. She and her husband, the novelist Pat Conroy, reside in the Low Country of South Carolina.
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Rachel Denlinger
Violinist
Sunday October 12 3:00 PM
Rachel Denlinger is a senior at the Upper Dauphin Area High School in Elizabethville, Pa. She is a member of the Harrisburg Youth Symphony Orchestra, Wilkes-Barre Civic Orchestra, Lykens Liberty Hose Company Band and the Pine Grove Community Band. A violinist since the age of 5, Rachel has participated in various District, Regional, and State music festivals sponsored by the Pennsylvania Music Educator’s Association. She has been selected as a representative from Pennsylvania to participate in the United States National Orchestra in February of 2008. Rachel has also qualified for the All Eastern Orchestra, which will be held in the spring of 2009. Ms. Denlinger plans to study performance violin when she enters college next year with the goal of playing in a major symphony orchestra.
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Cheryl Folckemer
Award-Winning Photographer
Sunday October 12, 3:00 PM
Cheryl Folckemer was born and raised in Malta, the youngest of ten children. A 1972 graduate of Upper Dauphin Area High School, she aspired to training in photography but met several obstacles along the way, including a high school guidance counselor who advised her mother that there was no career in photography for women. After serving as photographer for a family wedding, she was asked by others to provide the same service and, in 1980, enrolled in New York Institute of Photography. Graduating in 1982, she went on to begin her own photography business. Since that time Folckemer has been nominated to the International Professional Photographers Guild (IPPG) and to the British Professional Photographers Association, an honor achieved by only 150 American photographers. She has achieved national recognition for her photos of children, has won first place in an IPPG Worldwide competition and, locally, won Best of Show for her bridal portraits in a photography contest sponsored by Community Banks. Folckemer currently resides in Florida. She has worked for Kodak and at Disney, where she is a manager in the photography department that photographs visitors with the world’s most famous mouse. |
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Michael Dooling
Children’s Book Illustrator/Author
Sunday November 9, 2008
Born in 1958, Michael Dooling grew up in the small town of Marlton, NJ, surrounded by peach and apple orchards. As a young boy, he loved to read and draw — a combination that eventually led to illustrating children’s books. Michael is the illustrator of numerous picture books, chapter books and middle grade novels including: Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale, The Memory Coat, a CBC Notable Book and a Smithsonian Magazine Notable and The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin, George Washington: A Picture Book Biography; Thomas Jefferson: A Picture Book Biography; The Gift of the Magi and other Stories; The Story of Santa Claus; and Mary Mclean and the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. While working on his book Robin Hook, Pirate Hunter, Michael could periodically be seen parading in a pirate costume around his old Victorian home in Audubon, NJ, where he lives with his wife Jane and daughters, Rachel and Lisa. |
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