A grand opening for Goldblatt’s photos

“When we have children’s events, we tend to talk a lot about imagination,” Highland Falls Library Director Leslie Rose told the 50 or so people gathered downstairs in the library Sunday evening. “When we have adults with us, we tend to talk about community. That’s what this afternoon is, a gathering of friends, family and community.”

Nancy Vericker is a self-described “former journalist and a nice church lady”, who always thought she might write a book about the fact that at age 47 she and her husband adopted a two-year- old while in the midst of raising three teenagers.

If you fully participated, you left Saturday’s Earth Day celebration at the Highland Falls Library with two reusable shopping bags, some newly planted seeds, a packet of wildflower seeds, a pine cone bird feeder…