The Hampton Library to Host 'Fridays at Five'

The Hampton Library will be continuing their ‘Fridays at Five’ series this Friday, August 14.

Arlene Alda, author of Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History will be the speaker for this week’s program.

The event will take place at the library located at 2478 Main Street in Bridgehampton. Gates will open at 4:30 p.m. with the event taking place from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Tickets are $20 each.

All of the money collected including the price of admission and the sale of the books goes directly to The Hampton Library in Bridgehampton.

The library launched this year’s season last month. The series has been a tradition for the library and the Hamptons for over 30 years.

Alda graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hunter College, received a Fulbright Scholarship, and realized her dream of becoming a professional clarinetist, playing in the Houston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Leopold Stokowski.

She switched careers when her children were young and became an award-winning photographer and author who wrote nineteen books, including Just Kids from the Bronx. A

s director of Bravo Gloria, Alda won the Silver Medal Award from the International Film and Television Festival of New York in 1988, and the film was named a finalist in the John Muir Medical Film Festival.

She is the mother of three daughters and the grandmother of eight.

She and her husband, actor Alan Alda, live in New York City and Long Island.