Adult - Highlighted Events

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Managing Your Digital Photos   Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 10:30 a.m.  OR Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 7:00 pm.

Computer Lab   Limit 15

Are you wondering what to do with all of those photos on your digital camera?  Learn how to transfer, upload and share your photos at this class.  Photo sharing and product site shutterfly.com will be featured.  This class is demonstration only.  Some experience working with document files is advised.  Limit 15.

Elmhurst Reads Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson

Film Showing      Das Boot            Saturday, Feb. 13 at 12:00 p.m.                     Meeting Room 2

In autumn 1941, forty-three young German sailors aboard the U-96 enter the war against Britain. They seek adventure, respect and heroism. For them, this voyage is for glory. For their captain, a seasoned war veteran at the young age of 30, it is a mission against enemy destroyers in a blood-red sea . Nominated for six Oscars, this is an authentic undersea adventure inspired by the actual experiences of a WWII German photojournalist.   Rated R.  Audience members are welcome to bring a sack lunch.

Film Showing    Hitler’s Lost Sub               Thursday, Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m.                    Meeting Room 2

NOVA presentation of the true undersea adventure chronicled in the bestseller Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. In 1991, professional diver John Chatterton discovered a sunken German U-boat from World War II, lying undetected only 60 miles off the New Jersey shore, its unexploded torpedoes and the bodies of its crew still aboard. This intriguing documentary follows Chatterton and his dive partners in their dangerous quest to identify the missing U-boat, a pursuit that takes six years and costs three lives. The U-boat's history involves unusual coincidences and a startling twist of fate.  This film also traces the history of submarines and undersea warfare from the American Revolution through World War II.

Ghost Ships:  Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes       Thursday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m.   Meeting Room 2

A treasure trove of maritime history lies hidden beneath the surface of America’s five inland seas. Three hundred years of commerce have left behind a spectral underwater landscape of chaos and disaster unique in the world. From the loss of La Salle’s Grffion in 1679 to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, the treacherous and icy waters of the Great Lakes have set the stage for unforgettable scenes of terror, human folly, and extraordinary courage.  Photojournalist Chris Winters, board member of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, presents a colorful evening of Great Lakes ghost ships, gales and forgotten tales.