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Who better than renowned journalist, author and film reviewer Jeffrey Lyons to dig into the archives of “The Lyons Den,” a New York Post column written by his father, the eminent journalist Leonard Lyons, whose celebrity-driven inside info covered the “Golden Age” of New York City nightlife? Here, the glitterati, the glamorously dressed and elegantly coiffed figures of that era dined on Champagne and cigarettes, and revealed all to the famous newspaper columnist, hoping for even a mention in the morning paper.

Who? From Charlie Chaplin to Winston Churchill, from Ethel Barrymore to Sophia Loren, from George Burns to Ernest Hemingway, from Joe DiMaggio to the Duke of Windsor. “Stories My Father Told Me: Notes From the Lyons Den” is a chronicle so vivid (and often titillating) that it takes three Saturdays to tell it — January 17 at Brecknock Hall, Part 1, February 21, Part 2 and March 28, Part 3 in the auditorium at Peconic Landing, all at 6:30 p.m. The scope of the talks covers stories and photographs from 1934 to 1974 — 40 years of collecting scoops and revelations that sold newspapers and cemented careers.