Library Notes--10/19/2015

October 21, 2015
Calling all 6th - 8th graders (high school students are welcome to join in): we are in the process of planning activities just for you.
Mark your calendars and please join us on:
1.  Thursday, Oct. 29 (NEXT week ----- no school that day) at 6:30 pm in the library. We'll have a (short) meeting and MOVIE NIGHT. 
We'd like to hear about what kinds of programs you might be interested in (some suggestions so far include: knitting, board games, science type activities, making rubik's cubes); then,
MOVIE night ------ something for Halloween, complete with refreshments.
2.  Tuesday, Nov. 10: 6:30 pm: (no school on the 11th!) A Reading Group. We are very pleased that Tom Diamond has agreed to lead a reading & discussion group, and we hope those of you who enjoy reading for pleasure will come to this initial meeting to talk about books and choose a book for the group to read. It's up to you! 

The American Precision Museum (in Windsor) is hosting a special event this Saturday, which sounds great:
http://www.americanprecision.org/2012-01-18-16-22-51/model-engineering-show
We have a pass to the museum, which can get you in for free!

New arrivals: "Rogue Lawyer" - John Grisham (audio also), " Career of Evil" - Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling), "The Lake House" - Kate Morton, " Golden Age" - Jane Smiley, some older Craig Johnson (Longmire) books;
YA: "Carry O"n - Rainbow Rowell, children's: "The Princess in Black and the Perfect Party", "Secret of the Forbidden City" - James Patterson, some graphic "Star Wars" stories, and some updated Nancy Drew stories for younger readers.

 

Library Notes--6/11/2015

June 17, 2015
School's out! Children can stop in any time to start their summer Reading Logs here in the library.

The Cartooning workshop "Tell Your Own Story with Comics!" with Ericc Crum, is coming up in two weeks: Tuesday, June 23, at  7pm here in the library. Please email or call to register kids 8 - 100 yrs. old.

We've added (thanks to "the Friends") a pass to the Fairbanks Museum and planetarium to our collection if you are looking for an outing to St. Johnsbury.

Donations for the book sale can be broug...


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Thank you to library volunteers

June 3, 2015
If you’ve ever wondered how the library manages to provide a wide array of
services to hundreds of patrons with only one part-time employee, the
answer is pretty obvious to trustees – through the generosity, commitment
and talent of our many volunteers. Our volunteers do much more than work at
the circulation desk – although that is certainly crucial to our ability to
maintain open hours for four days a week. They also help us run
fundraisers, oversee our endowment, help out with special proj...
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Library Notes--5/19/2015

May 19, 2015
Passes are in: Vermont State Parks, VT Historic Sites, VINS, Billings Farm Museum, Shelburne Museum, the Precision Museum, the Maritime Museum and ECHO (reduced rate).

A new collection of LUV DVD's & Audiobooks arrived today.

New titles include: "The Bone Tree" - Greg Iles, "The Green Road" - Anne Enright, "On the Move: a Life" - Oliver Sacks, "Ghost Fields" - Elly Griffiths, "Rock With Wings" - Anne Hillerman (continuing Tony Hillerman's popular mystery series), "Saint Anything" - Sarah Dessen...


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Library Notes--5/12/2015

May 12, 2015
Found in the library on Thursday: a camo Carhartt small duffel bag...... is it yours?

PLEASE return all LUV DVD's AND Audiobooks by THIS Thursday.

A reminder that the library has passes we can lend to VINS, the Shelburne Museum, Billings Farm, ECHO (a discount). 
The State Park and Historic Sites pass should arrive very soon.

New titles: "God in Ruins" - Kate Atkinson (audio, also), "Early Warning" - Jane Smiley, "I Refuse" - Per Petterson, "The Sympathizer" - Viet Thanh Nguyen, "Memory Man" - Da...


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PROGRAM TUESDAY EVENING!

April 14, 2015
Please join us this evening (Tuesday) at 7 pm, for the final program in our VT Humanities Council series:
Masters of the Short Story.
Suzanne Brown will lead a discussion based on short stories by Ann Beattie (focusing on 6 of the stories).

Here is a poem from Mame Willey (thanks!), as we continue to celebrate National Poetry Month:

    FULL MOON

I see it coming up
behind the empty trees.
Orange, like a harvest moon.
But this is only March.

An hour from now
it will be free of the trees
and it will be it...


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Library Notes--4/9/2015

April 9, 2015
Please remember to join us next Tuesday, April 14 , qt 7pm, for the final meeting of our VT Humanities Council program "Masters of the Short Story".
Suzanne Brown will lead a discussion on the stories of Ann Beattie. There's still plenty of time to read 6 short stories ---- stop in and pick up a copy of the book.

Happening at the library this Sunday evening at 6: back by popular demand:    
*A Communtiy Storytelling Event*  :  *TRUTH BE TOLD*
6 pm: live music by Strafford's talented sisters by wa...


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Library Notes--3/24/2015

March 24, 2015
This Thursday, 1 pm: the Reading Group meets to discuss "The Lay of the Land" by Richard Ford. Everyone welcome.

The last program in our series "Masters of the Short Story" from the VT Humanities Council is on Tuesday, 
April 14, at 7 pm, to discuss stories by Ann Beattie.
The discussion will be led by Suzanne Brown, an English professor at Dartmouth. 
We have copies of the book available and a list of the six stories that will be the focus of the discussion.

The library will be staffed by volunte...


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library notes--3/15/2015

March 15, 2015
THIS  TUESDAY, 7 pm, please join us for the second program in our VT Humanities Council series:
       "Masters of the Short Story".
Guest scholar Mary Hays (from Corinth ----- and highly recommended by Jim Schley and Catherine Tudish) will lead us in a discussion
on the works of Flannery O'Connor.

Recent additions to the collection include: "Dead Wake" - Erik Larson (audiobook version also),  "It's What I do : a Photographer's Life of Love and War" - Lynsey Addario, "Essays After Eighty" -...


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TUESDAY PROGRAM AT THE LIBRARY

March 9, 2015
TUESDAY EVENING AT THE MORRILL MEMORIAL & HARRIS LIBRARY:

David Grant will be presenting his new book  "The Social Profit Handbook".
If you, or someone you know works or volunteers for a community focused organization, this presentation will be of special interest!
Please join us..............
Refreshments provided and books will be available for sale.
Tuesday, March 10, 7pm, at the Morrill Memorial & Harris Library, in Strafford.
email or call 765-4037 for more information.

Please return all LUV...


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