MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown
The big news at the library this week is over our
heads! It's the roof. Yes, work on the roof has begun and everyone
is breathing a sigh of relief that the library will be nice and
snug before winter begins. Thanks to the Friends of the Library,
the final funds were in place to get the roof work under way.
The Friends are not the only volunteers that make the
library succeed and prosper. Thanks to Karen Verne who worked
on the perennial gardens out front to make our entrance inviting
and beautiful. Thanks also to loyal volunteers Sheron Smith,
Joyce Nelson, Nancy McPherson, Jean Puddington and Gratia Burleigh
for their work, week in and week out, to help the library.
Gratia (aka Grandma B.) has gotten the Pre-School Story
Hour series off to a great start this fall. Other story hours
in the series will be held at 10:30 a.m. on October 22, 29 and
November 12.
Put Friday, November 1st, on your calendar right now.
Professor Roxanna Pisiak will be here to lead a discussion
of Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue in the opening session
of this season's Adult Book Talk series. Copies are now available
for sign-out at the circulation desk.
Thanks this week to our long-time supporter and patron,
Ruth Matthias who has donated two nice books to the library.
Fannie Flagg's Standing in the Rainbow (large print edition)
tells of small town life in Missouri in the 40's and 50's with
colorful characters and homey events that show the impact of
the historical events and post-war culture on everyday life.
Richard Russo's The Whore's Child , his first collection of
short stories, explores the complex emotions of troubled parent-child
and husband-wife relationships with sometimes comedy, sometimes
tension and sometimes a pathetic sadness.
A big thank you also to Moors Myers for several new donations
and to anonymous donors who gave us the following books. The
Regan Reilly mystery, Fleeced by Carol Higgins Clark follows
Reilly to Manhattan where she tries to help her friend and president
of the Settlers' Club solve the mystery when two of the club's
oldest and wealthiest members die just before they were to give
the club diamonds valued at more than $4 million. Rick Bragg's
Ava's Man is the heartwarming biography of Bragg's maternal
grandfather who with wife Ava nurtured seven children through
hard times in rural Alabama and Georgia. Eric Schlosser's Fast
Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is an eye-opening
investigation of the effects and implications of the fast-food
industry on American culture, health and obesity, urban sprawl
, working conditions, restaurant sanitation and more.
All these generous people have been wonderful in keeping
the library "alive" while we wait for our new funding
to come in January 2003. We have a new roof over our heads and
rooms full of books and other great resources to offer our patrons.
It is a bountiful harvest for our library.
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Public Library
October 4, 2002