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MORRISVILLE LIBRARY NEWS
by Mary Brown
The votes are in. The School District Library proposition
has WON ! The library can now go forward and offer its patrons
the quality services they deserve. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK
YOU to: the Friends of the Morrisville Library, Barb Fogg,
the staff of the Morrisville Library, the Library Board of Trustees,
Mary Brown, Volunteers @ the Morrisville Library, Dave Puddington
and the Eaton Town Board, Henry Douglas, Debbie DesJardins and
the Village Board, Ray Heh and the Village DPW, the Smithfield
Town Board, Supervisor and Clerk, the Nelson Town Board, Supervisor
and Clerk, Daryl Wilson, Dick Case, Joel Meltzer and the WMCR
staff, the Morrisville Historical Preservation Commission, the
Morrisville- Eaton PTO, the Eaton Fire Dept., the Morrisville-Eaton
School Board and Nelson Bauersfeld, the Morrisville Eaton School
District taxpayers, Dan Pace and the M-E Student Council, Lynde
and Howard Lafever, Gene and Kristen Thomas, Mary Lou Caskey
and the Mid-York Library System Staff, Andrew Quick, Aaron Strong,
Justin Crandall, John Schuster, the wonderful Morrisville Library
patrons, and so many more ! And most especially, a HUGE thanks
to Library Director, Traci Schuster, for her extraordinary and
untiring efforts to save the library and enrich the community
for years to come !
People really do appreciate the library - as last week's
vote of support shows. Such support is often shown daily in
small ways as well. For example, Girl Scout Troop 52 recently
sent lovely thank-you notes to Traci for the welcome and all
the special help she gave them on their recent visit to the library.
Be sure to stop in this week and see the photographic exhibit,
" A Day in the Life of a New York Village" on display
in the program room. SUNY Morrisville students often spend two
years or more in Morrisville but never really experience village
life. That changed a few weeks ago when Pat Swann's photographic
journalism class photographed the streets and businesses and
people of Morrisville and recorded their observations of village
life. The result of this project, sponsored by a grant from
the SUNY Morrisville Alumni Foundation, is now on display for
you to enjoy.
Thanks to the Wednesday Club which recently donated to the
library Piet Oudolf's Designing with Plants in memory of Irene
Dodge. This book presents a horticultural view of natural habitats
and how these might be brought to gardens, with unique ways of
planting and seeing by shape, form, color, size, texture and
light.
Thanks also to the donors of Jorge Cruise's Eight Minutes in
the Morning, John Zerzan's Elements of Refusal, Robert Lieverman's
The Last Boy, Kenneth Bock and Nellie Sabin's The Road to Immunity,
Christine Jerome's An Adirondack Passage and Antonia Fraser's
Faith and Treason.
New books in this week include Nora Roberts' Face the Fire,
the third and last book in bestselling author Nora Roberts's
trilogy of witches, magic, and an age-old curse that began with
Dance upon the Air and Heaven and Earth. In this one, white
witch Mia Devlin, who has developed a charming bookstore and
cafe, a spectacular garden and a close circle of friends on Three
Sisters Island, is the center of adventure and romance. John
Stauffer's The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and
the Transformation of Race examines the lives of the four radical
abolitionists, Frederick Douglass, James McCune Smith, John Brown
and Gerrit Smith. Historian Stauffer offers an account of these
four lives joined for a historical moment by "their vision
of a sacred, sin-free, and pluralist society, as well as by their
willingness to use violence to effect it." Fall on Your
Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald is an epic tale, set in Nova Scotia
in the early part of the twentieth century, of family history,
family secrets, and music which centers on four sisters and their
relationships with each other and with their father.
Our high school patrons will want to take a close look at
Scholarships 2002 (a Kaplan guide), which gives lots of information
on programs that offer significant and unrestricted scholarships
combined with tips and advice on how to get them.
Our younger readers (ages 4-8) might enjoy S.E. Heller's
Pichu's Apple Company in which Pikachu and Ash are busy on their
Johto journeys when they meet a Pichu - and a whole bunch of
his friends! These little Pokemon are in trouble -since they
aren¹t strong enough to battle Team Rocket on their own.
Mary Kate and Ashley fans (ages 9-12) will want to sign out
Never Been Kissed in which the girls plan their Sweet Sixteen
party. The same age readers might also enjoy Spirit: Stallion
of the Cimarron by Kathleen Duey; it follows Spirit's life from
his birth, through his capture, to his triumphant return to freedom,
and is an ideal choice for fans of the film.
This week Memorial Day gave us a chance to remember those
who died to preserve a better life for their fellow Americans.
It is also a good week for us to thank all those who worked
hard and voted "Yes" to give their community a library
that will enrich those local lives preserved.
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