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April 2008 Newsletter
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April is National Poetry Month April 1-30 Enter our poetry contest April 1-30. There are 3 age groups : 10 and under, ages 11-18, 19 and older. Winning entries will be published on the Library's website. |
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name, phone number, and age group to Eileen Fitzgerald, YA Librarian at
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Hearthside Book Club Tuesday, April 1, 4-5 PM New members are always welcome. |
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titles click here: http://www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/bookletter/showlist.html?sid=6479&list=CNL1 |
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Healing Touch Wednesday, April 2, 6:30 PN Pat Scalice, R.N. is a certified healing touch practitioner. She has more than 30 years of caring for and nurturing patients and she has studied healing touch since 1995. Healing Touch is a relaxing and nurturing energy therapy. It assists in balancing one’s physical, mental and emotional health and well-being. Healing Touch is a complementary therapy that can be used in conjunction with traditional therapies. It utilizes light or near-body touch to clear, balance and energize the human energy system to promote healing for the mind, body or spirit. Pat Scalice will offer a program on Healing Touch on Wednesday April 2 at 6:30 PM. |
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Town Meeting, Library closes at 6 PM Monday, April 7, 6 PM |
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Baseball in the 19th Century Wednesday, April 9, 6:30 PM The Library celebrates Opening Day! Baseball, our national pastime, became popular during the Civil War, our national nightmare. On Wednesday April 9 at 6:30 PM, Jeff Peart, of the Essex Base Ball Club, will talk about Vintage Base Ball. Baseball in the 19^th Century was quite different than today’s game. The players, called “ballists” played with bare hands until the mid-1880’s. Jeff Peart will discuss the differences and the similarities with today’s baseball. Vintage baseball is alive and well on the North Shore. |
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Essex Baseball Club |
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Manchester Mothers' Club Read-a-thon wrap-up Saturday, April 12, 10 AM-noon The Manchester Mothers’ Club will be at the library from 10 AM-12 PM to collect all sponsor sheets and payments for the Read-a-thon. |
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Manchester Mothers' Club Read-a-thon Pancake Breakfast Sunday, April 13, 9-11 AM The celebration pancake breakfast wraps up the MMC's Read-a-thon to benefit the Library's Children's Room. The breakfast is open to everyone. Pick up your ticket at the Library. |
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Legion Hall, behind Town Hall. |
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National Library Week Monday, April 14 - Saturday April 19 Join the circle of knowledge @ your library. First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. All types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate. The Manchester Library is holding a raffle during National Library Week. Enter your name and phone number every time you visit the library during the week, for a chance to win a book or other book-related prize. |
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Non-fiction Book Group Monday, April 14, 7 PM New members are always welcome. |
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titles click here: www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/bookletter/showlist.html |
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Sarah Getty, Poet Wednesday, April 16, 3-4 PM Sarah Getty is an award-winning poet and fiction writer. Her book of poems, Bring Me Her Heart, received nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Her first collection, The Land of Milk and Honey, won a Cambridge Poetry Prize in 2002. Her poetry can also be found in magazines such as the Paris Review, and Calyx. Sarah Getty will appear at the library on Wednesday April 16 at 3 PM. |
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Patriots' Day, Library Closed Monday, April 21 The week of April 21 is school vacation week; reserve museum passes early. Museum passes are provided by the Friends of the Library:
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Barbara Flaherty, Poet Wednesday, April 23, 6:30 PM Barbara Flaherty is the author of Memory and Metaphor, New and Collected Poems 1993-1999, and Beach Rain. Barbara Flaherty’s work reflects her love of the sea and the natural wonders of the world. She will appear at the library on Wednesday April 23 at 6:30 PM. |
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Board of Library Trustees Meet Thursday, April 24, 10:30 AM In the Reference Room. |
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Mystery Book Group Friday, April 25, 10:30 AM New members are always welcome. |
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titles click here: www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/bookletter/showlist.html |
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National Volunteer Week Sunday, April 27-Saturday May 3 A volunteer gives time and expertise without expecting monetary compensation. The half of the U.S. population who volunteers makes many educational, health, cultural, and human service programs work. Hats off to our friends and neighbors who give back to the community through volunteering at the Library. |
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Cherry Blossom FestivalThis year’s National Cherry Blossom Festival marks the 96th anniversary of Tokyo’s gift of 3,000 cherry trees to Washington, D.C, representing the growing friendship between Japan and the United States. First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda planted the first two trees on March 27, 1912, on the north bank of the Tidal Basin. Today, the Festival is a two-week, citywide cultural event, and more than one million people flock to D.C. to admire the blossoming trees at the start of the spring season. If you’re planning a visit during this year’s Festival, from March 29 to April 13, read up on the Festival’s history before your trip. |
The Cherry Blossom Festival:
Sakura Celebration Check Our Catalog The most significant of the more than 175 varieties of Japanese ornamental trees featured, along with a discussion of Japanese garden design, and cultivation tips for home gardeners. ...More
Employee of the Month
Dorothy Sieradzki
The Trustees would like to recognize the Library staff who provide the community with outstanding service. This month the spotlight is on Dorothy Sieradzki, Library Director. Dorothy came to Manchester in 1980 and to the Library in 1994. She started as the Saturday library clerk and gradually worked up to cataloger. After receiving an MLS from Simmons Dorothy was hired as Assistant Director. In 2005 she became Library Director. "I love my adopted town and I love being able to live and work in the same place. I am very fortunate to be able to spend my time in a library, especially this one. The Manchester Library is the heart of the community and is a big part of its history." The challenge here, as in most New England communities, is space. Although the population of Manchester has remained constant the role of libraries has grown. Services to seniors and teens, new formats, and increased interlibrary loan were not dreamed of in 1887. With the strong support of the community and library trustees our 19th Century building is able to provide 21st Century modern library service. "Please stop in my office with suggestions, questions, comments. I need your feedback to provide the services the community wants."
Whitney Hammond
More Comfortable Seating
Janet Groth and son Patrick Turner
April is National Poetry Month
The
Manchester Public Library will celebrate Poetry Month with
contemporary local poets. Sarah Getty is an
award-winning poet and fiction writer. Her book of poems, Bring Me
Her Heart, received nominations for the Pulitzer Prize and
National Book Award. Her first collection, The Land of Milk and
Honey, won a Cambridge Poetry Prize in 2002. Her poetry can also
be found in magazines such as the Paris Review, and
Calyx. Sarah Getty will appear at the library on Wednesday April
16 at
Barbara
Flaherty is the author of Memory and Metaphor, New and Collected
Poems 1993-1999, and Beach Rain. Barbara Flaherty’s work
reflects her love of the sea and the natural wonders of the world. She
will appear at the library on Wednesday April 23 at
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Bring Me Her Heart By Getty, Sarah, PhD 2006/05 - Higganum Hill Books 9780974115887 Check Our Catalog Told in the poet's own voice as well as by
characters from stories and history, these poems focus on the pain
and joy of creating art, the endurance of love, and the prospect of
old age and mortality. By turn thought-provoking, witty, and deeply
felt, the pieces evoke realms as disconnected as ancient Greece and
Snow White's cottage, and offer vivid imagery, meticulous structure,
and a sly effort to dismantle stuffy ideas about literary history. |
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The Land of Milk and Honey: Poems
By Getty, Sarah, PhD 1996/10 - University of South Carolina Press 9781570031595 Check Our Catalog Meditating on her own experience of girlhood, marriage, and the mothering of a daughter, Getty combines a feminist outlook with a lively sense of connection to the natural and mythic realms from which the forces of generation emerge. Her poems, centered in domestic suburbia, range outward through those ancient realms and backward through the history of her family's women. Getty is concerned to explore the losses and absences of the spirit as rehearsed by the flesh, its old enemy and friend. In doing so she reveals a startling sense of humor, which is another way of saying that she has come to terms with reality. These poems - spirited, thoughtful, autonomous - reflect her response to that reality. ...More |
National Library Week - April 14-19
Join the Circle of Knowledge @ Your Library
National Volunteer Week - April
27-May 3
Hats off to our Library Volunteers.
| Jim | Bacsik | Steve | Grimes | |
| Barbara | Imbeault |
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Olivia | Hayden-Pliss |
| Lois | Kiefer | Jackie | Hooper | |
| Debbie | Ledbetter | Debbie | Hudson | |
| Sonia | Nichols | Carolyn | Kelly | |
| John | Olson | Taylor | Lance | |
| Sue | Thorne | Henry | Lapham | |
| Adam | Bailey | Nicole | Marshall | |
| Jasmine | Bailey | Verda | McAleer | |
| Polly | Barbaro | Joan | McDonald | |
| Jan | Canty | Caroline | Moore | |
| Molly | Carlson | Dominique | Noriega | |
| Elisabeth | Clark | Mary Ellen | Otto | |
| Ann | Coccoluto | Emily | Pries | |
| Eliza | Cody | John | Pries | |
| Monique | Costello | Ben | Rossi | |
| Maeve | Cullinane | Kathy | Ryan | |
| Charlie | Dalton | Katie | Siderewicz | |
| Pat | Doran | Bill | Stevens | |
| John | Dore | Noah | Stevens | |
| Liza | Dudley | Bob | Stewart | |
| Tommy | Durkin | Carl | Triebs | |
| Dee | Ellsworth | Torrie | Troensegaard | |
| Norah | Flynn | Bobina | VanderLaan | |
| Katerina | Gates | Barbara | Watson | |
| Lolly & Ric | Gibson | Joe | Wrobel |