Gilbert Hart Library
Telephone/Fax: 446-2685
Wendy Savery, Librarian
E-Mail: ghlib@comcast.net
Spring
is arriving and soon the Japanese Lilac outside will be blooming with poetry.
Everyone is invited to help with this effort to create a Poetry Tree in
celebration of National Library Week April 10-16th. Simply bring a slip of
paper with your favorite poem handwritten or typed to the library and we'll
weatherproof it and hang it from the tree. There are also materials
available at the library for this project if you prefer to come in and select a
poem here.
The
season of renewal has meant also renewing many subscriptions to the fine
magazines available for patrons to check out for a two week period.
Publications featuring cooking and travel, Newsweek, Time, and much more are
displayed as you enter. And we have acquired more new books, through
purchases and donations. The new books come in and out quickly, and there
are new arrival lists in the library so you can shop the list and ask to have a
book held for you when it returns.
In
March a discussion of The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver was led by C.J. Sloane.
Join us April 20 for a VT Humanities Council presentation. Continuing from
last month, children are invited for a story and spring fingerplays on April 1
and April 15 at 10:30. Make the library a place where you blossom this
spring!
Library Hours
Sun
& Mon: closed
Tues:
10 - 5:00
Wed:
10 – 8:00
Thurs & Fri: 10 – 5:00
Saturday:
9 – 12:00
Telephone
446-2685
Hart Lines
By the Friends of Gilbert Hart Library
This has been a difficult winter
for most of us, and it’s still not over, but we are looking at March (!) which
at least suggests that spring is on its way. Daylight Savings time begins on
March 13, and the first day of spring is on March 20. What
Whist parties continue on Friday nights at 7:00. In March they will be on the 4th and 18th; in April they will be on 1st, 15th and 29th. Carol Pratt is still the contact person for this activity (446-2843).
Lois will continue with rug-braiding workshop activity on Saturdays, 9-12 a.m., on March 5th and March 12th. For more information, call her at 446-2442.
We will be having a book discussion on March 16 on Barbara Kingsolver’s most recent book, The Lucuna, at 7:00 p.m. in the Klock Room. As there are a limited number of books available, when you get one, read it, take notes, and return so that someone else can enjoy it. It is apparently an interesting book with much action involving the Mexican border area, and of course, Ms. Kingsolver writes a good story.
We have scheduled events pretty much for the whole year. A flier will be available soon at the Library, but a quick run-down of activities is for April 20th, a Humanities Presentation by Ursula Smith and Linda Peavy who present in their inimitable way “The Shipman Family Dilemma of 1881,” about a Bethel family who went west in the 1880s.
In May we will have our annual plant sale on the 14th from 9-12. In June there will be a garden tour and tea; in July a book and yard sale. In August is our own Fete Day before making plans for a new year and the annual fund raising dinner in October.
First Wednesdays are held
in various cities throughout
In