Deborah Rawson Memorial Library
Newsletter August 2010
The library will be closed from August 2nd to August 10th. The children’s room is being painted and new shelves are being installed. The book drop will be available for book returns.
Stop by in August to see the photographs by the local photography group Focal Point.
The Board of Trustees will meet Thursday August 19 at 7 PM. The board will begin the budgeting process so please join us!
The Long Range Planning Committee for the library would like your help. Please take 5 minutes by Oct. 8th to help us improve our library by completing a survey.
Regular visitors – What do you like? What could be better? How can we make the library a place to that meets your needs?
If you’re not a regular visitor – How can we make your local library more useful to you?
The survey will be available on our web page, www.drml.org Watch for it on the front page!
Paper copies will be available at the library, the Jericho Town Hall and the Underhill Town Hall. If you know someone that doesn’t use the library, please let them know about the survey and consider giving them a paper copy.
What Poetry Can Do (and do for you!)
An Introductory Poetry Class and Workshop
August 2010
In A Field Guide to Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (1980) John Haines writes “…Once heard, the voice creates the environment of thought and feeling which we come to accept and believe in as an unmistakable mark of the poet’s work. The voice refined becomes the poet’s style.” Each person has their own voice, just as each person holds a unique fingerprint. In this class we will read poems by established writers and then create our own poems in class. The primary focus will be your own writing process and how to experiment with, and nourish, your own voice. The focus is for beginning poets, but the class is open to writers of all levels, experience, and interest. You can attend one session or any number of sessions.
Dates: August 11th – The Poem
August 13th – Image
August 18th – Line
August 20th – Sound
Time: 10:30AM – 12:30PM each day
Age level: Ages 13 and up
Enroll: Please call or stop by the library by August 10th at 3pm. 899-4962 Please indicate which sessions you will be attending. Space is limited to 12.
Bring: A notebook and a pen
Questions? Please call the library!
Melissa Hotchkiss will lead the class and workshop. Melissa Hotchkiss’s first book of poems, Storm Damage, was published by Tupelo Press. Her poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous publications such as failbetter.com, The American Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Free Inquiry, LIT, Upstairs at Duroc and the anthology Poets for Palestine. She has taught at the University of Rhode Island, New York University, and Parsons School of Design. Melissa is also one of the editors of Barrow Street and lives in New York City with her dog Jesse. She grew up in Underhill, Vermont.
Certified bike safety instructor Bob Schermer will discuss practices which contribute to enjoyable, safe cycling on Vermont roads. Teens and adults are invited to participate in the discussion, Tues. August 24 at 7 PM.
The Science Fiction/Fantasy book group will meet Sat. Aug 28 at 1 pm. They will be discussing “Eon” by Greg Bear.
Watch the webpage to find out what the Mystery Book Group is reading next and when they will meet in August.
From The Youth Department
Through the efforts of many, “Make a Splash Read” has been a great success!
We have had well over 200 children enroll in our summer reading programs and more than 750 in attendance at our 30 summer events. Our small library staff would never have been able to accomplish this without the help of the wonderful volunteers who were willing to share their time and talents.
A special thank you to all of the following:
Flan Abbey, Molly Abbey, Susan Adams, Heidi Albright, Martha Alexander, Beth Angolano, Allison Babbitt, Annie and Ivy Buck, Danny Champlin, Patty Cochran, John Connell, Sharon Damkot, Althea Devereux, Lily Devereux, Julia Dunn, Lindsay and Abby Foot, Francesca Frost, Millissa Frost, Phyllis Geiss, Callan Gravel, Kai Gravel, Maya Gunnell, Selah Gunnell, Joann Johnson, Jen King, Kim Knuuti, Eliza Kramer, Heather Lebeis, Elizabeth Lehr, Ann Linde, Joe Marie, Jeannie Panner, Julie Parker, Abby and Clara Retzloff, Teddy Retzloff, Michael Ruegsegger, Chris Ryan, Ethan Sander, Portia Senning, Jane Banks, and Caitlin Young.
We are also indebted to the following groups:
Browns River Middle School Library for lending us their DCF books
Underhill ID School for lending us the “Diary of a wimpy kid” series books and for the use of their building.
Echo Museum for the presentation of “Telling Your Digital Story”
Merchant’s Bank for the donation of a $50.00 Savings Bond for the reading club drawing
University Mall for the donation of the gift certificate for our teen drawing
Underhill- Jericho Fire Department their fire safety program
Very Merry Theatre for their production of Pinocchio
Several presenters have commented on how they enjoy coming to the DRML as the children in the audience have fun at the programs but are polite and respectful. I feel this is in no small part due to the many parents who elect to attend with their children and enjoy the experience together. Thank you to one and all that have made this a wonderful summer at the library!
Web Link:
A website to die for….if you love mysteries
www.StopYoureKillingMe.com
New Books:
Adult Books:
Family ties : a novel / Danielle Steel.
Broken : a novel / Karin Slaughter.
Pearl Buck in China : journey to the good earth / Hilary Spurling.
Sizzling sixteen / Janet Evanovich.
Whisper to the blood : a Kate Shugak novel / Dana Stabenow.
A fine and bitter snow : a Kate Shugak novel / Dana Stabenow.
A grave denied / Dana Stabenow.
The singing of the dead / Dana Stabenow. Welfare brat : a memoir / Mary Childers.
In the name of honor : a novel / Richard North Patterson.
Private / James Patterson
NurtureShock : new thinking about children / Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
Anthropology of an American girl : a novel / Hilary Thayer Hamann.
Surviving the dragon : a Tibetan lama's account of 40 years under Chinese rule.
Colossus : Hoover Dam and the making of the American century / Michael Hiltzik.
Kings of the earth : a novel / Jon Clinch.
The mountain between us / Charles Martin.
The only game in town : sportswriting from the New Yorker .
Mr. Peanut / Adam Ross.
Work song / Ivan Doig.
What is left the daughter / Howard Norman.
My name is Mary Sutter / Robin Oliveira.
Still missing / Chevy Stevens.
Priceless : how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures.
The hundred-foot journey : a novel / Richard C. Morais.
The search / Nora Roberts.
Hitch-22 : a memoir / Christopher Hitchens.
As husbands go : a novel / Susan Isaacs.
The other family / Joanna Trollope.
The island : a novel / Elin Hilderbrand.
The only thing worth dying for : how eleven Green Berets forged a new Afghanistan.
Beachcombers : a novel / Nancy Thayer.
It all began in Monte Carlo / Elizabeth Adler.
Ice cold : a Rizzoli & Isles novel / Tess Gerritsen.
Foreign influence : a thriller / Brad Thor.
Spoken from the heart / Laura Bush.
The promise : President Obama, year one / Jonathan Alter.
Sh*t my dad says / Justin Halpern.
Landmark : the inside story of America's new health care law.
Medium raw : a bloody valentine to the world of food and the people who cook / Anthony Bourdain.
The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives / Lola Shoneyin.
The homecoming : a Shelter Bay novel / JoAnn Ross.
Youth Books:
Operation Redwood / S. Terrell French.
The demigod files / Rick Riordan.
Wicked girls : a novel of the Salem witch trials / Stephanie Hemphill.
As easy as falling off the face of the earth / Lynne Rae Perkins.
The Grimm Legacy / Polly Shulman.
Silence and stone / by Kathleen Duey
Only the good spy young / Ally Carter.
Youth Audiobooks:
Scat / Carl Hiaasen.
Counting on Grace /Elizabeth Winthrop.
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