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Welcome to Enabled Entrepreneur Week, Celebration of Love Week, Give Yourself Credit Week, Homes for Birds Week, International Flirting Week, and Brotherhood/Sisterhood Week.
Wednesday is Heart 2 Heart Day, a day to confide something to your diary. Before you know it, you’ll write a whole book! Friday is the 70th anniversary of the day in 1930 when Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane. During the flight, which was attended by reporters, she was milked, and the milk was sealed in paper containers and parachuted over St. Louis, Missouri.
Friday also kicks off Second Honeymoon Weekend, a few days for all couples to spend some quality time together away from the routine of their everyday lives. Sunday is Northern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day. At high noon (local time) citizens are asked to go outdoors and yell, "Hoodie-Hoo" to chase away winter and make ready for spring.
Monday is Presidents’ Day, and the library will be closed.
WHAT’S HAPPENING?
Wednesday’s 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. storytimes observe Presidents’ Day with stories and activities, including making a log cabin and a cherry tree.
Saturday morning’s 10:00 storytime celebrates National Pancake Week, and participants will make a runaway pancake.
BOOK TALK
The library’s Bob Kerwick provides this week’s book information. The forces of nature have always been a problem for man in his ceaseless endeavor to control the planet. In time, he has learned to predict the weather, to build levees to lessen the severity of floods, to bring technology to the battle against forest fires, but he remains somewhat helpless in the face of the greatest natural disaster - earthquakes. The following fictional accounts attempt to portray the horror that an earthquake, striking without warning, can bring.
In "The Rift," by Walter J. Williams, the biggest earthquake to hit anywhere in the world since Lisbon in 1755 does not hit Japan, Turkey, Mexico, or even California. It strikes the middle of the American Heartland in New Madrid, Missouri. For hundreds of miles from the epicenter, dams burst, whole cities collapse, and bridges twist and snap, dropping rush hour traffic into swollen rivers. Chaos reigns all along the river; a disaster like no other has hit America. The Heartland has fallen into the Rift. Williams has created a disaster saga of the highest order, a nightmare that could happen.
The earthquake hits Los Angeles in Richard Layman’s "The Quake," and the damage is devastating. The survivors, however, face far greater danger than that caused by nature, for the quake has brought to the surface the worst elements of humanity. Layman paints a nightmare of mankind gone berserk.
Chuck Scarborough’s "After-Shock" moves the earthquake to New York City, which has been brought to its knees. The story focuses less on the quake itself than on the after events, the people trapped in buildings, in subway tunnels, and on bridges. Although he, too, acknowledges the presence of vandals and looters, Scarborough puts equal emphasis on the Good Samaritans who band together to help one another.
"Tsunami," by Richard Martin Stern, starts with a massive geologic shift on the ocean’s floor that results in a mountain of water, capable of destroying everything in its path, headed toward the California coast. This is just a partial list of disaster novels you’ll find at your Roswell Public Library.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
"A grouchy man spreads cheer . . . wherever he doesn’t go." (unknown)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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