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Welcome
to Anonymous Giving Week, National Bubble Week, National Clutter Awareness Week,
National Secondhand Shopping Week, and National Spring Fever Week!
Yes, today is the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
The sun rises due east and sets due west everywhere (except near the
poles), and the daylight length is virtually the same everywhere:
12 hours and 8 minutes!
Wednesday
is Flower Day, Thursday is As Young As You Feel Day, and Friday is Liberty Day,
the anniversary of Patrick Henry’s speech that included the famous quote:
“I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty
or give me death.”
Sunday
is National Family Day, focused on providing opportunities for families to
foster better communications, establish and celebrate traditions, and build
strong families. Sunday is also the
Old New Year’s Day. In Great
Britain and its North American colonies, March 25 was the beginning of the new
year up through 1751, when the adoption of the Gregorian calendar changed the
beginning of the year to January 1.
Monday
is Legal Assistants Day and Make Up Your Own Holiday Day.
So if there’s something you’ve wanted to celebrate, Monday is the day
to do so; name it for whatever you wish – perhaps, Roswell Public Library Day!
WHAT'S
HAPPENING?
At
Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 story times, participants will celebrate spring
in stories and crafts. Saturday
morning’s 10:00 story time features music in stories and crafts.
It’s
time for Free Fourth Friday Fun for Adults!
On March 23, at 2:00 p.m., adults are encouraged to bring their own
keepsakes, photos, and memorabilia to use in a collage.
Everything else will be provided. Since
participation is limited to 20 adults, please call 622-7101 to register in
advance. The program will be held
at the Children’s Branch, 316 N. Richardson.
BOOK
TALK
Young
Adult/Audiovisual Librarian Nancy A. Schummer provides this week's book
information. Last month was
"Love a Lonely Book Month" at the library, and while
preparing my display of rarely read YA paperbacks, I came across a tender,
little book by Angela Johnson. The title is "Toning the Sweep,” and if
you're like me the title made me curious. I asked myself, "What is this
about?"
Looking
inside on the first page, I found descriptive words like beautiful, understated,
brave, wonderful, subtle, memorable, affecting, fluid, and celebratory, with
ingenuity and grace. This led me to
read the 103 pages over a couple of lunch hours.
I became charmed by Emily (Emmie) and her grandmother Ola.
I was drawn into the mystery of why her grandmother and her mother Diane
(then a child) left rural Alabama in 1964 in a Buick Electra convertible that
her grandfather had bought and her grandmother still owned.
This
story, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 1994, is about African-American
history, a family relationship between three generations of women, a tradition
about restless souls getting into heaven, and about living in the desert of
southern California. If you read
it, you will not soon forget it.
By
the way, I'm new here in Roswell and will be ordering the videos, music, young
adult books, and the books-on-tape. Please drop by the library to see me or
leave a note, or give me a call or e-mail me at naschumm@angelfire.com
and let me know what you wish we had in the library in those areas.
I'll make my best effort to get them.
DID
YOU KNOW?
According
to “Bottom Line Personal,” spending on drugs for pets is increasing faster
than spending on drugs for people. The
US market for pet pharmaceuticals is not $3 billion a year and growing 20%
annually.
THOUGHT
FOR THE WEEK:
"A friend never gets in your way except to clear it for you.” (unknown)
JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276
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