Closed March 26th for Staff Development Day
Closed March 26th for Staff Development Day
We’ll be closed Friday, March 26th for Staff Development Day. No items will be due. As always, the book drop will remain open. Thank you!
March Adult Activities
March Adult Activities
Come join your fellow community members on Thursday, March 18th at 6:30 p.m. for a lively discussion of both classic works and modern masterpieces.
Our book for March is Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel:
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
Reading copies are available to check out at the Circulation Desk.
Adult Makers: Diamond Painting
Explore an addictive new hobby. Kits will be available at the circulation desk beginning March 15 with an instructional video Friday, March 19th through our website and/or YouTube channel.
On the Same Page: Regency Ball and Concert
On the Same Page: Regency Ball and Concert
Regency Ball and Concert
Friday, February 26, Via YouTube
If you just finished learning the dance steps, we know you’ll want to try them out. Have an intimate ball in your living room as our trio plays tunes from the era. If you’re not a dancer, think of it as a cozy concert in your home. Watch the video below and dance along with us!
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On the Same Page: Regency Dance Lesson
On the Same Page: Regency Dance Lesson
Regency Dance Lesson
Friday, February 26, Via YouTube
Join us to learn steps to some basic dances of the time period. It will be helpful to have a small group working together. Four would be ideal, but we know you can figure things out with fewer if necessary. Watch the video below for some instruction in Regency Era dancing!
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On the Same Page: A Good Long Walk
On the Same Page: A Good Long Walk
A Good Long Walk
Logs due by noon, Monday, February 22
As all Austen readers know, her characters are champion walkers. Whatever the novel, the heroine will at some point go on a good, long walk. Persuasion is no exception as all the younger folk at Uppercross head over the hills to stretch their legs. We’re going to take the outing a bit further and take the major journeys of the novel on foot as well. You can decide how much you’re willing to take on and which direction you’d like to go. Feel like some time by the sea? It’s 17 miles to Lyme Regis. Spend your month there if you’d like. Do you prefer the society of Bath? That’s a little longer journey at 47 miles. Enjoy the concerts and parties! If you’re really just wanting to walk and then walk some more, you could walk to Lyme Regis and from there to Bath for a total of 77 miles. Don’t worry, you can send for a carriage at any time.
It doesn’t matter which destination you select. Anyone turning their log in before noon on Monday, February 22, will be entered into a drawing for a volume containing all of Jane Austen’s works.
On the Same Page: Selfie Scavenger Hunt
On the Same Page: Selfie Scavenger Hunt
This February, be on the lookout for things that tie in to our On the Same Page book Persuasion. See if you can get a photo of each of the following items. So that we’ll know it wasn’t something you just Google searched, we want to see you in the picture as well! Print out your photos and turn them in before noon on Monday, February 22. We’ll see who can get the most to win a volume containing all of Jane Austen’s novels. If there are multiple people getting all of them, we’ll have to see who has the closest representation to what’s in the book!
See if you can get a photo of each of the following items:
1 – Tea Pot
2 – “Great House”
3 – Ship
4 – Letter
5 – Calling Card
6 – Seagull
7 – Stile
8 – Stone Steps
9 – Cast Limb
10 – Horse
11 – Concert Hall
12 – Dam, Dike, or Jetty
13 – Volume of Poetry
14 – People Playing Cards
15 – Concert Hall