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November 1, 2001 Library Picks Book for December Discussion
November 1, 2001 LaVale Library Features Huot Fisher's Needlework
November 14, 2001 Changing Women's Roles Subject of Library's Book
November 26, 2001 World War II Veterans Speak at Library
November 1, 2001
Library Picks Book for December Discussion
PRESS RELEASE - Allegany County Library System
Contact: Linda Burkey South Cumberland Library 100 Seymour Street Cumberland, MD 21502
The Book Discussion Group of the Allegany County Library System has picked The
Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder to discuss at its December 27th
meeting. The group meets the 4th Thursday of each month at the South
Cumberland Branch, 100 Seymour Street, starting at 7 PM. The group will be discussing Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver at its November meeting, which because of Thanksgiving has been moved to Tuesday November 27 at 7 PM. Set in southern Appalachia, where Kingsolver grew up, Prodigal Summer weaves tightly together the lives of her three main characters and the natural history of the land they inhabit. Copies of the book are available at the library.
November 1, 2001 LaVale Library Features Huot Fisher's Needlework
PRESS RELEASE - Allegany County Library System
Contact: Marie Shipley LaVale Public Library 815 National Highway LaVale, MD 21502
A display of award winning needlework by Huot Fisher will be featured at the
LaVale Branch of the Allegany County Library System during the month of
November.
Dr.
Fisher’s work has been previously honored at the annual needlework competition
at Woodlawn, the plantation home that George and Martha Washington had built for
their granddaughter and her husband in Mount Vernon, Virginia.
“Dr.
Fisher will also be on hand to demonstrate his needlework for us on Tuesday
November 20, 2001 from 3:30 to 5:30,” said Marie Shipley.
“We are very happy to have the chance to feature his work at the LaVale
Library.” Retired chair of the Music Department at Frostburg State University, Dr. Fisher started doing needlework about 20 years ago. His display will include cross-stitch, needlepoint and embroidery.
November 14, 2001
Changing Women's Roles Subject of Library's Book Group
PRESS RELEASE - Allegany County Library System
Contact: Pat Merrbach Frostburg Public Library 65 E. Main Street Frostburg, MD 21532
The newly formed Book Discussion Group of the Frostburg Branch of the Allegany
County Library System will be discussing their first book selection, Valley
of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann on Tuesday, November 27 at 7 pm.
A classic book
inspired by Susann’s own life, Valley of
the Dolls follows the lives of three young women and their rise to the top
of New York City’s showbiz scene in the 1960’s followed by their downfall
due to their own self-defeating lifestyles. The book has gained notoriety again with the recent release of its sequel Jacqueline Susann’s Shadow of the Dolls which allows readers to find out how Susann’s heroines have fared thru the late 1980’s.
Notes for
this sequel were found following Susann’s death in 1974, and the book has been
published with Rae Lawrence as its pseudonymous author.
The group will be reading Jacqueline
Susann’s Shadow of the Dolls for their December discussion.
Susann’s works
were selected by the book group to stimulate discussion on a diverse range of
topics such as how women’s roles have changed since the Valley of the Dolls and whether life experiences of the characters
are similar to those of readers today. Have
women’s lives really changed at all since the 1960’s? “We would love to have anyone that is interested attend this meeting,” said Pat Merrbach, Branch Manager. “Even if you haven’t read the November selection, you’re welcome to come and experience the group in action.”
November 26, 2001
World War II Veterans to Speak at Library
PRESS RELEASE - Allegany County Library System
Contact: Pat Merrbach Frostburg Public Library 65 E. Main Street Frostburg, MD 21532
Local
World War II Veterans Thomas Dunn, Gail Northcraft, and Albert Via will share
memories of their war experiences at the Frostburg Branch of the Allegany County
Library System on Tuesday, December 4 at 7 pm. “With the present war and the heightened patriotism that our country is experiencing at this time,” explains Frostburg Branch Manager Pat Merrbach, “we are using our History Lecture Series to allow a few of our local residents to share with the public their memories of war and how they dealt with it.
Thomas Dunn
will be speaking about his experiences when he was 17 aboard the USS Lamson DD
#367, which was attacked by kamikazes. He will tell how buddies helped each other after they
abandoned ship and how later, theirs was one of the first warships that arrived
in Nagasaki after the bomb was dropped.
Gail Northcraft was
23 when he served with the 2nd Marine Division, which landed on
Saipan in the Mariana Islands to train for the invasion of Nagasaki.
The dropping of the bomb intervened, and he was assigned to the Nagasaki
area.
Al Via served with
the Army in the invasion of France. He was with troops following Patton and was a survivor of the
torpedoing of Leopoldville. Later
he served with the occupation troops in Germany.
It is our hope that
this round table type lecture will be successful and paves the way for similar
lectures as part of the Library System’s History Lecture Series on the first
Tuesday of each month. |
