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May News at Bixby
Book Sale Room Reopens
New Hours for the New Season~
Come and see the transformation that has occurred over the winter. Lenore Morse and Karlene DeVine have worked hard to create a more inviting and organized look to our book sale room.
The new hours will be Mondays open on the 1st, 3rd, and 4th of the month from 12:30- 8p.m.
Tues: through Fridays: 12:30 -5p.m. Saturdays 10-2
Addison Northwest Supervisory Union Student Art Exhibit
Art exhibit May 7th through May 25-26th
Art is displayed throughout the first floor.
Come and celebrate the art of area youths.
Automation has arrived~
Please read for further information above go to :Catalogue then drop down to Automation.
Bixby Gala Saturday, May 12th at Basin Harbor 6:30-10p.m.
Tickets are now on sale at Bixby Library and other locations in Vergennes. They are $40.00 each and include the entire evening event!
Happy 100th Birthday Bixby Library! Fine food, cocktails, music for dancing is provided by the melodius Little City Jazz Band! Local musicians Justin Levinson and Chris Wyckoff will also be rounding out the musical entertainment. Dust off those dancing shoes. Dance demos are being provided by Jim Condon and Eloise Beil. Bring along your friends, and bid frequently at the silent auction. Help support the Bixby and reconnect with old friends and neighbors!
Third Thursday: May 17th 7 p.m. Colony Collapse Disorder: What is happening to all the bees? Film: Queen of the Sun Presenter: Jan Louise Ball
In the fall of 2006, newspapers around the United States began to publicize an unnerving phenomenon eventually named Colony Collapse Disorder. Honeybees were mysteriously disappearing from beehives all around the nation. Honey production was down 30%. Pollination is the thread that unites flora and fauna, and the bees remind us of the importance of preserving the delicate balance of nature and of using it as a model for our own society. Watching Queen of the Sun will help you become inspired, empowered and educated about the honeybee crisis. With this movie, you will be challenged to reconnect with your backyard, nature and our planet. Taking us on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive, this engaging and ultimately uplifting film weaves an unusual and dramatic story of heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world including Michael Pollan, Gunther Hauk and Vandana Shiva. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature. Alternative and inspiring beekeepers from the US to Italy share their unique philosophical and spiritual insights into their bees. Eighty-two minutes long, the film showing will be followed by an optional discussion facilitated by Jan Louise Ball, a long-time beekeeper and resident of Addison. All are invited to attend this free program. The library is ADA accessible. For further information about this program or other Third Thursday programs please call the Bixby at: 877-2211.
Bixby Centennial Celebration DVD now available
Preview a shortened version of the DVD here: www.legacyvideoportraits.com
To order the full length version for a donation of $20.00 (an additional $1.00 for shipping and handling) please send a check and your request to: Bixby Memorial Free Library/ 258 Main Street / Vergennes, Vermont 05491
Atten: Bixby DVD
Red Sox and Yankees raffle tickets
Raffle tickets!!! Chance to win a trip for 2 to attend a July 6th, 2012 game at Fenway Park.
Transportation to the game is included by motorcoach from Burlington. Tickets are on sale at the Bixby: $10.00 each or 3 for $25.00. Drawing will be held at the Bixby Gala, you do not need to be present to win. Good luck! Tickets/ trip generously sponsored by Milne Travel. Go Red Sox! Go Yankees!
Free Universal Class is here!
Universal Class is a new on-line service offered to our registered Bixby patrons. Over 500 courses on a wide variety of subjects will be available for free. A sampling of available subjects include: Interview skills, Nutrition 101, Stress Management 101, Caring for Seniors, Microsoft Office 2007 and Photography Basics.
Students can:enroll in up to 5 courses /6 months to finish each course /access courses 24/7 via internet. Attend class, do assignments on your personal schedule / each course has real instructors who can communicate with students by e-mail.
These are non-credit courses and provided for personal enrichment /courses are not intended as substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements. If you are interested in enrolling in Universal class, you may then register using the Vermont Department of Libraries live link below . Use your new barcode number.
http://vermontstate.universalclass.com/register.htm
This Service is brought to you by Recorded Books, Vt. Dept. of Libraries and Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Listen Up! Vermont Free Audiobooks & eBooks
The Bixby Library is a member of the Green Mountain Library consortium. Our patrons are invited to download Audio books and eBooks from the link below at no cost. Before you begin:
1) You must be a registered Bixby patron, 2) Use your new plastic library card’s barcode number.
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A valid plastic library card with barcode
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Internet access
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A computer or device that meets the system requirements for the type(s) of materials you wish to download
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Free software for the computer or device on which you wish to use the materials available at link listed above
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Children age 8 and above as well as Teens may sign up. There are plenty of titles for them to choose from.
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Downloading Audiobooks and eBooks is fun, convenient, and portable~ anywhere, any time! Enjoy! If you experience any difficulties visit the Overdrive site for additional support.
Join Front Porch Forum :Helping Neighbors Connect
Front Porch Forum is a free comunity-building service. Your neighborhood’s forum is only open to the people who live there. It’s all about helping neighbors connect. It’s fun! Join today, what are you waiting for?
click on this link: www.frontprochforum.com
Vergennes is one of 70 towns/ cities across Vermont offering connection to Front Porch Forum. The Bixby Library was selected as one of the e-Vermont grant recipients in 2011. Front Porch forum is one of the digital ways our community can keep informed and connected neighbor to neighbor.
Explore Vermont Online VOL
This database is available to our registered patrons. Visit this link:
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/vol_v58
A barcode from your new library card will be necessary to gain access. This feature will be set up on April 16th with the Gale Group to gain access with your barcode. Please be sure to come in and get your new card!
Vermont Online is made available due to our eVermont Grant.
Bixby’s Partnership with UVM’s Center for Digital Initiatives allows access of 788 historic photos from our History Room Collection to be available 24/7.Visit collection by using the link below to view our historic slide and photo collection: http://cdi.uvm.edu Please write your comments for us at the link.
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May Book Reviews
The first Frontier: The forgotten struggle, savagery, & endurance in Early America
by Scott Weidnsaul
From the book jacket:
"Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier—the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.
Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground—when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.
The First Frontier traces two and a half centuries of history through poignant, mostly unheralded personal stories—like that of a Harvard-educated Indian caught up in seventeenth-century civil warfare, a mixed-blood interpreter trying to straddle his white and Native heritage, and a Puritan woman wielding a scalping knife whose bloody deeds still resonate uneasily today. It is the first book in years to paint a sweeping picture of the Eastern frontier, combining vivid storytelling with the latest research to bring to life modern America’s tumultuous, uncertain beginnings."
Orchid House
by Lucinda Riley
From book’s back cover:
As a child, concert pianist Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton Park, the grand estate where her grandfather tended exotic orchids. Years later, while struggling with overwhelming grief over the death of her husband and young child, she returns to this tranquil place. There she reunites with Kit Crawford, heir to the estate and her possible salvation.
When they discover an old diary, Julia seeks out her grandmother to learn the truth behind a love affair that almost destroyed the estate. Their search takes them back to the 1940s when Harry, a former heir to Wharton Park, married his young society bride, Olivia, on the eve of World War II. When the two lovers are cruelly separated, the impact will be felt for generations to come.
This atmospheric story alternates between the magical world of Wharton Park and Thailand during World War II. Filled with twists and turns, passions and lies, and ultimately redemption, The Orchid House is a beautiful, romantic, and poignant novel."
Grief of others
by Leah Hager Cohen
From the book jacket:
"Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family?
The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves and for their two older children, they find themselves pretending not only that little has changed, but that their marriage, their family, have always been intact. Yet in the aftermath of the baby’s death, long-suppressed uncertainties about their relationship come roiling to the surface. A dreadful secret emerges with reverberations that reach far into their past and threaten their future.
The couple’s children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old Paul, responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in exquisitely- perhaps courageously-idiosyncratic ways. But as the four family members scatter into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they all find themselves growing more alert to the sadness and burdens of others-to the grief that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the power to draw us together.
Moving, psychologically acute, and gorgeously written, The Grief of Others asks how we balance personal autonomy with the intimacy of relationships, how we balance private decisions with the obligations of belonging to a family, and how we take measure of our own sorrows in a world rife with suffering. This novel shows how one family, by finally allowing itself to experience the shared quality of grief, is able to rekindle tenderness and hope."
