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It’s not too early to Letter from the President 2012 Annual Appeal A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed to the Library’s 2012 Annual Appeal. The Appeal raised over $124,000, which was approximately $12,000 more than budgeted. Donations from our community are crucial to the Library’s operation. They make up almost a third of the yearly cost of operating the Library. Funding from local towns provides approximately a fifth of the operating budget. Without your help and that of many other individuals from our year ‘round and summer community our Library could not offer all of its wonderful services. Thank you for your continuing support of our special Library. Annual Plant Sale Despite the crunchy snow and the threat of a major winter storm this weekend we have begun to plan for our Annual Plant Sale. This year the sale will take place on the morning of Saturday, May 25th. As always, we depend on local gardeners and garden owners to supply most of the plants that will be placed on sale. As you start your vegetable and flower seed trays (I hope to plant my onion seeds tomorrow with perennial flower seeds to be started soon as well) please consider planting a few extra six packs for the Plant Sale. As the weather warms up think, too, about potting up and donating your perennial flower and soft fruit divisions. As always, we will have a supply of pots in the Library shed. Clifton Page President, Friends of the Blue Hill Public Library

Children’s Corner Pat Horton, Youth Services phorton@bhpl.net March to the Music! March brings lots of action with songs, singing and movement for children at the Library. During the month, storytimes will be filled with the beat of live and recorded music to get little feet moving and little voices singing. On March 27, Deborah Reinke will be back for another Music and Movement six-part series for the first half-hour of the Wednesday playgroup. She will engage parents and toddlers in musical activities using her own beautiful voice and recorded songs. Last year’s program was very popular and her repeat performance is much anticipated. Saturday, March 16th marks the 4th Annual Stuffed Animal Pet Show! It is no secret that this is my favorite day of the year and I just can’t wait to see all those adorable and

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The Library Page Sponsored by Friends of the Blue Hill Public Library

March 2013

Friends of the Blue Hill Library Officers & Board Members

Clifton Page President Donna Scheutzow Vice President Ellie Andy Secretary Bonnie Copper Co-Treasurer Nina Fleming Co-Treasurer Rich Boulet, Library Director Lisa Arhontes-Marshall Lucy Benjamin Michael Donahue Jane Garfield Leslie Goode Kay Grover Linda Slaven Anne Smallidge Mary Ulbrich

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[Children’s Corner, continued] well-loved stuffed animals all decked-out in their finest. This program requires registration which opens on March 2nd. You can either sign-up at our events calendar on our website or feel free to call the library to reserve a place for this wonderful event! Lego Club will continue to happen every Saturday throughout March. We will be deciding soon whether or not to continue to have it every week. It has been well-attended so the decision may be an easy one. Thanks to all who make the BHPL a place where wonderful things happen for children. I’d like to give a special thank-you to Ellie Andy and Mary Ulbrich for each doing a fantastic job while filling in for me during Tuesday story times recently. Everyone had a really great time! Ongoing Children’s Programs • Storytime: Tuesdays,10:30-11am. Stories,

singing, puppets and more for children up to age 4.

• The Reader Dog Program: Tuesdays, 3:10-5:10pm. Each week our roster fills up quickly with children wanting to read to Bri, the miniature Italian Greyhound. Sign-up to reserve a 20-minute period for your child to read.

• Playgroup: Wednesdays, 10:30am-12pm. For babies and toddlers up to age 3. Gluten-free snack provided.

• Chess Club: Fridays, 3:00-3:45pm. Open to all kids ages 7 and up, this is an opportunity to learn the game or practice your skills. We provide the chess boards and snacks. No sign-up required.

• Lego Club: Saturdays, through March 30, 10:30-12noon. Lego enthusiasts are invited to come and share ideas and creative energy. Bring your Legos or use ours. Open to children ages 7-12. Those 6 and under are welcome when accompanied by an adult.

Must See Movie Series Join us Thursday, March 14, 7-9pm, for Day of Wine and Roses (1962). Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meets his future wife Kirsten (Lee Remick) at a party. Once married, the pressures of his business lead Joe to seek solace in liquor. Kirsten joins him in his nocturnal drinking sessions, and before long both are confirmed alcoholics. After several frightening episodes, Joe is able to shake the habit but Kirsten finds it impossible to get through the day without liquor. The two split up, although Joe clings to the hope that someday he and Kirsten will be reunited, if for no reason other than the sake of their young daughter.

Play Reading Group Join us Wednesday, March 20, 6:30-9pm. Talley's Folly (1979) is the story of one night in the lives of two unlikely sweethearts, Matt Friedman and Sally Talley. The one-act play takes place in a dilapidated boathouse on the Talley farm in Missouri, the Fourth of July, 1944. While on vacation the previous summer, Matt met Sally and has sent her a letter every day since. Though the single reply from Sally gave him no hope for romantic encouragement, he has bravely returned to ask her to marry him. Eventually, the couple begins to reminisce about the night they met and the time they spent together.Matt takes it as a positive sign that she has changed into a nice dress before coming to see him tonight. Sally's protests do not match her behavior. She is the most mysterious and intriguing girl he has ever met and he determined quite a while ago to make her his wife. Tally’s Folly won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Lanford Wilson (April 13, 1937 – March 24, 2011) was an American playwright who helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement, producing his earliest plays in New York at the Caffe Cino in 1964.[1] He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980 and was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame. In 2004, Wilson was

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[Play Reading Group, continued] elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist. He was nominated for three Tony Awards and has won a Drama Desk Award and an Obie Award. The Blue Hill Public Library Play Reading Group welcomes inexperienced and experienced readers alike. The only criterion is the love of plays and the joy of reading them aloud among like-minded theater fans. For more information about these free events, contact the library at 374.5515, or Michael Donahue at 374.5248 or donahue.mg@gmail.com.

Art Adventures Program Explore Japanese “haiga” on Thursday,

March 28th at 7pm. Haiga is the Japanese word for the combination on a paper or scroll of haiku poetry and “ga” (painting). The poem is composed of 3 lines with 5, 7, then 5 syllables each and usually includes a nature or seasonal word that the painting

illustrates. Frederica Marshall will create haiga and then lead audience members in making their own haiga on prepared cylindrical surfaces. Marshall studied painting, pottery, poetry and calligraphy during her 28 year stay in Japan. Contact Margret Baldwin at the library and see the Events Calendar listings on the library website to learn more. About this program, “Art Adventures,” a monthly series funded by Friends of the Blue Hill Library, that began February 28. This 8-month series will spotlight a variety of visual and performing arts from jazz and painting to photography and even tattoo art. Each program will be at 7pm on the 4th Thursday of the month (except for August when it will be the 2nd Thursday). Audience participation will be part of every program from writing haiku poetry to drawing portraits from a live model. Everyone attending an event will receive a list of relevant library resources including books, CD/DVDs and other topical materials.

What does it mean to be a Friend? Your annual $10 membership makes it

possible for the library to have…

New York Times subscriptions, Must See Movie Series, Play Readings, Opera Previews, Great Decisions Series, Children’s Programs, Literacy

Volunteer Programs, purchases of digital media, furniture, a/v equipment, staff

appreciation gifts, scholarships for staff and volunteer development, and more!

Brown Bag Book Club 1st Thursday of the month

12noon Howard Room

Read the chosen title, bring your lunch, and enjoy lively discussions.

To find out what we are reading, check

the library bulletin board, ask a staff member, or contact BBBC Facilitators:

Don and Suzanne Carmichael carmichael1@gwi.net.

Thank you for your support. Do you have feedback or

ideas about this newsletter? Contact us…

folvolunteers@bhpl.net Learn more about your membership or

get involved as a volunteer. www.bluehill.lib.me.us/friends

or call 207.374.5515. !

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New on the Shelves Nonfiction Pickhardt, Carl, Surviving Your Child's Adolescence Cruikshank, Margaret, Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging Aikman, Becky, Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives Andreas, Peter, Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America Klingaman, William K., The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History Taylor, Marianne, Owls Subbarao, Italo, American Medical Association Handbook of First Aid and Emergency Care (Revised) Morrison, Alethea, Homegrown Honey Bees: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Beekeping Your First Year, from Hiving to Honey Harvest, The Fales Library, 101 Classic Cookbooks: 501 Classic Recipes, Fisher, Joe, Brewing Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Making Beer at Home Cahan, Richard, Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows Francona, Terry, Francona: The Red Sox Years Miyazawa, Kenji, Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems Goodman, Matthew, Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World Gajo, Patricia, Frommer's Montreal & Quebec City [With Pull-Out Map] 917.1428045, Hornyak, Timothy N., Montreal & Quebec City 941.5081, Miles, Kathryn, All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship Biography Ballard, J. G., Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, an Autobiography, Georges, Nicole J., Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir Lasdun, James, Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked

Fiction Bennett, Robert Jackson, American Elsewhere Block, Lawrence, Hit Me Brennan, Marie, A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent Brink, Andre, Philida Crace, Jim, Harvest Dean, Michael, I, Hogarth, Dobyns, Stephen, The Burn Palace Dorsey, Tim, The Riptide Ultra-Glide Dubow, Charles, Indiscretion Evanovich, Janet, The Husband List Flynn, Vince, Untitled #1 New Series Gaige, Amity, Schroder Gardner, Lisa, Touch & Go Gavin, Jim, Middle Men Guthrie, Woody, House of Earth Hanley, C. B., The Sins of the Father: A Mediaeval Mystery Hobbs, Roger, Ghostman Jance, J. A., Deadly Stakes Jones, Christopher Morgan, The Jackal's Share Kellerman, Jonathan, Guilt Kelly, Erin, The Burning Air Koch, Herman, The Dinner Lambdin, Dewey, Hostile Shores: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure Mahoney, Dennis, Fellow Mortals Meister, Ellen, Farewell, Dorothy Parker Mina, Denise, Gods and Beasts Nadler, Stuart, Wise Men Patterson, James, Alex Cross, Run, Patterson, James, Private Berlin Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself, Picoult, Jodi, The Storyteller Rideout, Tanis, Above All Things Robb, J. D., Calculated in Death Russell, Karen, Vampires in the Lemon Grove Saunders, George, Tenth of December: Stories Self, Will, Umbrella Seymour, Gerald, A Deniable Death Smith, Lachlan, Bear Is Broken Stephenson, Neal, Mongoliad, The: Book Three Tanabe, Karin, The List Tierney, Kathleen, Blood Oranges Walter, Jess, We Live in Water: Stories Wayne, Teddy, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine Wrinkle, Margaret, Wash Zambra, Alejandro, Ways of Going Home

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