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The Norfolk Library Owl Vol 22 Issue 3

July 2013

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Under the Tent — August 23, 24 & 25 norfoLK Library associates summer fundraising weeKend – support the Library! Friday, August 23, 6:30 – 8:00 pm 25 Years of Summer Reading Extravaganza at the Norfolk Library, Saturday, August 24, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Auction Gala Extrordinaire, Silent Auction, Live Auction and Preview of books of better value 3 Sunday, August 25, 10:00 am –5:00 pm 7th Annual Book Sale

Associates Fundraising Weekend and New Oﬃcers The Norfolk Library Associates have been helping the library acquire books and stage performances, lectures and children’s programs since its inception in 1974. This year the weekend of August 23—25 will mark the Associates largest fundraising events, and promises something for everyone! Friday evening is reserved for our 25 Years of Summer Reading Extravaganza (6:30 – 8:00 pm), while Saturday evening from 6:00 – 8:00 pm is reserved for the much anticipated yearly auction. The auction comes replete with

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fine food and drink, and we urge you to bid on a variety of wonderful items and get the first chance at buying books of better Value. Our 37th Annual Book Sale is to take place on Sunday, August 25, from 10AM-5PM. Beginning the new fiscal, new officers will step up for their elected, two-year terms. Louise and David Davis are to serve as co-Presidents, with Linda Bell as Vice-President. Barbara Tracey is again set to serve as Treasurer. Filling the slot of Secretary is Sally Estock. As steadfast partners of the library, the Associates always welcome new members. Meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month at noon in the library’s Great Hall.

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Coming Up…. Dig Into Reading Dig into Reading is the summer reading theme this year and that made us think about the library garden. Actually, I am so charmed and delighted by it that I have devised time to sit outside on any of our numerous benches and enjoy the flowers and the children’s garden. And, I am, in fact, working, as most areas around our lauded building are accessible to the library’s WIFI! Consider extending your appreciation of our library by taking some peaceful, outdoor moments with your laptop or device, or just a plain old book, on our grounds. To celebrate the theme, Kristin Pizzica, our gardener, created this wonderful, whimsical, “Dig into Reading,” book planter for our children’s garden, and Miss Eileen has devised a magical summer reading enrichment program that will blow your socks off! Also lookout for our morning movie screenings of Fern Gully, The Borrowers and Faeries using our state of the art system!

director Library Interns Welcome to library interns, Xavier Rodriguez and Griffin Berlstein! Xavier and Griffin started work with us in mid-June and are to stay with us for a year. We are excited to have them work with us and look forward to a mutually beneficial relationship – where we can provide a great opportunity for technology experience, and Xavier and Griffin help us with our day-to-day operations and summer teen projects!

We have a new design for our library card, designed by Ann DeCerbo, which comes along with a key chain tag! Rich Dann, prior Co-Director of the library drew the picture of the library on the card. The library card comes with many privileges from borrowing books and materials from the Norfolk Library and any other public library in Connecticut, to gaining access to research databases and ordering books online.

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Karen Rossi—Sculptural

Nick Halley, Jon Suters & Friends

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Karen Rossi will show her whimsical metal sculptures of people, places and things. She began creating these “short stories” in 1987 in her Norfolk studio, where she drew on her fascination of “Yankee” yarns, especially figural ship embellishments, weathervanes and mermaids. In particular, the artist was influenced by the flying masthead of an antique vessel she once saw, of a flying Gabriel in a flowing down. Karen has an international following and creates sculptures up to 30 feet high. • Reception, Sunday, July, 4:00 – 6:00 pm

• Sunday, July 7, 5:00 pm Featuring Baba Buffalo on piano, Jason Ennis on guitar and Natalia Bernal, vocals. Nick Halley (drums and percussion) used to live in Norfolk, CT., and records internationally with a wide array of musicians. He is the Founder and Director of the Capella Regalis Mean and Boys Choir and the King’s Chorus, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Based in the Berkshires, Jon Suters (bass) gravitated towards that instrument at 11 years old and toured with the German rock band Pearls at Swine when he was completed his early music studies with Richard Provost, chair of the guitar department at the Hartt School of Music.

Jay Batlle—Parties of Six or More AUGUST EXHIBIT Jay Batlle’s ink, watercolor and pencil works, executed sometimes on the food sections of notable magazines and newspapers, and the restaurant stationary of exclusive, international restaurants, are populated with humorous images that cause the viewer to appreciate the culture of dining and fine food, and the preoccupation with eating and the high life across international boundaries. Both conceptual and minimal, Batlle’s work is rich and provocative. • Reception, Sunday, August 4:00 – 6:00 pm

Mark Liebergall—Works SEPTEMBER EXHIBIT Mark Liebergall’s work is abstract, gestural and about paint, color and form. He deliberately works to stop himself making images from his forms, to achieve beauty, balance and visual integrity. The artist is influenced by the German Expressionists, the artist Chaim Soutine, and the NYC Rhinohorn Group. He, with other young artists influenced by the Rhinohorn Group, opened the Spring Street Museum in 1966. Subsequent to that Mark showed at the Elizabeth Street Gallery and The St. Marks Gallery. • Reception, Sunday, September 8, 4:00 – 6:00 pm

NORFOLK LIBRARY Board of Trustees Robert Dance, President Hope Childs, Vice President Jerry Rathbun, Secretary John Garrels, Treasurer Everett Briggs

Holly Gill Anita Holmes Christopher Little Jill Vantine

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Summer Reading Program MONDAY JUNE 24, 6:30 pm • Design The Costume - If you lived in an enchanted wood, what would you look like? MONDAY JULY 1, 6:30 pm • Create the Costume – the shape, fabric and form MONDAY JULY 8, 6:30 pm • Adorn the Costume – costume adornment at Karen Rossi’s magical art studio SUNDAY JULY 14, 5PM • Mischief Makes Masquerade Parade though the Great Hall to the Children’s Garden. Parents bring your video cameras! This event will take place during Artist Karen Rossi’s art reception in the Great Hall of the Library. MONDAY JULY 15, 6:30 pm • Worms for Lunch - Flanders Nature Center MONDAY JULY 22, 6:30 pm • The Pirate and the Pea - Crabtree Puppets MONDAY JULY 29, 6:30 pm • Small Houses for the Fey – Pratt Center

If you lived in an enchanted wood, what type of mischief-maker would you be? Faerie, pixie, sprite, elf, nymph, brownie, changeling, dwarf, gnome, hobgoblin or troll? Sign up for our Dig Into Reading program for your children to make their very own woodland inspired costume with the help of whimsical local artist, Karen Rossi, the library’s July exhibitor. Then make sure to join us every Monday evening from 6:30–8:00 pm for special programs about tiny habitats, forests, a puppet show, burrowing animals, and dinosaur bones! On Friday, August 23, between 6:30–8:00 pm, our end of summer reading party will celebrate 25 Years of Summer Reading at the Norfolk Library. We hope you can attend and make a contribution towards the many programs the library provides your children!

MONDAY AUGUST 5, 6:30 pm • Digin Critters - Creature Teachers Educators MONDAY AUGUST 12, 6:30 pm • Dinosaur Dig - Paulette Morin

Movie Mornings WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 10:30 am • Fern Gulley WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 10:30 am • The Borrowers WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 10:30 am • Faeries

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Teen Programs Friday, July 5, 10:30AM • Beneath the Surface: Henna Body Art: Art from the Earth with Jamiliah Zebarth. Henna tattoes, Ballywood movie, book talk and more…. Wednesday, July 10, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm and Thursdays, July 11, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm • Ipads * Macbooks * Apps * Social Media * Movie Making From Journaling to Roleplaying, From Poetry to Instagram.THE New Creative Writing for Teens with APPS & DEVICES with Kathe Izzo, performance artist,

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Beneath The Surface: A Teen Summer Movie Project

25 Years Serving Our Youngest Library Patrons!

Wednesday, July 3 at 3PM • Kick-off Meeting

Public libraries come to the aid of young families, whether in urban settings, or rural ones, like in Norfolk. Story-hours particularly provide much needed support for parents and children, both as entertainment and early literacy education. With an understanding of this, three women and their children met in the newly built Children’s Room here at the library, more than twenty-five years ago. Seeing a need they worked with the library to create programs and services for children. Eileen Fitzgibbons, Jude Meade and Ann Havermayer understood what the library could provide for parents in the Norfolk community and strove to create it, maintain it, and provide funding for that. Their vision included literacy-based story-hours, cultural enrichment programs, performances, and a funded position to make all these things happen. Thus story hour and Corner Club were born, and Eileen Fitzgibbon’s became the Children’s Librarian. Today, twenty-five years later, Eileen remains the Children’s Librarian, still applying her talent, dedication and skill in producing outstanding children’s programming for the Library. Though Eileen, Jude and Ann’s children are grown, they continue to advocate for the library, and understand how the community benefits from our services. Please join us with your family for our 25 Years of Summer Reading Extravaganza on Friday, August 23 from 6:30-8PM fundraiser to support another 25 years of cuttingedge children’s library services at the Norfolk Library.

Thursday, August 22 at 3PM • Final Screening Filming, editing and technical assistance from Nicole, Xavier and Griffin at library on Thursdays and Saturdays between above dates. Get inspiration at our kick-off meeting from movies by other teens at their libraries on YouTube. Then, script, cast, shoot, and edit a movie about the library: either documentary or fiction. Perhaps: a day in the life of the librarian, or murder in the Great Hall! Another idea: dramatize a teaser for your favorite book and create a book trailer! Finally carefully edit movie footage with iMovie on the library’s Macbook Pro. To conclude, enjoy adulation at an official screening of your movie on the library’s state of the art audio-visual system.

2013 End of Summer Reading Program Party! FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 6:30 – 8:00 pm 25 Years Of Summer Reading. Celebrate with our Children’s Book Fair, face painting, ice-cream social, memory cake contest, circus arts and magic, new books and CD’s from Barefoot Books.

We want to Collect your Memories of your children at the Norfolk Library enjoying story hours, lawn concerts, puppet shows, animal visits. It can be prose or poetry; picture or photograph. We plan to produce a collaborative remembrance from them to Celebrate our 25 yeasrs. Drop off or email us submissions at [email protected]

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Book Brown Bag & Books with Mark Scarbrough July 19 Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind (2004) “Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show.” - the New York Times Book Review Barcelona, 1945: a city slowly heals in the aftermath of the spanish civil war, and an antiquarian book dealer’s son, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled the shadow of the wind, by one julián carax. He tries to find the author’s other works, and makes a shocking discovery: someone has systematically destroyed every copy of every book carax has written.

Banter August 16 Manil Suri’s The Death of Vishnu (2001) Blending incisive comedy with hindu mythology and a dash of Bollywood sparkle, the Death of Vishnu is an intimate and compelling view of an unforgettable world. September 13 William Dean Howell’s A Hazard of New Fortunes (2002) Set against a vividly depicted background of fin de siécle new york, this novel centers on the conflict between a self-made millionaire and a fervent social revolutionary-a conflict in which a man of goodwill futilely attempts to act as a mediator, only to be forced himself into a crisis of conscience. Here we see William Dean Howells’s grasp of the realities of the American experience in an age of emerging social struggle. His absolute determination to fairly represent every point of view is evident throughout this multifaceted work.

bookwatch Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland, Paul Atkins Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry’s condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser finds a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino. Bitter rivals emerge, alliances turn, and the uglier pieces of the Boston political machine look to put an end to Spenser’s investigation.

was gay, and for years he has been teased and bullied by people claiming to be his friends, people Cat calls “the redneck posse.” She plans to start her hunt for the culprit with them. But there are two problems. Cat’s brother is a member of the posse, and so is the boy who assaulted Cat years ago, forcing her into the selfimposed exile from which she must now emerge...for Patrick and for herself. Against a backdrop of poverty, clannishness, and intolerance, Myracle has crafted a searing coming-of-age story. For Young Adults

The Reluctant Assassin, Eoin Colfer Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, is apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims’ dwellings. On one escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI’s Witness Anonymous Relocation Program. Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London. In modern London, Riley is helped by an FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a disastrous anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. For Young Adults.

Pandora’s Lunchbox, Melanie Warner Processed foods are a fundamental part of our diet, accounting for 65% of our nation’s yearly calories. Technology has transformed the American meal into a chemical-laden smorgasbord of manipulated food products that bear little resemblance to what our grandparents ate. Despite farmer’s markets and organic offerings, food additives and chemical preservatives are nearly impossible to avoid, and even the most ostensibly healthy foods contain multisyllabic ingredients. The author, a former New York Times health columnist uses investigatory reporting, culinary history, and cultural analysis, to find out how we got here and what it is we are really eating.

Shine, Lauren Myracle When Patrick Truman is found beaten, bound, and left for dead, sixteen-year-old loner Cat is determined to discover the truth of what happened to her former best friend. The local sheriff blames out-of-towners, but Cat is sure someone in their small, tightly knit Southern community is guilty of the crime. Patrick

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Carved in Stone: The Artistry of Early New England Gravestones, Thomas and William Gilson Gravestones are colonial America’s earliest sculpture and they provide a unique physical link to the European people who settled here. This book is an elegant collection of over 80 fine duotone photographs, each a meditation on an old stone carving, and on New England’s past, where these stones tell

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1 Monday, 6:30-8 pm

4 Sunday, 4-6 pm

Create Your Costume.

Art Reception: Jay Batlle.

3 Wednesday, 3pm

5 Monday, 6:30-8 pm

Beneath The Surface: A Teen Movie Project.

Digin’ Creatures – Creature Teachers Education.

5 Friday, 10:30 am

7 Wednesday, 10:30 am

Henna Body Art: Art From The Earth.

Movie: The Borrowers.

7 Sunday, 5 pm

12 Monday, 6:30-8 pm

Concert: Nick Halley, Jon Suters & Friends.

Dinosaur Dig – Paulette Morin.

8 Monday, 6:30-8 pm

16 Friday, 10:30 am

Adorn The Costume.

Mark Scarbrough: Brown Bag & Books. Manil Suri’s The Death Of Vishnu (2001).

10 Wednesday, 11 am - 3 pm

From Journaling To Roleplaying, From Poetry To Instagram. The New Creative Writing For Teens.


11 Thursday, 11 am-3 pm

22 Thursday, 3 pm

From Journaling To Roleplaying, From Poetry To Instagram. The New Creative Writing For Teens.

Screening: Teen Movie Project.

14 Sunday, 4-6 pm

25 Years Of Summer Reading Extravaganza Fundraiser.

Art Reception, Karen Rossi.

Movie – Faeries.

23 Friday, 6:30-8 pm

24 Saturday, 6-8 pm

Mischief-Maker’s Parade.

Silent Auction, Live Auction. Preview Of Books Of Better Value.

15 Monday, 6:30-8pm

25 Sunday, 10 am-5 pm

Worms For Lunch – Flanders Nature Center.

37th Annual Book Sale.

14 Sunday, 5 pm


Movie – Fern Gulley. 19 Friday, 10:30 am

September

Mark Scarbrough: Brown Bag & Books. Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind (2004).

8 Sunday, 4-6pm Art Reception: Mark Liebergall


13 Friday, 10:30 am

The Pirate And The Pea – Puppet Show – Crabtree Puppets.

Mark Scarbrough: Brown Bag & Books. William Dean Howell’s The Hazard Of New Fortunes (2002)


Small Houses For The Fey – Pratt Center.

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