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Our latest email newsletter -- Gazebo Concerts, Book Sale Ending
Posted July 27th, 2010 by Stephanie Chase
Our latest email newsletter came out on Monday, with information about:
- our free Gazebo Concerts series with Stowe Performing Arts, which continues tonight, Tuesday, at 6:30 with the Michael Arnowitt Jazz Trio
- our Annual Friends of the Library book sale, which draws to a close this Thursday
- becoming a Friend and renewing your Friends membership
Annual Friends Book Sale begins tomorrow!
Posted July 7th, 2010 by Stephanie Chase
We know you've marked your calendars, but we wanted to send a reminder: our Friends of Stowe Free Library Book Sale, an annual tradition, begins on the porch tomorrow, July 8, at 9am.
The book sale will continue for three weeks, until July 29. All of your purchases -- including the refreshments that will be available at opening tomorrow -- support the Friends and the materials and programs at the Library.
Hope to see you there!
Pardon Our Dust
Posted June 28th, 2010 by Stephanie Chase
Information on the move to combine the fiction, mysteries, science fiction, and fantasy collections.
A couple of new titles in audio
Posted June 26th, 2010 by Megan Carder
Two new ones in popular fiction
The Lion, by Nelson DeMille
The Bourne Objective, by Eric Van Lustbader
Enjoy!
The Chapbook with Julia Shipley: a series of four workshops
Posted June 14th, 2010 by Stephanie Chase
The Chapbook: Writing
and Publishing the Slender Book
Stowe Free Library
Tuesdays June 29, July 6, (no class July 13),
July 20, and July 27 from 5 to 7pm
Jon Stewart at Book Expo America
Posted June 13th, 2010 by Stephanie Chase
Two weeks back at Book Expo America, the annual book-and-author trade show, I was lucky enough to attend a breakfast featuring Jon Stewart of The Daily Show (Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race), Condoleezza Rice (Condoleezza Rice: A
Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me), John
Grisham, (The Confession: A Novel), and Mary
Roach (Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the
Void).
Stewart acted as master of ceremonies, and w
Reminder: Library Closed on Tuesday, 5/25
Posted May 23rd, 2010 by Stephanie Chase
Please remember that the Library will be closed on Tuesday, May 25 in order for the staff to attend the Vermont Library Conference. We will reopen at 9:30am for our usual hours on Wednesday, May 26.
Book return bins are available at the front and rear doors; if you need to access your account, please visit http://catalog.stowelibrary.org and log in using your library card number and your last name.
Gardeners: Henry Homeyer on 5/19 at 7pm & the Annual Friends Plant Sale 5/22 at 9am
Posted May 18th, 2010 by Stephanie Chase
It is a busy week at the Library for garden lovers!
Don't miss the final session in our "In Our Own Backyard" series, brought to you by the Friends of Stowe Free Library. Vermont author and gardener Henry Homeyer, who wrote The Vermont gardener's companion : an insider's guide to gardening in Vermont, joins us Wednesday, May 19 at 7pm to help us answer all of our Vermont gardening questions.
Peter Miller joins us tomorrow, 5/6 at 4pm, for the Friends Annual Meeting
Posted May 5th, 2010 by Stephanie Chase
Just a quick reminder that author and award winning photographer, Peter Miller will be our speaker at the annual meeting of the Stowe Free Library tomorrow from 4-6 p.m.
When I first moved to town, I read a lot of books by Vermont authors to try to soak up the "local" flavor. Peter Miller's Nothing Hardly Ever Happens in Colbyville, Vermont was one of my favorites.
Bylaw Subcommittee of the Trustees to meet Tuesday, May 4 at 2pm
Posted May 3rd, 2010 by Stephanie Chase
The Bylaws Subcommittee of the Board of Trustees will be meeting at 2pm in the Community Meeting Room of the Stowe Free Library to continue to review proposed changes to their bylaws.
