Video Librarian, one of the review journals we use for film selection has compiled a list of the Best Documentaries of 2007. We own the following from the list – so come check them out!
51 Birch Street – DVD B BLOCK
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash – DVD 333.7 CRUDE
Deep Water – DVD 797.14 DEEP
Deliver Us from Evil – DVD 362.7 DELIVER
The Ground Truth – DVD 956.7044 GROUND
Jesus Camp – DVD 230.046 JESUS
No End in Sight – DVD 956.7044 NO
Planet Earth:The Complete Series – DVD 550 PLANET
Sicko – DVD 362.1 SICKO
The Trials of Darryl Hunt – DVD 305.8 TRIALS
The War – DVD 940.53 WAR
Best Documentaries of 2007
Art from Elmer Thienes Students
Many thanks to Denise Ketterer and her wonderful art students at Thienes/Hall Elementary School for the loan of their fabulous artwork for our library walls.
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Book Club Open House
Are you a book club member or thinking of joining one? Come to our open house for book clubs on February 26 at 7 PM. Learn about other clubs and how they are organized (or not), share books and refreshments too. NOTE – NEW DATE DUE TO WEATHER!
Book vs. Movie
This winter the book vs. movie debate continues for all ages. Children and teens will have the opportunity during February vacation to participate when elementary aged children view and read Matilda by Roald Dahl and teens will do the same with Stardust by Neil Gaiman. Adults will do the same with the Big Read’s, The Maltese Falcon in March. 
RML Friends Holiday Events
The Friends are participating in a special shopping night for area charities at the Buckland Hills Mall in Manchester. Buy your ticket for only $5.00 at the Richmond Memorial Library to gain admittance to the Sunday, November 18 Festival of Giving from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM. With your ticket you get an evening of private shopping, special sales, free gift wrap, holiday music and entertainment. Plus, there will be special door prizes throughout the night. Best of all, 100% of your $5.00 ticket cost goes directly to support the library. Tickets are available at the library’s main circulation desk during regular hours.
The RML Friends are also hosting a local holiday shopping night at the Red Door Boutique at 73 North Main Street in East Hampton. The Friends will provide refreshments from 5:30 to 8 PM on Monday, December 3 and the Red Door will donate 10% of all sales that evening to support the library. Come join the fun and shop for a great local cause.
Thanks for your help!
As always, many hands make light work and our recent book sale was proof. Many thanks to all who helped including: Dyanne Sullo, Mike Quincy, Mary-Ann Nichols, Mike Boscarino, Beth Michaels, Linda and Jim Cherry, Sue Trzcienski, Bob Allen, Nancy Grant, Lucille Sclafano, Sue Gallagher, Irene Klein, Elaine Castro, Susan and Mindi Hora, Linda Harmon, Rachael Kinsley, Jessica Walsh, Pam Frank-Hall, Appleton-Bolton Family and co-chairs Pat Cosgrove and Nancy Wood. We apologize to any helpers we forgot, but consider this a BIG thank you to all!
East of the River Reads
Join the reading community – East of the River – as we celebrate this year’s book, Mr. Emerson’s Wife by Amy Belding Brown at these events:
October 3 – Meet Author Amy Belding Brown and listen to talk about her book at Douglas Library, Hebron, 7 PM
October 14 – Visit Concord and see all the places you have loved reading about. Call Welles-Turner Library at 652-7720 for details, $45.00 fee includes bus an admission to two attractions, register by Sept. 27.
Fall Means Story Time
What better reason to come to the library than for Story Time? Registration begins August 28 for Marlborough residents, September 5 for non-residents.
Session I – September 10 through October 19
Session II – October 29 through December 5
Two year olds meet Monday or Wednesday at 10 AM
Three year olds meet Monday or Wednesday at 1 PM
Four year olds meet with 3s on Wednesday at 1 PM
Four and five year olds meet Tuesdays at 10 AM or 1 PM
Under 12 months meet on four Fridays at 10 AM beginning September 14
12 to 24 months meet on four Fridays at 10 AM beginning October 19.
We’re just wild about Harry…
Harry Potter night was held at the library to celebrate the launch of the final book on July 21. A great time was had by all with lots of Harry Potter cake, Butterbeer, games and fun.
At the stroke of midnight, Miss Eileen began reading Chapter 1.
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East of the River Reads Announces Book for 2007
Mr. Emerson’s Wife by Amy Belding Brown has just been announced as this year’s East of the River Reads One Book selection. This interesting novel about Lydian Emerson, wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson relates the fictional account of her life in Concord and her relationships with its other famous residents.
Multiple copies are available at Richmond and the author will speak in October at Douglas Library.
Here’s some other opinions about our choice:“This is the book I longed to read. It is the story of Lidian, the fascinating woman who was loved insufficiently by Emerson and perhaps too much by Thoreau. Amy Belding Brown has brought her back to life in a novel that glitters with intelligence and authenticity.” –Geraldine Brooks, author of Year of Wonders and March
“In this extraordinary book, Amy Belding Brown has brought the 19th century to life. We may think of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family and friends as static daguerreotypes, but in this story they lightly spring off the page with all the inconvenient desires and ambitions that are the texture of our own lives. A soaring imaginative leap, this book combines detailed history with a page-turning illicit love story. It’s a look at a rich moment in American History and a great read, a rare combination.” –Susan Cheever, author of My Name is Bill and Note Found in a Bottle
“Brown’s writing is graceful, at times giving Lidian a poetic voice….In an age when scholarly biographers meticulously document every detail in the actions and settings of their subjects, Brown has escaped to the freedom of fiction to suppose ‘what might have been.’” –Christian Science Monitor
