Natural healing discussed this week at the Beach library
Weekly Activities
Preschool Story Hour on Wednesday, April 29, at 10:30 a.m.
Natural Medicine/Healing on Friday, May 1, at 10:30 a.m.
Scrapbook Crop on Monday, May 4, at 6:00 p.m.
Activity Details
On May 1, Board Certified holistic health practitioner Germain Tarquino will share a quick overview of diagnosis and treatment possibilities contributing to optimal attainment of health. Dr. Tarquino has a way of making natural medicine both useful and practical.
Those working on scrapbooks and desiring to meet with others for work time and to gain or share an idea or two, consider joining in the Scrapbook Crop on May 4.
Upcoming Activities
Knitters can join with other kindred souls in enjoying time for knitting on May 6. The group will meet throughout the summer on the first and third Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Coordinator Lynn Buchholz stands ready to assist new knitters in the basics too, so feel free to give knitting a try.
Jewelry makers, check out the class on May 7 at 10:30 a.m. Make a bracelet or anklet out of cultured pearls or colored gemstone beads. Carrie Hill, artist and pearl lover, will offer hands-on instruction. Pre-registration and $10 materials fee are needed.
More Activities
If there are specific presentations or seminars you’d welcome being scheduled in June to October, please leave a suggestion at the front desk. There is a form on the back of the monthly schedule that you can use if desired.
Your idea will often yield results.
Note of Gratitude
Thank you if you’ve brought in books or dvds recently for consideration to be added to the collection. We are sometimes able to trade out a copy as the donated copy can replace one already well-worn and enjoyed. At other times, an added title helps round out our collection even more. When we don’t need the title, it gets to join those available in the Friend’s bookstore.
If you have no books or dvds to donate, consider a donation to the library and we’ll add a title (book or dvd) to our collection as a memorial to a loved one you designate, or a special event you specify such as a birthday or anniversary. Donations can range anywhere from $25 to a blank check :.
Dark Not so Dark
In “Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered” (940.12 WEL) author Peter S. Wells describes the active trading and manufacturing life that invigorated many areas of Europe before the Early Middle Ages.
Why has all this new information only recently come to light regarding the Dark Ages (roughly 400-800 AD)? The answer is at least in part because of new techniques in archaeology that have led to the discovery of undisturbed grave sites, remnants of towns and villages 24 feet beneath the modern cities that overlay them, evidence of shipbuilding, metalworking, and all manner of manufacturing in 5th and 6th century settlements along riverbanks and in walled villages. Though written records of this period are very scarce, coins that have been unearthed are graphic evidence of how ideas, customs, wealth and cultures were exchanged.
This small volume (about 200 pages) is clearly written, has interesting maps and photographs, and offers a refreshingly original approach to a neglected and heretofore sketchily understood period in Western history. Thanks to resident and patron Jean Gottlieb for sharing her enjoyable read of Wells’ work.
Gentle Fiction
The number of readers seeking gentle fiction titles has grown. In case the terminology brings a blank stare to your face, consider these explanations. Gentle fiction books might be adventure or mystery or romance. When it comes to romance, a gentle romance title seeks to create lifelike characters, and presents characters and events that present inspirational, action adventure. They tend to be pure, delightful, often funny, and almost always sweet. They, like gentle fiction titles in adventure or mystery, place sex in the context of relationships, and usually concentrate on clean language.
Because of the growing demand for these titles, we will be setting up a special collection of new titles in this genre between July and October specifically called Gentle Fiction or GF for short. This collection will concentrate on new additions and therefore be in what we are calling DISPLAY-GF. This means simply that new additions in Gentle Fiction will be on display so you can find them quickly, easily, and make discoveries of a new approach that can add life to your reading time.
Construction Fund
Thanks to The Friends of the Library for their $11,000 contribution to the Building Construction Fund. We appreciate their hard work, concern, and planning to keep us moving forward.
Thanks also to those who have left a donation in the Construction Fund donation box next to the model of the expansion. Every dollar contributed to this Fund is another dollar that we don’t need to borrow, and in the long run saves us even more as we don’t need incur extra costs that accompany borrowing.
Library Hours
Don’t remember library hours? Call for information. When we are closed, a recorder gives the hours of operation, either on 765-8162, or on 765-8163. Except for holidays, which would be mentioned on the recorder, we are open Monday and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.. We look forward to seeing you.