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Buckland Poet (10/28)

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Comparative Literature: Little Red Riding Hood

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Join fellow BPL patrons whose interests include comparative literature, traditional stories, cross-cultural tales, picture books and fine illustration! We’ll meet on Tuesday, October 28, 7-8pm at the center table in the library. Patrons of all ages are welcome. (We’ll peruse a variety of LRR-themed picture books, read a few of them aloud, and share milk & cookies. No preparation is required; there will be no homework!)

Three Months in Tuscany, Courtesy of the Buckland Public Library

Filed under: Patron Posts (library-related musings) — Library Liz @ 9:28 pm

When Liz, and then Diana, commented on how they enjoyed my use of the library ( their polite way of saying that I keep them extremely busy), I began to muse a bit. What is unusual about how I use the library and how did that all begin?

The habit started young. I grew up in New York City on the borderline between Queens and Brooklyn. Once a month trips would yield about 7 books in the bookbag. One of the highlights of my life was when I was old enough to walk on my very own to our library about a mile away. I could go after school, I could go on Saturday. Why, I could go just any old time. I could go and pick out a book and then another one and then another. And when I brought them home, I could have them in my room, all to myself.

When going on vacation, I would get special dispensation from the librarian to take out more than the allowed amount of books. I could take out 12! And then I’d spend three weeks on lovely Sebago Lake, reading in the shade, hiding from my mother who would spend a good part of her day trying to get me to go out and play or swim or boat or ski. I didn’t need to do those things. I had my library books. I could be stranded on that far off wooded mountain after a plane crash, with only my wits and a few supplies to keep me alive. I could find that magic coin that would fulfill a wish only half way and cause me all kinds of trouble. I could be that child who lived in a big family who laughed all the time and grew up on the plains of the Midwest in 1875. Or I could be the English governess taking care of little Adele and falling in with Mr. Rochester. The world I grew up in extended far beyond our little neighborhood in Brooklyn or our yearly vacation on the lake. My world was huge because I had my library.

But we grow up and the adult life we so avidly await ends up being at times more than just a little frustrating. There are so many times in our lives that we just can’t do what we want to do. We want to learn something, go somewhere, do something, be something, have something, and we can’t. There’s not enough money, not enough time, not enough resources. We don’t have a sitter, don’t have the gas money, don’t have a car. We don’t have the strength, don’t have the energy or the physical stamina, don’t have the courage. Or, maybe, we just don’t know how to begin. Thank all the stars in heaven that we have our library.

Before my hair turned grey and these wrinkles on my face started staring back at me in the bathroom mirror, I lived way out in the country and raised a very big family. We were isolated in geography but I was never at a loss for things to do that interested me or that detoured me in interesting ways from the daily routines. I had my library. On hiatus from work, I was able to continue studying in my profession because of the library. A handicapped child with so many problems? A call to my librarian (I know, I’m sooo old—pre computer days) and resources flooded in. I learned physical therapy and speech therapy and stimulation techniques. No money for that lovely sewing book or an interesting novel? It was usually only a call away.

Those days, those platinum days with 11 kids at home, did not reflect the poverty in which we lived. We had no TV (by choice because free ones were offered to us) but we were rich. We had books and we read together and learned together. We could even get games from the library.

Now, it’s 2008. The gas prices are phenomenal and my nest egg for that long coveted trip to Tuscany, Italy just went for oil. I’m at the library again and again and again because now, I’ve decided to spend three months in Italy, made possible by my library. Perhaps my most favorite movie of all time is “Out of Africa”. There’s a scene in which someone asks Meryl Streep if she has traveled, and she replies that she an “armchair traveler”. It’s a lovely line. That line opened up the world to me because I began to explore just how far I could get being an “armchair traveler”. I can get pretty far. Just look here.

I started like any traveler would, by learning some of the language. I went on-line at C/WMars and got out all the language books I needed. From them I was able to choose the course I liked best and which I later purchased. I study every day. I had some old travel books and those are always easy to supplement with library loan so I went further and started reading the books by people who had lived in Tuscany, their childhoods or their travels there, or their experience buying and renovating a house there. I needed something more. What do the houses look like, what do Tuscans eat, how do they cook, what do they wear? I ordered some books. I now know how to cook porcini mushrooms with pecorino cheese or how to make fried zucchini flowers stuffed with potato and basil. That information was all easily attainable from, yes, you guessed it, my Buckland library.

I’m glad I have a color copier at home, because I’ve copied some of those lovely Tuscan scenes and have them on my walls. I walk into my office and I am in Tuscany. A glance at the wall and I am picking olives and letting them fall into the nets below the trees. Another glance and I am walking up a stone path into a golden stuccoed house with a tiled roof bathed in the Mediterranean sun at the end of a tiring day in which I’ve picked in the vinyard that stretches out into the landscape for half a mile. In another spot on the wall, I join other women in the stone room at the back of the house where we make pecorino from the Pecora sheep’s milk. But a very favorite place is the piazza of a small town where shops line the edges and it takes you three hours to do your shopping for that night’s meal because you simply must stop and speak to each person you know who is doing likewise. I can feel that sense of community there in Tuscany because of my Buckland library.

And it’s not only books, because my library can get me all kinds of Italian films. I have been in Italy all week, listening to the language, looking at the amazing pink buildings, hearing the children squabbling in the streets. Films bring it all so near. And I’ve heard some different dialects because of the films.

This weekend I am touring Florence. I have my Rick Steeves’ guidebook and a good map of the city and I expect my big coffee table book on Florence to be in today. I’ll probably stay in Florence for a week and maybe go back there as more books arrive. Then there’s the bicycle trip and the hiking trips to the different regions and Tuscany has a coast, too. I’ll need to go there. Pisa is in Tuscany and I may want to read some about how they shored up the tower a few years ago to stabilize it as I travel in that city. I read and it just opens up new areas to explore. And I never run out of time like I do in real-time travel and I never get so exhaustedly tired.

I thought I would spend three months in Tuscany but it may take me a bit longer to perfect my gnocchi and my ravioli. And I’ve always wanted to see Rome. And because I love opera, I think I’ll study something of the lives of Puccini and Verdi. Then, too, I’ve discovered that so many of my favorite authors loved and wrote about Italy. I can’t wait to get books on their Italian stays by Henry James, Edith Wharton, D. H. Lawrence or Charles Dickens. What was it like in Italy 50 years ago, 100 years ago? They wrote about it and I can get their books from my library. I love dogs, so I’ve read about the sheep guard Maremma dogs. I spin and knit, so I know I’ll have to find out about the famous Italian knitting mills. (I didn’t know how to knit until I got out books through the library).

Oh, there’s another nice thing about armchair travel. I can be with my husband and my dogs and I don’t have to leave my violin behind. It’s with me all the time. I still have to get out a songbook and learn some Italian songs. Then, of course, my trip won’t be complete without some books about the famous violin makers. How I would love to play a Stradivarius! And then, I might just want to learn about the restoring of the old violins and what goes into the perfect varnish. Oh, did I tell you that I learned how to play the violin through the library? Yes, this trip might take longer than three months.

So there you have it, Liz and Diana. Thank you for helping me with the books.

There’s something so special to me about a book. It makes me feel rich when I hold one. I love my library.

Ann Bodkhe
Buckland MA
9/5/2008

Check-Out New Items at BPL

Filed under: Check Out: New books & movies — Library Liz @ 9:15 pm

For Kids:
Ahlberg, Allan The Pencil
Boos, Ben Swords: an Artist’s Devotion
DiCamillo, Kate Louise: the Adventures of a Chicken
Dickinson, Emily My Letter to the World and Other Poems
McDonald, Megan Judy Moody Goes to College
O’Connell, R. Penina Levine Is A Hard Boiled Egg
Osborne, M.P. Eve of the Emperor Penguin
Pedersen, Janet Houdini the Amazing Caterpillar
Peterson, Cris Clarabelle: Making Milk
Ries, Lori Mrs. Fickle’s pickles Scieszka, Jon Knucklehead
Yolen, Jane Sea Queens

For Adults & Young Adults:
Barnes, Kim A Country Called Home
Bryant, Howard Shut Out
Coben, Harlan Hold Tight
Corin, Joshua Nuclear Winter Wonderland
DuPrau, Jeanne The City of Ember
DuPrau, Jeanne The Diamond of Darkhold
DuPrau, Jeanne The People of Sparks
DuPrau, Jeanne The Prophet of Yonwood
Fairchild, Barbara Bon Appetit: fast easy fresh
Farrell-Kingsley The Home Creamery
Grandin, Temple Humane Livestock Handling
Guinness World Records 2009
Harrison, Kathy Just in Case
Jones, Sadie The Outcast
Lam, Vincent Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures [audio]
Landy, Derek Skulduggery Pleasant [audio]
Noonan, Peggy Patriotic Grace
Obama, Barack Dreams from my Father
Pamuk, Orhan My name is Red [audio]
Rice, Anne Called Out of Darkness
Rimington, Stella Illegal Action
Robinson, M. Home
Scottoline, Lisa Lady killer
Shopsin, Kenny Eat me
Todd, Richard The Thing Itself
DVD A. Christie’s Poirot. Collector’s Set 7
DVD Come Away Home
DVD Enjoy the Ride: Share the Road in CT River Valley
DVD Eve of Understanding
DVD Fog City Mavericks
DVD Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
DVD The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
DVD Ten Canoes
DVD Yoga for the Rest of Us

10/4 Story Hour: Alphabets for All Ages

Filed under: From the Director, Mark Your Calendar! — Library Liz @ 7:58 pm

Alphabets for All Ages will be explored at The Buckland Public Library Story Hour on Saturday at 10am. Participants will look at scads of A - Z books, then help Library Liz write the newest book in the genre. (Want to share your family favorite? Bring it along!) BPL is located at 30 Upper Street — just off 112 — in Buckland.

Check-Out New Items at BPL

Filed under: From the Director, Check Out: New books & movies — Library Liz @ 11:50 am

DVDS:Adult & YA
The Fall
John Adams
21
Five People You Meet in Heaven
Russian Ark
Saint Clara
Kite Runner

DVDS:Juvenile
Land Before Time: Through the Eyes of Spiketail, Magical Discoveries
Kiki’s Delivery Service

BOOKS: Adult & Young Adult
Quindlen, Anna: Good Dog, Stay (Large Print)
Wright, Charles: Best American Poetry 2008
Baker, Stephen: the Numerati
Servan-Schreiber, David: Anticancer, A New Way of Life
Lehane, Dennis: The Given Day
Woods, Stuart: Hot Mahogany
Sparks, Nicholas: The Lucky One
Peters, Elizabeth: The Daughter of Dead Kings
Gerritson, Tess: The Keepsake
Carlsen, Spike: A Splintered History of Wood
Smith , Jeff: from the Bone series of graphic novels/comic books, volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 8.
Maguire, Gregory: Wicked, Son of a Witch, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Mirror, Mirror, What the Dickens
Welles, Lee: Gaia Girls Way of Water
Crossley Holland, Kevin: from the Arthur Trilogy, The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places
Delaney, Joseph: from The Last Apprentice series, Wrath of the Bloodeye

Books:Juvenile
McDonald, Megan: Judy Moody Goes to College
Meddaugh, Susan: Martha Blah Blah, Perfectly Martha, Martha and Skits
Ibbotson, Eva: The Dragonfly Pool,The Great Ghost Rescue, Three Complete Novels (The Secret of Platform 13,Which Witch?, Island of the Aunts)

Audio on CD:Adult & Young Adult
Saramago, Jose: Blindness
Pelecanos, George: The Turnaround
Meltzer, Brad: The Book of Lies
Colbert, Stephen: I Am America (And So Can You)
Burke, James Lee: Swan Peak

Raffle Drawing on Saturday, Sept. 9/13th at 10am!

Filed under: Mark Your Calendar! — Library Liz @ 3:32 pm

Patrons young and old have a chance to win one of several prizes on Saturday — but some have greater chances than others — simply because they visit their library frequently.

Buckland’s Emma Jepsen, 11, a library volunteer and avid reader, has been visiting the library at least once a week since June; each time she walks through the door, she tosses her name into the raffle pot. Jepsen has her sights set on winning a poster-sized photograph of be-spectacled canine patrons of another library. The print is the work of award-winning photographer David Langley, who taught at the Hallmark Institute of Photography in Turner’s Falls during the 2007-2008 academic year.

The gift certificate donated by the proprietor of Shelburne Falls’ Nancy Dole Books & Ephemera has caught the attention of the literate collectors among us. The hand-carved mug, by local potter Molly Cantor, is coveted by neighbors anticipating chilly evenings with cinnamon tea and a cozy mystery. The patron whose name is first to be drawn from the pot by Library Director Liz Jacobson-Carroll will receive her desired prize; those whose names are drawn subsequently will choose from the remaining items.

Would you, too, like a chance to win one of these prizes? If so, simply stop by the BPL this week (library hours posted to the right) to enter before the drawing. There is no cost to enter, but borrowing something to read, watch, or listen to is strongly recommended by the librarian.

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Buckland Public Library

January 27, 2010

Library Now on Facebook!

October 28, 2008

Build A Scarecrow!

October 17, 2008

Buckland Poet (10/28)

October 14, 2008

Comparative Literature: Little Red Riding Hood

Three Months in Tuscany, Courtesy of the Buckland Public Library

Check-Out New Items at BPL

September 30, 2008

10/4 Story Hour: Alphabets for All Ages

September 25, 2008

Check-Out New Items at BPL

September 6, 2008

Raffle Drawing on Saturday, Sept. 9/13th at 10am!

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