Holiday Hours

C.H. Booth Library will be closed on Monday, May 31, in observance of Memorial Day.

The library will be open its regular weekend hours, and will reopen at its normal time (10 am) on Tuesday.

Summer hours will resume after Father’s Day (Sunday, June 20) – the library will be closed on Sundays through Labor Day. Also, our new shorter evening hours will take effect July 1. As of that date the library will be closing on Tuesdays at 5 pm.

Young Adults

*Summer Creative Writing: Attention rising eighth and ninth graders – Creative Writing Summer Camp has room for you. Local author and educator Joan Verniero will host the camp designed to foster a love of reading and writing, assisted by volunteers from the library’s adult creative writing groups.

Camp will meet on Thursdays, July 1, 8, 15, 29, and August 5, from 2 to 4 pm.  Space is limited to 10 students for those who will be entering grades 8 and 9 in the fall.

(A morning session for rising grades 6 and 7 is full, but a wait list has been started.)

Sign up at the main floor circulation desk or call.

*Volunteer This Summer: Young adults entering sixth grade and up are invited to earn volunteer hours this summer at C.H. Booth Library by helping with our summer reading program.

Volunteers will be on duty during the library’s open hours, June 30 to August 4, listening to reading reports and giving children the rewards they have earned.

There will be two orientation sessions, June 2 and 7, from 4 to 5 pm. If you’d like to volunteer this summer you must attend one of the sessions and return your application form no later than June 12. Due to the large number of young adults who wish to participate, no applications will be accepted after June 12.

Adult Programs

*“Newtown a la Cannes” Resuming: The library’s foreign film series, “Newtown a la Cannes,” will resume on Thursday, June 3. The series offers first run, award-winning, independent films from foreign countries that have rarely made it to suburban theaters.

The Belgian movie HOP, directed by Dominique Standaert, kicked off the series in February.

Next week’s film is Light of My Eyes, which was originally scheduled for May 13.

An Italian film released in 2001 and directed by Giuseppe Piccioni, the film has a running time of 113 minutes.

Light of My Eyes (or Luce dei miei occhi, in its native tongue) is the story of how Antonio (Luigi Lo Cascio), a lonely chaffeur of luxury cars in Rome, who meets a woman swimming in debts, Maria (Sandra Ceccarelli), when he almost runs into her daughter. Becoming transfixed by her, Antonio begins to insinuate himself into her life, including working to dissolve her debts, even as it puts him in a new and potentially dangerous position.

*Computer Classes: The next computer class for beginners is scheduled for Saturday, June 12, from 9 am until noon. A hands-on introduction to computers designed for the true beginner, these classes focus on keyboard keys, shortcuts and function keys, mouse skills, and getting started on the Internet/World Wide Web. There is no charge for the beginner’s class, but registration is required.

The intermediate class originally scheduled for June 19 has been postponed.

*Book Club To Meet: The Non-Fiction Book Club will meet next on Tuesday, June 1, at 1 pm, to discuss The Killer Angels by Jeff Shaara.

Newcomers are always welcome. Please call the library to register.

*Bottles Of Hope Workshop: Tracy Van Buskirk will conduct two Bottles of Hope workshops. Participants will decorate small glass bottles with clay designs to be given to cancer patients and survivors.

The workshops are scheduled for Wednesday, June 9, from 10 am until noon and 7 to 9 pm. Any children between the ages of 8 and 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

No artistic ability is required and all materials will be provided. Sign up at the circulation desk or contact Ms Van Buskirk, 426-3014, for additional information.

*Summer Concert Series Moving: Booth Library’s Summer Concert Series will return this year, but with the addition of new parking spaces behind our building we can no longer present concerts at the library.

The concerts will move this year to The Pleasance, the garden at the corner of Main Street and Sugar Street (Route 302). The series will open next month with Mary Beth Sippin & Gold Rush on Saturday, June 19. Concerts will begin at 7 pm and are free of charge.

Because of the limited parking available at The Pleasance, we are encouraging people to park at the library and walk down to The Pleasances whenever possible. Bring lawn chairs or blankets for seating. Picnics will be welcome, but there are no trash receptacles at The Pleasance so please plan to carry out your own trash.

C.H. Booth Library, at 25 Main Street, can be reached at 426-4533. Current hours are 10 am to 8 pm Monday through Thursday, noon to 5 pm on Friday, 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, and 1 to 5 pm on Sunday.