Saturday Crafters Library Group
Saturday Crafters is a Bernardsville Public Library group which meets monthly on a Saturday afternoon. Adults interested in working on their projects in a group setting are encouraged to join the crafters for conversation and tips during a pleasant afternoon at the library. Bring a project – be it jewelry making, needlepoint, crochet, rug hooking, knitting, etc. Feel free to show your latest creations, too. Library resources for the Crafters are always available including the latest magazines, dvds, and books. In … Continue reading
Stiff Upper Lip
Royalists, are you feeling rather flat after the finale of the queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebration this week? All that pomp and circumstance, all that ceremony and tradition, over and done with so soon. Well, if you’re lucky enough to live in our vicinity, pop on over to Bernardsville Library’s very own British Collection for your fix of all things British in the medium of film. Click here for more information about the British Collection. Then put the kettle on for a … Continue reading
Broken For You
Saturday Samplers book group (see Saturday Samplers blog here) will discuss Broken for You at its next meeting in the library on Saturday, June 2nd, at 3:30 p.m. Published in 2004, Broken for You is the debut novel of Seattle-based writer Stephanie Kallos. The book received numerous positive reviews, and Kallos was named Best First Novelist in 2005 by Library Journal. Her second book, Sing Them Home, also garnered praise for its development of characters in a physical and spiritual landscape of loss and healing. … Continue reading
Local History Volunteers Honored
Bernardsville Library’s History Committee, comprised of a very diligent group of volunteers, was recently honored at the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission’s awards ceremony. The History Committee received a History Award in Education, and the nomination noted that “Nowhere in Somerset County can one find a richer treasure trove of our history than Bernardsville Public Library where the volunteer History Committee has built an extraordinary collection of books, pamphlets,manuscripts, photographs, movies, clippings, maps, postcards, memorabilia and oral history which they … Continue reading
Let’s Go Be Revolutionaries!
Deb Olin Unferth’s memoir, Revolution: the Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, is the subject of the next Memoirs and Coffee book discussion this Tuesday, May 22, at 10:30 a.m. in the library. Ms. Unferth “went to join the war” after falling in love with a college co-ed described as idealistic, to say the least. The author changed faiths for him, and together they ventured off to Nicaragua to attempt to join the Sandanista Army in … Continue reading
Our App is Apt to Captivate You
Get with it! Get mobile! (our mobile app, that is.) Make your life a little easier by downloading our new mobile app onto your smartphone or tablet. Then tap on the app and find “a world at your doorstep.” With that one tap the world of Bernardsville Library will become accessible to you even though you may be miles away. Take care of your renewals, reserve items or search the catalog while on the run. Check to see when that … Continue reading
Trillion Dollar Shoreline, Comes With Spare Tires
Why does Manhattan turn inward onto its glittering skyscrapers and avenues of commerce when a gold coastline, a potentially magnificent waterfront, beckons from all sides? Would its residents rush to these shorelines, partaking of promenades, water sports, and river transportation systems if accessibility were vastly improved? New York essayist / author Phillip Lopate muses on these and many other thoughtfilled topics in his excellent 2004 publication, Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan. Waterfront will be discussed this Saturday, May 5th, by … Continue reading
Poems for a Month or One Day
April is National Poetry Month, and today is Poem in Your Pocket Day. April also is the birth month (and death month) of William Shakespeare, so poetry is definitely in the air and on our minds at Bernardsville Library. Two of our book displays this month have showcased poets and poetry, one entitled “Life in Poetry” and the other featuring a variety of poetry collections in honor of National Poetry Month. In addition, we have hosted a library program, “Coffee, … Continue reading
What Memory Serves
Bernardsville Library’s book group, Memoirs and Coffee, will discuss Half a Life by Darin Strauss at its next meeting on Tuesday, April 24th, at 10:30 a.m. Memoirs and Coffee, led by Pat Kennedy-Grant, welcomes newcomers, who may obtain copies of the book at the circulation desk. The title of Half a Life refers in part to the author’s realization that he had lived half a lifetime longer than the teenage bicyclist he accidentally killed with his car when he was also … Continue reading
Cleopatra
Cleopatra: a Life by Stacy Schiff will be the subject of Saturday Samplers next book discussion to be held this Saturday, April 14th, at 3:30 p.m. Saturday Samplers is a Bernardsville Library book group which meets once a month in the library on a Saturday afternoon. For more information about the book group, link to the Saturday Samplers blog. Stacy Schiff is an award-winning biographer who met with literary success early in her career. Born in 1961, Ms. Schiff attended Williams College. … Continue reading
