A Historical Walk Through Bethany: 2nd Photo Scanning Day December 10, 5:00 – 6:30 PM
The Library is hosting Photo Scanning Days in collaboration with the Bethany Historical Society to collect images for the upcoming “A Historical Walk Through Bethany” exhibit! Bethany residents are invited bring in photos that show everyday life in Bethany through the past decades. Members of the Historical Society in the downstairs Community Room will scan the photos to create digital copies for the exhibit and return the originals.
Photos can also be dropped off at the Library during our hours of operation, at the Town Clerk’s office, or at a Bethany Historical Society event; please bring them in an enclosed envelope labeled with your name and contact information so that they can be returned to you once they have been scanned.
For more information, contact Linda Wooster at ljwooster@gmail.com or 203-393-1832.
See Santa & Mrs. Claus at the Library!
Save the date: the Bethany Lions Club will be bringing everyone’s favorite holiday elves to Clark Memorial Library on December 5th, from 4:30 – 6:30 PM. Visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus, and join members of the Lions Club and your local librarians at the makerspace table!
A Historical Walk Through Bethany: First Photo Scanning Day November 23, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
The Library is hosting Photo Scanning Days in collaboration with the Bethany Historical Society to collect images for the upcoming “A Historical Walk Through Bethany” exhibit! Bethany residents are invited bring in photos that show everyday life in Bethany through the past decades. Members of the Historical Society in the downstairs Community Room will scan the photos to create digital copies for the exhibit and return the originals.
Photos can also be dropped off at the Library during our hours of operation, at the Town Clerk’s office, or at a Bethany Historical Society event; please bring them in an enclosed envelope labeled with your name and contact information so that they can be returned to you once they have been scanned.
For more information, contact Linda Wooster at ljwooster@gmail.com or 203-393-1832.
Have You Tested Your Water Lately? Even if your water tastes and smells fine, that doesn’t always mean it’s safe to drink…
UConn Extension is providing reduced-cost well testing for residents of Bethany and the surrounding areas. Normally $350 or more, tests will be provided for $200! Please sign up by November 11th. If you miss the deadline to register, we will have sample kits to distribute at the event. Kits will need to be returned the day of or brought back to the UConn main campus at a later date.
Where: Clark Memorial Library, 538 Amity Road, Bethany, CT 06524 When: November 16th, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Clark Memorial Library and the Bethany Historical Society are working together to create A Historical Walk Through Bethany, an exhibit highlighting the visual history of the town of Bethany through the years. The exhibit will feature photos shared by the community, which will be scanned, enlarged, matted, and arranged by decade in the Library’s Community Room, allowing visitors to “walk through” the everyday lives of Bethany residents.
A few photos have already been collected, and are on display across from the glass display cabinets outside the Community Room! Be sure to stop by and get a glimpse of how life in Bethany has changed over time.
The Library will be hosting Photo Scanning Days on November 23 and December 10to collect images for the final exhibit. For more information about these events, and the exhibit as a whole, see the Library’s Calendar of Events.
An artist reception will be held on November 16th, 3:00 – 4:30 PM for the local artist featured in our Arts@Clark! exhibits for October and November, Roberta Scott. Her work will be shown in the Community Room and the downstairs display cabinets from Tuesday, October 8th, until Friday, December 6th.
Roberta is, in her own words, “a maker of fine art and not so fine art.” She grew up in the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, on and off the Navajo reservation and military bases. After high school, she went to work for the Forest Service, served 5 years in the Navy working as an aviation mechanic, and worked locally at Sikorsky Aircraft. She received a BFA in Sculpture at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, a college of the University of New Haven, and is currently a technical writer for Sikorsky, a mother, and a “fair weather artist.”
Be sure to look for us at the 2024 Bethany Harvest Festival! The Friends of the Library will be hosting a bake sale, there will be a raffle to win a Halloween gift basket, and if you don’t already have a library card, we’ll have everything you need to sign up for one!
The Festival takes place at the Old Bethany Airport (695 Amity Road) on Sunday, October 6, and lasts from 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
As promised, we have collected some of the many photos taken during the 5th Annual Public Art Exhibit into a short video commemorating the event! Thank you again to everyone who helped to make this year’s Public Art Exhibit our biggest success so far. This video will remain available to view on the Library’s YouTube channel as well as the Arts@Clark! page on our website, under Previous Events. We hope to see you again next year!
Thank you to everyone who took part in our Adult Summer Reading Raffle! The complete Butterfly Tree, which showcases our adult patrons’ favorite books from their childhoods, will temporarily be on display upstairs in the magazine area. It includes books and series for the full range of young readers, from picture books to full-length novels and everything in between. The full list of submissions is below; whether you’re reminiscing or looking for a new favorite, there’s sure to be something for you!
Adult Summer Reading Submissions: A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett A Series of Unfortunate Events (Series) – Lemony Snicket A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K. Le Guin A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery Appointment with a Stranger – Jean Thesman “B” is for Betsy – Carolyn Haywood Berenstain Bears (Series) – Stan and Jan Berenstain Black Beauty – Anna Sewell Blueberries for Sal – Robert McCloskey Danny the Champion of the World – Roald Dahl Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet – Jane O’Connor Fantastic Mr. Fox – Roald Dahl From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E. L. Konigsburg Go, Dog. Go! – P. D. Eastman Gooseberry Park – Cynthia Rylant Harriet the Spy – Louise Fitzhugh Judy Bloom (Author) Julie of the Wolves – Jean Craighead George Knight’s Castle – Edward Eager Little Critter (Series) – Mercer Mayer Little House on the Prairie (Series) – Laura Ingalls Wilder Little Women – Louisa May Alcott Madeline – Ludwig Bemelmans Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel – Virginia Lee Burton Miss Nelson is Missing! – Harry Allard Misty of Chincoteague – Marguerite Henry Nancy Drew (Series) – Carolyn Keene Pinkalicious – Victoria Kann Popcorn – Frank Asch Rosebud – Ed Emberly The Babysitters Club (Series) – Ann M. Martin The Contented Little Pussycat – Frances Ruth Keller The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis The Little Engine That Could – Watty Piper The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The Little Red Hen – Folk Tale The Little White Horse – Elizabeth Goudge The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Language – Ursula Nordstrom The Secret of the Caves (Hardy Boys) – Franklin W. Dixon The Story of Doctor Dolittle – Hugh Lofting The Swiss Family Robinson – Johann David Wyss The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Uglies – Scott Westerfield Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein White Fang – Jack London
Libraries – more than meets the eye… roll out with a library card. September is Library Card Sign-Up Month!
Library Card Sign-Up Month is a national campaign to emphasize the importance of library cards to a child’s education and to combat illiteracy. The campaign first started in 1987 as a response to then Secretary of Education, William Bennett, who stated: “Let’s have a campaign … Every child should obtain a library card and use it.” The American Library Association (ALA) teamed up with the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) to start the campaign, and sent a telegram to Secretary Bennett saying, “We accept your challenge.”
If you don’t already have a library card, stop by and fill out an application form! You can also download one from our website to fill out in advance, then bring it in along with a current Bethany address. It’s quick and easy, and you’ll gain access to many free resources at Clark Memorial Library – as well as countless more through the LION consortium and theborrowIT CTlibrary resource sharing program.
