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July Art Exhibit
Robert Andrew Parker
During the month of July, the Library will display the work of Robert Andrew Parker. This exhibition will include oil paintings, monotypes, watercolors, etchings and a construction. These will reflect "the variety of things that interest me," says Parker, "landscapes, animals and portraits, invented situations, etc." Robert Andrew Parker was born in 1927 in Norfolk, Virginia. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and Atelier 17 in New York City. He has taught at Skowhegan, the School of Visual Arts in New York City and Gerit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Currently he lives and works in West Cornwall, Connecticut. His public collections include, amongst many, works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Art in Washington D.C. and the Whitney Museum in New York.
The opening reception for the artist is Sunday, July 11, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm.
Events Calendar
Are you looking for summer reading program events?
Visit the Make a Splash! page for all the details.
Reservations: Please call the library (860-542-5075) to make reservations for programs or to request additional information.
Summer Comes to the Norfolk Library
Friday Brown Bag and Books
Don't fritter away the summer in the sun! Come inside the Norfolk Library and join us for lunch and raucous discussions, led by Mark Scarbrough, the author of eighteen cookbooks (and counting). You’ll soon be immersed in some of the best that’s been recently published, a summer reading list anyone would envy. So settle in with these books as the sun makes its lazy down-dog to the west every evening, then come join us on select Fridays at noon with your brown-bag lunch and a willingness to fritter away the hours the best way imaginable: by talking about books.
The Niagara River by Kay Ryan
Friday, July 9th, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Kay Ryan is now the two-term Poet Laureate of the United States, a metaphysical poet of the mundane life, the heir apparent to Emily Dickinson. Ryan’s poetry is sly and short and smart and surprising—humble, almost casual verses that sneak up and hold you tight. You'll want to read them aloud to almost everyone you know.
36 Arguments For the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Friday, July 30th, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Cass Seltzer may be one of the new breed of best-selling atheists, but unfortunately he's not out to change the world's mind. He's just out to expunge his personal demons, brought to life by years of study under the biggest wind-bag of a professor, a mother on the run from orthodoxy, and his own love affairs with cut-throat academics, all in this laugh-out-loud-funny tale of yearning, innocence, and (of all things) Hasidism.
Make a Splash! Read!
Summer Reading Program
The 2010 summer reading program is in full swing. We have a busy schedule of events for the whole family. Visit the Make a Splash! page for all the details.
Flower Bulb Sale
orders are simple, delivered to your door!
Brent and Becky’s Bulbs, a highly respected garden supplier, has established a wonderful program for non-profit organizations. To see their offerings, just go online to: www.bloominbucks.com and choose the Norfolk Library Associates from the list of organizations. Then order whatever you like, whenever you like — bulbs, plants, fabulous tools, books — and 25% of all sales benefit the library.
You can order online, by phone toll free (877) 661- 2852, or by mail (please just be sure to mention the Norfolk Library Associates.)
Norfolk Library Rated 5 Stars
The November 15 issue of Library Journal featured the Norfolk Library as a five-star library based on circulation, Internet usage, event attendance and general attendance for the year of 2007. This is an honour that only 85 libraries nation-wide received. For the full story go to: www.libraryjournal.com
Tales Told by an Idiot
Written and Illustrated by Robin Rose Yurán
Robin Yuran, Co-Director of the Norfolk Library, is also known as The Shelfmouse. Her whimsical and often tongue-in-cheek verse has graced the pages of such publications as Library Journal, The Shy Librarian, Norfolk Now and Verbatim Language Quarterly, not to mention every quarterly issue of the Owl Newsletter since 1998. Yuran's first book The Shelf Life of a Mouse and Other Tales was published in 2003 and nearly sold out (a limited edition of 400) at her book signing. Back with more of the same, Robin has penned and illustrated Tales Told by an Idiot, also a limited edition. Read an excerpt of the book featured on Library Journal online by clicking here.