Game Tournaments in the Community Room

We rocked out in the library's basement again last Friday...

And are planning either a Videogame Triathalon or a championship series to earn points in tournaments towards a grand prize. Thoughts? Ideas?

Summer Reading Program Volunteers are Stylin'

The shirts volunteers get for free sport this year's Catch the Reading Bug artwork by local cartoonist Harry Bliss.

We decided to let volunteers individualize their shirts a bit this year...





Have some old t-shirts to cut up? Get inspiration from some great books in our catalog:
99 Ways To Cut, Sew, trim & tie your T-shirt into something special
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Generation T : 108 ways to transform a T-shirt
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Poetry Slam

Young poets jammed and slammed last Friday with Vermont's slam champion, Geof Hewitt. Geof explained the general dynamic and rules to the many newbies present, and all came away with a feel for the possibilites of performance poetry.




Kate shared two poems, reading with rhythm and grace.


















Bailey took home a prize pen with two poems read at the speed of light....














Ryan read some new poems and was given Geof's book "Only What's Imagined"










And Wesley took home the best prize of all, a nose flute...