December 2011

Jewellery Raffle

First prize: magnificent necklace of jet, coral and mother-of-pearl

donated by Clockwise Jewellers

valued at $490

2nd prize: man's Pulsar watch donated by Henri Post

value $90

3rd prize: tongue ring and nose stud donated by Ian Buck Jewellers

valued at $50
Raffle drawn on Sunday 11th December during
the Arts & Crafts Market.



Advance Notice!

Keep Wednesday 1st February 2012 clear
as we will be having a visit from

Alister Haigh CEO of Haigh's Chocolates.

Bound by Books September

Bound by Books

Afternoon Tea at the Library

for book groups and book-lovers.

Sunday 4th September at 1.30 pm

Bring:
a short report on your group’s recent reading Hear:   a forum discussion on Caleb’s Crossing by
Geraldine Brooks &
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
hosted by Diana Wiseman.

Once again, Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks takes an unlikely shard of little-known history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young Indian named Caleb from the island of Martha′s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminously written, page turning tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.
The narrator of Caleb′s Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny island settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Possessed of a restless spirit and a quick and curious mind, Bethia yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away from the strictures of English society to explore the island′s glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At the age of twelve, she encounters the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative, secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other.
Bethia′s father, Great Harbor′s well-meaning and charismatic minister, tries to convert the Wampanoag to his own strict Calvinism, awakening the wrath of the pawaaws, against whose shamanistic magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his pet projects becomes the education of Caleb. A year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb′s intellectual and spiritual crossing of cultures, with all its risks and losses, triumphs and turmoil.
Like Brooks′s beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wild coasts of Martha′s Vineyard, the drafty lecture rooms of early Harvard and the intimate spaces of the human heart.



FOL Events for August 2011

Annual General Meeting

The AGM will be at 12 noon on Thursday 14th July 2011 in the Multi-Function Room at the Library.
All welcome!

Bring some lunch to share.

Wednesday 3rd August at 7pm Literary Singles Mingle

tickets at Library Desk $10+

supper by Friends

 

 

Wednesday 17th August at 7pm

Meet the Author—Nick Earls

author of ZigZag Street, Bachelor Kisses,
After January, 48 Shades of Brown

light supper by FOL, gold coin donation

Monday 29th August at 7pm

Meet the Author—Andrew Daddo

Flushed, Good Night Me, Youse Two, It's All Good, Muffin Top, Sprung Again, You're Dropped, Dacked 

Entertainment of Wiggles' songs.

Friends of the Library in 2011

FOL are having January off and plan to return in February with a new programme of events for 2011.

Bound by Books, a get-together of all the book groups in Mount Gambier will be back in March.

There'll be a DIY workshop with Mitre 10, learn how to use your GPS with Green Triangle Electronics, and in July The Big Book Sale - so start saving your books now!

For Young Friends there will be a name the frog competition and as requested, a session of board games.

And much more!

First Birthday of the Library

Unbelievable! The new Mount Gambier Library has been open for a year and Friends of the Library has been running for 6 months.

We'll be there for the First Birthday celebrations on Friday 17th December, selling "Libeary" for $5 and handing out free piggy banks courtesy of Bendigo Bank.

There's something happening all day in the Library and surrounds - don't missing cutting the huuuuge cake at 11 am.

Join us in the multi-function room at 3.30 for a cup of tea and a look at what Friends of the Library has achieved.

Volunteers for future events are required:

please sign up up to be a helper.

Friends of the Library Mount Gambier. Events for November 2010

Tuesday 30th November at 7pm

Meet the Author - Peter Fitzsimons
author of Tobruk, Kokoda, Charles Mountford Smith, The Ballad of Les Darcy and his latest - A Simpler Time, the story of his happy Australian childhood.

(I've read it and loved it.)


A Library event with supper by FOL.

Please reserve your ticket at the Library for $5: includes wine-tasting with Herbert Vineyard and a delicious supper supplied by Friends of the Library.

Thursday 2nd December 11am - free

Sneak Peek at new books in the Multi-Function room and discuss them. Friends will talk about the new books they have read while we have a cup of tea or coffee.

Friday 3rd December at 6pm.

Book launch - free

Stan Thompson of ABC Radio will launch Peter Rymill's book Notes of a Journey to the South-Eastern District in January 1863.

Stan will be reading the book on radio during November and December - come along and meet the author and narrator.

Rymill wines will be available for tasting - gold coin donation.

Calling musicians of all ages!

We're looking for musicians to play and/or sing at the Library on weekends.

Help create a pleasant atmosphere and enjoy playing to an appreciative audience.

See the library staff to book your time slot.

It's all happening at the Library - a fun place to be.

contact Friends at folmtg@gmail.com

President's Report can be seen at http://folmtg.blogspot.com/