(Cazenovia, NY – Oct. 2015) As part of the Second Annual Cazenovia Fall Festival, Children’s Coordinator Jenna Wright-Martin is calling all kids ages 7-12 to the Cazenovia Public Library on Saturday, Oct. 24 at 10:30 a.m. for “Mask Making” with Geoffrey Navias and at1:30 p.m. for children ages 3-8 and their families for “Pumpkin Tales.”
During the hands-on ”Mask Making” workshop, children will create their own imaginary character. Led by Geoffrey Navias, resident artist of Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, these masks will be easy to make, easy to wear, and as beautiful, funny, or scary as children want to make them.
Children will have the opportunity during “Pumpkin Tales” to select their own pumpkin and, with their families, decorate it as their favorite character or book. All art materials and pumpkins will be provided. Pumpkin tales, of course, cannot be complete without some pumpkin books to take home, and the Library is just the place to find them.
Families are also encouraged to take part in the “Sidewalk Story” along the Library’s sidewalk leading from the back parking lot to the front of the Library. The “Sidewalk Story” features a beloved children’s book about pumpkins and provides families with an opportunity to enjoy literature out in nature.
Both events will be held in the Library Community Room. As always, all events at the Cazenovia Public Library are free and open to the public.
For more information on “Mask Making,” “Pumpkin Tales,” or other events at the Library, call 655-9322 or visit www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org.
Open Afternoon Book Club meets Oct. 21
The “Open Afternoon Book Club” for adults at the Cazenovia Public Library meets in the Story Garden every third Wednesday at 1 p.m.
The October 21st selection, The Whistling Season by Montana native Ivan Doig, is a coming-of-age story, set in rural eastern Montana and told in flashbacks that thoughtfully evoke a lost time and place.
Here, Doig tells a nostalgic, bittersweet story about a widower, his three sons, and the year these boys spend in a one-room country schoolhouse. It begins with the father, Oliver, hiring a widowed housekeeper named Rose from Minneapolis, who says she “Can’t Cook but Doesn’t Bite”.
With her when she arrives is her unconventional brother Morrie, who is something of a scholar and soon finds himself pressed into service as a replacement teacher. During the course of the novel, these intriguing and unpredictable characters come together in an affectionate, heartwarming tale that celebrates a vanished way of life and laments its passing. (Library Journal)
Ivan Doig is the author of ten previous books. A former ranch hand, newspaperman, and magazine editor, he holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington. He lives in Seattle.
Book clubs at the Cazenovia Public Library are free and open to the public.
Books are available at the circulation desk, and all are welcome.