{"id":122215,"date":"2024-05-16T11:10:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=122215"},"modified":"2024-05-16T11:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:11:41","slug":"canastota-public-library-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=122215","title":{"rendered":"Canastota Public Library news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Afternoon Writer\u2019s Group Makes Anniversary Gift to Library<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 20 years, the Afternoon Writer&#8217;s Group has been meeting faithfully twice a month at the Canastota Public Library to hone their craft.&nbsp;The members of the group have fluctuated over the years, but the two leaders, Tish and Dean Dickinson, have remained at the helm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Dickinsons have been guiding this talented ship of authors, poets and memoirists with their words of support and encouragement so that the group feels more like a family. And this family of writers, currently with 14 members,&nbsp;has gifted $1,000 to the Canastota Public Library. For an institution that values the written word and the people who create those combinations of words, we couldn&#8217;t be more thankful for their generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want our library to continue to be a mecca for writers in the years to come. New members are always welcomed to meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at 2 p.m. in the Lawson Community Room. We also have an Evening Writers Group that meets the first and third Mondays of the month at 6:30 p.m. For more information, contact the library at 315.697.7030 or <a href=\"mailto:canastota@midyork.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">canastota@midyork.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afternoon Writer\u2019s Group Makes Anniversary Gift to Library For 20 years, the Afternoon Writer&#8217;s Group has been meeting faithfully twice a month at the Canastota Public Library to hone their craft.&nbsp;The members of the group have fluctuated over the years, but the two leaders, Tish and Dean Dickinson, have remained at the helm. The&nbsp;Dickinsons have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}