Library Display Case.
November’s display case, ‘Home for the Holidays,’ celebrates Thanksgiving with a collection of vintage prints, paintings, and collectibles. Featured are works by well-known artist and illustrator, Tasha Tudor. Skillfully rendered watercolors of Litchfield County by local artist, Bronte Christian, lend charm, as do oil paintings of early 20th-century New England landscapes. Antique painted farm-stand signs, a fall-hued quilt, painted 18th-century pantry box, and wooden covered bridge by a Cornwall crafter are among the unique period pieces arranged in colorful vignettes, with pumpkins and apples adding decorative detail.

Adult Book Display.
In anticipation of the holidays to come, the adult book display features a selection of craft and cooking ideas. Among the titles selected to make the season bright are: The Christmas Stocking; Dough Crafts; Gift-Giver’s Cookbook; Great Gifts: Hundreds of Easy-to-Make Craft Projects; Hand Knit Holidays; Making Wreaths; and Ultimate Christmas.

These books, as well as others, can be searched in the Library’s catalog, or in the regional Bibliomation Global catalog, on the Library’s website (www.morrispubliclibrary.org) and requested online. Titles can also be reserved by calling the Library at 860-567-7440.

Program
On Thursday, November 12, at 7:30pm, in the Library’s Reading Room, Sonya Green, Program Coordinator at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, and Craig Hotchkiss, Program Director at the Mark Twain House and Museum, will present a power point talk and discussion entitled, ‘Stowe and Twain: Effecting Social Change.’ The program will focus on the profound influence that Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Huckleberry Finn have had on U.S. race relations over the past 150 years and the relevance of the books today. Teens are welcome. Refreshments will be served. For further information, please call the Library at 860 567-7440.

November activities for Teens
Teen Advisory Council
The Teen Advisory Council will meet on Wednesday, November 18, at 7pm, in the Library. Members will plan for the first of three events selected to take place during the school year: ‘game day,’ scheduled for Monday, January 18, from 4-7pm, to take place in the Morris Town Hall Community Room. Two following events, to be scheduled and organized at later meetings, are an evening of bowling and a ‘drive-in movie.’ Morris teens in grades 7-12 are welcome. Volunteer and former principal, Bob Asman, and library director, Lorraine Kerr Faison, are the group’s advisors. Refreshments will be served. For further information, please call the Library: 860 567-7440.

November activities for Children
Children’s Pre-School Story Hour. Weekly story hours and crafts for pre-school children are offered on Tuesdays from 10 to 11 AM. For further information and to register, please call the Library: 860-567-7440.

For November, programs will celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday:
· November 10 – Thankful Wreaths
· November 17 – Tom Turkeys
· November 24 – Thanksgiving Celebration

We welcome new children and their caretakers to this lively pre-school group.

Lorraine Kerr Faison
Library Director
860-567-7440

Morris Public Library - Morris Community Hall - Morris, CT 06763 - (860) 567-7440

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