Government/Town
Take the Suffield Trivia Quiz
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The 350th Anniversary of Suffield will soon be here. How well do you know our town?
Director’s Corner
“Please look after this bear. Thank you.”
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This bear is Paddington, whose story started on Christmas Eve in 1956, at Selfridges in London. Michael Bond, searching for a present, pitied a forlorn toy bear sitting alone on a shelf and took it home.
Director’s Corner
The Politics of Cookbooks
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Politics and food go hand-in-hand. Do you remember Clinton’s fast food hamburgers, Bush’s distaste for broccoli, and cookie recipes from candidates’ wives?
Director’s Corner
Haunted Libraries
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Some libraries have shelves of mysteries, and some are mysteriously haunted. In Connecticut, the most haunted library is in Deep River.
Director’s Corner
Racists
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Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” and other unpalatably racist comments. For this, the American Library Association dropped her name from their children’s award, which was begun in 1954.
Library
Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Year
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Leonard Bernstein was widely known as a flamboyant and intuitive conductor although he considered himself a composer first. He left us with many enduring compositions, well-known musicals such as West Side Story, Candide and On the Town but also sacred music, Chichester Psalms and his Mass.
Director’s Corner
The Fallout
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Despite Mr. Trump’s recent meeting with Kim Jong-un, the threat of nuclear war lingers in our minds, as it did during the Cold War.
Library
Online Features Coming To KML
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Borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV!
Director’s Corner
Walking the Streets of Dublin
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Recently, I was in Dublin, Ireland with my husband. We walked the same streets that Maeve Binchy, Roddy Doyle and James Joyce walked.
Director’s Corner
The Short on Short Stories
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Traditional modern short stories were published in the early 1800s in the United States. Shortly afterward, in 1821, The Saturday Evening Post appeared, one of the most widely circulated magazines.