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Friends Hold Another Successful Book Sale
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The Friends of Kent Memorial Library are pleased to report that we have had another successful book sale this year. Our proceeds from the three-day sale were over $15,500.
The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/library/page/21/)
The Friends of Kent Memorial Library are pleased to report that we have had another successful book sale this year. Our proceeds from the three-day sale were over $15,500.
Dictionaries have been around a long time, perhaps beginning on cuneiform tablets around 2300 BCE (or BC if you prefer) in the area of modern-day Syria. In 1604, the first English alphabetical dictionary was published.
Finally! On June 29, as First Selectman Melissa Mack had announced earlier in June, Kent Memorial Library opened the doors of its renovated and remediated home on Main Street.
For more information or to register for programs, stop by the library, call 860-668-3896, check suffield-library.org or follow us on Facebook. All of our programs are free!
The book titled Book Club Reboot: 71 Creative Twists and written by Sarah Ostman and Stephanie Saba, describes Books in the Parlor, one of Kent Memorial Library’s book groups. At the end of this article is the description of the group as it appears in the book.
It’s time to plan for the Friends’ book sale held again in Father Ted Hall at Sacred Heart Church on Mountain Rd.
The Kent Memorial Library is unique. It is the only free-standing public building designed by Warren Platner.
Kick-off the 2019 Summer Reading Program on Saturday, June 29 at our Grand Opening! Woohoo!
The second decade of the new millennium was a tough period for the Kent Memorial Library, but the clouds have cleared, and if all went as seemed likely at the Observer’s press time, there would be a grand reopening on June 29.