The Suffield Observer (https://thesuffieldobserver.com/category/library/page/23/)
Suffield Youth Services and Kent Memorial Library are working together to help SHS students manage the stress of finals. Parents can encourage their students to attend the June 4 Study with A Therapy Dog session at the Youth Center located in the Senior Center on Bridge Street.
Come join the Friends at our annual meeting Monday, June 10 at 7 p.m. at our temporary library location on Ffyler place.
“A Universe of Stories . . . to Remember.” That’s our theme for the summer program. We will celebrate our return “home” to Main Street with lots of baskets to give away!
I recently read Sam Fuller’s account of how the library on 50 North Main Street came to be. The building’s inception was awash in what Sam called “blood and tears.”
To join us for stories and a craft, you can register or drop-in. Story time will run through May 15.
Looking forward to May, we have another Study With a Puppy session May 7 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Youth Center on Bridge Street. Teens grades 6-12 can come for pizza, study time, a bit of recreation and some pet therapy, thanks to Healers with Halos.
All programs are free! Most are funded by The Friends of the Kent Memorial Library. Become a member! Please register for programs.
First Selectman Melissa Mack announces in her update on Page 3 of this issue that the Kent Memorial Library will open to the public in June. That is great news, and this reporter’s words may have become superfluous, but some details may be of interest. One day in early April the town’s temporary library on Ffyler Place was shut down for an hour and a half in mid-day, and the library staff all got a chance to examine the interior of the “big house,” in which many of the last tasks of its renovation and remediation had been completed.
I have toted home a few books on spies for my husband which got me thinking. Many writers were spies – but were there librarian spies?
Good news for SHS graduates: Kent Memorial Library has digitized all of the SHS yearbooks from years 1940 to 2014.