Greetings from your libraries.
Movies at the libraries: The Tuesday-night movie next week is about the life of a bug, an ant that gets into trouble with the local grasshoppers. Showtime is 6 p.m. July 1. The Fort Ashby Library is also turning into a movie theater, showing movies every Wednesday at 2 p.m. Coincidentally, on July 2 the Fort Ashby Library movie will also be about the life of a bug. This movie is rated G.
New Display Cabinet
There is a new display cabinet in the Keyser Library.
Library patrons Donna Jennings Garman and Charles Garman noticed the library was lacking this important item and volunteered to build one and provide the first three monthly displays. They even found a place to put it, which is always a challenge as the library is very cramped. The current display features character dolls from children’s books, some of them made by Donna Garman, who is a member of the Magic Mountain Doll Club.
Come take a look at Winnie the Pooh, Flat Stanley, Addy from the American Girl series and others.
The display cabinet is located in the children’s section of the library next to the early reader book shelves.
Main Street Flowers
The Keyser Library has planted summer flowers in all the flower beds on the west side of North Main Street.
The Keyser City Council kindly gave permission and with some donated plants, library staff and volunteers dug, weeded and planted.
As all gardeners and farmers know, rain doesn’t follow a schedule, so the Main Street watering team includes; Reed’s Drug Store, Main Street Books, Minnich’s Flower Shop and the Keyser Cyber Cafe & Subs.
Enjoy the flowers.
New Books
New Arrivals at the Keyser Library include”
“Fearless Fourteen” by Janet Evanovich, “The perfect summer beach read,” says Publishers Weekly.
“Other” by David Guterson, author of “Snow Falling on Cedars,” is written in “exquisitely refined prose,” says Library Journal.
“Reapers” by John Connolly, described as a page-turner by Booklist.
And for true crime fans, renowned criminal defense attorney F. Lee Bailey offers his take on 20 famous cases in “When the Husband is the Suspect.” Cases include Robert Blake, Sam Sheppard and Dr. Jeffrey Macdonald.
Connie Sutton is head librarian of the Keyser Public Library. Her column appears weekly in The News-Tribune.


