Are you looking for beautiful prose or gripping action that makes you turn the pages? Do you crave characters that make you weep or a setting in a landscape or time far, far away? Or are you, like one of my favorite characters, Alice, looking for conversation? Do you like to peruse the pictures and perhaps the captions and maybe only then read the text if your interest is piqued?
Need to return your library books and films but dread finding a parking place? Drop them off at the new grocery store! You asked, we listened.
The Friends of the Lopez Island Library annual meeting and open house is April 15, 5-7 p.m., in the Lopez Island Library. The event is open to the public. Librarian Lou Pray will introduce new library technologies. There will be a drawing for prizes. Library volunteers will be honored. New board members will be introduced. And “yummy treats” will be served.
“Lyrical, impassioned, funny.” “A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music hall humor.” “A moving and hilarious account of one spring day in a Welsh fishing village.” This is how critics have described Dylan Thomas’s “Under Milk Wood,” the production opening at Lopez Center Wednesday, April 21, and continuing through Sunday.
The Weekly spoke with some of the actors in the upcoming Under Milk Wood play being performed at Lopez Center about why they participate in community theater and why they wanted to be in this particular play. Each of them plays more than one role.
New Moon and Another Saturn/Uranus Opposition
Happy Easter Week!
There are many ways to celebrate a community, but perhaps the most traditional is music.
There will be a new way to appreciate the island this April with the publication of a new Arcadia Publishing work: “Images of America: Lopez Island.” Written by Susan Lehne Ferguson, the book captures, as Mark Thompson-Klein says, “the personalities, toughness, and creativity that makes Lopez the place we love.” As executive director of the Lopez Museum, Thompson-Klein helped steer Ferguson toward research materials “She is a tireless researcher,” he says.
Aries Stellium
Each summer, the San Juan Island’s resident pods of orca whales come together in what are called “greeting ceremonies.” In this spirit, The Whale Museum of Friday Harbor invites all orca supporters to the fourth Annual Celebration of the “Orca Greeting Ceremony.” This fundraising dinner and auction will be held on Saturday, May 22 at the Mullis Center in Friday Harbor. The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with a happy hour and silent auction followed by a gourmet dinner, live auction and dessert auction.
Wow, What a Week!
Listen up all you audio book lovers. The Lopez Island Library now has a new free service for downloading audio books to your computer, iPod or other MP3 player, called NetLibrary eAudiobooks. The library recently subscribed to Netlibrary for the community. You can access thousands of audio books from home, school, or office from this site www.netlibrary.org.
