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Books for your collection! The winter book sale still has plenty of good books left.  There are some great buys waiting for you. First Wednesdays Program: This week, Wednesday at 7pm,  David Schutz will talk about the State House and its political, architectural and cultural significance and tell stories of its past, its recent renovations and its central place in the hearts of Vermonters.

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The Library is closed on December 24, 25, 26, 27 and we will re-open on Monday, December 28 at 10am.  Happy Holidays to all of our patrons!  Enjoy the snow.

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Hopefully you've been out on your bike, climbing hills, and enjoying the rural roads of Vermont. This Saturday, July 25, 2009, you can hurry on down to the Montpelier Rec Field on Elm Street and register to ride in the Onion River Century Ride. We added a shorter loop, 23.7 miles, for those of us who are not ready yet to ride 68 or 111 miles in one day! The entry fee is $65 and you can

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This difficult economic climate presents challenges for all of us. The Kellogg-Hubbard Library is offering a series of timely programs to help people in our community come together to learn more about what we can do to weather the crisis.Thanks to the many organizations and individuals who have offered to present programs at no charge to the library! Thursday, April 9th, 7 pmFinding Balance in

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Here are our programs through the end of March. April will be packed full of programs, too! Look for the newsletters soon!Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 6:30pm A Master Gardener programIn anticipation of the first day of spring join us for:Growing Small Fruits and Berrieswith David Fried, founder of Elmore Roots Nursery.Monday, March 23, 2009 at 6:30pmBuilding Compassionate Social Systems with

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NEW RECOMMENDSThroughout the Ace of Games, I've learned many new games that I think others would enjoy should they get the chance. At our Saturday sessions at the Library, the new game Dominion has been popular. Dominion is a card game that many others have taken up recently with great reviews. See what other boardgamers say about Dominion at http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218.Next,

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BANANAGRAM POND BOOKSLast night there was a great showing at the Bear Pond Books Bananagrams event. About 20 folks, young and not-as-young came together to put their Bananagramming to the test. Its that type of game where you have to say, "just one more..." Sources say that Bananagrams has been the top seller out of any one product at Bear Pond last year. Mont P could be the Bananagrams

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So I was browsing through PC WORLD magazine Dec08 and came across some tips for better Google searches (use quotes when looking for a phrase like "dyed in the wool", or use a minus sign to limit a search like salsa -dance if you want recipes, not dance steps), and there are more tips at Google's Advance Search Tips.And I was browsing through Family Handyman magazine Feb09 (and believe me, I'm

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THE COLLECTIONAce of Games continues today, Friday, January 30, when dozens of young gamers converge this afternoon for tabletop fun! Want to know what games are in our growing collection? Check out http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ and search for kellogghubbard, or go directly to our collection at http://www.boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/kellogghubbard?own=1&ff=1. This website is a huge

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In February 2008, the Kellogg-Hubbard Library announced its Games! at the Library program.The Children's Library invested in several board games, including Apples to Apples and the Dungeons and Dragons Basic Game. Soon after, I asked board game companies for donations, and received a deluge of support! Companies such as Fantasy Flight, Wizards of the Coast, Northstar Games, Gamewright, Days of

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The more you use the library the more you're getting for your tax dollars or patron fee. Check this out!!! KHL Use Value CalculatorFYI- all of our public computers have Microsoft Word and/or OpenOffice. Using one of their resume templates you can put together a resume in pretty short order. (OK, the Word template is easier to use.) Usage is limited on the public internet computers, but we also

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NEW MATERIALS Adult library JANUARY 2009(.txt), Children's and Young Adult DECEMBER / JANUARY 2009(.txt). Hint: these are plain text files. Use the Find tool to jump to the section you want to browse. E.g. Go to New Materials Adult Library, click on Edit at the top of the window, then click on Find on this page, type in Mysteries, and then click Next.CHECK YOUR OWN ACCOUNT ONLINE- go to OUR

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Holy Moly! I forgot about the audio language programs you can download right from ListenUp Vermont with your patron barcode #!

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How about trying a language? Just try one. There won't be a test. I actually made it to the second level of Italian. Recently I tried Arabic. OK, I barely got through the first cd, but I'll try it again sometime, and I picked out the phrase "excuse me" in the movie Body of Lies. Che bello!We have some videos for basic French, Spanish and Italian, lots of travel videos and dvds, you could sing

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The economy seems to be in freefall, but the streets of Montpelier are packed with throngs of shoppers. In this storm, it feels as though we are holding on to the things that are closest to us: our shops, our local charities, our traditions, and yes, our library. The "Evening at the Library" on December 6th saw an unprecedented turnout, and people are still stopping us on the street to tell us

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Was listening to a very good cd, DAUGHTER OF TIME by Josephine Tey. (Well, actually required alot of jumping back a track or two to try and keep all those British royals straight.) Excellent reader. There was a great quote about libraries which I didn't jot down while driving, so got to work, ran upstairs, got the book, here it is. The character was sent to buy a book by Sir Thomas More. However-

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As Barack Obama enters the White House, do you think he feels a chill? Does he notice the stirring in Lincoln's bedroom? Find out what ghosts lurk inside the president's mansion when Author Jeff Belanger and local illustrator Rick Powell come to the Kellogg-Hubbard Library on Saturday, November 22 at 1pm in the East Montpelier Room. Rick has been a guest at the Dark Knight Comics Club and is

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A new StoryWalk™ book will be posted in Montpelier’s Hubbard Park beginning November 21 and lasting until December 8, 2008. The book, South, by award-winning cartoonist Patrick McDonnell is a great little book. When a little bird awakens to find that all of his friends and family have gone south for the winter, it takes a surprising friendship with Mooch the cat to help him find his way. This

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Anyone interested in Montpelier's history will want to take a look at the new book, Montpelier: Images of Vermont's Capital City, put together by Paul A. Carnahan and Bill Fish. The book is full of historic photos of Montpelier and the people who lived here beginning with a sketch of our little city that was done by Sarah I. Watrous in 1821. There are photos of floods and fires, parades, street

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On Saturday, October 18, my personal hero Sam Bartlett will be coming to the Kellogg-Hubbard to show off his newest compilation of tricks, gags, and general feats of strange behavior to the unsuspecting citizens of Montpelier. The new book is called The Best of Stuntology, and within its pages you will find some of the simplest, and most effective stunts to play on friends and family. But not

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One of the events we watched in Montpelier from October, 2007 to April, 2008, was the renovation of the Trinity United Methodist Church steeple. In the snow, rain, and sleet (you know what Vermont weather is like) the steeple jacks could be seen on what looked like thin threads dangling high above the treetops, first taking off the old wooden shingles, then replacing them with "Grace Ice and

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Sort of the “Academy Awards” for best Vermont history, the Vermont Historical Society each year gives an award for “the most outstanding contribution to Vermont history in any medium” produced during the previous year. The award is named for Richard O. Hathaway, longtime history teacher and enthusiast of all things Vermont who died several years ago. This year there were two titles honored.

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It's that time again! In September we will host quite a variety of programs, speakers, series, authors and just plain fun! The Healthier Living Worshop, a six week series, will be offered for the second time here at the library beginning Thursday, September 4th from 1:30pm to 4pm. Moderators, Anne Ferguson and Bonnie Alexander from the Vermont Department of Health, will be on hand to teach you

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I just finished a book entitled, Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Danny Danziger. Danziger took time to interview people who worked at the museum, from cleaners to curators to security officers to trustees, giving each person a chance to tell their story. It's a great book. Something in the author's preface jumped out at me: "I was struck by the level of commitment

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It looks like we'll have a great day for the 5th Annual ORS Century Ride tomorrow. Carrie Baker Stahler, Marketing Director at Onion River Sports, and Pinky, Montpelier's own Citizen of the Year, were busy this morning putting the food boxes together for the five food and drink stops along the route for the cyclists. Folks from the Kellogg-Hubbard Library(the beneficiary of the funds raised from

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