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F from the Thank You to Everyone Who Is Vaccinated for Director COVID July 2021 send them our way. I will be giving Our Volunteer Orientation and Training on Zoom, Tuesday July 13 at 6pm. F From the Thank you to everyone who is vaccinated for Director COVID. The libraries are fully open, but we are recommending everyone continue to wear a Dear Friends, mask, unless your student and you are fully vaccinated. The Delta variant of COVID is easier I am pleased to announce that we are starting an to get and more lethal so we still have to be care- Adult Literacy Program at Patrick Mobile Home ful. Wearing a mask is a great way to model for Park, 2000 Highway 15 in Myrtle Beach. Most of your students to stay safe. the adults there speak English and just want to learn to read better and improve their comprehen- Enjoy your 4th of July holiday. Please stay sion. These students may be tutored in small healthy and safe! groups (2-4 per group, in the same reading level) or individually. Barb Patrick is a very giving Dodi person and I look forward to working with her. Dodi Hodges, Ph.D. An open house will be held on Tuesday, July 6 at 6:30 in the Patrick Mobile Home Park office Executive Director garage. I’ll need 2-3 people to help with getting ____________________________________ paperwork completed and someone to help with screening to determine grade level of reading. Palmetto Literacy Council Please leave a message on the office phone 1229 38th Ave N, #130 (843) 945-9278 or email palmettoliteracycoun- Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 [email protected] if you are willing to help out. Tutoring for the Patrick Mobile Home Park Adult Literacy Program will most likely be completed at Office Email: [email protected] Chapin Memorial Library. These folks work full- Office Phone: 843-945-9278 time and with the “season” this year being as Website: www.palmettoliteracy.org popular as it is, we will need to work around some Visit us on Facebook interesting schedules, I’m sure. We continue to reach out to our community to let them know we are here. If you know anyone who is willing to give one hour, twice a week, please If you do not wish to get this newsletter, please email [email protected] and put UNSUBSCRIBE NEWSLETTER in the subject line. 1 Volunteer Liaisons: Polly Putorti is our The Logophile Conway area liaison and Linda Murphy is our Socastee area liaison. Preston L. McKever-Floyd ******************************************************** Shout Out: Thank you to Bobbie Lipman, grant writer extraordinaire! We were funded through the Ocean View Foundation. *********************************************** Online Auction Our first Online Auction Fundraiser raised over $400. Rock on Stephanie Southworth! The first Southern summers provide us with many and time out is always the most difficult. We have the varied skyscapes and light shows; not the least “bugs” identified and expect the next auction will be even better. of which are rainstorms and/or thunderstorms. There many who are fearful, while many are ******************************************************** Smile.Amazon.com aficionadas of both, and there is accompanying vocabulary. Those who enjoy sitting on the At the end of every quarter, plus 3 weeks, we get porch during an afternoon rainstorm are pluvio- a small percentage of purchases made through philes (from the Latin: pluvial, rain and phile, a smile.amazon.com. We want to also thank those slang word employed to describe “a lover of of you who have designated us as your charity of something”). Those who fear rain, more preva- choice on Amazon. Once you have designated lent than one might think, are pluviophobic or your charity of choice, Palmetto Literacy Council, then you make any purchases you would ombrophobic (from the Latin: ombros, rainstorm normally make on Amazon, through the and phobos, “fear or aversion”). smile.amazon.com website. Amazon does not Many among us are fascinated with or can be charge you extra and sends us a percentage of their profit on the items to us. Please sign up said to enjoy the experience of lightning and and make your Amazon purchases through thunder. Ones so oriented is called a cerauno- smile.amazon.com to help us help our philes (from the Greek “keraunos,” “lightning” community. or “thunderbolt” and the Latin phile, lover of). Conversely, those who fear or hate lightning or ******************************************************* PLC BOOK LOVERS BOOK CLUB thunder are referred to as ceraunophobic. So, if you do not enjoy rainstorms or thunder- Do you enjoy reading and discussing books with storms, please enjoy and use the vocabulary. other bibliophiles? Then you might like to join the PLC Book Lovers Book Club. Patricia D’Ascoli will be organizing this monthly book club and would love to hear from those who are interest- ed. Proposed format: Each month the group will meet in one of the member’s homes. The mem- ber who is hosting that month will choose the book to read. Book clubs are a fun way to share your reading experiences with others! Tentative start date September. Contact Patricia [email protected] 2 Book of the Month: Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe Reviewed by Patricia D’Ascoli In May I had the pleasure of meeting local author And what would gritty Southern fiction be without T.I. Lowe whose novel Under the Magnolias was an ill-fated love story? Such is the case in Under recently published. Lowe, who lives in Loris, was the Magnolias—Austin happens to fall for Vance signing copies of her book at Bookends, a used Cumberland, the mayor’s son. Although Vance bookstore in North Myrtle Beach, and I was falls for her as well, their romantic drama is delighted to have her sign my copy. The novel fraught with uncertainty. Their worlds are far came highly recommended by Vicki Baty, who apart; their paths divergent. This sweet tender owns Bookends, as an excellent example of love story floats in and around the angst and “gritty Southern fiction.” I was intrigued by this loneliness and fear Austin and her siblings expe- description. Before embarking on my reading rience as they cling tight to one another while try- journey, I felt compelled to look up the word grit. ing to survive life with a mentally unstable father. The definition is: “unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger.” The novel is a compelling coming of age story— we feel Austin’s sorrow and longing and anger It took only a few pages to see that the narrator, too, and wonder at her ability to hold the family Austin Foster, exemplifies this trait as she sets together, tending to others’ needs at the expense the stage for the story of a family in trouble. A of her own. We applaud her tenacity, but we family with dark secrets. A family that has suf- don’t always agree with her decisions. But she is, fered great loss. The Fosters survive only be- after all, a young woman trying to find her place cause of Austin’s strength and commitment to a in a world far more complicated than any she job no teenager should be tasked with—taking might have imagined for herself. care of six siblings after their mother dies giving birth to twins. But the children are not Austin’s So yes, Under the Magnolias is indeed gritty only burden; in the face of her father’s mental Southern fiction. Put it on your summer reading illness, she must also ensure that their tobacco list or choose it for your book club. You won’t be farm continues to operate. disappointed. The novel takes place during the 1980s in Mag- nolia, South Carolina, a sleepy little Southern town. The Fosters are a quirky bunch—their mother named them all after cities she hoped to visit: Boston (Boss), Phoenix (Peg), Austin (Ox), twins Charlotte and Raleigh and twins Knoxville (Knox) and Nashville (Nash). The patriarch, David Foster—both a minister and a farmer—is a loving father who is ultimately diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Magnolia is peopled by many interesting charac- ters, who are all members of Dave Foster’s con- gregation. “A fortune teller accused of being a witch doctor; an ex-con with a glass eye; an atheist believer with a Polish accent; the town’s undertaker whose sexual orientation was ques- tionable; the town floozy with a penchant for blue eye shadow; a poor farming family with way too many kids and a madman leading them.” These townspeople all have important roles to play in the lives of the Fosters throughout the narrative. 3 SUMMER BINGO! Complete a Task Row, Column, or Diagonal Row Create a social me- Write a letter to Write down the Write a poem about dia type post of a someone famous or text features you Create a menu for a character from a book you loved this a list of questions know and explain your own restau- story you read with year (send to PLC you would like to what they do to rant your tutor or give to your tu- ask them help you read tor) Using your name, Write a journal Write a letter to Create a poster Create a character create an acrostic entry, “If I was your favorite that advertises a trait web about you poem that de- the King/Queen of teacher/tutor book you enjoyed scribes you a country … “ Using the title, Draw the charac- Create a story Compare and Con- create an acrostic ters in a book you board/comic strip trast a character poem describing a enjoyed, write a of a fiction story in your favorite book with your tu- short caption de- you read story and you tor scribing them Write a letter to Write a story that Illustrate a story Design a poster your tutor or Dr.
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