September 24, 2018 LITERACY TECHNOLOGY COMMUNITY

LePoint Cassibry Smith Newsletter

Special points of Volume XII, Issue 7 interest: Friday Preschool Storyhour Resumes

The summer hiatus has ended! Friday Preschool Storyhour resumed on September 7th and was a big hit! • Charlie Spillers is Guest Speaker for Preschool Storyhour is so popular in fact we started a Saturday Preschool Storyhour back in the Spring, which, Lunch With Books unlike the Friday Storyhour, is offered throughout the year. Both Storyhours are open to children ages 5 and under and children must be accompanied by a parent or • The Bolivar Book caregiver. Please note that Preschool Storyhour is for individual children; daycare, school groups, and other Club Continues organized groups may call Mrs. Bobbie to schedule a group visit. • Blanche Kelso Bruce is Featured in The Friday Storyhour is every Friday at 10 a.m., while the Saturday Storyhour is offered the first Saturday of “Some Bolivar each month at 11 a.m. Both programs focus on early literacy skills through stories, of course, as well as games County History…” like show-and-tell, songs, and fun activities. • Teen Advisory For more information about either the Friday or Saturday Preschool Storyhours, contact Youth Services Board (TAG) - a Librarian Bobbie Matheney at 662.843.2774 x105. Volunteer We invite you to bring your preschool child and find out what all the excitement is about! Opportunity for Teens

Inside this issue:

Bolivar Book Club 2 Friday Storyhour on September 7th Friday Storyhour on September 14th Saturday Storyhour on August 4th Calendar 2 Lunch With Books featuring Charlie Spillers

Fine Free Fridays 2 Charlie Spillers will be experience he described in be signed by the author, contact guest speaker for the harrowing detail in his first book Cotton Row Bookstore by Lunch With Books on Confessions of an Undercover Agent: October 5th and your book will Teens Volunteer 3 October 11th, which Adventures, Close Calls and the Toll be available for purchase at the With TAG will feature his new of a Double Life. Following this, he program. Did You Know? 3 thriller Whirlwind: A was a federal prosecutor, served Bring your lunch and join us for Frank Marsh Novel . The program is two years in Iraq for the Justice this exciting program at the Looking for a Good 3 sponsored by the Friends of the Department, and was the U. S. Robinson-Carpenter Memorial Book? Bolivar County Library System. Department of Justice Attaché for Library in on October Mr. Spillers was an undercover Iraq. 11th at 12 Noon. As always, Some Bolivar 4 County History... agent for over a decade, an A book signing will follow the admission is free and soft drinks program. To preorder a book to will be provided. Page 2 LePoint Cassiby Smith Newsletter

Join the Bolivar Book Club—Read Good Books & Have Fun!

We are pleased to announce that acclaimed authors that would be is The Collected Stories of Eudora the Bolivar Book Club is now a not only fun to read, but also fun Welty, a winner of the National regularly scheduled monthly to discuss among other avid Book Award, on October 11th at program on the 2nd Thursday of readers. And the Bolivar Book 4 p.m. at the Robinson-Carpenter each month at 4 p.m. Club was the result! Memorial Library in Cleveland.

Last winter when planning started As you may recall, the program We invite you to stop in and for the Summer Library Program, launched in June with Donna check-out The Collected Stories of Circulation staff member Mike Tartt’s The Secret History, then Eudora Welty and then join us for Emerson began brainstorming for continued with Matthew Guinn’s this free program on September a great summer program that Resurrectionist , John Kennedy 11th for, what we hope will be, a would get adult patrons excited Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces , lively discussion. Soft drinks will about reading. and W. Ralph Eubanks’ Ever is a be provided. Long Time: A Journey Into Mississip- After some consideration, he If you have any questions, call pi’s Dark Past. envisioned offering great—and Mike Emerson at 843.2774 x113. maybe a little quirky—books by Following these acclaimed books

“A great library Calendar

contains September 28th, October 5th, October 11th—Lunch With November 8th—Lunch With 12th, 19th & 26th, November Books featuring Charlie Books featuring Brandi Perry the diary of the 2nd—Friday Preschool Story- Spillers @ 12 Noon—Open to @ 12 Noon—Open to the Public hour @ 10 a.m.—Open to the the Public in Cleveland in Cleveland human race.” Public in Cleveland October 11th—Bolivar Book November 8th—Bolivar Book ~George Mercer October 2nd—Seniors Day Club @ 4 p.m —Open to the Club @ 4 p.m. —Open to the Out! @ 10 a.m. —Open to Public in Cleveland Public in Cleveland Dawson~ Public in Cleveland October 17th—Cleveland November 21st Beginning at October 6th, November 3rd, Commission @ 10:00 a.m. — 1 p.m. through November 25th— December 1st—Saturday Open to the Public in Cleveland Thanksgiving —All Libraries Preschool Storyhour @ 11 October 17th—Board of CLOSED—Regular Branch a.m. —Open to the Public in Trustee Meeting @ 1:30 p.m. Schedules Resume on November Cleveland. —Open to the Public in Cleveland 26th

Fine Free Fridays—Return Your Overdue Books & Fines Waived

The last Friday of each month is What if I have been not in original condition (i.e. Fine Free Fridays and the next one charged for the book and damaged and cannot be returned is September 28th! owe not only the fine, but to the shelf), then the fine will be How does it work? Return any also the cost of the book waived, but the cost of the book overdue books you have on a Fine and a processing charge? If and the processing fee will still Free Friday and the fines will be you return the book in original apply. waived. condition, excluding normal Can I have a previous fine wear and tear, the cost of the Are there any exceptions? Yes, waived on Fine Free Friday? book, the processing fee, and all materials must be returned in No, Fine Free Friday only applies the fine will be waived. If the original condition, excluding nor- to overdue books returned on library deems that any book mal wear and tear. Fine Free Day. returned on Fine Free Friday is See you on Fine Free Friday! Page 3 Volume XII, Issue 7

Teens Volunteer with TAG

TAG (Teen Advisory Group) Teens gathered for their second meeting of the new school year on September 18th to get ready for Teen Read Week programs coming up in October. In addition to planning, they also volunteered to cut out library bookmarks.

The next TAG meeting is Septem- ber 25th and all Teens ages 12-17 are invited to join TAG as they continue to plan for Teen Read Week and other upcoming programs. Call Mrs. Bobbie at 843-2774 x105 if you have any questions.

~Mrs. Bobbie, Youth Service Librarian

Did You Know?

You can access your Smart You can check out an over- You can check-out a Santa “If the Beast gave me Card (such as military ID) at head projector and/or a port- suit for your Christmas Party? the library? Yes, you can bring able projector screen? Yes, you Yes, you can with your library a library like he your Common Access Card can check out an overhead projec- card and non-refundable $5 clean- (CAC), or “Smart Card,” to tor and/or a screen with your ing fee. Just call Robinson-Carpen- gave to Belle, Robinson-Carpenter and ask to library card. We recommend you ter Memorial Library at 843.2774 check out our CAC Reader. The contact Robinson-Carpenter x114 at least two weeks before I’d marry him too.” CAC Reader is for in-library usage Memorial Library at 843.8774 you need the suit to make a reser- only and may not be taken home. x109 to make a reservation at vation. We have a limited number ~Aya Ling~ If you don’t have a library card, least one week in advance to in- of Santa suits and reservations are The Ugly Stepsister just let us hold your ID, which we sure that the desired equipment is on a “first come, first served” will return when you return the available when you need it. The basis. We are accepting reserva- reader. check-out period is three days. tions now, so call soon.

Looking for a Good Book?

Martha: Juror #3 by James Patter- This book catches your interest crisis; charitable organization’s son and Nancy Allen. Ruby is new from page one. It was awesome! response; and the local medical to both Rosedale, and (Fiction—Print & Large Print) communities’ struggles to treat the Mississippi Bar. When Judge their patients for a horrific, lethal Tamara: Plague Among the Baylor assigns her as defense disease they did not fully under- Magnolias: the 1878 Yellow Fever counsel in a high-profile case, the stand. The book concludes with Epidemic in Mississippi by Deanne prosecuting attorney thinks he has an analysis of the financial burdens Stephens Nuwer. Published in a slam-dunk. Then a second suffered by the citizens and busi- 2009, this excellent resource murder occurs… It’s a good thing nesses in the Southern States and chronicles the origins of the 1878 that Ruby has the help of her the formation of national and state Yellow Fever epidemic; the state ex-fiancé’s aunt, who’s a “hard- boards of health as a result of the and federal health response; racial charging” attorney—she’ll need it. health crisis. (Non-Fiction—Print) tension and inequities during the Some Bolivar County History...

Blanche Kelso Bruce 1849-1898

“A slave who became a successful plantation owner, Blanche Kelso Bruce was the second African American to serve in the and the first to be elected to a full term. Though Bruce focused on protecting the rights of freedmen and other minorities, his life of social privilege in the nation’s capital insulated him from Bolivar County Library System the deprivations suffered by many of his black constituents. Bruce moved among elite circles of wealthy white 104 South Leflore Avenue politicians, including his close friends Senator of and Senator Lucius Q. C. Lamar of Cleveland, MS 38732-2607 Mississippi. “Mr. Bruce’s conduct in the senate has been such as not to alienate himself from the Southern peo- ple,” noted Lamar, who had drafted the Mississippi ordinance of secession, served as a Confederate diplomat, Hours: Monday-Thursday 9:00—6:00 and returned to the U.S. Congress as an unabashed opponent of Reconstruction. “[Bruce] has not joined in the Friday 9:00—5:00 Saturday 9:00—1:00 abusive warfare on the South that many of his Republican colleagues in the Senate Chamber have constantly pursued,” Lamar added. “He is an intelligent man, and the best representative of his race in public life.”(1) Closed Sundays & All Legal Holidays Blanche Bruce was born near Farmville, , on March 1, 1841. His mother, Polly Bruce, was a slave, and his Phone: (622) 843-2774 father, Pettus Perkinson, was his mother’s owner and the son–in–law of her deceased former owner, Lemuel Fax: (662) 843-4701 Bruce. Bruce’s first name was originally “Branch,” but he changed it to “Blanche” as a teenager. For unexplained Email: [email protected] reasons, he later adopted the middle name “Kelso.”(2) One of 11 children, Blanche Bruce was a personal serv- Individual phone numbers and email addresses ant to his half brother William Perkinson.(3) Even though he was a slave, Bruce was accorded a status nearly may be found at our website. equal to the Perkinson children’s. Described by contemporaries as an eager learner, he studied with William’s private tutor. But despite such benign treatment, Bruce escaped to Kansas during the Civil War and attempted “Like” us on Facebook at to enlist in the Union Army. His application was refused, and he settled in Lawrence to teach school. Returning www.facebook.com/1bcls ; you may also access to Hannibal, Missouri, near the war’s end, he organized the state’s first school for black children in 1864. the page from our website. Though he planned to attend Ohio’s Oberlin College to study for his divinity degree, he could not afford the tuition.(4) He spent the remainder of the 1860s working as a steamboat porter out of St. Louis on the Missis- sippi River, moving to Mississippi in 1869 to find more–lucrative opportunities.”

Excerpt: History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives , “BRUCE, Blanche Kelso,” http://history.house.gov/People/ Detail/10029 (August 30, 2018) Contact the Friends: Phone: (662) 843-2774 [Numbers in parenthesis refer to footnotes. To read footnotes, go to the URL listed in the excerpt citation above or see Email: [email protected] Vertical Files at Robinson-Carpenter Memorial Library under “Senators-BRUCE, Blanche Kelso”.]

Blanche Kelso Bruce’s biography will continue in the next newsletter.

We’re on the Web! Bolivar County Library System Information: Bolivar.lib.ms.us Board of Trustees Library Staff: Ms. Natalie Peeler, Chair Jennifer Wann, Director Kevin Reed, Circulation Sharon Williamson, Assistant Mike Emerson, Circulation Ms. Rebecca Lewis, Vice Clara, Housekeeping Chair Director Melanie Free, Systems Mr. John Raymond Bassie, Administrator Branch Information: Secretary Terrye Jackson, ILL / Special Benoit (662) 742-3112 Mr. Nathaniel Grammer Services Hours M & Th 1—5 Ms. Maggie Crawford Tamara Blackwell, Reference Svcs / Newsletter Editor Merigold (662) 748-2105 (ph) / Cleveland Commission: Bobbie Matheney, Youth Svcs (662) 748-2596 (fax) Ms. Jurist Green, Chair Martha Lawson, Rosedale Hours M, T, W & Th 1—5

Ms. Dorothy Tolliver, Vice-Chair Marie Shorter, Shelby Rosedale (662) 759-6332 Evelyn Brown, Merigold / Circ. Ms. Weegie Walker, Secretary Hours M & W 10—5, Bethany Brooks, Technical Svcs T & Th 1—5, F 12—5 Ms. Carol Tatum Tina McGee, Benoit/Circulation Ms. Cheryl Line Shelby Lee, Circulation Shelby (662) 398-7748 Jelisa “Lisa” Hatcher, Circulation Hours M & W 10—5, F 12—5