Sept / Oct 2004 Vol. 5 / Issue 5 Preserving the Harvest Garden, garden quite contrary -- what do I do with all these vegetables! Gardeners know that planting fruit and vegetables can be somewhat easier than reaping the bounty -- at least it seems like it to those of us who haven’t quite thought out what we are going to do with all that stuff we planted! The library offers an array of materials that can help the weekend gardener preserve the fruits (and vegetables!) of their labors! Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving / United States Dept. of Agriculture Preserving Summer’s Bounty / Susan McClure Ball Blue Book The Food Lover’s Guide to Canning: Contemporary recipes & techniques / Chris Rich & Lucy Clark Crawford How to Store Your Garden Produce / Piers Warren: Organic smallholder Piers Warren shows how to store and Inside this Issue preserve your garden produce, enabling you to eat home- grown goodness all year round. The easy-to-use reference section enables you to quickly look up applicable storage From the Director’s Desk 2 and preservation techniques for the majority of plant pro- duce grown in gardens and allotments. The techniques Apple Basket / Fall Flavors 4-5 include freezing; clamping; hanging; drying; bottling; pick- ling and fermenting. On order Mysteries 6-7 Paranormal Romance 8 New Cookbook in the Spotlight Famous Dutch Kitchen Restaurant Cookbook / Parents Page 10 Jane Stern: Part diner, part family-style restaurant, the Famous Dutch Kitchen Restaurant in Frackville, Pennsyl- Back to School 11 vania, north of Lancaster County, serves up some of the best food in this popular tourist area visited by more than Book News 12 five million people each year. Feast on turkey pot pie, ham and Inspirational Fiction 13 cabbage casserole, and delicious vegetables. The cornbread is moist, flavorful, and nearly as Heists, Capers, & Cons 14-15 sweet as cake. And top it all off with shoofly pie or the Famous Shelf News 16 Dutch Kitchen’s signature Atomic Banana Split. 2 Research Tips ‘Clip-n-Save’ Director’s Memo: home, work, school, or at your local library. Do you ever wish you had ac- Students! We all cess to the library 24 hours a KnowItNow.org is one of only know that during the school year many of day, 7 days a week? Beginning a few virtual reference services your teachers will September 7th your wish will made available through a require you to write a be granted! statewide public library system report using informa- in the United States. The free tion gained from mul- Utilizing a grant from the fed- service is supported by the tiple sources. These eral Institute of Museum and federal Institute of Museum sources may include Library Services (IMLS) and Library Services funds, academic journals , magazines, newspapers, awarded by the State Library granted through the State Li- and encyclopedias. 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How does sexual ac- northeast Ohio township during the tivity affect the health of your prostate? early decades of the 20th century. What are ways you can prevent prostate After World War II their way of life cancer? What should African-American men disappeared under the relentless ad- know about prostate cancer? What are the vance of urban sprawl and modem best alternatives to radiation and surgery in highways. As such, Brimfield is a microcosm of Amer- treating prostate cancer? What are the ica, its fate mirroring what has happened across the symptoms of an unhealthy prostate? United States. The then less populous Brimfield had a These are some of the many important questions that are truer sense of community. Neighbors knew and could answered by Dr. Daniel W. Nixon, one of America's pre- depend on one another... mier cancer research institute leaders, and Dr. Max Go- mez, the charismatic health commentator whose reports Over 40 & Getting’ are aired on NBC television stations nationwide. Stronger / Phyllis Rogers: An easy-to-learn strength training Smart Nutrients: Prevent and treat Alz- workout for adults. heimer’s and senility, enhance brain function This book is for those new to and longevity / Abram Hoffer & Morton strength training. It has chapters Walker: This book provides a detailed account on the benefits of strength train- of the most important breakthrough nutrients ing, motivation, assessment, fun- currently being studied. These nutrients in- clude niacin and vitamin C, as well as miner- damental concepts of strength als such as zinc, chromium and many others - training. Instructions are given for warm up and - each of which plays a crucial role in the cool down. The book contains 173 photographs to maintenance of mental health and the treat- illustrate the exercises and in-depth instructions ment of specific diseases. for each exercise. Music Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific: Music from the 2001 television soundtrack. Cast included Glenn Close, Harry Connick, Jr., and Rade Sherbedgia. American Patriot / Lee Greenwood: 10 patriotic songs in all! Includes: Pledge of Allegiance; America; God Bless America; The Star Spangled Banner. A New Day Has Come / Celine Dion: Includes -- I’m Alive; I Surrender; A new Day Has Come, and more. Pop Music: The Golden Era 1951-1975: Birth of the Blues / Frank Sinatra; Come On-A My House / Rosemary Clooney; Moon River / Andy Williams; Bridge Over Troubled Waters / Simon & Garfunkle; I Can See Clearly Now / Johnny Nash, & many more! Super Hits of Swing, Volume 1: Bandstand Boogie / Les Elgart; Woodchopper’s Ball / Woody Herman; Oooh-Sahdily-Dah / Louis Prima, and many more! 4 You know autumn has arrived when that first hint of wood-smoke wafts across the evening air. Summer slowly begins to fade beneath the crisp, cool advance of the harvest season and you commence the process of canning and freezing your garden’s bounty for the winter sure to come. For me, autumn signifies apples -- big, juicy orbs that have spent the warm months soaking up the sun. From this glorious harvest we get foods like apple pie, apple sauce, apple brown betty, fried apples, dried apples, apple butter, apple fritters, and apple cider. The library offers a bevy of materials that will help you better enjoy the apple season. Load up your basket with these fine books! In Praise of Apples / Mark Rosenstein: ...Join author and restaurateur Mark Apples in Fiction Rosenstein as he journeys through early England, where apples were valued so The Orchard: A highly that cider was used as wages for many farm laborers. He'll introduce you to Memoir / Adele people who devote their lives to preserving and growing antique varieties.