Brunswick Community Library

This month’s display is all memorabilia from the World’s Fairs held in New York and Chicago, in 1939, and 1964-65. Many of us remember the “Unisphere”, or globe at the New York Fair, which still stands in Queens. It was featured in the movie Men in Black.

The history of World’s Fairs is quite interesting. Although we have not had a large World’s Fair or Exposition in the United States in some time, they are still held around the world.

I asked our collector if he had gone to the World’s Fair in 1964. He hadn’t, but his father had gone to the Fair in 1939, shortly after emigrating to the United States from Germany. The theme of the fair was “the future”.

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The Friends are looking ahead to our Annual Garden Day on Saturday, June 9^th.  We will be looking for contributions of perennial plants, baked goods and garden themed books and items.

Drop off plants at the library after June 7th. Please label your plants with a name.

Drop off Baked goods for the Bake sale on the morning of the sale.

If anyone has empty pots to share, please drop them off behind the library. If you need empty pots for your divisions/seedlings, we’ve got some now!

So as you clean up your garden this spring, keep us in mind.

We are also inviting any Brunswick based small business or crafters to join us at Garden Day, to share the bounty of Brunswick.

Any questions?

Please contact Dorothy Murray

Djmur126@yahoo.com

272-5455

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The Book and Movie Group watched Anna and the King today. To fit the theme, they had food from a Thai restaurant on Lark Street, in Albany, called Kinaree. DELICIOUS!

Next month the group will read The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk. The book discussion will be held at 12:30 on Friday, May 18, and the movie will be viewed at 12:30, on Friday, June 1.

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Our Freegal subscription has expired. Did you use it? Did you like it? Will you miss it?

****We are in negotiations for preparing to sign a new contract…..stay tuned….. we’ll let you know when Freegal is available again*****

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The April display is brought to you by Mike Engel, author of Diners of the Capital District, a marvelous guidebook with in-depth information about the diners in and around Albany, Schenectady and Troy. He’ll be at the library to do a presentation on Tuesday, May 1, at 6:30 pm.

What’s your favorite diner dish? I think I’d pick the tiramisu cheesecake at the Alexis Diner on Route 4…..or the huevos rancheros at the Blue Benn….or the Day After Thanksgiving sandwich at the Townsend Dam Diner….or the Challah French Toast at the East Greenbush Diner….or…..

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