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Friends of the Library 34th Annual Author Luncheon
Author Jessie Knadler
Rurally Screwed
By Susan Wright, Friends of the Library Board
Jessie Knadler, author of Rurally Screwed – My
Life Off the Grid with the Cowboy I Love, is the kind
of woman who seems to be able to do anything. A
small town girl from what she calls majestic Montana,
she went to New York City and lived the dream of
becoming magazine editor
and writer, with a big city
attitude and wardrobe. And,
like a lot of aspiring Carrie
Bradshaws, (including
Carrie Bradshaw),
discovered it wasn’t all
picnics in the park. After
fourteen years of the fastpaced life, she hadn’t found
her own Mr. Big, had just
finished a stint working at
the kind of tabloid magazine
that, she says, “was
basically a pamphlet for
showing stars looking gross in their bathing suits or
having the audacity to appear in public without
makeup.”
Then she was sent on assignment to cover a
rodeo back in her home state of Montana and met
the cowboy of the book’s title, a kind of Marlboro
man, rodeo bull rider and farmer, who also was a
soldier shipped off to Afghanistan early in the
relationship. Of course, they get married and
metaphorically ride off into the sunset of the Virginia
countryside to start life and a family as a farm family.
But the woman, the book and the family are more
nuanced than that superficial, cardboard image, and
that’s what makes it worth reading. She learns to
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April
2014
Pulitzer Prize Author
in Person
For Special
Read Discussion
The New York Times: "Must read, cannotput-down history"
Christian Science Monitor: "Suspenseful and
historically meticulous"
Boston Globe: “A taut, intensely readable
narrative"
Kirkus Review: "Deeply researched and
superbly composed"
San Francisco
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Chronicle: "Delivers the
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shock of a crime
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The Pulitzer Awards
Committee: "A richly detailed chronicle
of injustice in the Florida town of Groveland
in 1949, involving four black men falsely
accused of rape and drawing a civil rights
crusader, and eventual Supreme Court
justice, into the legal battle”
Gilbert King will be at the City Island
Library on Saturday, April 12, to lead a
community-read discussion of Devil in
the Grove, a highly acclaimed book, as
you might tell from the comments
quoted above.
Multiple copies of King's book are
available in the library and can be
reserved for anyone who wishes to
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participate in the book discussion with the celebrity author. This
community read project is based on the National Endowment for
the Arts Big Read program, designed to "revitalize the role of
literature in American culture and encourage citizens to read for
pleasure and enlightenment."
Devil in the Grove details events that took placed in 1949
in Lake County, Florida, a violent time of lynchings, Jim Crow laws
and the Ku Klux Klan. Sheriff Willis V. McCall ruled the county with
unmitigated ruthlessness, keeping low-paid, mostly black laborers
of the orange groves in line so the citrus barons could maintain
their profits. Through this background, King threads the story of
Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer who would become embroiled in a
Florida case that would help change the course of the American
Civil Rights Movement.
Gilbert King was born and raised in upstate New York. He
spent most of his college years at the University of South Florida,
but completed his work for his Bachelor's degree at New York City's Excelsior College in 1985. He
then began to do some freelance writing and editing; his work has appeared in the “New York
Times,” the “Washington Post” and the Smithsonian's history blog “Past Imperfect”. He also
taught himself photography, achieving such professional competence that he began to publish
his work in many prestigious national magazines, including “Harper's,” “Cosmopolitan” and
“Vogue.”
His first book, The Execution of Willie Francis, was published in
2008. Francis was a 16-year-old African-American in Louisiana
who astonishingly survived the electric chair. His case became an
international story and eventually made it to the Supreme Court.
King's account received highly laudatory reviews. “Counterpunch”
praised it as "the best book on capital punishment since Mailer's
The Executioner's Song."
King had some serious competition in the Pulitzer General
Nonfiction Award category. Also nominated was Katherine Boo's
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life Death and Hope in a Mumbai
Undercity, and David George Haskell's The Forest Unseen: A
Year's Watch in Nature, both of which have received critical
acclaim.
Devil in the Grove has been nominated for an Edgar and other
awards, and the film rights have been acquired by Lionsgate, the
project being considered "high priority," so we may see the
Groveland Boys and Thurgood Marshall on the silver screen in the
not too distant future.
Gilbert King, his wife and two daughters live in New York City.
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PRESENTATION BY HENRY LEE MORGENSTERN
Can We Bring Back the Longleaf Pine
Forests of the Southeastern US?
By Elizabeth Nelson, Newsletter Editor
When I first telephoned Henry Lee Morgenstern to interview him for this article he told me that he
had just finished planting 1000 longleaf pine seedlings on his own thirty acres in the heart of the
Lake George Conservation Area in west Volusia County. The land was originally covered with
longleaf pine, but only a few remnants were left when he acquired the property in 2005. His plantings
are part of a longleaf pine restoration project he is doing in coordination with the Florida Forest
Service and other public agencies. With insufficient staff and resources for government agencies to
engage in the restoration efforts on their own, they actively promote best
management practices on private lands.
In this program on April 23, which continues the celebration of Earth
Day, Morgenstern will explain the importance of the kind of work he is
doing. The longleaf pine ecosystem historically covered most of the
Southeast United States from Virginia to Texas to central Florida. These
trees once grew to heights of 150 feet and lived as long as 500 years.
Today we have only THREE PERCENT of these forests, leaving many
species and habitats which depend on this ecosystem threatened and
endangered. He will discuss the values and structure of the longleaf
pine ecosystem, the reasons for its decline, and the methods that are
Henry Morgenstern
being used to try to restore it to more of
Morgenstern’s biggest project its historic range.
was to prevent the
Henry Morgenstern is a writer and an attorney who now
government from promoting
restricts his lawyering to environmental matters. He has served on
development of endangered
species habitat in the Florida the Board of Directors of the Florida Wildlife Federation and on the
Keys with federally subsidized Executive Council of the Environmental and Land Use Law Section
of the Florida Bar.
flood insurance. The case
Born and raised a New Yorker, Morgenstern began his college
began in 1989, and lasted 23
years.
work at Cornell, but transferred to the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, where he earned a bachelor's degree in liberal arts, and, in
1976, his law degree. He then moved to Key West where he set up a law office, practicing general
law, and, in his spare time, snorkeling among the coral reefs.
It was the damage to these reefs and the fragile ecosystem, brought on by the rapid increase of
development and tourism in the Keys in the 1980s, which first drew him into
environmental activism. He began to represent environmental and
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neighborhood groups who were also concerned with preserving the Keys.
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In 1987, he traveled to the Amazon with a group he met working for
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Jimmy Buffett's Friends of Florida, an organization started by Buffett to help
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protect nature in the Keys. One day while they were hiking through a
beautiful, lush growth of rainforest, they suddenly came upon a shocking
expanse of tree stumps, some of them twelve feet in diameter. It was the first time he had seen a
logging clearcut. The desolation of the scene haunted him and changed the course of his practice.
Since then his work has taken him to several continents, including the African savanna, and
rainforests in Alaska, Peru and Australia. He spent three months in Queensland in northern
Australia, assisting in a project to protect the habitat of the endangered Cassowary. The Cassowary,
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Woodcarving Program Offered
If you’d like to learn the art of woodcarving but don’t know how or where to
begin, come to a free program offered by woodcarver Greg Mais and learn
how easy it is to get started – and meet others interested in woodcarving,
too!
Mais is president of the Friends Carving Club, a group of men and women
carvers of varying skill levels. The club began meeting in 1976 with the
mission to teach woodcarving skills and techniques to anyone interested.
This free program is open to the public and will take place on Tuesday,
Mar. 18 at 5:30 p.m.
For more information call Adult Program Coordinator Deborah Shafer at 257-6036, ext. 16264.
(Longleaf Pine, Continued from page 3)
I learned, is a big emu-like bird which lives only in the disappearing rainforests of Northeast
Australia and New Guinea.
Morgenstern's biggest project was to prevent the government from promoting development of
endangered species habitat in the Florida Keys with federally subsidized flood insurance. The case
began in 1989, and lasted 23 years. He joined with state
and national environmental groups to finally succeed in
obtaining an injunction against flood insurance for new
development in the Keys. It set a precedent to prevent flood
insurance from being used to jeopardize endangered
species habitat all over the United States.
Morgenstern has written extensively on environmental
subjects, in particular about endangered forests, their
continued and increasing decline and the threat this brings
to the future of biodiversity on earth. He makes the reader
aware of the magnificence of the great trees in the oldgrowth forests. I found one of his articles, on the Tongass
National Forest, particularly engrossing. The title is "Cutting
the Cathedral: the War over the Future of Alaska's
Morgenstern on the job
Tongass." The article is long, published July 1, 1997,
through the Free Online Library, so it is easily available on the web. The
war in this largest of our national forests, as I understand it, is still going on.
The contestants in the war over the Tongass are the environmentalists and scientists on one
side, and on the other side the owners and managers of the logging companies and the workers
proud of their livelihoods, which depend on harvesting forest products. Morgenstern reflects that
what is needed for any resolution of the conflict is for "each side [to] see that the other was made
of real people and not lunatics." His opening paragraphs introduce us to some of these real people
and make us like them all. The following passage is from the conclusion of the article:
"Federal law requires that national forests be managed for 'multiple uses,' including recreation.
To many, the most important use of our last great cathedral forests is simply for us to know that
they will continue to exist; that we are doing our part to save them so that someday our children
can take their grandchildren by the hand, and show them the same trees that we beheld in silence
with our grandfathers, in a scene unchanged since before the first human children walked the
continent."
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LOCAL AUTHOR MICHAEL PYLE WILL TALK ABOUT HIS NOVEL
WHITE SUGAR, BROWN SUGAR
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2:00 P.M. CITY ISLAND AUDITORIUM
Michael Pyle, who is an attorney with the Pyle and Delinger Law Firm, will give an
encore presentation on his novel, which has been re-released under his own name. He
had first had it published, about a year ago, under the pen name of E.G. Tripp. The story
is based to some extent on his own experiences growing up in a still segregated Daytona
Beach, in the 50s, 60s and 70s. It is about the friendship of two boys, one white, from an
affluent family, and one black, from a family in impoverished circumstances. The reader is
caught up in their unusual bonding, which eventually brings the members of both families into some
intimacy, As suggested by the title, the drug culture is an important backdrop in the novel.
In a report on Pyle and his novel by James Harper in "The Daytona Times," February 23, 2013, we
learn that young Michael Pyle, like so many young whites in our community in that period, had little
understanding of the racial tensions in his community and hardly any contact with blacks while growing up.
There was only one black student in his Seabreeze High
School graduating class. However, his parents, though far
from being civil rights activists, would never allow any
demeaning language of anyone for any reason in their home.
Among the few blacks in Pyle's life when he was young were
the family's housekeeper, whom he still considers a friend to
this day; her sons, whom he met only a few times, when he
would ride with his mother to take the housekeeper to her home; a couple of yard-men, and Brownie, who
worked at the Halifax River Yacht Club, and gave advice on fishing to all the youngsters at the club. He
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“Whose Art is it Anyway?---The Case of the Parthenon Marbles”
Presented by Roberta Smith Favis, Professor Emerita of Art History
Curator, Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection
Art Department, Stetson University
Wednesday, April 9 at 4:00
The great collection of marble statuary that once adorned the Parthenon in Athen,
Greece, has long been one of the most important artistic treasures of the British
Museum in London. While Promoting his new movie,”The Monument Men”, George
Clooney recently added his voice to the long-standing plea of the Greek government
for the repatriation of these works to Athens.The lecture will describe the origin and
history of the marbles, tell the story of how they made their way to London, and
examine the arguments for and against returning them to their original home in
Athens. The discussion will necessarily touch on
issues of cultural heritage, globalization, and the role
of the museum.
Roberta Smith Favis is Professor Emerita of Art History at Stetson
University and serves as curator of the Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection,
an important legacy of artworks by American Modernist Oscar Bluemner
(1867-1938). She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the
University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. in Art History from Bryn Mawr
College. She is author of Martin Johnson Heade in Florida and Oscar Bluemner: A Daughter’s Legacy ,as
well as numerous catalog essays and articles on American art from the 19th to the 21st century.
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slaughter chickens, build fences, sew her own clothes in her own style and recently told an
interviewer “it’s been years since I had on anything with a label,” writes
two blogs now (the other is Heartlandia, which she writes for
a parenting website, part of the Disney franchise), rides horses, drives
a tractor and teaches Pilates.
She recently had her second child and the blog is full of stories about
the way her family gathers to support her, adventures in decorating their
new/old house – and how to deal with the mice that show up during the
polar vortex. She shares recipes, stories about their renovations and
photos of the dog they rescued from Afghanistan.
The reviews for both refer to her sarcastic wit, her sense of humor
and her intrepid descriptions of her adventures in self-discover. She’s
got a knack and fondness for alliteration (she says of their quandary on
where to live when they married, “Jake’s soul would wither if he had to
live in a big city, but I wasn’t wild about living anywhere near a WalMart.”) She sums things up with a telling quip –“We were united in our
mutual love of dancing and beef jerky.” But beneath the sass and
humor there’s a lot more going on. She cites a review on NPR.org that
calls the book “a memoir of unexpected, unpretentious and very funny
heft.”
Friday
The blog and the book describe the journey that led to a cottage and
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a small farm in Virginia, not far from Lexington. All of which sounds like
a lifetime movie, except that lifetime movie would end with the decision
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to marry the cowboy and leave New York, and the book and the blog
focus on what happened after, how the city girl learned to love and live
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the country life in the rolling hills of Virginia. Which she points out they
chose because they’re near Lexington, home for two universities. Not
entirely the boondocks.
She’s also written a cookbook, Tart and Sweet, which was, she proudly reports on her website,
endorsed by Alice Waters and featured in the New York Times, and has another book she’s
finished and hoping to publish.
Ms. Knadler will be the featured speaker at the Friends of the Daytona Beach Regional Library
Center’s annual Author’s luncheon on Friday, April 4.
Annual Author’s Luncheon, Halifax River Yacht Club, 331 S. Beach St., Daytona Beach. Tickets,
at $30 per person, are available at the Daytona Beach Regional Library, 105 E. Magnolia Ave.,
Daytona Beach, or from Friends of the Library board members.
Financial Planning for Long-Term Care
On April 2 at 3:00 p.m. Attorney Michael Pyle will be giving a library talk, on
"Financial Planning for Long-Term Care," updating the material he presented on the
subject in February last year. In this, he will be reviewing how one can pay for long-term
nursing care, whether in an assisted living facility or home care; and will touch on the
choice of long-term care insurance. He will also review in depth the applicability,
qualification, and details of the different Medicaid-related programs.
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Florida libraries are vital to our citizens. To support this Volusia County
Libraries participated in “Snapshot Day” a program sponsored by the Florida Library Assocation. Now
in it’s fourth year Snapshot day originally started in New Jersey as a result of the joint efforts of the
New Jersey Library Association and the New Jersey State Library, Snapshot Day allows all libraries
across the state of Florida to illustrate the positive effect they have on their communities. Libraries
were asked to gather statistics, stories, comments and photographs of a day in the library. So, on
January 22, 2014 we took a snapshot of our library business. On that day 11,541 patrons visited a
Volusia County Library, 2,645 visited the Daytona Beach Regional Library. Librarians answered 2,090
reference questions, 137 new library cards were issued, 2,364 patrons used library computers, 668
patrons attended an adult, teen or children’s program and 14,422 items were checked out!
Although the statistics are impressive I think the stories, comments and pictures drill down to the
depths of libraries’ connection to the community.
One patron wrote “City Island Library helped me by getting me a good job. I only have to go one
place to save me and my family money. This is a convenient place to read, use a computer and also
checkout movies to give you a taste of life making you happier every time you come back into City
Island Library.”
Another patron answers the question How does the library help you? By saying “immensely, all the
movies, books and all. They are always pleasant and helpful (staff) I enjoy the library very, very
much and thank everyone for their help and kindness.”
Still another writes “The library has great magazines available, music & movies, very helpful on a
tight budget. Plus it’s just an inspiring place to come for ideas.”
Finally “I have been homeless off & on for the last 6 months and the internet access helped me get
a job 2 weeks ago (I should have a place in a week!) It also helps me stay current with the news via
newspapers. I love to checkout book. I read a book a day.”
Other patrons wrote about informative programming, fun children’s storytimes and the variety of our
services. Many comments were about our wonderful staff and how they provide exceptional service.
I couldn’t agree more.
Photographs taken during this project can be viewed on the library’s website at volusalibrary.org.
Our patrons see us as a happy, helpful and inspiring place to be. I think that is GREAT!
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BRING OUT THOSE DOLLARS FOR OUR SPRING RAFFLE ITEMS
2014 SPRING RAFFLE
Each year the Friends of the City Island Library hold a Spring Raffle to benefit the library. Tickets
are on sale at the Reference Desk for one dollar each or six tickets for five dollars. The artwork
and other items will be on display in the library. The raffle tickets will be drawn on Friday, April 4,
during the Author Luncheon. You do not need to be present to win. Tickets are available for the
following items:
A print of Joan A. Davis's watercolor that portrays
Charleston basket weavers. It is matted, framed and signed
by the artist who is well known for her paintings in South
Carolina locales. This is a gift of our president elect, Lois
Fennelly. Davis has a fine arts degree from the Art School of
Eastern Michigan University. She also worked for about ten
years as an interior designer. Her paintings have been in
galleries in Charleston, South Carolina and in Savanah and
Roswell, Georgia. They are also in many collections
throughout the United States, Canada and the United
Kingdom. Davis and her husband owned and operated the
Sea Marsh Gallery in Bohicket, South Carolina, for many
years. They now live in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
Davis says of her usual painting technique, "Plein air painting
for me is the most exciting way of painting--always chasing
the light.... Since I consider myself a colorist, I am inclined to
heighten color." An original cup-shaped basket accompanies
her print of the basket
weavers.
A mother of pearl cameo
necklace, from Tracy and
Stacy's Masterpiece Jewelers,
a generous donor of gifts for
our author luncheon raffles for
several years. Valued at $50.
A Vera Bradley bag valued at $74 was donated by John Hill
owner of Inspirations Cards & Gifts in Ormond Beach. The
bag is a Three-O Tote in the Lilli Bell pattern.
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A certificate for a massage from Remedy Spa at Pelican Bay,
owned by Tim Franks, who has been a generous donor for
several years. Valued at $65.
“Gathering Blossoms” A print of a Hua Chen painting. This is the gift of Governing Board
member Virginia Minutolo (who also provides the lovely
piano background music at our author luncheons). It
comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. The artist, Hua
Chen was born in 1952 in Shanghai, People's Republic of
China. Between the years of 1973 and 1976, Chen earned
a Bachelors Degree of Fine Art from the Anhui Teacher’s
University, Anhui, China. He then went on to attain a
Master of Fine Art Degree in sketching, watercolor and oil
painting form the Central Institute of the Fine Arts in
Beijing, China. Chen has earned several titles and awards
including Chairman of Anhui Oil Painting Research
Association in China and is a member of the Artists
Association of China.
After relocating to the United States in the late 1990's,
Chen's work became well recognized in the United States,
resulting in his work being displayed in the national
directory, "Artists of Chinese Origin in North America." His
one-man shows have been
exhibited in Japan, Hawaii, China and the Untied States.
A cookbook, also a gift of Virginia Minutolo. America’s Greatest
Brand Name Cook Book. This is valued at $30.
A brushed chrome, countertop
Cuisinart sandwich grill, another
gift of Virginia Minutolo. This
measures 9 by 9 by 3.75 inches. Valued at $30.
Five certificates for massages from Angelic Gardens Day
Spa in Ormond Beach. Each certificate is for a 45 minute Massage, valued at $50. This is
the second year of involvement in the raffle.
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Tickets are available at the Reference Desk Through April 3 and
available for purchase at the author luncheon on April 4.
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said he vaguely recognized that their lives were different from his, but he had no real grasp of what that
difference meant. This was a time in Daytona Beach when, on the beach
side, where Pyle's family lived, black people were not permitted after
dark.
The novel placed second on "Reader's Choice--the Best Books of
2013," of "The Wall Street Journal." The following reader responses to the
book give an idea of how positively it has been received.
* A story of two boys and a friendship that defied the odds of race and
time.
* It covers a lot of ground including family, drugs, growing up and
growing wise.
* A jolting look at the strength of the human spirit and the depth of
friendship through unimaginable circumstances.
* For anyone who has a loved one that...has struggled with dependency,
this book makes you see the thrill of what pulls them in and the
overwhelming struggle that they continuously battle. I couldn't put [the
book] down.
* Pyle's primary intent in the novel is to describe the enslaving, almost
paralyzing effects of alcohol addiction, in which racism and class conflicts almost disappear.
A story of Pyle's, "A Naive Florida White Kid's Perspective of Race Relations in the 50s and 60s,"
appears in Elizabeth Coursen's book, Shade in the Sunshine State, an Anthology: Reflections on
Segregation in Florida. Pyle will participate in a Panel Discussion: The Civil Rights Era in Daytona Beach
as Portrayed in the Press, to be held April 12, 2014, at 2:00 P.M., in the Adult Auditorium of City Island
Library.
Pyle will be the featured speaker at the Author Luncheon of the Friends of the Dickerson Heritage
Library, at the Halifax River Yacht Club, Saturday, March 15.
As mentioned in the following article, the Friends of the Library will hold their annual meeting on
Wednesday, May 21, following the concert. Election of officers for the 2014-15 year will be held at the
meeting. The Nominating Committee has presented the state of nominees as follows:
PRESIDENT:
Lois Fennelly
PRESIDENT –ELECT:
(to be determined)
TREASURER:
Mary Fagan
RECORDING SECRETARY: Phoebe Smith
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: Susan Wright
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With a Song in My Heart:
Rusty Baker to Perform
By Phoebe Smith, Friends of the Library
Audiences throughout central Florida have applauded Rusty Baker’s repertoire which ranges from
Mozart to Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Handel to Gershwin. The creative genius of Cole Porter, Jerome
Kern, Rogers and Hammerstein, the drama of “Phantom of the Opera” and “Les Miserables”, all come alive
when Rusty plays.
Rusty’s childhood memories include hearing a tune and picking it out on the family piano in
Spartanburg, S. C. His earliest lessons in actually reading music began when he was
seven, with a teacher who rewarded any deviation from written notes by whacking
Wednesday Rusty’s knuckles with a ruler. Fortunately, his next teacher, a college music professor,
appreciated Rusty’s gift and encouraged his flights of fancy. To this day, Rusty says,
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he respects the composers of masterpieces by playing their efforts note-by-note,
3:30 P.M. exactly as written. But he enlivens most other music with his personalized
embellishments of grace notes and flourishes.
By age fifteen, Rusty had made the transition from piano to knobs and foot pedals, and he became
the primary and paid organist for his church. Continued studies led
to skills sufficient to form a band in his early twenties, performing for
ten years at military bases and major east coast hotels.
Moving to Orlando in 1993, this versatile musician managed to
combine a full-time position as musical therapist for the area’s largest
healthcare facility with daily duties as a pianist in the “Diamond
Horseshoe Jamboree,” the longest running show at Disney’s Magic
Kingdom. Meanwhile, he also played the organ at churches in St.
Cloud and Winter Park.
Since 1999, Rusty has been Minister of Music at First
Presbyterian Church of Daytona Beach. He has developed an
outreach music ministry at 15 area retirement and nursing
centers. Along with violinist Susan Picard Acree, Rusty is a featured
performer monthly at noontime Music for Meditation, All Saints
Lutheran Church, Port Orange.
Partnering with well-known area singer, Ernest Murphy, Rusty
has taught history and performance of American musical theatre for
Stetson University’s Road Scholar program. He is currently in rehearsal for the musical “I Do, I Do!” to be
performed the end of March at the City Repertory Theatre of Palm Coast.
Following Rusty Baker's performance, the Friends invite all attendees to stay on for the
half-hour business meeting in which our president and our treasurer will present their yearly
reports. Then the election of officers for 2014-2015 will be held. The nominating committee's
slate of nominees for the positions of officers, elected annually, can be found on page 10.
We will conclude with a social time and light refreshments for all.
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Women and Investing:
What Today’s Woman Needs to Know and Do
When it comes to investing, women have unique needs and
considerations. Steve Hood, financial independence advisor with
LifePlan Advisors, Inc., will present Women and Investing: What
Today’s Woman Needs to Know. He will provide a brief overview of
various investment vehicles and discuss women’s investing needs
during each stage of their life.
This free program is open to the public and
will take place Tuesday, April 8 at 6 p.m. in the
auditorium at the Daytona Beach Regional Library
at City Island. Registration is required. To
register or for more information call Adult Program Coordinator Deborah Shafer at 386-257-6036,
ext. 16264.
Cinematique Under the Stars
Movies start at Dusk. In
case of rain the movie
will be shown the
following Saturday night.
March 28 Sharknado
April 25
The Hunger Games Catching Fire
May 23
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
June 27
Philomena
July 25
Monuments Men
Book Club on Saturday
at 10:00am at
Cinematique led by
the Library’s
Deborah Shafer
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The Harvesting History Project
Daytona Beach in the Civil Rights Era
If you are in your middle years, and grew up in Daytona Beach, then this program is especially for you!
"Harvesting History" is a Daytona Beach Regional Library oral history project, in which skilled
interviewers conduct conversations with long-term residents about their memories of local events, and of
city growth, development and change. These interviews often provide
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invaluable records of community life.
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The project was the brainchild of Gertrude Dayton Worthington, who
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served on the Governing Board of the Daytona Beach Public Library from
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1956 to 1978, and was primarily responsible for securing the funding for
the City Island Regional Public Library. She borrowed the idea of
harvesting history from the Atlanta Public Library system. She conducted many interviews herself, among
them a conversation March 20, 1991 with Tippen and Josephine Davidson, owners and publishers of the
“Daytona Beach News-Journal.” Tapes of all of the interviews have been converted to CDs, have been
catalogued, and are available for public use in the City Island Library.
The project was discontinued in the last few years, since it was discovered that the “News-Journal”
was conducting a similar oral history project, and since the attention of the Friends of the Library had
turned to other matters.
However, the program is being revitalized in this year of commemoration of the signing of the Civil
Rights Act, in order to record the memories of local citizens of the nation-changing events and attitudes
of the 1960s. Anyone interested should
come to the library on Saturday, May 17,
at 2:00 P.M. in order to learn more about
the project. You may have had personal
experiences which are revealing of the
temper of the times.
This is an information session. No
stories will be recorded on this day. But
attendees can make appointments to be
interviewed at times convenient for them.
All interviews will be conducted by
librarians who have been trained for this
program.
STARGAZER SERIES
Watch for announcements of dates of Stargazer Series programs at
City Island Library: "The Spring Sky," in April, and "The Summer
Sky," in July. Members of the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Amateur Astronomy Club will continue to assist with these programs.
The club is under the direction of their faculty advisor, Associate
Professor of Physics and Astronomy Jason Aufdenberg.
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Spark a reaction!
Kim E Dolce, Genealogy/YA librarian.
That ’ s the theme for this summer ’ s YA ( Y oung Adult ) program. The theme is science related,
and while I ’ m still trying to firm things up, I plan to have a master gardener
come to present a hydroponics program one week. Leo Murphy from ERAU,
who came last year, has agreed to repeat his paper airplane program that
was so popular.
Some other programs I ’ m working on: CSI Daytona with the Daytona
Beach police and an archaeology program with the Museum of Arts and
Sciences.
The summer schedule should be confirmed soon. I know the teens will have a lot of fun when they visit the
library this summer!
Fun Times for Children This Summer
By Cammie Newton, Children ’ s Department Head
The theme for the summer reading program this year is Fizz! Boom! Read! and we have some booming good
times in store for kids in grades 1-5 as we explore our scientific side with lots
of fun thrown in. The programs kick off on June 9, with Kinetic Kylie's Mad
Science, and continue until July 25 with special guests including the
Museum of Arts and Science, crafts, movies, puppet shows and more!
Boys and girls can earn prizes for keeping a reading log.
The preschool storytimes remain on schedule so the younger children are
not left out.
Volunteer opportunities are available for teens 13 and older who need hours
for scholarships and Honor Society requirements. Contact Ms. Cammie or Ms. Leanette at 386-257-6038
for more details.
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Friends of the John H. Dickerson Heritage Library
To Features Local Author Pyle and His Book
Local attorney Michel Pyle, author of White Sugar, Brown Sugar, will be featured at the 12th Annual
Author Luncheon of the Friends of the John H. Dickerson Library. The event takes place at the Halifax
Yacht Club on Saturday, March 15, at 11: 30 AM. Tickets are $25.00, and can be purchased from any
member of the Friends and also at the Circulation Desk of the John H. Dickerson Heritage Library, 411
South Keech St., Daytona Beach. For information, call 386-239-6478.
To learn more about the author and his book, turn to page 5 of this newsletter.
Ken Burns Documentary Series
Tuesdays at 10:00am
Mar 11
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
Mar 18
Civil War
Mar 25
Civil War
Apr 8
Civil War
Apr 15
Civil War
Apr 22
Civil War
Apr 29
Civil War
May 6
Civil War
May 13 National Parks
May 20 National Parks
Ben’s Classic Movies– Tuesdays at 2:00pm
Mar 11
The Godfather Part II
Mar 18
Annie Hall
Mar 25
The Sound Of Music
Apr 1
Jaws
Apr 8
Star Wars
Apr 15
Chinatown
Apr 22
The Graduate
Apr 29
Lawrence of Arabia
May 6
Psycho
May 13
Goldfinger
May 20
The Good, The Bad,
and The Ugly
Family Movies--March to May 2014
Movies are for children and their parents or guardians.
All are at 2 PM on Sundays
Kids may bring popcorn & drink, if desired.
Titles are subject to change due to availability.
Mar 9th Harry and the Hendersons (PG) 111 min
Mar 16th Wings (G) 88 min
Mar 23rd Mousehunt (PG) 97 min (Nathan Lane)
Mar 30th Swan Princess: Royal Family Tale (PG) 83 min
April 6th Blank Check (PG) 93 min [Money Smarts Week]
April 13th Snowflake White Gorilla (PG) 88 min
April 20th EASTER--ALL LIBRARIES CLOSED
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April 27th
May 4th
May 11th
May 18th
May 25th
June 1st
Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (G) 80 min
Frozen (PG) 102 min
Littlest Rebel (PG) 73 min
Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) 88 min
Pirate Fairy (G) 90 min
Nut Job (PG) 86 min
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Phone: 386-257-6037
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CALENDAR
Mar 15—Abigail, John, and John Quincy Adams
Reenactment
Mar 18—Wood Carving –Page 4
Mar 19—Fold3 Program
Apr 8– Ken Burns’ “Civil War”—Page 15
Apr 8—Women & Investing with Steve Hood– Page 12
Apr 9-Whose Art is it Anyway? With Roberta Favis –
Page 5
Mar 19—Writer’s Workshop—Graphic Novels
Apr 12— Gilbert King– Devil in the Grove– Page 1
Mar 22— Panel Discussion: Civil Rights Era in Daytona
Apr 23– Longleaf Pine with Henry Morgenstern –Page 3
Beach as portrayed in the press
Mar 25– “The Sound of Music” – Page 15
Mar 25—Strategies to Optimize Your Social Security
Benefits with Scott Weidman
Apr 25—Cinematique- “Catching Fire”-Page 12
Apr 26 –Book Discussion Catching Fire by Suzanne
Collins-Page 12
Apr 30– Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Workshop
Mar 26– Knit & Crochet Club
May 4– “Frozen”—Page 15
Mar 26—World War II by Brook White
May 5– Central Florida Lyric Opera Group
Mar 28—Cinematique—”Sharknado”-Page 12
May 7—Scams, Shams, Flim, Flams with Michael Pyle
Mar 29—Book Discussion- Stormy Weather by Hiaasen
May 17—Oral History Introduction—Page 13
Apr 2—Planning for Long Term Care with Michael Pyle-
May 21—Rusty Baker –Page 11
Page 6
May 21– Annual Meeting –Page 10
Apr 4— Author Luncheon –Page 1
Apr 5– White Sugar, Brown Sugar with Michael Pyle–
Page 5
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