August 2010

Storyteller Donald Davis Performs at

RPL September 16
To celebrate Rowan
Public Library’s 11th annual
Stories by the Millstream
Festival, performer Donald
Davis will be at the library for
a family storytelling program.
This exciting event will take
place on Thursday, September
16, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Stanback Auditorium.
A native of North
Carolina, Donald Davis grew
up listening to fairy tales, Jack tales,
ancient Welsh and Scottish folktales,
scary mountain lore, and true-to-life
stories passed on from family members
and neighbors.
Davis has performed as the
featured teller at the
Smithsonian Institution, the
World’s Fair, festivals, and
concerts in the United States
and around the world. He is
also a prolific author and
producer of books and tapes
including Jack and the
Animals: An Appalachian
Folktale, Thirteen Miles
From Suncrest, Listening
For the Crack of Dawn, and Miss
Daisy. According to Davis storytelling
“is not what I do for a living…it is how
I do all that I do while I am living.”
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Explore Vistas Near and Far

with the Friends of RPL
The Friends of RPL invite you to
join them on any (or all) of their three
upcoming trips.
On October 8-10 we will travel to
New Bern and NC’s Southern Outer
Banks. We’ll explore Tryon Palace,
visit the NC Aquarium and Fort
Macon, and take a tour of Beaufort on
a double-decker bus. Great meals and The gardens of Tryon Palace
comfortable lodgings are included.
January may be cold and dismal in
NC, but in Costa Rica the weather and forest, Arenal and Poas volcanoes, and
tropical sights will be fine! The Friends a tour of a coffee estate.
and Collette vacations will be Escape the heat next summer with a
exploring a world of nature there trip to Canada’s Atlantic coast July 21-
January 24-February 3, 2011. High- 30, 2011. The Friends will once again
lights include breathtaking national partner with Collette Vacations to offer
parks, hanging bridges in the rain (Continued on page 2)

Sponsored by the Friends of Rowan Public Library

Millstream (Cont.)
Friday morning, Davis will be
the featured teller and will join
twenty-four other local and regional
storytellers as part of the annual
Stories by the Millstream Festival
for the second grade students in
Rowan County, sponsored by the
Friends of Rowan Public Library.
All are welcome Thursday
evening at 7:00 p.m. for a free and
fun evening of entertaining stories
that will hold you captivated in
your seats.
Friends Trip
(Cont.)
a trip with spectacular scenery
including the Cabot Trail, Peggy’s
Cove, the Bay of Fundy, and New
Brunswick’s Hopewell Rocks.
There are iconic places as well:
beautiful Prince Edward Island and
Anne of Green Gables country
(including a tour of author L. M.
Montgomery’s home) and luscious
food (a traditional lobster dinner in
Moncton).
More information on all of these
trips is available at any library and
on the library’s website, or call
Melody Moxley at 704-216-8230
for more information.
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Mockingbird Alive and Well
Many readers have a great
fondness for Harper Lee’s
1960 novel To Kill a
Mockingbird. Students often
read it in school but adult
readers also recognize its hu-
mor, wisdom, and power. It
deserves to be read more than
once.
RPL is joining other libraries
and book groups across the nation
and the world to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of this special book by
hosting two events in November.
A discussion of the book will be
held Tuesday, November 2 and the
1962 film will be shown Tuesday,
November 16. More details will
Summer Reading Challenge in the
Community
Have you taken up the latest
“Summer Reading Challenge?”
Rowan Public Library and Water-
works Visual Arts Center present
the 6th Annual Community
Wide Summer Reading Challenge.
Several upcoming events present
opportunities to explore the theme
of this year’s challenge – “The Art
of Being Human.”
Dr. Jim Spiceland of the Center
for Faith & the Arts will lead dis-
cussions on the novel Olive
Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout on
Wednesday, Aug. 18 at 4 p.m. and
Thursday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m. in the
Stanback Auditorium at the library
headquarters. Refreshments will
be provided.
An upcoming play, “Vesta,”
presented by the St. Thomas
Players of the Center for Faith and
the Arts, will also tie into the
be given as the dates draw
nearer, but library users may
want to revisit the book and
film during the summer and
fall, or read and view them
for the first time.
Dust off your old copy, or
check out one from the
library. RPL has the book
and film in several formats,
including hardcover and paperback,
CD, and DVD.
Whether you have read the book
or not, join in this celebration of the
book Oprah calls “our national
novel” and a poll of librarians in
1999 called “Best Novel of the
Century”!
theme. The play deals with end-of-
life issues and is sponsored by
Rowan Regional Medical Center
Hospice.
“Vesta” will be performed at
7:30 p.m. Sept. 14 and 15 and at 2
p.m. Sept. 19 at Looking Glass
Artist Collective Black Box
Theater, 405 N. Lee St.
Remember, the main event of
the Challenge will be held on
Tuesday, October 12 from 6 – 9
p.m. at Waterworks Visual Arts
Center. A light dinner will be
followed by a panel discussion of
this year’s four books: Distracted
by Maggie Jackson, Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley, Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout, and Unsuspect-
ing Souls by Barry Sanders.
Be sure to put these books on
your summer reading list! All are
available at Rowan Public Library.
News, etc
 A Gift That Keeps on Giving @ RPL

The Rowan Public Library

Foundation was established in 1991 We gratefully acknowledge these recent gifts:
for the purpose of developing an
endowment fund to support the In Memory of June Evans given by The Bowler Family; Gloria Bryant;
improvement and expansion of William Burke; Donald and Amy Campbell; Joe and Mary Beth Davis; Joe
public library resources and Dent; The Evans Family; Rick and Amy Fesperman; Mr. and Mrs. Dean
services for the benefit of the Featherston; The Lisons Book Club; Pat McJunkin; Linda Mobley; Robert and
citizens of Rowan County. The Kay Norris; Marie Pugh; Susan Raby; Bill Wisdom; and Betty Jean
Foundation encourages community Zumbrunnen to the June W. Evans and son, David B. Evans, Endowment
investment through individual and
corporate giving. In Memory of Francis M. Luther given by John and Nancy Luther to the
Currently, the Foundation’s Francis M. Luther Endowment
primary focus is to enhance the
library’s collection of books and
other resources for public use.
There are now 137 named
endowments, ranging from a
minimum of $1,000 to over
$100,000, which provide ongoing
support for collection development.
Endowments may be established
in the name of the donor or in
memory or in honor of someone.
Please consider making a long term
investment in your public library by
establishing a named endowment
through the Foundation. For
information about setting up an Mrs. Christine Gantt James A. and June M. Baird
endowment, please call Pam Nance Islands by Catherine Chambers Lessons on Living (DVD)
at 704-216-8231. The Foundation and Nicholas Lapthorn
is a tax-exempt public 501(c)(3)
foundation and all contributions are
fully tax deductible to the extent
allowed by law.
The Foundation gratefully
acknowledges the many individuals
and organizations that have already
established endowments.
Following are some of the items
acquired by Rowan Public Library
with funds provided by the
Foundation’s endowments.

Phillip K. Barton
Foundation Executive Director
AUGUST 2010
Clinton L. China, Ph.D. and
Elaine M. China
Graphic Design: A New History by
Stephen Eskilson
Elizabeth Holmes Hurley
False Mermaid by Erin Hart
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Dorothy Abramowksi
In Debt We Trust (DVD)
Sara H. Frazier
The Kid’s Guide to Classic Games
Archibald Craige by Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt
Chickamauga, Andersonville, Fort
Sumter and Guard Duty at Home:
Four Civil War Diaries by Pennsyl-
vania Soldiers edited by Robert P.
Broadwater

Patricia Beck
The Scottish Surnames of Colonial
America
by David Dobson Lorene McKenzie Barringer
Crawlspace: a Home Repair is
Hoechst-Celanese Homicide Mystery
Read It, Don’t Eat It! by Ian by Sarah Graves
Schoenherr

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 August 2010 Computer Classes

RPL Headquarters South Rowan Regional Library

Salisbury, 704-216-8229 China Grove, 704-216-7737
No classes in August. Travel Resources on the Web
Classes will resume in September. Thursday, August 12, 11:00 a.m. — 12:30 p.m.
Meet the Mouse
Monday, August 23, 7:00 p.m. — 8:30 p.m.

East Rowan Library

Rockwell, 704-216-7841
All classes are free and open to the public.
No classes in August. Dates and times correct at time of printing.
Classes will resume in September.

Ramble Through Rowan Continues

Rowan Public Library appreciates your gifts and

will purchase materials for the library that can be
enjoyed by our community for years to come.

Gifts
Clifford Eugene Patterson

Memorials and Honorariums “Change of Command,” an original painting, used by

permission of artist Werner Willis, portrays the change of
In Honor of Fran Burding given by command from General Gates to General Greene in Charlotte.
Midgie Dial
In Memory of Elizabeth Byars given by Join in a captivating evening of Rowan History on
John and Sylvia Sofley Tuesday, August 24 at 7:00 p.m. in the Stanback
Auditorium.
“We would like to invite you to the premiere of our
newest installment in the Ramble Through Rowan’s
History series,” says RPL History Librarian Gretchen
Witt.
The first part of the story, The Struggle for Liberty,
encompasses the French and Indian War and the War of
Regulation. In Part II, Rowan’s role in the War for
Independence and forming the new nation is made clear.
Both Part I and II of The Struggle for Liberty will be
shown, followed by a presentation and refreshments.
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free storytelling, plus lots
of other fun activities, as
part of Salisbury-Rowan
Reads 2010, at 5 - 7 p.m.
Now is the time of
year to renew
Wednesday, Augustyour
4 Help Friends with Baskets Project
membership
RPL South Branch as a
Friend of
920 Kimball Rd. Rowan The Friends are beginning to gather materials used to create the
PublicGrove
China Library or to annual Christmas book baskets, according to Baskets chair Susan
become a Friend for Waller. “We will need good hand soaps, lotions, coffees, teas,
the first time.
Wednesday, Fill 11
August out individually wrapped snack items, cards, small toys and games –
the application
Cleveland on this
Elementary anything that would help fill our book-themed baskets. They have been
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School take or mail a great success and help provide badly needed funds for the library
it to any
Cleveland RPL branch. projects that possibly may not be available without the funds from this
project. Items may be left at any branch, marked for the Friends Basket
project. Your generosity in donating items and in purchasing the gifts
has always been much appreciated.”
Plans are to have the baskets out for sale at all branches about the
Visit RPL on the Web! first week of November. Additional baskets will be added throughout
www.rowanpubliclibrary.org the holiday season until the middle of December.
Email us: info@rowancountync.gov