Syracuse Library News And Events
SYRACUSE — Read about the value of eating local produce from Indiana author Kelsey Timmerman and indulge in a short discussion from “Where am I Eating?” The Syracuse Library is offering a kale tasting event with presenters talking about using kale as an ingredient in a variety of recipes. The meeting room is the welcoming place for an action packed hour AT 6:30 p.m. Monday, October 3.
Are you cool enough for Kale? Come taste traditional and contemporary kale recipes. Lazy T is bringing microgreens, Oh Sweet Mercy food blogger, a kale salad and dressing, John and Norma Monik, nutrition information and fried kale, Megan McClellan, fall kale in mashed potatoes and Becky Brower, kale fettuccine.
Ongoing Events
Young adults are making wands and talking about the stories where they play a roll. At 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3, the young adult book club meets for an hour. Book clubs are good way to discover new books and are a lifelong activity with conversation, interesting stories and often good food.
Story times continue this fall meeting at 10:30 a.m. Monday, October 3 and Tuesday, October 4. Children and their parents or caregivers are asked to come to toddle on over, for early literacy fun with books, songs, finger plays and body movement. Toddle on over will meet at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, October 5 for children one to three years old.
After-school story and craft meets at 4 p.m. every Thursday where the book matches the craft.
One book, one hour, the adult book club is reading “The Kitchen Help“, a debut novel in 2010 by Kathleen Grissom. Lavinia is orphaned at age six and becomes an indentured servant to the Pyke family of Tall Oaks plantation of Virginia in 1796. The story follows the trials of Lavinia and her relationship with slaves, an opium addicted wife, and both a sadistic son and the overseer. Kirkus Reviews comments on the whole convoluted history and says the ending, ‘is a breathless but excruciatingly attenuated denouement.’ That’s a phase one doesn’t hear every day; it means a drawn out unraveling of the plot and includes a word meaning painful. However, the book is regarded as pretty exciting. The discussion group meets at 6:30 p.m. on the second Wednesday of October.
Halloween is a Disney Time
The Syracuse Library is offering a fun, family event for trick or treaters this Halloween. Please let the staff at the library know if you can act or be a puppet, set-up or take-down, or help with sewing and painting projects for a Disney fantasy. Call the Syracuse Library at (574) 457-3022.