From the desk of Alison Gibson, Director
While we have posted this before, it is still one of the most appropriate postcards we have leading up to Memorial Day. With the flags strewn through the cemeteries on veterans’ gravesites, it is time to be grateful for the sacrifices all of the men and women veterans have made for our country, and to honor those who died in service.
We will be closed on Monday, May 25th in observance of Memorial Day.
With the unofficial beginning of summer, school graduations and all that rolls around the end of May, we will be jumping into June with lots of activities and fun. First week of June we will be signing up kids for the Unearth the Story reading program, (Ripley June 3rd, Russellville June 4th and Aberdeen June 1st). Call, check our Facebook or stop in to your favorite library and get the details. Then 1st Saturday in June (6th) the Ripley Friends of the Library will be having their summer book sale 10-4—we have some awesome books to pique your interest. Some are brand-new, some are old and collectible and of course, everything in between. We will have a special table of old and interesting ephemera (old paper stuff), local author books, cookbooks, history, lots of fiction, kids books and more. Come to grab a bag of beach reading, add to your collection, or find something you didn’t know you needed! Then we will get the annex ready for Wednesday, June 10th at 1:00 p.m. when we welcome Freddy Fossil’s Dino Show for kids of all ages.
New items of local interest. Last year we added Caleb Frantz’s book on Rev. John Rankin titled The Conductor—this week we added the unabridged audio on CD version of the book. The Unique Eats and Eateries of Ohio: The People and Stories Behind the Food by Brandy Gleason travels all over the state to find restaurants with a local twist, and Brown County’s addition is Ripley’s own Ripley Dinner Bell! GG Lofton is even pictured on the cover. The restaurants covered are well-known to hole in the wall, and each has a 2-page spread, making it fun reading and possible destination traveling for the summer.
