October "REaD, WHITE, and BLUE" Blog

 

October means falling leaves, football, and in Decatur Public Library- Quilts! The 42^nd Annual Quilt Show is ready for you to come pick your favorite. There are 40 quilts entered in the show this year and they are all sizes, colors and themes to choose from. The voting for Viewer’s Choice ribbons will end on Saturday, October 21^st at 4:00 pm when we close. We will tabulate the votes and post the ribbons to the winning quilts as soon as possible on Monday, October 23^rd.  The pictorial quilt winners will be posted at the same time. Those winners will be decided by a judge and are not voted by the public.

 If you are interested in learning about hand-quilting please join us on Thursday, October 5^th for a demonstration/class with the Piecemakers and the Decatur Quilt Lover’s Guild. They will be set up in the seating area hand-quilting and will share their knowledge and allow the public to quilt with them. On Saturday, October 21^st,  at 2:00 pm, Ryan Blocker with the Alabama Department of History and Archives will present Home Sewn: Alabama’s Quilting Traditions. This free program will be held in the Community Room. Thank you to all of the talented quilters who are willing to share their handiwork with us to make this year’s show possible.

At the end of the month, we will shift from quilts to Halloween with our 3^rd Gothic Gala. This year the theme will be Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Join us for an all-day celebration of one of the most enduring vampires in literature. The book has been adapted for more than 200 movies and served as the inspiration for all fictional vampires since. There are many imitators and a lot of fan fiction but the original fanged one was depicted the best by Stoker in his 1897 classic. We will have story time for the little ones with a Trick-or-Treat parade through the library at 10:30am.  There will be LEGO: Vampire Racing from 1:00pm to 5:00pm in the Youth Services room,  many  come-and-go activities, and photo opps for all ages through out the day. We invite you into our library to join the fun!

The Adult Reading Challenge is scarily getting close to the end. If you haven’t filled in as many blanks as you wanted now is the time to figure out where you stand and plan to finish before the deadline to turn in your reading log on November 30^th.  For this month’s task read a book with a vampire in it. Extra points if you read the original Dracula. If you don’t care for classical books, there are a lot of vampire stories to choose from and several feature American vampires, though that is not required for this task.

Happy Reading!