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Show UINTAH COUNTY LIBRARY NEVVSW" By Evan L. Baker, Director TWO NEW FIRST LADIES: This past week we were honored with the arrival of ANNA TUTHILL SYMMES HARRISON and RACHEL DONELSON ROBARDS JACKSON. The dolls were donated by Woodey and Vonetta Searle. Rachel Jackson was donated in honor of Zina B. Howard and Anna Harrison in honor of Maggie M. Schanno. Both dolls were made by Phyllis Juhlin Park and costumed by Gladys Price Phillips. These two new dolls are a special addition ad-dition to the collection. We appreciate those who have donated their time and effort to make them a part of this unique collection. We are looking forward to the arrival of four more dolls in the near future and hope everyone will take the time to come in to enjoy this exhibit. RACHEL DONELSON ROBARDS JACKSON: The wife of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the U.S. Mrs. Jackson died seven weeks after the election and before Jackson was inaugurated. Emily Donelson, the wife of one of their adopted sons, acted as Jackson's hostess ANNA TUTHILL SYMMES HARRISON: She never wanted her husband to be President. When William Henry Harrison was elected the ninth President of the U.S., Anna was sixty-five years old and ailing, too weak to travel to the inauguration. She never saw the White House. Her husband hus-band died a month after he became President. Anna received the news of his death as she was packing to leave for the capitol. Jane Irwin Harrison, Har-rison, a daughter-in-law, served as Harrison's hostess. NEW BOOKS: LIGHT A PENNY CANDLE by Maeve Binchy - (novel) The story of two women, one Irish and one English, whose special friendship binds them together through triumph and adversity. Beginning in 1940, when Elizabeth White is evacuated from wartime London to the Irish village of Kilgarret, the story continues into the sixties, moving between Ireland and London. Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor become very close despite their differences, and they and the people around them evoke the process pro-cess of human growth and change. ANCIENT EVENINGS by Norman Mailer (novel) Set in Egypt during the time of the pharaohs, the story tells of the lives of Menenhetet who is reincarnated three times. His fate takes him from a peasant childhood to becoming an intimate adviser of the pharaoh. He is magician, high priest, and general. (Some material may be objectionable.) THIS FAMILY OF WOMEN by Richard Peck (novel) Six interrelated stories, sweeping from the American West of 1850 to the Europe of 1939, tell the lives of a remarkable group of spirited women mothers, daughters, granddaughters and friends. From frontier town to theatrical life to British royalty, encountering earthquakes and fires along the way, the varied lives of these women and the way their lives and those of their men were intertwined are vividly described. THE VIRGIN IN THE ICE by Ellis Peters ( novelmystery) The sixth of the chronicles of Brother Cadfael, the medieval sleuth extraordinare. As a civil war rages in the west of England, a young nun and her two wards disappear. Cadfael sets out to find them and discovers evidence that may implicate the abbey itself. Undaunted, the Benedictine monk closes in on a desperate villain, and an affair of the heart as well. THE COMPLETE DR. SALK: AN A to Z GUIDE TO RAISING YOUR CHILD by Dr. Lee Salk (nonfiction) A concise guide to child rearing for parents or would-be parents. From abandonment to X-rated movies; from hyperactivity to compulsive eating; from the joys of childbirth, as a family experience, to discipline without spanking; this warm anecdotal-styled encyclopedia will help parents raise children from infancy in-fancy to young adulthood. Extensively cross-referenced and well-detailed. well-detailed. LIBRARY HAPPENINGS: Family Night at the Library will continue for one more month with "Blue Beard" starring John Carradine as the pirate Blue Beard. Also showing show-ing will be "Bear Country" a Walt Disney animal short. These movies will be shown on Monday, May 2 and Tuesday, May 3. Show time will be the usual 7 p.m. The last Family Night Movie will be held the week of May 16, on Monday and Tuesday nights. We will then take a break until fall when the Family Night at the Library Movies will again be scheduled. We are still interested in volunteers to help us out with our summer programs. pro-grams. If you are interested and would be willing to help out, please contact us here at the library. Thank you. |