Here is just some of what’s new this week. Ask for any of these titles at either branch. For tips on how to place a reserve, please visit the Your Account page (for using our online catalogue to reserve a title) or the Waiting Lists page (to get direct assistance).
Almonte Branch
Adult Fiction
Outpost: the Donovan series by W. Michael Gear
Cold Case: a Bob Skinner novel by Quintin Jardine
The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg
Late Breaking: stories by K. D. Miller
Liar, Liar: a Detective Harriet Blue novel by James Patterson
Adult Non-Fiction
200+ Ways to Protect Your Privacy: simple ways to prevent hacks and protect privacy – on and offline by Jeni Rogers
The Year of Less: how I stopped shopping, gave away my belongs, and discovered life is worth more than anything you can buy in a store by Cait Flanders
A Very Bad Wizard: morality behind the curtain by Tamler Sommers
The Waking Comes Late by Steven Heighton
Ontario’s African-Canadian Heritage: collected writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967 by Fred Landon
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Jill McCubbin’s work is animated by informal subjects and common practices, but offers imaginative twists for the observer to consider. Jill believes even the most seemingly simple ideas are not. Ideas and paintings can be inspiring, they can be whimsical or demanding. Often uncomplicated images encourage the best stories.
Jill lives in Almonte and has been an artist for over 20 years.
Beth’s art ambitions are focused on and fueled by an attention to our lived environment. Through her work, she questions the past, present and future possibilities of the material, social and environmental worlds. With effort to highlight the interconnections between all things, she often creates works which present overlooked, forgotten or undesired elements in our society.
Beth’s professional body of artwork has evolved from the handling of many mixed materials and found objects. Routinely she is involved in concentrated ceramic studies and development, and in the building of large-scale concrete sculpture installation. She uses the subtleties of form, often figurative, to communicate. Her process involves carefully choosing materials and subject matter, and weighing them to convey a particular message and atmosphere.
Beth McCubbin lives in Gatineau, QC. She has been working in the arts for over 25 years.
Here is just some of what’s new this week. Ask for any of these titles at either branch. For tips on how to place a reserve, please visit the Your Account page (for using our online catalogue to reserve a title) or the Waiting Lists page (to get direct assistance).
Here is just some of what’s new this week. Ask for any of these titles at either branch. For tips on how to place a reserve, please visit the Your Account page (for using our online catalogue to reserve a title) or the Waiting Lists page (to get direct assistance).
Here is just some of what’s new this week. Ask for any of these titles at either branch. For tips on how to place a reserve, please visit the Your Account page (for using our online catalogue to reserve a title) or the Waiting Lists page (to get direct assistance).
Here is just some of what’s new this week. Ask for any of these titles at either branch. For tips on how to place a reserve, please visit the Your Account page (for using our online catalogue to reserve a title) or the Waiting Lists page (to get direct assistance).
Reflecting on Letters and Poems from the First World War
The letter of Charles Winmill.
Helping to ease the pain of separation, and providing a source of emotional well-being to those on the front, letter writing was a normal post of life in the trenches for soldiers. Often sneaking past the censors, letters offer highly personal insights into the war, and show the humanity behind every young man who put their life at risk through those fateful years.
Charles Winmill wrote a thank you letter to Elisabeth Kelly before Christmas 2015: “you good women in Almonte are the only ones that don’t forget us first bunch”. He returned to Almonte after the war to marry Mary Gilmour in 1918.
Sgt. Frank Brown was able to publish his book of poems, Contingent Ditties, before dying on action. Enlisting in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in 1914, he was part of one of the first units to travel overseas. By February 1915 , he was killed in St. Eloi, Belgium. The first reported casualty from Almonte, his death had a deep impact on the community. Through his poems, Frank’s account of the war, and his memory lives on.
What is the call, the cheering call,
That every other betters? A silver
Call, a longed-for call –The music
Call for ‘letters’
The letters and poems will be on display at the Almonte Branch until the 17th of November 2018.
This display was possible by the cooperation of the Mississippi Mills Public Library and the North Lanark Regional Museum.
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