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Meeting of the Library Chapter of PWTPIAPS

The inaugural meeting of the Seneca Free Library chapter of PWTPIAPS  was held in the Library Community Room on September 26. If you are now sorry you missed this gathering, fear not, we are planning on holding this event quarterly. This is a very casual meeting, we share, we eat, we enjoy good company. And we ask questions about the secrets to the wonderful dishes.
Follow our Facebook page and check the website regularly so you’ll know when the next PWTPIAPS meeting will be held. And for more wonderful pie ideas and tips. When we find a good pie video on Facebook, we like to share it. You’re welcome.

 

 

 

Beef Hand Pies
Tomato Tart
Apricot Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Chicken Pot Pie
Sausage & Spinach Pie

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What is PWTPIAPS?

Why, People Who Think Pie Is A Perfect Supper, duh!

The inaugural meeting of this chapter will be Tuesday September 26 at 7:00 pm at the Library.

If you believe pie to be a perfect supper, then please join us. Admission is a PIE. Any kind of PIE. We are not persnickety.

We are not looking to judge your pie on appearance, but reserve the right to comment freely on filling and flavor.

So bring on your best cream pie, fruit pie, nutty pie or meat pie, savory and sweet pies are welcome.

Plates and forks will be provided and our Keurig brewing machine will be on hand for drinks, or you can bring your own non-alcoholic drink.

 If you have a pie server, you might bring that with you. This is a great time to try a new recipe you’ve been eyeing.

Not sure where to start? The Library has several PIE cookbooks. Yes, entire books devoted to PIE.

Definition of pie

1 :a meat dish baked with biscuit or pastry crust

2 :a dessert consisting of a filling (as of fruit or custard) in a pastry shell or topped with pastry or both

from Merriam-Webster

DINO-STORY PARTY!

We had a small group, but a fun group attend our DINO-STORY PARTY!

That’s OK, everyone went home with a prize! And everyone had a lot of fun. That was our goal.

 

We have so many young dinosaur experts coming to the library, we decided to

host a DINO-STORY PARTY!

SATURDAY OCTOBER 14

in our COMMUNITY ROOM

beginning at 10:30 AM

*STORIES * GAMES * CRAFT * SNACK *

Yes, in these pictures are the makings of a great Dino-Party!

 

Eclipse Glasses Donation @ Seneca Free Library!

 

UPDATE:  We have shipped two boxes full of eclipse glasses to AWB. The total between the two containers is 706 and we have a few more to send off. We are collecting until the end of September. 

We did it! We clicked the button and agreed to be a collection point for gently used solar eclipse glasses.

Share the excitement, bring your glasses by the library today.
PLEASE DO NOT PUT THEM IN THE DROP BOX, DAMAGED GLASSES CANNOT BE SENT. THANK YOU

We will collect glasses through the end of September.

Eclipse Glasses Donation Program

Give your eclipse glasses a second chance!

Astronomers Without Borders and Explore Scientific are collecting glasses to be sent to schools in

South America and Asia when eclipses cross those continents in 2019.

{copied from the AWB website: http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/}

 

 

We enjoyed the Eclipse at the Library!

We closed the Library for a couple of hours so we could all enjoy watching the eclipse together.  We had a few people join us on the lawn.

We managed to remember to take a few pictures while watching the ‘show’.

A young family from the Kansas City area joined us on the lawn.

 

 

 

 

Pictures from our neighborhood.

 

It got dark enough! We were cheering and could hear others around town applauding too.

 

The eclipse wasn’t the only thing to watch that day. This little guy was happy with the acorn and sticks he found too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

photo courtesy of Fred Espenak ,  www.eclipsewise.com

Have you heard about the 2017 Eclipse?

It’s happening Monday August 21 and Seneca is in the path to experience the total eclipse!!

 We will be closed during the event, from 11:30 to 2:30ish, August 21  to enjoy the celestial wonder. We hope those of you who have to work all day can grab a quick lunch or your trusty PB&J and come join us for the fun.  We can even write an excuse for your boss if you’re late back from lunch. We will have a limited supply of glasses for those who do join us on the lawn.

100th Anniversary Party!

Thank you Whitney Haynie for capturing this picture for us!

Balloons just make a party, right?

We had a wonderful crowd to celebrate our 100th Anniversary! Thank you to everyone who attended! Here are some photos for you to enjoy.

 

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Seneca Free Library

is celebrating 100 years!

And we’re having a party.

Mark your calendars for Friday August 11.

The evening begins with a Magic show at 5:00, with 2 more following at 6:00 and 7:00 pm.

The east lawn will be set up with a face painting artist, a balloon animal artist, a photo booth.

At 5:30 we will start serving pulled pork sandwiches, chips, cookie and a drink.

 

Tuesday Night Book Club Reading Lists

Members of the  Seneca Free Library Book Club meet on the third Tuesday of each month to discuss the latest book on their list. They do not meet in the months of November and December. If you’d like to join in the discussion, contact the library and we’ll give you more information!

Here are the books they have read since 2003!

2017 List: A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler—-The Light Between the Oceans by M.L. Stedman—-Capital Dames by Cokie Roberts—-The Lightning Thief by Rick Riodan—-The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown—-Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson—-The Kitchen House by Katheen Grissom—-Rules of Civility by Amor Towels—-The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware—-All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

2016 List: Ogallala Road by Julene Bair—-Wedded to War by Jocelyn Green—-The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kid—-Left Neglected by Lisa Genove—-The Rosie Project by Graaeme Simsion—-The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty—-A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park—-Every Day by David Levithan—-Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult—-Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

 2015 List: Orphan Trains by Christina Baker Kline—-The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty—-Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple—-Prisoner 88 by Leah Pilegic —-2030-The Real Story of What Happens by Albert Brooks—-In Broad Daylight by Harry MacLean—-What She Left Behind by Ellen Wiseman—-Care and Management of Lies by Jacquelin Winespear

2014 list:  Time’s Shadow by Arnold Bauer—-Still Alice by Lisa Genova—The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin—-The Romanov Conspiracy by Glen Meade —-Defending Jacob by William Landay—-The Taylor’s Daughter by Janice Graham—-Judgment by James Patterson—-Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer—-Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn—-Lemon Orchard by Lou Ann Rice—-Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

2013 list: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis—Art of Racing by Garth Stein—Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay—-Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford—-Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese—-The Devil’s Rooming House by M. William Phelps—-Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout—-Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

2012 list: Our Boys by Joe Drape—-Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot—The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins—-Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah—-Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers—-The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton—-Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See—-Esther’s Pillow by Marlin Fitzwater—-A Daughter’s Walk by Jane Kirkpatrick—-Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

2011 list: What Kansas Means to Me by Thomas Fox Averill—-Escape, The Carolyn Jessop Story by Carolyn Jessop—The Help by Kathryn Stockett—The German Bride by Joanna Hershon—Woods Runner by Gary Paulson—Lark and Termite by Jayne Ann Phillips—Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks—The White by Deborah Larson —Eternal on the Water Joseph Monninger—Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

2010 list: Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama—-P.S. I Love You by Cecilia Ahern—-Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer—-Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs—-Angels Rest by Charles Davis—-Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares—-Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson—-The Old Man and the Sea or For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway—-Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper—Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles

2009 list: Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard—-I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou—-The White Cascade by Gary Krist—-Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini—-Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tamnet—-Family Tree Barbara Delinsky—-Air Ball: My Life in Brief by Lisa Harkrader—-For One More Day by Mitch Albom—-Change of Heart by Jodi Piccoult

2008 list: In Cold Blood —-Memory Keeper’s Daughter—-Year of Magical Thinking—-Time-Traveler’s Wife—-My Last Days as Roy Rogers—-The Book Thief—-Ladies No. ! Detective Agency—-Innocent Man—-Water for Elephants—-Fahrenheit 451

2007 list: The Learning Tree—-Widow’s War—-Life of Pi—-Chronicles of Narnia—-Up from Slavery—-Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man—-The Notebook—-The Outsiders—-Confessions of a Shopoholic—-The Glass Castle

2006 list: The Kite Runner—-The Devil in the White City—- Summer of the Monkeys— Snow Falling on Cedars—-Trail of the Spanish Bit—-The Pearl—-Rex Stout Mystery—-Memiors of a Geisha—The Joy Luck Club—-Leap of Faith- Queen Noor

2005 list: Leap of Faith: Queen Noor—-Bull Whip Days: The Slave Remembers—-At Home in Mitford—– The Good Earth—-Secret Life of Bees—- Letters from Rifka—-Lovely Bones—-Eudora Welty—-Girl with the Pearl Earring

2004 list: Seabiscuit—- Song of Solomon—- House of Spirits—-Don’t Lets go to the Dogs Tonight—-Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind—- Crossing to Safety—-Reversible Errors—-The Giver—-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn—- Five People You Meet in Heaven

2003 list: Persian Pickle Club— Branded with Love—- Katie Mediator—-To Kill a Mockingbird—- Red Tent—Anthem—- Seaman: The Dog who went with Lewis & Clark—-Peace Like a River—-Amy Fleury, Poet

**FLIPSTER** App is available!

You can now download the Flipster app to access all* of our digital magazines on your device.

Start in the app store, search for Flipster digital magazines, and download. Open your Flipster app – it will either give you a list of local libraries (if your location services are on) or let you search. Our account is under NExpress Libraries, Lawrence, KS, so click on that and then enter your *card number* (not your login – this will only work for the official card number on the NExpress account). After you’ve done this, you’ll see all* of our magazines’ covers – clicking on one starts the download process and adds it to your “shelf”.
Have fun!

TWO MORE QUILTING CLASSES SCHEDULED

Seneca Free Library and Seneca Variety present

two more sessions of

Quilting 101 with Susan Mitchell

Thursday, September 14 7:00-9:00 pm AND

Friday September 15, 10:00 am-3:00 pm

OR

Thursday September 21, 7:00-9:00 pm AND

Saturday, September 23, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Registration fee of $25.00 includes the book

“Quilting with Alex Anderson”

(if you already own the book, registration is $15.00)

You will need to bring your own sewing machine, fabric, and all notions. Complete materials list available at registration.

CLASS SIZE LIMITED TO 8 QUILTERS.  BONUS: Get a 10% discount on all fabric and notions for this class purchased at Seneca Variety!!

YOU get to choose which project to make, the lap/wall quilt or the table runner.

 

PORTABLE PLANETARIUM

PLANETARIUM
Photo from Edgerton Explorit Center website.

Thank you to everyone who remembered their reservations or

let us know you couldn’t make it after all.

We were able to fill those spots and have almost every show filled to capacity.

 

 

******SPECIAL PRESENTATION*****     gator_climber_bg_cp

TUESDAY JULY 11

FROM 1~8 PM

A portable planetarium from

Edgerton Explorit Center

will be set up in our Community Room!

Join us for an interactive tour

of the night sky with a real astronomer!!

Viewing will be scheduled in groups of 25 for half hour presentations.

Families, clubs, organizations; all ages welcome!

Groups are welcome.

Reservations are REQUIRED.*Late arrivals will not be admitted, please arrive a bit early.*

You are responsible for remembering your show time.*Children under the age of 7 must be accompanied by an adult.

Call the Library to make your reservation, 336-2377.

 

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