Library hosts ‘Disappearing Landscapes’ program Oct. 4

The Delaware County Dis­trict Library invites you to a very spe­cial pro­gram enti­tled “Dis­ap­pear­ing Land­scapes,” fea­tur­ing nation­ally known local artist Linda Wes­ner, who will dis­cuss her pas­sion for land­scapes, par­tic­u­larly those in Delaware County. Wes­ner has been a res­i­dent inter­mit­tently for 25 years, but since her last return, she noticed that beau­ti­ful scenes are dis­ap­pear­ing daily, and she is try­ing to cap­ture the rural side of Delaware County before it van­ishes to growth and development.

“These icons that have been around for 100 years are going away. ‘Dis­ap­pear­ing Land­scapes’ at least makes peo­ple aware of what’s going on around them. I really do think build­ings have life, a per­son­al­ity. My goal is to cap­ture that.” Wes­ner said she con­sid­ers her art “real­is­tic land­scape” and has painted and drawn famil­iar scenes such as Alum Creek, Lewis Cen­ter Road, old build­ings in Delaware and Lewis Cen­ter farms. Her award-winning work is exhib­ited nation­ally in gal­leries and muse­ums and is included in pri­vate and cor­po­rate collections.

Wes­ner has gen­er­ously donated one of her pieces, “Field Cal­lig­ra­phy” to the Library’s Orange Branch, where it is per­ma­nently dis­played near the cir­cu­la­tion desk. The paint­ing rep­re­sents a school­house that was on the east side of U.S. 23, across from the Orange Branch.

Her pro­gram will be at 7 p.m. Tues­day, Oct. 4, at the Orange Branch, and she will repeat the pro­gram at 7 p.m. Wednes­day, Nov. 2, at the Delaware (Main) Library. More infor­ma­tion is on the library’s web­site. You can learn more about Wes­ner and see exam­ples of her work at lawesner.com.

Her pro­gram is free and open to the pub­lic. I hope you plan to attend.

And when you visit the Delaware County Dis­trict Library in Octo­ber, look for these great new books avail­able through­out the month.

All Men of Genius by Lev A. C. Rosen. A comedic Steam­punk sen­sa­tion inspired by both Twelfth Night and The Impor­tance of Being Earnest, fol­lows Vio­let Adams as she dis­guises her­self as her twin brother to gain entry to Vic­to­rian London’s most pres­ti­gious sci­en­tific acad­emy, and once there, encoun­ters black­mail, mys­tery and love.

An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilk­ing­ton by Karl Pilk­ing­ton and Ricky Ger­vais. Karl Pilk­ing­ton isn’t keen on trav­el­ing. So what hap­pened when he was con­vinced to go on an epic adven­ture to see the Seven Won­ders of the World? Travel broad­ens the mind, right? You’d think so…

An O’Brien Fam­ily Christ­mas by Sher­ryl Woods. While cel­e­brat­ing the hol­i­days in Dublin, Ire­land, the O’Briens are in an uproar over matri­arch Nell’s rekin­dled romance with an old flame, while play­boy Matthew O’Brien must con­vince Laila Riley, an older woman burned by love, to take a chance on him.

Angel in the Rub­ble: The Mirac­u­lous Res­cue of 9/11’s Last Sur­vivor by Genelle Guzman-Mcmillan. Presents the story of the last sur­vivor pulled from the debris of the World Trade Cen­ter after the ter­ror­ist attack on Sept. 11, and her jour­ney from des­per­a­tion to a mirac­u­lous salvation.

Dead Beat by Patri­cia Hall. When pho­tog­ra­pher Kate O’Donnell takes off for Lon­don from swing­ing Liv­er­pool, she has two things in mind: to make a career and to track down her miss­ing older brother. But when she does find a trace of Tom, he’s still miss­ing — leav­ing behind a dead flat­mate and some very sus­pi­cious cops, includ­ing Harry Barnard of the vice squad.

The Dead Celebrity Cook­book: A Res­ur­rec­tion of Recipes from More Than 145 Stars of Stage and Screen by Frank Decaro. All-but-forgotten recipes-rescued from out-of-print cook­books, musty biogra­phies, vin­tage mag­a­zines, and dusty pamphlets-suggest a style of home enter­tain­ing ripe for re-examination if not revival, while remind­ing intre­pid gour­mands that, for bet­ter or worse, Hol­ly­wood doesn’t make celebri­ties (or cooks) like it used to.

The Last Out­law by Wal­lace Stone. Cash McCall was des­tined to live out­side the law, but after serv­ing time in one of the most bru­tal pris­ons in the South­west, he deter­mines to hang up his guns and go straight. How­ever, Cash soon dis­cov­ers that a man can­not eas­ily escape either his past or his destiny.

Shat­ner Rules: Your Guide to Under­stand­ing the Shat­ner­verse and the World at Large by William Shat­ner. The actor best known as Cap­tain Kirk on “Star Trek” shares self-deprecating mem­o­ries from his on– and off-screen expe­ri­ences while dis­cussing such top­ics as his larger-than-life celebrity per­sona, his career longevity and his views on mod­ern technology.

Sur­vivors: A Novel Of The Com­ing Col­lapse by James Wes­ley Rawles. A follow-up to Patri­ots fol­lows a group of peo­ple strug­gling in the face of a full-scale socioe­co­nomic col­lapse in Amer­ica that has caused the break­downs of all tech­nol­ogy and sup­ply chains while unleash­ing riots and preda­tory gangs through­out the country.

If you have a ques­tion that you would like to see answered in this col­umn, mail it to Mary Jane San­tos, Delaware County Dis­trict Library, 84 E. Win­ter St., Delaware, OH 43015, or call us at 740–362-3861. You can also email your ques­tions by vis­it­ing the library’s web­site at delawarelibrary.org or directly to Mary Jane at mjsantos@delawarelibrary.org. No mat­ter how you con­tact us, we’re always glad you asked.

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