Storyfest 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Once upon a time (actually it was April 27), more than 1,000 people gathered to hear stories, tales and songs by the best storytellers NC has to offer.

 Library Board Member Marion Perry starts the ball rolling with introductions.

Local teller Vernita Terry AKA Nana Vee excites the crowd!

Family Ensemble and Featured Performers The Healing Force put on a musical show!

Former Librarian and local teller Leigh Lambert gets them going!

Library Assistant and local teller Kenya Allen kept everyone entertained.

Park Ranger and local teller Charles Shelton had them rolling.

Featured Performer Terry Rollins performed as the fearsome Blackbeard!

Featured Performer Logie Meachum played guitar, sang and energized the crowd!

Former librarian  and local teller Claire Ramsey told kept them on the edge of the kiva seats.

Featured Performer Ron Jones had everyone's attention with his lightning fast words.

Emmy Winner and local teller Willa Brigham was a crowd favorite!

Louisiana native and local teller Robin Kitson fascinated everyone with interesting accents.

Alice Clark-Sallins AKA Nana Boom Boom gets them on their feet!



A look at the 14th Annual Storytelling Festival in numbers:
    
                      800 Vance County students
                      286 members of the public
                        43 Teachers
                        14 Storytellers 
                        12 Volunteers
                         5 Staff members

Thank you to everyone involved in this event: our lovely Friends of the Library, especially Elbert DeMent, Susan Adcock, Joyce Pegram, Cathy Carver, Cathy Dillard, Shirley Young, June Irvin and Joy Frazier; our Board Members Martha Zollicoffer, Cynthia Walker, Mary Austell and Marion Perry and the Vance County Arts Council.

EO Young Library Time!

On April 9, students from Ms. Hargrove's class at EO Young came to the library for a program about amphibians. 

After a small experiment on how amphibians hear, students led a discussion and then made a mosaic frog from craft supplies.

Watch our Garden Grow!

On Earth Day (April 22), dozens of kids and adults gathered to make nature-friendly birdfeeders out of pinecones, learn about recycling and to help plant a small vegetable garden and herb garden on the library's terrace.

In addition to flowers, we planted 2 types of tomatoes, several types of mint, yellow squash, strawberries, hot peppers, spinach, dill, parsley, onions, radishes, basil and cilantro.

The veggies will be used to make snacks such as salsa for our youth programming.

Afterward, everyone enjoyed fresh fruit and veggie trays and took home starter plants for their own gardens.

All materials were either recycled or donated from patrons or businesses.

We want to thank the Friends of the Library, Ranger Charles Shelton, Pacific Mulch, Mimi Spivey, Daniel Orr and Edna Hargrove for their donations!

BREAKING NEWS! Megalodon Exhibit

Attention all participants of the Megalodon Illustration Contest, sponsored by the Museum of Natural Sciences.  If you submitted an entry for this contest, your ticket WILL NOT be mailed to you.  Instead, you can go to the Gift Shop at the Museum to pick up your free pass.  For questions, call the Gift Shop at 919-733-7450.

Contest Winners:

   PreK–K

1st Place: Skylar Kortte, High Point, “Shark Eating a Fish”
2nd Place: Matias Chazo, Asheville, “Lemon Shark”
3rd Place: Delta Joy McMullan, Raleigh, “Escape of the Fish”

Grades 1–3

1st Place: Ramzi Musleh, Durham, “Shark Menu”
2nd Place: Camille Zehner, Chapel Hill, “Sawtooth Shark”
3rd Place: Abby Macko, Raleigh, “Feeding Frenzy”

Grades 4-6

1st Place: Mohamed Thomas, Raleigh, “Megalodon”
2nd Place: Scout Hayashi, Chapel Hill, “Scalloped Hammerhead Shark”
3rd Place: Giunjan Shroff, Cary, “Megalodon: Largest Shark that Ever Lived”

Grades 7–9

1st Place: Erin Floyd, Wake Forest, “Whale Shark”
2nd Place: Ayla Gizlice, Raleigh, “Leopard Shark in Kelp Forest”
3rd Place: John Z. Lee, Raleigh, “Mr. Hammerhead Going for a Swim”