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Late Opening: On Tuesday, February 9, the Central Rappahannock Regional Library Headquarters library and Porter, Salem Church, and Snow branches will open at 10 am. Cooper and Montross branches will open at their regular times. If you need to renew your materials, please click here for the catalog.

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Porter Lobby Book Sale: February 9-11

LibraryPoint Blog, Books and Reading, Nancy Buck

02/08/2010 - 11:35am

Find great bargains at our monthly book sale in the lobby.
Our "First Friday" book sale beginning on February 5 was interrupted by the February 5-6 snowstorm, forcing us to close the library 3 hours into the sale on Friday. We will reopen on Tuesday, February 9, at 10 a.m. Tuesday will be "full price" day in the sale. Wednesday will be 1/2 price day and Thursday will be $1-a-bag day. We didn't have a sale in January so our lobby is chocked with great bargains!

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Great Lives Series: Marian Anderson

LibraryPoint Blog, African American, Great Lives series, Music, Virginia Johnson, History Blog

02/05/2010 - 6:35am

In 1939, talented singer Marian Anderson was denied the spotlight at the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall on account of her race. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt quickly saw to it that she had another venue--the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. On Easter Sunday, a crowd of 75,000 listened to her in person, and her music was carried on the radio and heard by many more. After the concert, Marian Anderson went on to break more racial barriers in the entertainment industry and became a voice of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Chester Himes: Writing from the fire

LibraryPoint Blog, Reading Room Blog, African American, Author profile, Detective and mystery stories, Scott Phillips

02/05/2010 - 10:49am

Chester Himes had a hard life, even for someone growing up in the 'thirties. He took some knocks early on, knocks many people get in life; it was the racism he encountered in LA that made him bitter, a bitterness which put a fire in his belly and informed so much of his best work. Himes probably would have drawn little consolation over the fact he was breaking new trails for authors such as Walter Mosley. But he did.

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New England Run Photos

LibraryPoint Blog, Samantha Thomason, Stafford County (Va.)

02/04/2010 - 1:50pm