March is Murder in the Library Month!

 March is coming in like a lion in weather, but also in all the fun activities.  While this is a personal blog, much of what I love to do is at the library.  On March 1, 2014 at 6:30 the Friends organization and library staff will have our 10th annual Murder Mystery!

This year it is entitled, "Dead To Rights." We purchase the rights to the play, add our script to it (by permission of the author) and then select actors.  One our our librarians is a great chooser of characters within the area.  She seeks out those wonderful actors to participate. Its not hard.  You just have to be dress up a bit, ad-lib and read your parts as you need.  We have dinner first, then the fun begins. Come and try and figure out who done it and win a PML coffee mug and Star-bucks coffee gift card.

Did you know that I was once a bag lady in it? That was in 2011.  Often staff do not act because we help during the event or if someone gets sick sometimes we step in.  This happened in 2011 and I had just about 24 hours to find the costume and read the part.  It was great fun.

                   

                                             

In 2010 we had our 125th Anniversary for Thomas County.  So we decided to write a murder mystery that fit the original settlers.  We have library staff that are history buffs, along with some Friends of Pioneer Memorial Library board members, we had a grand time!

One of my favorite decorated tables was the 2012 when we did "Poetic Justice." The design on the program had a gold fish on it. So we decided to add live gold fish to the tables. We placed them on top of little lights (no heat).  At the end of the night we had the participants at the table look at their chairs to see who won the gold fish.  Many took them home.  However, over the next week we got reports that the gold fish were dying like flies.  The longest to have the fish live were parents of two children who were about 5 an 7 years old. The gold fish finally had to have a funeral! We have not used live decorations since. 

Buy a ticket to support the Friends and enjoy a fun filled evening with us! 

Lots of special events and happenings keep me busy!

February is always a busy month for me. It starts with Booked for Lunch on the first Wednesday of the month. This month we have Marcia Schlageck speak to us on a book she wants to share, Me Before You: A Novel by Jojo Moyes. 

The next event is the presentation of the Friend's special fund-raiser. "Art Friendsy, - Chair-ish Your Library." Come to the library and bid on the items. I don't have the pictures of the items yet, but they are coming.


Another event is Chocolate And All That Jazz! We have had such overwhelming crowds (to our joy!) we need to reorganize its layout.  All the Chocolate and desserts will be upstairs with tables around the library, which we will imbibe before and then carry downstairs to munch on while the Colby Community College Jazz Band and Sunflower Singers perform.  For those who can't enjoy the sound downstairs, we will be streaming it live upstairs!

Now, Its not that I don't have other things to discuss like books and the NSA tapping, etc.... but these plus other activities keep me pretty restricted on sharing other materials this month.  Plus, these are fun events you will want to participate in.