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Sunday Spinners to Meet
The next meeting of the Sunday Spinners will take place on Sunday, November 11 from 1 to 4. Come join our spinning group. Experienced and beginning spinners welcome. Learn more.
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Wood Carving Workshop
An enthusiastic group of woodworkers with various levels of expertise spent the morning of Saturday, September 29 working with artist Willie Rascoe at the Kentucky Library & Museum. After carving, sanding, drilling, gluing and painting everyone took home a piece of driftwood art. They all left the workshop very satisfied with his or her creations.
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Caves Exhibit Opens
Have you spent time underground exploring an unknown world and finding water-sculpted stone, crystalline formations and unusual wildlife? Do you enjoy taking photographs under unusual or challenging conditions? Come check out the “Caves: A Fragile Wilderness” at the Kentucky Library & Museum.
In addition to 39 photographs taken in caves from Alaska to Malaysia, the exhibit also includes historic caving items and mineral and plant specimens loaned by Mammoth Cave National Park as well as images from the collection of the Kentucky Library & Museum.
The exhibit runs through November 24.
“Slow Time” Exhibit at Kentucky Library & Museum
The Works of Charley, Noah & Hazel Kinney, is on exhibit at the Kentucky Library & Museum now through November 17.
This exhibit was organized by the Kentucky Folk Art Center and presents more than 80 works. It is said that the “Kinney family’s creative expressions epitomized the traditional arts of East Kentucky….” The family’s works include paintings, three dimensional works and carvings.
For more information visit http://www.wku.edu/Library/kylm.
Made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, the Judith Rothschild Foundation and the Kentucky Arts Council.
Folk Art on Display
Do you love art but find the old masters a bit too high brow for you? Come experience the joy and mystery of the more than 80 paintings, sculptures and drawings in the“Slow Times: The Art of Charley, Noah and Hazel Kinney” exhibit. The exhibit at the Kentucky Library & Museum runs through February 10, 2008.
Make your own sculpture or get a special take on the exhibit from artist-in-residence Lynne Ferguson.
Report Cards Sure Have Changed
Earlier this year Sarah Richardson of Atlanta, Georgia, donated a handmade report card for S.H. Orr dated March 5, 1875. The card reports on Mr. Orr’s attendance, number of words missed, number of head marks, and number of idle marks. After research, we are still unable to determine what “head marks” are. The card pronounces Orr’s behavior as “good” and his advancement as “good.” The report is signed by his teacher J.O. Edwards, who was running the Pilot Grove school in Grayson County, Texas. Mr. Orr was related to the Orr family of Adair County, Kentucky. In the top right hand corner, you will notice that a later individual has sent this to Sara Nell [Orr] “to put in the Bible–when she gets it.”
The salient feature of this otherwise utilitarian document is the illustrative material. The leaves surrounding the report were most likely drawn by the student; each is filled with a quotation. Two of the leaves are filled with a passage from Psalm 23; another is filled with a classical homily; another contains a quotation from J.O. Edwards, the teacher.
The Manuscripts section of the Kentucky Library & Museum is always interested in adding new items to our collection with Kentucky ties. If you have letters, diaries, journals or travel accounts, business records, club minutes or records that you would like for us to review for possible donation, please contact Jonathan Jeffrey at 270-745-5265 or e-mail him at jonathan.jeffrey@wku.edu
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Spinning at the Kentucky Library & Museum
Joanne Seiff helps a member of the Sunday Spinners learn how to use a drop spindle.
The Sunday Spinners is open to both experienced and beginning spinners. Come join the group at their October 14 meeting.
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Children’s Author Madeleine L’Engle Passes Away
L’Engle, who made the words “mitochondria” and “tesseract” household words for millions of children, died September 6, 2007 at the age of 88. The New York Times obituary observed that L’Engle, “who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood fables, religious meditations, and science fiction, weaved emotional tapestries transcending genre and generation.”
Wikipedia’s entry on L’Engle provides an interesting explanation of how her “best-known works are divided between ‘chronos‘ and ‘kairos‘; The former is the framework in which the stories of the Austin family take place, and is presented in a primarily realistic setting, though occasionally with elements that might be regarded as science fiction. 
The latter is the framework in which the stories of the Murry and O’Keefe families take place, and is presented sometimes in a realistic setting and sometimes in a more fantastic or magical milieu.”
L’Engle is best-known for her children’s books, some of which include the best known A Wrinkle in Time (1962; Newbery Award Winner), and other adventures featuring the engaging and lively Murry, O’Keefe, and Austin characters: Meet the Austins (1960), The Arm of the Starfish (1965), the Young Unicorns (1968), A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), and A Ring of Endless Light (1980; Newbery Honor Book). 
The Educational Resources Center (ERC), 366 Tate Page Hall, has many of L’Engle’s most popular children’s titles including the recent DVD release of A Wrinkle in Time. Madeleine L’Engle will be missed by generations of children and adults who loved her work.
(Photo of Madeleine L’Engle from Random House; book covers from Wikipedia.)