The James E. Nichols Memorial Library

Otis Redding was born 9/9/1941. Gone too soon, but made some beautiful music while he was here…..

Wednesday morning 9/9 we’ll be putting out books in the box for hungry readers. Get your post-Labor Day Requests in now, so you don’t miss out! Same goes for movie buffs and DVDs.

Ron McKernan (9/8/45), vocalist and soul man of the Grateful Dead, performs a Jimmy Reed classic. His raps on songs like Lovelight, Midnight Hour and Hard to Handle were the stuff of legend. The clip is from his last tour with the band, before health issues carried him down.

Queen’s flamboyant frontman was born on this day.

“For we who grew up tall and proud
In the shadow of the Mushroom Cloud
Convinced our voices can’t be heard
We just wanna scream it loud It comes to you as to us all
Yeah, we’re just waiting for the hammer to fall”

Just in: large print (Numbers Game by Danielle Steel and The Order by Daniel Silva) and books on tape (All the Devils are Here by Louie Penny and Near Dark by Brad Thor). For serious fiction readers, we have Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, the 2019 Mann Booker winner. There is also suspense by Brad Thor, Sandra Brown, and James Lee Burke. For non-fiction readers, we have Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, the acclaimed author of The Warmth of Other Suns. And if that were not enough, there are also new downloadable books from NHDB.

August closed out with two notable birthdays on the 31st. Jerry Ivan Allison of The Crickets, whose paradiddles gave Peggy Sue its beat and….

Sir George Ivan Morrison: “you can’t stop us on the road to freedom…”

One of the steps leading up to the library has shifted and is not safe to use. This cuts-off access to the book drop. We moved the book pickup bin to the front walk and added a drop-off bin.

It would be totally OK, however, if you just hold onto your returns. This would save our staff a bit of work. The repair will hopefully will be done in a week or so.

John Lee Hooker, blues master (b. 4/22/1917)

James Burton. telecaster master, (b. 9/21/1939)

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