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CHECK IT OUT
EDITH B. SIEGRIST VERMILLION PUBLIC LIBRARY NEWSLETTER
Join guest speaker Phil LaDouceur for a virtual tour of
Turkey’s European city, Istanbul! Learn more about some of
the famous sites, including Hagia Sophia, Topkapı Palace, the
Blue Mosque, and more.
This Zoom Lunch & Learn program will take place on Friday,
March 5th at noon. Register online at: bit.ly/istanbulvpl to save MARCH 2021
your spot! The event is free and open to everyone. It will also
be recorded for anyone who cannot make the live event. NEWS
If you have any questions, please email Rachelle at LUNCH & LEARN
rachelle.langdon@vermillionpubliclibrary.org. TAX ASSISTANCE
TAKE ‘N MAKE CRAFTS
BOOK DISCUSSION
The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) offers OTHER EVENTS
free tax help to people who generally make $54,000 or less, MASTER GARDENERS
persons with disabilities, and limited English speaking HEMINGWAY
taxpayers who need assistance in preparing their own tax WOMEN’S HISTORY
returns. Volunteers provide free basic income tax return CALENDAR
preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals.
Volunteers will be at the library at various times between “When we speak we are
afraid our words will not
February and the beginning of April. Masks are required to be heard or welcomed.
enter the library building. Proper social distancing, cleaning, But when we are silent,
and other safety measures will be observed. Sessions are first we are still afraid. So it
come, first served. VITA is not taking appointments in is better to speak”
advance. The calendar at the back of this newsletter provides Audre Lorde
the dates in March that VITA will be available.
18 CHURCH ST
The schedule is subject to change if weather or pandemic VERMILLION, SD
worsen. Please visit our website for more information on the 605-677-7060
library’s current status.
WWW.VERMILLIONPUBLICLIBRARY.ORG
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March’s Take ’n Make Crafts include a Yarn Virtual Story Times: Kids preschool-aged
Feather Keychain (for adults), an Among Us and younger can join Miss Amanda online
Papercraft (for teens), and a Clothespin Air for weekly story times. Videos air Tuesdays
Plane (for kiddos)! How-to videos will be at 10:30 am, and are available for one week.
posted on our YouTube and Facebook
Story times can be viewed on Facebook
pages on Monday, March 8th starting at
(@VermillionPublicLibrary) or YouTube.
8 am. Free craft kits will be available starting
Videos will also be posted to our website.
that morning!
Teen Zoom Meetup: Mackenzie hosts a
weekly Zoom meetup for teens! Thursdays
Every April, Vermillion observes Earth Day at 4:00 pm participants can chat and do
with a week-long celebration featuring activities. For more info email Mackenzie at
events hosted by our community members. mackenzie.stone@vermillionpubliclibrary.org.
In anticipation of Earth Days, the Book Chatter: You are invited to
Vermillion Public Library will host a virtual contribute to the Book Chatter discussion
discussion of Hope Jahren’s 2020 book, The on Friday, March 5th! Find book
Story of More. recommendations from other patrons, and
Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a take the opportunity to talk about a book
brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one you’ve recently enjoyed.
of the seven billion people with whom we Join the Book Chatter Facebook Group
share this earth. In The Story of More, she through the Vermillion Public Library
illuminates the link between human habits Facebook page (@VermillionPublicLibrary).
and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly
readable chapters, she takes us through the
science behind the key inventions—from SDSU Extension’s Master Gardener
electric power to large-scale farming to program develops gardening enthusiasts
automobiles—that, even as they help us, into expert volunteers who share their
release greenhouse gases into the research-based knowledge with community
atmosphere like never before. She explains members across the state. Each year,
the current and projected consequences of Master Gardeners volunteer thousands of
global warming—from superstorms to hours answering citizen questions and
rising sea levels—and the actions that we all hosting community programs.
can take to fight back. (From book cover)
The library is partnering with the Food
Books will be available to Pantry and other community members to
check out from the library bring Master Gardeners to Vermillion!
starting in mid-March.
If you are interested in becoming a Master
Re gi s te r o n l i n e a t
Gardener, fill out the program interest
bit.ly/earthdaysvpl to get
form on S D S U ’s website
a copy to read, then join
(extension.sdstate.edu/garden-yard/master-
us on Zoom on April
gardeners).
19th at 6:30 pm, to
discuss the topic!
Ernest Hemingway, the iconic literary figure Celebrate Women’s History Month and the
considered one of the greatest American Suffrage Centennial with the National
writers and among the first to live and work Women’s History Alliance 2020-21 theme:
at the treacherous nexus of art and celebrity, Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be
is the subject of an upcoming three-part, Silenced. Read a book about the suffragettes
six-hour documentary series directed by of yesterday or the female politicians of
award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and today! The books below can checked out
Lynn Novick coming to PBS April 5-7, from the library!
2021, 7:00–9:00 p.m. Central.
Votes for Women!
Hemingway paints an intimate picture of the by Kate Clarke Lemay
writer—who captured on paper the
complexities of the human condition in Stories from
spare and profound prose, and whose work Suffragette City
remains deeply influential around the Ed. by Fiona Davis and
world—while also penetrating the myth of M.J. Rose
Hemingway the man’s man, to reveal a
deeply troubled and ultimately tragic figure. Born Criminal:
The film also explores Hemingway’s Matilda Joslyn Gage,
limitations and biases as an artist. Radical Suffragist
by Angelica Shirley Carpenter
Conversations on Hemingway is a series of
virtual events with leading writers and
scholars in the weeks prior to the broadcast. Kamala’s Way:
The conversation series is open to the public An American Life
and will take place remotely, creating a by Dan Morain
unique opportunity for people throughout
the country to participate. People can
register for one or more of the events at Hell and Other
pbs.org/hemingwayevents. Destinations
by Madeleine K. Albright
Conversations on Hemingway:
A Virtual Event Series
Equality at the Ballot Box:
Event Schedule
Votes for Women on the
Mar 2 6:00 pm CT Mar 11 6:00 pm CT Northern Great Plains
Hemingway and the Hemingway, Gender and Ed. by Lori Ann Lahlum
Natural World Identity
and Molly P. Rozum
Mar 4 7:00 pm CT Mar 16 6:00 pm CT
Hemingway and Celebrity Hemingway the Author
Mar 9 6:00 pm CT Mar 18 6:00 pm CT
Hemingway, the Sea Hemingway and Biography
and Cuba
Mar 24 6:00 pm CT
Hemingway and Women
SUN MON
MARCH 2021 TUE WED THU FRI S AT
Program Color Key: 1 2 3 4 5 6
Adult Programming 5:00 - 8:00 p: VITA 10:30 a: Virtual ST 4:00 p: Teen Zoom 12:00 p: Lunch &
Youth Programming Learn: Istanbul
All Ages 5:00 - 8:00 p: VITA 5:00 - 8:00 p: VITA
All Day: Book
All programs are
virtual. We are not
Chatter
hosting any in-house
programs at this time.
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
8:00 a: Take ‘n Make 10:30 a: Virtual ST 4:00 p: Teen Zoom
Crafts
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Daylight Savings 5:00 - 8:00 p: VITA 10:30 a: Virtual ST 4:00 p: Teen Zoom 1:00 - 4:00 p: VITA
Begins
(Clocks spring 5:00 - 8:00 p: VITA 5:00 - 8:00 p: VITA
forward one hour)
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
1:00 - 4:00 p: VITA 5:00 - 8:00 p: VITA 10:30 a: Virtual ST 4:00 p: Teen Zoom 1:00 - 4:00 p: VITA
5:00 - 8:00 p: VITA 5:00 - 8:00 p: VITA
28 29 30 31
1:00 - 4:00 p: VITA 5:00 - 8:00 p: VITA 10:30 a: Virtual ST
5:00 - 8:00 p: VITA
HOURS: MON - THURS: 8 AM - 9 PM
FRI: 8 AM - 6 PM
SAT: 10 AM - 5 PM
SUN: 1 PM - 5 PM
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