Holiday Hours

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Dec 19, 2003 12:00 am

Holiday Hours

C.H. Booth Library will be using the following schedule during the Christmas-New Yearâs holiday week.

Wednesday, December 24, 10 am to 1 pm; Thursday, December 25, closed; Friday, December 26, noon to 5 pm (regular hours).

The following week the library will be open on Wednesday, December 31, from 10 am to 1 pm, and closed Thursday, January 1. The library will resume its regular schedule on Friday, January 2.

Childrenâs Programs

*âEverymanâ Performance Cancelled: The performance of âEveryman,â scheduled for this Saturday, December 20, has been cancelled. It will be re-scheduled for a future date in January.

Young Adults

*Creative Contests: We have information and entry forms for four creative contests for young adults this winter. Stop in the libraryâs Young Adult area and choose from âWorld of Words,â an essay contest celebrating family connections to other homelands with top individual cash prizes of $25, $50, or $100; âPlaystages,â a playwriting contest for short plays written by individuals or groups, with a top prize of $500 for a library program; âGet on Board and Read,â a contest to create a poem, essay, painting or video about how a favorite book is meaningful to you, with prizes including a meeting with skateboarder Tony Hawk or other prizes; and âIMPAC-CT State University Young Writersâ Annual Competition,â a poem, essay or fiction contest with a top prize of $1,000.

*Chill With Will: Professional actress and teacher Leland Kellogg of Newtown will bring Shakespeare to life through various levels of multimedia in âChill With Will: A Young Adults Shakespeare Workshop.â Young adults will write and star in their own Shakespeare movie short, and turn Shakespeareâs sonnets into TV commercials.

The five-session workshop will meet on Fridays, January 9 to February 6. The group will meet from 2 to 5 pm for the first four weeks. The workshop will culminate with a Friday evening performance at the library (snow date February 13).

The workshop is geared for students in grades 7 and above, and is limited to 15 participants. Cost is $75, payable at sign-up; call the library or visit the main floor circulation desk.

Adult News

*Can Great Literature Be Funny? Gordon Williams and Liz Arneth will be leading a book discussion on four plays by great playwrights. The four plays include Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward, to be discussed on January 8; You Canât Take It With You by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman on January 22; George Bernard Shawâs Pygmalion on March 11; and Shakespeareâs As You Like It on April 1.

All discussions will take place on the third floor in Special Collections beginning at 7:30 pm. Multiple copies of each play are available at the circulation desk. Reservations are requested.

*1854 Newtown Maps: One of the libraryâs beautiful historical maps of Newtown has been reproduced by the Friends of The C.H. Booth Library and can be yours for $40. The 1854 map measures 24 by 30 inches and is printed on 100% cotton rag. It features several familiar Newtown landmarks including homes, businesses, and churches.

CH. Booth Library, at 25 Main Street, can be reached at 426-4533 to register for any of its programs or for additional information. Its winter hours are 10 am to 8 pm Monday through Thursday, noon to 5 pm on Friday, 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, and 1 to 5 pm on Sunday.

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Sorry Lynn, not letting you get away with this. Yes, we all have the constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully but NO, no one ever said anything about taking that right away. You just made it up.

Expresses Opposition To Proposed Assembly Ordinance

A small Newtown business lost important revenue because of the protest. Traffic was disrupted causing a safety concern. Newtown taxpayers paid for police OT because the PD had to react to the protest rather than be prepared in advance. God forbid, if there was loss of life or property, Newtown could be liable legally for negligence. Your comment sounds like Liberal Woke thinking and apparently you are more sympathetic to protestors than to Newtown. Non-issue? In Kerrville TX the legislative body had the chance to vote for a flash flood siren warning system. They thought it was a non-issue. Now, over 200 people are dead and families are destroyed. No way does the town not get expensively buried in court should it be foolish enough to NOT go down this path.

Assembly Ordinance?

Hi David, I did not ignore anyone. I presented 4 quantifiable advantages and one intangible that an ordinance addressing protests would benefit Newtown. That was my only standard. No one that came to the meeting including the other LC members provided any argument to over come those benefits and remember, the threshold was set extremely low. The only thing the LC was voting on was to "just consider" if an ordinance would be in order. Get over the "stadium" joke. It is scandalous that you don't have the mental capacity to understand it was a joke. Remember when I asked to meet with you for breakfast to see in we could compromise on some of your many complaints? I am sure could have found compromises but apparently the word "compromise" is not a part of your vocabulary. Either is acting like an adult. By the way, the intangible...that was to provide protection for you and your family, God forbid, that you were protesting and someone came barreling through the crowd in a car. My point was you always plan for worst case scenario, not best case scenario. In Kerrville TX, the legislative body had the chance to vote to put a flash flood warning siren in place. Someone like you probably thought they didn't need it. Now over 200 people are dead. Nothing bad could ever happen in Newtown right?

Pisani to Sue Newtown – Part 1

Reservoir Rd. does indeed appear to have an interesting history that I often ponder as I hike the Rochambeau Trail. Early on it was apparently part of a main route from the center of the Borough to Taunton, which went up Mt. Pleasant Rd. and then roughly followed a watershed boundary from Mount Pleasant to Taunton Hill. When the current switchback road was built from West St. to Castle Hill in the 1800s, replacing the indirect route through the campground that Rochambeau used, the part of that original route to Taunton now known as Reservoir Rd. became redundant. But on an 1868 town map and topographic maps from 1892 and 1915, it looks like both routes were still maintained as roads. By the time of the 1934 aerial survey of CT, the connection to Mount Pleasant Rd. (maybe called Reservoir Rd. by then since the reservoir is visible) even had two outlets onto Castle Hill Rd. Since it is only shown as a partial dashed line on a 1953 topographic map, it may have stopped being maintained as a passable through road by then. But on a 1963 topographic map, where the section down to Knollwood Dr. had become a normal road again, the other end is shown as a dashed-line road, still with two connections to Castle Hill Rd., and a structure on the east side where one can still find remnants of a house today. Maybe a longtime resident can add comments about what it looked like in the 1950s and 1960s?

Clarity on Reservoir Road and the Rochambeau Trail

Please stop referring to your fellow Newtowners as the Mob. I was at the Legislative Council meeting where Mr. Pisani insulted the intelligence of a room full of Newtown voters; twice, and not in a satirical way. Plenty of new projects have been given the green light - the repurposing of the Taunton Press property is a welcome addition to Town, a new retail center is under construction on Church Hill Rd there are ongoing plans for the existing Fairfield Hills campus. Newtown is a wonderful place to live. Kudos to the Town officials who have managed to grow Newtown and maintain a small town feel, which may mean saying no to development more often than you would like. There will always be two sides to any proposal - different points of view are welcome and essential - name calling adds nothing to the conversation.

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