Piccadilly Puppets Kicks Off National Library Week Celebration at the Smyrna Public Library

The Friends of Smyrna Library sponsored Piccadilly Puppets’ show this afternoon to kick off the National Library Week celebration at the Smyrna Public Library. 

Piccadilly Puppets presented "Cat & Mouse Tales" and the kids had a great time. The show included early rock tunes, folktales featuring furry cat and mouse friends, and “purring”.  The tales included “The Lion and the Mouse” (Aesop), “Why Siamese Cats Have a Kink in their Tales” (Thailand), and “Why Cats Chase Mice” (Myanmar).

Thank you, Piccadilly Puppets!  

FOSL Bookstore Refreshed With Hundreds of New Books & More

A huge new collection of books, puzzles, and magazines are on sale in the Friends of Smyrna Library (FOSL) Bookstore.  Gently Used/Nearly New Books are priced from 75 cents to $2.  Puzzles are $1.  Popular Magazines are 10 cents.  The current Pink Cart Specials are Movie DVDs for $1 and over 100 National Geographic Magazines for 10 cents each.  

Our bookstore is located to the left of the Staircase/Circulation Desk when entering from the parking lot. Cash, Check, and Venmo accepted.

Thank you to the volunteers (some pictured) who sorted & priced books and stocked the shelves yesterday! 

Smyrna Herald Indexing Project Initiated

A committee of volunteers, operating under the auspices of the Friends of the Smyrna Library, initiated weekly meetings to index and photograph key articles that appeared in the pages of the Smyrna Herald/ Smyrna Neighbor newspapers during the period 1952 to 1993.

This index will eventually provide the general public with on-line access to a rich source of local history data. As each decade is completed, a lecture will be developed based on the information gathered.

The first of these lectures, “Smyrna in the 1960s” is in process of development, is scheduled to be presented as a “First Sunday Lecture Series offering on May 5, 2024.

Friends of Smyrna Library Board of Directors Start New Two-Year Term

PUBLIC NOTICE:

The Friends of Smyrna Library held their Annual Meeting on Sunday, April 2 at the Smyrna Public Library.  Officers and Board Members (collectively "The Board") were elected to two-year terms.  The updated Bylaws for the organization were also approved.  The Board kicked off their two-year terms on Wednesday, April 12 at the Smyrna Public Library.    

Officers

• William Marchione, President
• Jeff Jones, Vice President
• GeeGee Walters, Treasurer
• Mickie Higgins, Secretary

Board of Directors

• Meredith Burris
• Len Hallke Jr.
• Mary Ann Marchione
• Kahlillah Dotson Mosley
• Heather Kuemmerle
• Ellie Wolf

Bylaws

• Read the Revised FOSL Bylaws

FOSL Funds New Youth Nonfiction Book Collection

Thank you, Smyrna!  

Your book sale purchases and donations enabled the Friends of Smyrna Library to fund the purchase of a new Nonfiction Collection for Youth Services.  

Thank You, Retiring FOSL President, Charles Stannard!

 
Charles Stannard, President of the Friends of Smyrna Library since 2012, retired at the end of March.  We thank him for his dedicated volunteer service as President and previous role as Treasurer.  

Sunday Lecture Presented: The Georgia Gold Rush of 1829-1842 and Its Myriad Consequences

Thank you, Dr. Marchione, for your very informative presentation on April 2 entitled “The Georgia Gold Rush of 1829-42 and Its Myriad Consequences”.

Presentation Summary:

The first major gold rush in US history occurred during the years 1829 to 1842, at a location a scant 60 miles north of Smyrna. The lure of gold, a recurrent theme in American history from the Age of Exploration onward, led in the case of North Georgia to a huge influx of prospectors that flocked into the area of present-day Lumpkin, White, Union, and Cherokee counties. Settlers were little concerned with the provisions of federal treaties which stipulated that this territory belonged to its indigenous population, the Cherokee Indians. The Georgia Gold Rush led in short order to the forced removal of the native population in a tragic episode known as "The Trail of Tears." The lecture will also examine the history of gold mining in the years that followed the initial "intrusion," when the industry fell by degrees under the control of outsiders.

Presenter: Dr. William Marchione is the author A Brief History of Smyrna, Georgia. He is a retired educator, historian, author, and frequent lecturer for Smyrna Public Library and other local organizations.

The Sunday Lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.