TOMORROW – Help Us Make a Commercial!
Do you love reading? Do you want to get your friends and neighbors excited about reading? Then, join Wheeling’s mayor, Glenn Elliot, and West Virginia poet laureate, Marc Harshman, to promote our city-wide reading initiative by being part of our commercial.
We will gather at the “Almost Heaven” swing at Heritage Port on Wednesday, May 24 at 2:00 pm to create a short video.
No acting experience required. Just bring your enthusiasm for books.
TODAY – Noon: Wheeling Reads Launch: All Lies Begin with Truth with Anthony Viola
All Lies Begin with Truth dramatizes the complexities of natural gas extraction, its legalities and impact on a small town’s economy, infrastructure, and surrounding environment, using three distinctive perspectives. Eris Carroll is a young and energetic activist negotiating her place in a world where societal rules and cultural norms cater to and support patriarchy. Lionel Boone’s past indifferences and mounting guilt over surviving a kettle bottom collapse taunts him daily. Cass Taylor’s cultural role in life was predetermined before her birth. She struggles with the realities of being trapped in small town USA and within the confines of a patriarchal culture. Her somber outlook on the town, her life, and the human spirit is often chilling as the realization becomes clear that as a civilized species, we are imprisoned, being all too dependent on energy and those corporations who provide it for us. Anthony J. Viola is a Professor of English at Marshall University where he teaches literature and creative writing.
Note: This program will serve as the launch of the new Wheeling Reads: One Book, One Community initiative featuring Jennifer Haigh’s Heat and Light. Check the library’s website and social media for more information!
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May 30, 2023 Japan Outreach-Film Screening & Discussion of “My Neighbor Totoro”
Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures. Manami Kawazoe, Japan Outreach Initiative Coordinator at West Liberty University, will lead a discussion. Note: A free screening of the film will be held at OCPL on Friday, May 26 at 2 pm.
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June 6, 2023 Who’s in the Wheeling Hall of Fame with Dr. Javersak
Begun in 1977, the Wheeling Hall of Fame honors past and present residents “who had attained considerable distinction in some specific field and thus brought honor to their home city.” Its six categories include: Music and Fine Arts; Sports and Athletics; Business, Industry and Professions; Public Service; Education and Religion; and Philanthropy. The Wheeling Hall of Fame Board will induct a new class on June 10. But who is already enshrined? Dr. David Javersak returns to review the gallery of Wheeling All-Stars.
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June 13, 2023 Are You A Warwood Quiz Whiz? with Dr. Chuck Julian
As part of our Neighborhood Nostalgia Series and the Summer Reading theme of “Neighborhood of Stories,” Dr. Chuck Julian will present a master-level quiz in Warwood trivia from Loveland to Cork Town and everything in between. The new Spring edition of the Upper Ohio Valley Historical Review, featuring a history of Warwood by Dr. Julian, will be launched at this program.
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June 20: LIBRARY CLOSED for West Virginia Day
June 27, 2023 Abigail Adams, “Remember the Ladies”
To celebrate the spirit of Independence, we will welcome Abigail Adams to the Library. An active participant in our nation’s birth, Abigail Adams is well known for her advocacy of women’s rights, especially in education, and her opposition to slavery. As a valued confidant and advisor to her husband John Adams, the nation’s second president, Abigail cautioned him that the Founding Fathers should “remember the ladies” in the new laws they would write for our young country. Together, they were the first inhabitants of the White House. Mrs. Adams is portrayed by JoAnn Peterson for the WV Humanities Council’s History Alive program.
