June 20: LIBRARY CLOSED for West Virginia Day – No Programs
June 23: Library Partnership Program – Overcoming: A Celebration of Helen Keller Day
YWCA Wheeling, in partnership with the Seeing Hand Association, and the Ohio County Public Library, will celebrate the lifework of Helen Keller, who overcame vision and hearing loss at an early age to become an accomplished scholar, author, rights advocate, and one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). This community outreach program is about overcoming obstacles and challenges in service to others.
Speaker bio: GLENN R. POWELL has over 30 years of internal consulting experience in HR, Talent, DEI, and Employment Equity — in healthcare, manufacturing, oil & gas, and higher education settings. Additional speakers TBA.
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June 27, 2023 (Lunch With Books Returns) Abigail Adams, “Remember the Ladies”
IN-PERSON ONLY
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.
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July 4, 2023 LIBRARY CLOSED Happy Independence Day!
July 11, 2023 It’s Wheeling History Neighborhoods!
IT’S BACK!
The popular trivia contest, “It’s Wheeling History” returns as a one day, two-person per team history “Bee.” Teams representing Wheeling’s historic Neighborhoods will answer trivia questions mostly centered on those Wheeling Neighborhoods in a Round-Robin format with a double elimination until only one team is left standing to have their names carved on the It’s Wheeling History cup! Register your team now! (lunchwithbooks@yahoo.com). Your host: Dr. David Javersak!
Want to play? Register your team today: https://www.ohiocountylibrary.org/programs/its-wheeling-history-2023-registration/7788
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July 18, 2023 Wheeling Poetry Series with Lori Wilson and Dave Prather
Lori Wilson is the author of two poetry collections: The Dream Women Called (2021) and House Where a Woman (2009). Both from Autumn House Press. A graduate of the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry, Wilson received the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Since 2007, she has been part of the Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing Workshops at Carlow University, including ten years as a teacher. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she works as a software developer. David B. Prather is the author of We Were Birds (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2019). His second collection, Bending Light with Bare Hands, will be published by Fernwood Press. Published in many journals, his work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes. He taught English and Creative Writing at WVU—Parkersburg and English at Marietta College. He worked as an editor at Tantra Press and for the literary journal, Confluence. He also served as coordinator and host for the Blennerhassett Reading Series. David studied acting at the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York and still takes time to “trod” the boards at the Actors Guild of Parkersburg. He studied writing at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. He currently serves as a reader for Suburbia Journal, and he lives in Parkersburg, WV.
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July 25, 2023 Japan Outreach-Language for Travel
Manami Kawazoe of the Japanese Outreach Initiative at West Liberty University promotes awareness and understanding of Japan through activities and events for culture exchange. For her final presentation at LWB, she will instruct us in useful terms for travel to Japan.
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Aug. 1, 2023 Goosetown Memories
As part of the Neighborhood Nostalgia Series, we invite people to share memories of Goosetown, a hard-nosed, fun-loving Wheeling community of up to 100 homes with small gardens and full of mom and pop stores and pubs that once spanned the area from Baltimore Street to Tunnel Green and the Creek. Sadly, most of it was taken for the modernized Route 2 leading to the I-470 ramp.
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Aug. 8, 2023 Music and Memories
Roger Hoard and Kyle Knox will discuss music and memories from Roger’s amazing career. Roger, who will play songs along the way, was a member of Jamboree USA from 1971-2007; and former Musical Director for Jamboree USA, and Jamboree in the Hills. He’s performed with the likes of Chet Atkins, Jim Stafford, Steve Wariner, Lenny Breau, Brad Paisley, Robben Ford, BE Taylor,11/70 Band, The Other Brothers, The Fabulous Bender Boys, and as a Solo and Jazz Guitarist. He is currently with: Hoard and Jones, and the Roger Hoard Jazz Quartet.
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Aug. 15, 2023 Faire May for San Roch
In honor of the Italian tradition of marking the Feast Day of San Rocco, Faire May will present a set of Italian music accompanied by dancing from Ohio Valley International Dancers. Saint Rocco’s Feast Day commemorated the end of a severe outbreak of the plague in Venice in 1576. The tradition was brought by Italian immigrants to the United States. Faire May is a traditional music band specializing in enjoyable folk music from the near and distant past.
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Aug. 22, 2023 TBA
Aug. 29, 2023 A Solo-Acoustic Beatles Tribute
