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802-348-7488
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FREE EDUCATION & ENTERTAINMENT

Notice
BOARD MEETINGS are open to the public.
Next Meeting: Wed, May 23, 5 pm

Click on date to view minutes of previous meetings.

The Library Community Room is available for public meetings sponsored by civic, educational and non-profit entities.

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ARTISTS interested in exhibiting on the Community Room Gallery Wall, please call John Flores, head librarian, 348-7488

DFL PATRONS "LEARNING TO GO"

ON-GOING "Bag O'Books" SALE

COME TO THE LIBRARY!

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME

Questions? Call: 348-7488

*Saturday May 19, 10:30 - 12:30 am

Participants will be provided a limited number of Lego building blocks and given a set time in which to build a creation to submit as a contest entry. Prizes to be awarded following a jury’s decision. Team events also available. Sign-up for your age category at the library or call the library at (802) 348-7488. Registration by May 18 required. You may also register by email: doverfreelibrary1913@yahoo.com ALL AGES

Volunteer service -- family, friends and neighbors working together -- is essential to the life of the community and the operation of the Library.

Activities include serving as a trustee, assisting with crafts or reading for children, planting and maintaining the garden, preparing displays, shelving books, managing periodicals, etc. Nancie McLean, library assistant, coordinates the Volunteering Program.

Our first website was designed and launched in 2005 by a VOLUNTEER using Quark XPress. It was re-created in 2011 with Dreamweaver. If you can assist in developing, updating or improving this site, please volunteer.... Speak to Nancie or John.

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MEMBERSHIP FORM (undergoing revision)

MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE
	*Monday, May 21 , 6:00 pm
		Midnight Cowboy - Jon Voight & Dustin Hoffman Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial 'country cousin meets city cousin' relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend.
		113 Min. Rated R FREE & open to the public

         The Art Mob, an a capella singing group from New York City, will return to the Dover Town Hall on June 2, 7 PM, for its third annual concert to benefit the Dover Free Library. The concert will be a reprise of the "Flash Mob" program that the group recently performed at three concerts in Manhattan. In keeping with the theme, the program includes songs about love sparks, flashing swords, a flashy dresser, the moon and the stars, sunlight, and explosions.
          Like all Art Mob concert programs, this one features mostly obscure music spanning two or three centuries and an array of genres, including jazz, long-forgotten Broadway show tunes, radio gospel, novelty numbers, and folk music. Art Mob concerts always include a few shape-note songs, which use a simplified kind of musical notation that dates back to the community sings that were popular in the 1800s.
          Art Mob members write the a capella arrangements for many of the songs the group sings. Some of the shape-note songs feature music by Art Mob bass Aldo Ceresa, with words written a century or more ago. Ceresa, a book dealer by trade, has taught and led shape-note singing throughout the United States and Europe.
          The Art Mob, which has been making music since 1979, presents two three-performance concert series every year in Manhattan (in May and December), plus occasional benefit concerts. Its musical director is Brent Frederick, who conducts and plays keyboard for Broadway shows, other New York venues, and regional theater. Frederick's arrangements and music direction are featured on several Royal Caribbean cruise ships.

In addition to Ceresa and Frederick, the group includes sopranos Constance Beckley, Kirsten Skrinde, Nancy Moore Simpson, and Ruby McNeil; basses Dean McNeil and Martin Donach; tenors Dan Rosenbaum and Frank Donno; and altos Gaynor Coté, Vicki Watson, Confidence Stimpson, Hannah Campbell, and Cheryl Morrison ~who is a part-time resident of East Dover and a member of Friends of the Dover Free Library.

A CAPELLA GROUP PERFORMANCE
	*Saturday, June 2, 7:00 pm, Dover Town Hall
		The Art Mob presents "Flash Mob" Concert at the Dover Town Hall to benefit the Library -

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DOVER FREE LIBRARY

ANNUAL PROGRAMS & SPECIAL EVENTS

January: Adopt-a-Book Program

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
	* Wednesday, May 30, 6:00 pm
	No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall-Smith
	Precious Ramotswe is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in their lives.” She is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors...

	Come by the Library, pick up a copy of the book, Join the discussion on Wednesday, May 30 FREE and open to the public


SPANISH CLUB
	*Tuesdays, 12:00 noon
		For more information or to join the group, contact John Flores at the Library 348-7488

GERMAN CLUB
	*Tuesdays, 6:30 pm
		Beginner lessons at 6:30 followed by conversational German at 7:30 for beginners and fluent speakers together.