November at The Front Porch Library
Check out our November calendar.
Sunday library hours have shifted to accommodate the time change. We’re now open 3 – 5 pm.
Even though we are not planning a program, we do want folks to stop by the library on Nov 8th for hot cocoa and cookies.
December’s program is planned for the 6th. Adrian’s friend Sylvia Livingston will be here sharing stories of Tallahassee’s civil rights heroes.
See you at the library.
Add comment November 2, 2009
A Great Big Thank You
Many thanks to everyone who showed up and helped with the Front Porch Library Program in October.
Friend-of-the-neighborhood Patty C provided a great mix of songs, stories, and instruments — all with a festive fall theme.
Peggy A brought great materials and inspiration for turning kids into monsters.
Michelle and Linda made sure our neighbors knew about the event, helped get kids signed up for library cards, and made about a million masks and shakers.
FSU Circle K volunteers kept the kids having fun and made sure they were safe too.
And Adrian and Maya baked a bunch of goodies and worked from dawn ’til dusk on set-up and clean-up.
In case you were wondering, we had 46 people in attendance. By my count that was 23 adults and 23 kids … and the most number of parents ever!
Again, thank you to everyone who helped make the program a success.
Add comment November 2, 2009
Monster Music – Oct 18th – 4 to 6pm
Regular library hours for the month of October are
Sundays 4 – 6pm
There will be a library program on Sunday Oct 18th – Monster Music.
Add comment October 6, 2009
Stories & Quilts – Part 2 @ The Front Porch Library Sunday Sept 20th
The Front Porch Library at Seminole Manor would like to invite neighbors and friend to our next program:
Stories & Quilts — Part 2 Sunday,
September 20th
4 – 6pm
We will be piecing together the Library’s “story quilt” from this summer. There will be snacks, Read Alouds, crafts and games and training for new volunteers.
September library hours are:
Thursdays 4:30 – 6:30pm
Sundays 4:00 – 6:00pm
Anyone wanting to volunteer or to sign up for a library card should come to the library during open hours. During the month of September anytime the library is open, kids can read about story quilts, learn to sew or embroider, and create a Front Porch Library quilt square.
The Front Porch Library (SM) is a children’s lending library that gets books into the hands of kids to promote literacy, community, and fun.
Hope to see you there.
kk
Add comment September 13, 2009
Presenting … The Front Porch Library!
With lots of hard work and even more sweat, we did it. Seminole Manor’s Front Porch Library is officially open. It is a cozy, welcoming space that saw plenty of use on Saturday. We presently have 10 registered library users and June programs planned for the next two Sundays.
We couldn’t have done it without the help of many volunteers: Ray, Adrian, Katherine, Michelle, Linda, Cathleen, Wilma, Sally, Maya, Jeff, Rob B. and FSU Circle K International. A great big THANK YOU to all!! For more pictures, click here.
Seminole Manor’s Front Porch Library is a children’s lending library which aims to provide neighborhood kids with access to books, teach and establish habits of reading and library use, and bring us together as a community.
Drop by during the June library hours:
Sundays 3 – 6pm,
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4 – 6pm
Hours will continue throughout the summer and may change somewhat depending on use. Children’s programs are planned for Sunday afternoons starting around 3:30pm.
If you are not a Seminole Manor resident but would like to know more about our neighborhood library, including how to start one of your own, please contact us with a comment here on the blog, send an email to smna2007 (at) gmail (dot) com, or call 850.576.6418.
kk
Add comment June 14, 2009
Thank you, FSU Circle K International
FSU Circle K volunteers, Sally, Kary & Maya were out in the garden on Saturday. We started early because we knew it would get H O T! And it did. We weeded, spread mushroom compost, planted sweet potatoes, okra, and zucchini. We harvested onions, sorrel, kale, some tiny strawberries, lots of tomatoes, and several cucumbers. We saw earthworms and a small brown toad.
Come back in a few months and we’ll dig up the sweet potatoes together.
The next Second Saturday Garden Workday will be Saturday, August 8th at 9am. We’re skipping July.
kk
Add comment June 14, 2009
The Front Porch Library Grand Opening – Saturday June 13th 4:30 – 6pm
It’s happening. We’re launching. We hope to see many neighbors and friends-of-the-neighborhood there.
There was a piece about our event in the online edition of today’s newpaper.
Just FYI, Library hours begin Tuesday, June 16th. For the month of June they will be:
Sundays 3 – 6pm
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4 – 6pm
After that, the hours may change in response to usership and volunteer availability. Programs are scheduled on Sundays. The first is ‘Stories and Quilts’ on June 21st followed by ‘Bones, Fossils, and Dinosaurs’ on June 28th.
We’re hoping that the library will be a wonderful resource for our neighborhood and that it will inspire other neighborhoods and community entities to create their own.
We’re making a library link on this blog. Check back regularly and click on the FP Library tab if you want to know more.
kk
Add comment June 12, 2009
Introducing Seminole Manor’s Front Porch Library
Friends and neighbors,
You may not know it, but Seminole Manor has a lending library for neighborhood children on the front porch of a house on Marcia Avenue. We have been circulating books on a small scale and informally for nearly a year now. It’s time to make it official, and we need your help!
Seminole Manor’s Front Porch Library will be opening with a bang on Saturday, June 13th from 4:30-6 pm.
We plan to do the following activities:
Serve hotdogs, snacks and drinks
Make bookmarks
Raffle prizes
Read stories aloud
Circulate books
We can’t do all this without you! Please let us know if you can help that day with anything from setup to cleanup–and everything in between. You can volunteer by sending an email (smna2007@gmail.com), calling 576-6418, or commenting on our blog. You can download a flyer here ( FPL_flyer full size ).
Throughout the summer, the library will have regular hours for book checkout and book clubs:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 4 – 6pm
We’d welcome your ongoing help with this project! Help us increase literacy in the neighborhood and give our kids something constructive to do this summer.
Thank you!
Adrian Fogelin
Kary Kublin
The Front Porch Library
a program of Seminole Manor Neighborhood Association
Add comment June 1, 2009
Park honors former Seminole Manor resident Martha Wellman
From the Tallahassee Democrat:
Martha Wellman cared deeply about the environment and Tallahassee. Now her name is affixed to part of the Tallahassee environment.
Blueprint 2000 will dedicate Martha Wellman Park on Monday. The park is on West Tennessee Street, a quarter-mile west of Capital Circle.
Wellman was a state government analyst and Sierra Club member who served on numerous Tallahassee committees. She was one of 13 members of the Economic and Environmental Consensus Committee, which created the plan for Blueprint 2000 and its one-cent sales tax funding approved by voters. She was a community representative for Blueprint’s Capital Circle Southwest project.
Wellman, 60, died of cardiac arrhythmia in May 2007, on an airplane returning to Tallahassee from a Sierra Club meeting in California. She had lived in Tallahassee since 1972, including many years on Rankin Avenue, in southwest Tallahassee, a few miles from the new park.
See Gerald Ensley’s full article at tallahassee.com.
Add comment May 31, 2009
