Want to cook with wild plants? Learn to identify and use wild foods Thursday, May 24th at 7:00 p.m. Dr. John Kallas will be here in the Main Meeting Room of the library for a presentation and book signing of his recent book, Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt to Plate. Dr. Kallas is a trained botanist, nature photographer, writer, researcher and teacher. He’s also the founder of Wild Food Adventures, an organization that teaches people how to identify and use edible wild plants. In his beautiful presentation he will show us how to identify, harvest, and prepare delicious and nutritious wild plants. Read the rest of this entry »
I recently went through the stressful, challenging, and at times overwhelming task of moving to a new home. We are starting to feel settled and even tilled the garden spot last weekend for the vegetable garden. But the process of moving, and handling all of our “stuff”, was exhausting, both physically and mentally.
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In an age where examples of scandal and ludicrously bad behavior hit the mainstream through the delivery of a poorly planned tweet, it seems easy to concede that etiquette has gone the way of the typewriter. Headed into the annual minefield that my partner and I refer to as wedding season, I picked up the 18th edition of Emily Post’s Etiquette: Manners for a New World thinking I would brush up on place settings and invitation protocol.
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Here at the library we are absolutely thrilled that Joyce Carol Oates is coming to Corvallis! If you haven’t heard yet, Oregon State University is awarding Oates the first ever Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement; a prize that comes with prestige, sure, but also a whopping $20,000. OSU is hosting a public discussion and book signing with Oates that is open to all on May 9th, 7:30 p.m. at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center.
To celebrate this exciting, important event the library and other places around town have been hosting writing workshops and discussions of some of Oates’ work, but the finale discussion is coming up this Saturday, May 12th, 2:00 p.m. in the Main Meeting Room here at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library. Read the rest of this entry »
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on May 4, 2012, 8:44 am,
by Alex,
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Books,
crafts.
Embroidery looks like fun, and I’ve always thought that one day I’d find the time and learn to make the glittering beetles and dragonflies in Jane Nicholas’s books on stumpwork, or try my hand at bead embroidery with books like Dimensional bead embroidery : a reference guide to techniques. I select the craft books for the Library, so I’ve been eyeing these books for years. Finally, this spring I decided to make the time for embroidery. I checked out a stack of interesting looking books on the topic, perused them long enough to figure out the basic supplies I needed, and bought some embroidery needles, thread, cheap muslin fabric and a small 4″ hoop.
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Casper after a swim and holding my empty coffee cup
As a proud adoptive mother of a four-year old Newfoundland dog named Casper, one of my favorite things to do is take her along for a hike and a swim. (We both hike, but Casper loves to swim. I throw sticks and she retrieves them. She is a working dog, so she likes having a job to do!)
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on April 26, 2012, 10:17 am,
by Lindy,
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eResources.
One of our most heavily used online resources is a language-learning program called Mango Languages. With over 38 languages to choose from, Mango has formatted its lessons in an engaging, interactive format that makes learning a language easier — you’ll be speaking after just one lesson!
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I have struggled with what I consider to be a “faulty” stomach since I was very young. I’ve always seemed more sensitive to foods than others and at the ripe old age of 21 was told I suffer from Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). I was prescribed a Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) and was told I would remain on one for the rest of my life if I wanted to feel well and stop doing damage to my esophagus and stomach lining. I got a second opinion and was told the same thing. I took the PPI and accepted my fate; these were some of the best doctors in the state of Texas (where I was living at the time), surely they knew what was best. Read the rest of this entry »
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on April 19, 2012, 9:45 am,
by Charles,
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Catalog.
For months you’ve been waiting for the new Tintin DVD and now you’re first in line, but you leave for vacation tomorrow. If the DVD arrives, and you don’t pick it up within 8 days, it will go to the next person and you’ll no longer be on the waiting list. There is a solution to this problem, however, and you can do it yourself in about three minutes.
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on April 16, 2012, 10:43 am,
by Alex,
under
Events.
This month in the main meeting room at the library is a remarkable exhibit that highlights the wartime experience of a teenage girl during the Holocaust.
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Want to cook with wild plants? Learn to identify and use wild foods Thursday, May 24th at 7:00 p.m. Dr. John Kallas will be here in the Main Meeting Room of the library for a presentation and book signing of his recent book, Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt to Plate. Dr. Kallas is a trained botanist, nature photographer, writer, researcher and teacher. He’s also the founder of Wild Food Adventures, an organization that teaches people how to identify and use edible wild plants. In his beautiful presentation he will show us how to identify, harvest, and prepare delicious and nutritious wild plants. Read the rest of this entry »
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