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Wednesday, March 16, 2022 |
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(for kids) "Ireland is a nation of storytellers. The tradition dates back to Celtic bards, who would record and recite the country's history."
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"In March, the National Archives celebrates the contributions of Irish Americans in our nation’s history during Irish American Heritage Month." - archives.org
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"Explore collection items related to Ireland and Irish American history and heritage. with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings." - si.edu
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Library Announcement:Automatic renewals are on hold until April 25 while we complete our migration to a new Library system. Thank you for your patience during this time.
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Santa Maria Public Library Programs Check out some of the Library's upcoming fun events, below. For more information, or to register for events, please call (805) 925-0994, visit our website at www.cityofsantamaria.org/library, or click on any of the event images below to be redirected to our Library events calendar.
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Let the Wild Rumpus Start! Wednesday, March 16 and Monday, March 28 10:00 a.m. in the Altrusa Theater No registration is required.
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Tech Help Saturdays Saturday, March 19 and Saturday, April 2 11:00 a.m. in the Dorothea Nelson Conference Room For adults ages 18 and up. Registration is required.
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National Quilting Day Celebration (A Biologist's Life in Quilts) Saturday, March 19 2:00 p.m. in Shepard Hall Co-sponsored with AAUW. For adults ages 18 and up. No registration is required.
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Preschool Yoga Story Time Friday, March 25 11:00 a.m. in the Altrusa Theater For ages 3 to 5 with caregivers Registration is required.
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Information Literacy Presentation Saturday, March 26 11:00 a.m. in Shepard Hall For ages 18 and up. Registration is required.
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Succulent Exchange Saturday, April 2 11:00 a.m. in Lavagnino Plaza For ages 18 and up. No registration is required.
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Valley Reads Book ClubTuesday, April 5 2:00 p.m. in Shepard Hall Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel For ages 18 and up. Registration is required.
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Whale-y Cool Teen DIY Phone Holder packs (All locations) Pick-up begins: Saturday, March 12 For teens in junior high and high school. No registration is required.
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Gardening Kits (Los Alamos and Orcutt locations) Pick up: Monday, March 21 - Friday, May 25 For adults ages 18 and up. One kit per household while supplies last. No registration is required.
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Story Time to You March 16 and March 25 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Join the Bookmobile Librarian for outdoor story time at Bookmobile stops. Bring a blanket to sit on and enjoy literacy-building and fun for the whole family. Pop-up Bookmobile Stops Saturday, March 19 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. at Bob Orach Park Visit the Bookmobile at monthly Saturday Bookmobile Pop-up Stops for a family-friendly maker project.
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Adult Book Recommendations Check out our recommended books below. Visit the Black Gold catalog, or call (805) 925-0994, to place a hold on these titles.
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Her Hidden Genius: a Novel by Marie BenedictTells the story of Rosalind Franklin, who, despite an environment of harassment and bullying in the late 1940s and 1950s, worked in a stringent, scientific manner and became one of the first scientists to map the structure of DNA.
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Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh SenAmerica's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a blind chef; Marcella Hazan, the deity of Italian cuisine; and Norma Shirley, a champion of Jamaican dishes. In imaginative, lively prose, Mayukh Sen-a queer, brown child of immigrants- reconstructs the lives of these women in vivid and empathetic detail, daring to ask why some were famous in their own time, but not in ours, and why others shine brightly even today. Weaving together histories of food, immigration, and gender, Taste Makers will challenge the way readers look at what's on their plate and the women whose labor, overlooked for so long, makes those meals possible.
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The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century by Amia SrinivasanA noted philosopher traces the meaning of sex in our world by reaching back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political phenomenon to help us imagine the future of sex.
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