John Wilkes Booth is Not Dead!

Please join us on Thursday, January 3rd from 12:00 p.m.to 1:00 p.m. for
"John Wilkes Booth Is Not Dead!": Birmingham's Louise Wooster and the
Strange Afterlife of Lincoln's Assassin.  Jim Baggett, Head of Birmingham
Public Library's Archives Department, will give a presentation exploring
the likelihood of a relationship between Wooster and Booth and the
enduring myth of a government conspiracy to fake his death.  Free
admission.

Choice Site of the Week

Choice Site of the Week (12/17/12)

 POW/MIA   Homepage
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/

 

Book of the Week

      Book of the Week (12/17/12)

   

  "ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r" (series), by Lauren Myracle 

Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

December Family Movie Night

Please join us on Monday, December 17th at 4 p.m. for a showing of
the movie Madagascar 3. Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still
fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple. Their journey takes
 them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling
circus, which they reinvent - Madagascar style. Free admission.

Home for Christmas

Please join us on Thursday, December 13th from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. for
a presentation of "Home for Christmas" by popular storyteller Dolores
Hydock.  Enjoy the hilarious story of a Mississippi mother and daughter who head up
to Tennessee for Christmas at the "old home place."  Hurt feelings, burnt
fingers, house on fire ... ah yes.  Just another family Christmas!

Free admission.  Sponsored by the Friends of the Bessemer Public Library.

Family Movie Night

Please join us on Monday, November 26th at 5:30 p.m. for a showing of the movie Tangled.
The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower,
but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to
discover the world for the first time and who she really is.  Free admission.

Tale of the Iron Man

Please join us on Thursday, November 1, 2012  at noon in the Auditorium
 for a reading by the Seasoned Performers of The Tale of the Iron Man; the
 dramatic story of the ups and downs of our Vulcan's statue's first 100 years.
  Free admission.