Talk to the Frackville Library from Frackville Free Public Library http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=7590&BlogID=126 Help us to keep your library growing. We want to know what you think. Please join in our conversation. Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMT Copyright 2026 Frackville Free Public Library en-us Mon, 18 May 2026 20:34:32 CDT Our Library's New Journey! http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=7590&BlogID=126&BlogPostID=15648 Our PAForward Journey to a GOLD STAR! Well fellow patrons, our library has decided it is time for us to become a PAForward Gold Star Library! We are very excited to be starting this journey as it will take us all year to complete the actions to achieve this goal. The PaForward program is a Pennsylvania operation that aims toward educating all Pennsylvania citizens in the different forms of Literacy. There are five different types of literacy to be discussed and educated on. These five literacies are needed by our community to help us be better citizens, students, parents and just better educated and aware people. Basic Literacy, Information Literacy, Civic and Social Literacy, Health Literacy, and Financial Literacy are all the different types needed to help our community grow, expand and learn. Our library has been involved in many ways with the different types already, with the information we provide seniors on healthcare and our weekly computer education classes. We help the community with the different programs for our children to help them learn and grow. We will be helping the early preschool children with our 1,000 books before kindergarten program. There are so many things we offer already and more we will continue to offer to better provide our patron base with the necessary tools to accomplish the PA Forward goal. We hope you folks encourage and will support us in our journey and we thank you for your continued trust and patronage.

]]> Nicole Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:46:11 GMT Just Finished Reading....... http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=7590&BlogID=126&BlogPostID=15638 Beatrice And Benedick
by Marina Fiorato

I would have to say that this book must have been a very challenging piece to write. Considering that Beatrice and Benedick are iconic characters thanks to Shakespeare. Beatrice with her fiery wit and cheek and Benedick always trying to one up her. We all know the end but we almost know nothing of the beginning other than he once did want to marry her before the events of Much Ado About Nothing. The beginning is all this book entails. Beatrice is sent to her Uncles court in Sicily and it is there that Benedick appears on a journey with a Spanish lord. Beatrice and Benedick wage their love war as only they can, with their witty remarks and comments and all the while they are falling for one another. When slander makes their love turn sour, a beside himself Benedick sails away to England, Beatrice returns home as well. Only to be bombarded with a betrothal she does not want or agree with. Benedick meanwhile comes under attack on the ship and has to fight to remain alive, Beatrice must remain fighting to stop her arranged marriage. The story does not convene again until ten years have passed and they meet again in Messina, and well, you know the story from there. I thought it was a very enthralling romance read. Certainly difficult to create a story and events out of someone elses story. And Shakespeare is a very hard to please subject. I would recommend this book solely if you wanted a romance novel on a quiet night. Next book up will be Alexander Hamilton's biography by Ron Chernow.

HAPPY READING!

]]> Nicole Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:23:32 GMT Just finished reading... http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=7590&BlogID=126&BlogPostID=14543 Quietly in Their Sleep by Donna Leon. If you are looking for a good, long series of detective fiction, try this one. Donna Leon, a long time American resident of Venice, writes about Commissario Brunetti, a high ranking Venetian policeman. Each book gives you insight into the complications of Italian society as well as a view of family life in this unique, historic city. The first book of the series, Murder at La Fenice, the famous opera house of Venice, is available in our ebook collection, along with many other Brunetti volumes. Ebooks can be read on IPads, IPhones, Android devices, Nook and Kindle Fire. Call the library for information on getting a library card and setting up your device.

]]> euroms48 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:08:30 GMT Golden Ticket Dinner http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=7590&BlogID=126&BlogPostID=14475 ]]> euroms48 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 20:35:12 GMT Happy New Year http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=7590&BlogID=126&BlogPostID=14474 ]]> euroms48 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 20:24:58 GMT Memories http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=7590&BlogID=126&BlogPostID=14445 ]]> euroms48 Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:23:54 GMT Just finished reading... http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=7590&BlogID=126&BlogPostID=14446 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. This book is not for everyone. If you don't know anything about English history in the16th century, you might find it a bit confusing-lots of characters, references to past events, and a setting not only foreign in location but in time. Even if you love historical novels, this one does require a little work on the part of the reader. Mantel, a prize winning novelist in the UK, has taken an actual but little known participant in the Court of Henry VIII and brought him to life. Thomas Cromwell, great grandfather to Oliver Cromwell, came from very humble roots to become a key advisor to Henry VIII during a time of great change and turmoil for the monarch. The beauty of Mantel's writing is in her being able to make us react to Thomas as a real person. Her glorious prose allows us to enter the society where Cromwell, at least for a time, flourished, and to share the company of Henry and several of his well-known wives. This book is the first in a series of three. The second volume in the series, Bring Up the Bodies, is also available in both print at the library and as an ebook.  

]]> euroms48 Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:18:49 GMT Happy and sad http://engagedpatrons.org/Blogs.cfm?SiteID=7590&BlogID=126&BlogPostID=14428 Images of America: Frackville, there are two great photographs. One shows Mr Alexander Polanchyk standing in front of his first '5 and 10' store at 60 N Lehigh. Apparently back in the the 1920's there were dances held in the basement here! The photo of 62 N Lehigh, which currently housed Amberdeen's, dates from 1914, and shows that even then the property was providing food and entertainment. W D Maurer had a restaurant and confectionary at that address. If you 'd like to have a look at these photos, stop in and have a look. We have several copies of Mrs Stanton's book available for use in the library. 

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