Dear Editor,

The Elizabeth Taber Library wrapped up this summer’s program for children, “One World, Many Stories”, on Thursday, August 4 with an End-of-the-Summer-Program Ice Cream Sundae Social.

Children 2-12 years old enjoyed storytimes, crafts, reading games, story tellers, a magic show, a bubble show, bike decorating, hot-air balloon decorating, a fairy house building workshop, a blue jean craft workshop, a pet parade and drop-in activities over the course of seven weeks. Attendance for the summer program totalled 2004. It was especially exciting, with the help of donations from Marion Cultural Council, Eastern Bank, Sippican Woman’s Club and Lockheed Martin Sippican Inc., to “Read for a Good Cause”. Each hour participants spent reading equalled $1 to support the work of Heifer International. Our readers were able to purchase a heifer to nourish and help needy families become self sufficient.

I would like to thank all of the participants (and parents, grandparents, baby-sitters, and nannies!) involved in our program, along with our eleven junior volunteers: Anthea Andrade, Alex Friedman, Mariyah Wright, Jackson St. Don, Erica Judd, Julia Pardo, Jill Rush, Bailey Sweet, Aryana and Danny Hartley as well as our ever enthusiastic Library Director, Judith Kleven, and staff members Donna Ohlman, Madelaine Smith and Peg Riley, and also Elizabeth Leidhold, Director of the Marion Natural History Museum.

Several agencies and businesses in town lent their kind support to the library’s summer reading program. They include the Marion Cultural Council, Sippiacn Woman’s Club, Lockheed Martin Sippican Inc. and the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation.

I hope everyone enjoyed the library’s summer program and the delights of summer reading as much as I did!

Rosemary Grey

Children’s Librarian

Elizabeth Taber Library