Library News
By Sharon Blank

This year just keeps getting better as we go along! We've almost reached the halfway point in our series of community discussions we're calling "Southeast Georgia on Our Minds." This collaboration between Georgia Southern University (GSU) and the Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System is funded by the Georgia Humanities Council.

Next on our schedule is Dr. Howard Keeley, the director of the Center for Irish Studies at GSU, who will be presenting "Two Waves of Settlers from the Emerald Isle: The Scotch-Irish in the Georgia Colony and the Irish in 19th Century Georgia." It should be a fascinating talk, and there will be refreshments available. So, pop in at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 2, and explore our area's Irish history!

Story time is at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays, and it's a great way to help your child learn to love reading. They'll hear a fun seasonal story and do a cool craft before they're done, so bring them down to the library every Wednesday afternoon!

The Jenkins County Memorial Library will host a book sale Saturday, Oct. 6, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. "Friends of the Library" may come on Friday for a sneak preview. Not a "friend" yet? Well, it's easy to become one! Come into the library for an application to join this great organization.

The Azalea Garden Club will host a small, Standard Flower Show on Saturday, Oct. 6, (the day of the Fair-on-the-Square,) in the Multi-purpose Room of the Jenkins County Memorial Library. It is free to the public.

The Friends of the Library will sponsor a Silent Auction Cake Bake beginning Saturday, Oct. 6. Cakes will be furnished by some of the great cooks in Millen. Please come by the library to pick up the bid forms. The auction will run through Friday, Oct. 12, and the cakes will be delivered on Saturday, Oct. 13. This sale is in conjunction with a grant from the Libri Foundation, and the monies earned will be used to buy children's books.

Now, on to the book!

DOWNTOWN by Ferrol Sams. The South is known for its storytellers, but there's none so endearing as James Aloysius "Buster" Holcombe, Jr. He begins with the end of the Civil War, and finds that the seeds that were sown then are still sprouting a century later, in his small Georgia town.

Links to the following site can be found at www.sjrls.org or at sjrls.blogspot.com

Censored: Wielding the Red Pen

"This exhibition [about censorship] hopes not so much to judge censors and censorship but instead to provoke questions." Some of the topics and case studies covered in the exhibit include reference and religious works, Margaret Sanger and birth control, John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," the objectivity of science, Internet censorship and censored films and television. From the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Well, that's it for now - see you at the library!