Our August Volunteer of the Month Where to begin? She is involved with so many of our FOL activities. She volunteers with the seed library, sorts book donations, helps maintain the library’s container garden, and operates a very successful Etsy FOL book shop. Who is this volunteer? Lyndall Noyes-Brownell. She rocks with energy, enthusiasm, and optimism! Lyndall’s…
An Evening with Jaki Shelton Green, Oct 3 at 6pm Don’t miss a reading and conversation with Jaki Shelton Green, Poet Laureate of North Carolina on Tuesday, October 3 from 6-7:30pm in the Black Mountain Library’s Community Room. This special event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library and is free and open to…
Fall Tailgate Market Hosts Needed Have you visited our local Tailgate Market recently? There is so much going beyond the joys of purchasing fresh and local foods. The Friends of the Library is proud to host a happy table on Saturday mornings at the market and we need your help to keep it going strong…
Big Book Sale and an Antique Book Sale, Too! Folks were lined up at 9:15am on Saturday, August 12 (the morning of the Sourwood Festival) anxiously waiting for the doors to open for the Big Book Sale. And the emphasis was on BIG! FOL had recently received a single contribution of two truckloads of used…
Fiction Book Donations Needed We are in need of fiction books for our upcoming book sale in December. If you have fiction books you are ready to donate, we would love to have them! You may place the books in our book donation bin in the foyer of the library. Or if you have a large quantity…
July Volunteer of the Month From a young age our July volunteer of the month wanted to live in North Carolina. It took Renee Hudson many years to get here but she made it! She grew up in central Georgia, spent many years in southern Louisiana and lived in hotter and more humid Thailand for over five…
At the River ~ Documentary Film Screening on August 27 The Friends of the Black Mountain Library and the White Horse Black Mountain join with filmmaker Carolyn Crowder for a showing of her feature length documentary At The River: Struggle and Grace in the Segregated South on Sunday, August 27 at 3 PM. Carolyn, a Black Mountain resident,…
Sowing Circle Presents: Botanical Cyanotype for Beginners Join us at the library on Saturday, September 23rd from 10:30am-12:30pm for a special adult workshop in which we will learn about and create cyanotypes. The cyanotype is a beautiful historical process using sunlight and photographic chemistry hand-applied to watercolor paper to yield wondrous blue and white images. This process was first discovered in 1842…
Local History Program focuses on the RAIL Project
Seeking “Trail Volunteers” – Exercise and Volunteer at the same time! The Lake Tomahawk GROW project is complete and looks great! Our Librarian, Melisa Pressley, hopes to keep it looking wonderful with the help of a few Trail Volunteers. Trail Volunteers would walk the trail regularly to monitor the condition of the story stations. They…