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Take a Christmas Vacation with National Lampoon on Movie Monday

Deck the halls with laughter as the Griswold family tries to celebrate the yuletide in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, the Asheboro Public Library’s Movie Monday at 2 p.m. November 23.

Fresh from his trip to Walley World, Chevy Chase returns as Clark Griswold, America’s best-intentioned walking disaster area. He’s determined to create a fun-filled, old-fashioned Christmas, but in the Griswold family, things almost never turn out as planned.

The movie is free and the public is invited; refreshments will be served. Find our more here, or call 318-6824.

Dunlap, author of First Lady biography, to appear at Asheboro library

When Frances Folsom was just 21, she married the 49-year-old President of the United States at the White House, to the music of John Philip Sousa and the Marine Band.

Now, Mrs. Grover Cleveland is the subject of Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America’s Youngest First Lady by Annette Dunlap. Dunlap will appear at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 19, at the Asheboro library, for a book talk and signing.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library, the program is free and the public is invited.

Dunlap is a Roseboro resident and former freelance writer for The Courier-Tribune.

The book, which is the first full-length biography of Cleveland, was released on October 8 by Excelsior Editions and will receive its formal launch on November 14 at the National First Ladies Museum in Canton, OH.

Dunlap was inspired to write about Cleveland while teaching at St. Andrews College in Laurinburg, struck by the age difference in Cleveland’s relationship with the President and the larger-than-life role she assumed when she became First Lady.

A Proposal he can’t refuse in library’s Movie Monday

When high-powered editor Margaret faces deportation to her native Canada, she fakes an engagement to her put-upon assistant Andrew in order to remain in the country in The Proposal, the Asheboro Public Library’s Movie Monday at 2 p.m., November 9.

The comedy stars Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds as the erstwhile couple, who must keep up the ruse during a trip to visit the groom’s family, while under the untrusting eye of an immigration agent. The film also stars Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson and Betty White.

The movie is free and the public is invited; refreshments will be served. Find our more here, or call 318-6824.

Books-A-Million hosts book fair for Friends.

Print the voucher here.

Bumbling Clouseau strikes again on Movie Monday

It’s all a part of life’s rich pageant as Inspector Clouseau drives his boss insane in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, the Asheboro Public Library’s Movie Monday at 2 p.m. October 19.

In this outing, Chief Inspector Dreyfuss, played by Herbert Lom, kidnaps a brilliant scientist and forces him to create a special ray gun in order to rid the world of Peter Sellers’ Clouseau once and for all.

The movie is free and the public is invited; refreshments will be served. Find our more at here, or call 318-6824.

Library Friends host Piece Work author Barbara Presnell

Poet Barbara Presnell will read from her book Piece Work at a reception sponsored by the Friends of the Library at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 22, at the Randolph Arts Guild’s Sarah Smith Self Gallery. The reception is free and the public is invited.

Based loosely on the Asheboro textile manufacturing plant where Presnell’s father worked until his death in 1969, Piece Work uses the voices of workers to tell the story of an industry that once flourished in the region, shaping the lives of people who worked in the plant as well as those who lived among them, and chronicles the industry's demise in the early 2000s.

A portion of the poems was awarded the 2004 Linda Flowers Prize from the North Carolina Humanities Council. The full collection won the 2006 Cleveland State University (CSU) Poetry Center’s First Book Prize, and was published by CSU in 2007.

Asheboro native Presnell, whose poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies, now lives in Lexington.

The reception is part of a series of events in October centering on the book. Randolph Community College will host the Touring Theatre Ensemble of North Carolina’s dramatization of Piece Work at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 27, in the RCC Auditorium.

A discussion led by Presnell, Touring Theatre Artistic Director Brenda Schleunes and the cast will follow. The performance is free; seats can be reserved by calling 633-0244 (leave your name, phone number and number of tickets required) or at http://www.2009piecework.eventbrite.com/.