Asheboro to library offer online genealogy class

Learn how to a use powerful genealogy database to trace your family tree during two workshops in March at the Asheboro Public Library.

Choose a class at noon Wednesday, March 13, or 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 26, to explore Heritage Quest, an online genealogy resource available through the library from anywhere there’s a computer with Internet access.

The classes are free but space is limited so registration is required. Call 318-6803 to sign up.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street in Asheboro.

Heritage Quest, is available through NC LIVE at the library’s research website, Randquest (www.randquest.org). It includes Census records, local and family history books, indexes to genealogical journals, Revolutionary War pension claims and more.

                

Mustangs to rev up Teen Tech Week at Asheboro library

Put the pedal to the metal as Gil Goldstein, owner of G&G Automotive Enterprises, brings some Mustang muscle to the Asheboro Public Library for Teen Tech Week.

Goldstein will have three eras of souped-up Ford Mustangs, from the ‘60s, the ‘80s and the present, at the library from 6:30-8 p.m. Thursday, March 14.

The event, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, is free. It’s aimed at teens but open to the public.

After a tour of the cars, Goldstein will talk about the advent and progression of automotive technology.

Goldstein began his career in the automotive field at age 17 at one of New York’s premier speed shops, and became owner at age 23. He sold the shop after ten years and worked in a variety of jobs in the field until he and his wife Rosie decided to open a shop of their own.

Teen Tech Week, March 10-16, is a national event promoted by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association.

The library is located at 201 Worth Street in Asheboro. For further information, call 318-6819.

Cat in the Hat returns to Asheboro library for Dr. Seuss birthday party

Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday with a party at 4 p.m. Friday, March 1, at the Asheboro Public Library. It’s free, and children of all ages are invited.

There will be stories, games, other activities and prizes – and attendees can expect a visit again this year from the Cat in the Hat. Come dressed as your favorite Dr. Seuss character, if you like.

Refreshments will be served. The party is sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

Call 318-6804 for further information. The library is located at 201 Worth Street in Asheboro.

Asheboro library to host ‘Pottery Slam’ for teens

The Asheboro Public Library TeenZone’s first annual Pottery Slam will take place from noon-2 p.m. Saturday, February 16 in the library’s meeting room.

Join local potters Betsy Browne, Adam Wiley and Joseph Sand and learn to make pottery.

The potters are bringing their wheels and will give demonstrations and hands-on lessons so participants can create their own pots. Final pieces can be taken for firing and returned to the maker.

The program, sponsored by the Friends of the Library,  is free and all teens are invited.

Library to screen Greensboro sit-in documentary

In observance of Black History Month, the Asheboro Public Library will show the film February One: The Story of The Greensboro Four at 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 12.

Through the use of first-hand accounts, rare archival footage, photo stills and re-enactments, the documentary recounts the story of four young men whose sit-in demonstrations would have a profound impact on the Civil Rights movement. A discussion will follow.

The screening is free and the public is invited.  Call 318-6808 for details.  

Library invites kids to get creative with Valentine’s cards

Kids from preschool-age to teens are invited to make creative Valentine’s Day cards at 4 p.m. Tuesday, February 12, at the Asheboro library.

Children and teens can get creative with paper, markers, glitter and more! You supply the labor and creativity, and the library will provide all the supplies needed and instruction on how to make a variety of cards, and to decorate gift bags.

The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library and is free.  Children under the age of 10 must be accompanied by an adult. For more information call 318-6804.

Celebrated novelist Wiley Cash to speak at Asheboro library

Meet Wiley Cash, author of the acclaimed novel A Land More Kind Than Home, at 1 p.m. Monday, February 11, at the Asheboro Public Library

Cash’s appearance is sponsored by the Friends of the Library, the Sorosis Book Club and the Thursday Study Club. It’s free and the public is invited.

             

A literary thriller set in the mountains of Madison County, N.C., A Land More Kind Than Home has received all sorts of accolades since its publication in May 2012. It’s a New York Times Best Seller and Notable Book of 2012, and a Library Journal Best Book of 2012.

It was named among Best Fiction of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews  and Books-a-Million;  as the Debut of 2012 by the UK Crime Writers Association; as a Discover Great New Writers selection by Barnes and Noble; and as a Southern Bookseller’s Alliance Pick.

Cash, a North Carolina native, currently lives with his wife in West Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he studied fiction writing under Ernest J. Gaines and spent five years missing the mountains of North Carolina — a place Gaines encouraged him to write about.

Cash realized that in writing about home, he could recreate that place no matter where he lived.

In A Land More Kind Than Home, Jess Hall is a curious, adventurous boy growing up in a place where people tend to protect their own and keep old secrets buried. But when Jess’s autistic, mute brother sees something he shouldn’t, the brothers are separated and the world as Jess knows it is shattered.

The title is taken from the closing lines of Thomas Wolfe’s You Can’t Go Home Again.