Posted by: Julie Chautin on: June 4, 2012
This Thursday at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. the Murphy Library is showing Hugo, Martin Scorcese’s masterpiece. We had previously scheduled it for May 31 but the Scholastic Book Fair took over our favorite movie spot with their wonderful books. This is a film for book lovers and movie lovers and for those of us [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: May 21, 2012
This past week Joy Bowlin turned six, and what did she do to celebrate? She visited the Murphy Library along with her 8-year-old sister Grace and 4-year-old sister Hope. Their parents are Ellen and Larry Bowlin of Murphy and the girls are home-schooled. Like a lot of students in Cherokee County, they often visit the [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: September 14, 2011
If you ask Angela McCarty’s 12-year-old daughter Jamie if she’s ever read the Skippyjon Jones series by Judy Schachner at the Murphy Library, her eyes will light up. “I love them!” she exclaims. Skippyjon Jones is a Siamese cat who thinks he’s a Chihuahua. When she was reading that series, the sixth grader at Murphy [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: May 16, 2011
The Murphy Library is hosting Scholastic Book Fair beginning Thursday, May 19, and continuing through Wednesday, May 24. Hours will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily except Thursday, when hours will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Thursday movie has been canceled to provide [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: October 11, 2010
Friends of Murphy Library is holding a Book Sale in the Breezeway at the back of the library this Friday and Saturday, October 15 and 16 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The library’s garage is bulging at the seams with good buys on books. Mysteries, detective novels, romances and various nonfiction selections [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: October 3, 2010
Scholastic Books sends their biggest truck laden with books for their book fair at the Murphy Library. That’s because children love to read in our town and parents and grandparents know books make great gifts. Librarian Jeff Murphy announced that the truck would be arriving soon. The Scholastic Book Fair will run from October 7 [...]
