Posted by: Julie Chautin on: October 2, 2011
The Friends’ Wine Tasting Party at Cherokee Cellars Winery and Art Gallery is the perfect opportunity for Friends members who love to cook: we need volunteers to bring finger foods for the refreshment table. Here’s the chance to find just the right hors d’oeuvres to go with wine. They could be savory; they could be [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: September 1, 2011
If you are an artist or craftsperson, or want to be, don’t miss Friends of Murphy Library’s popular Craft Supplies Sale and Books in the Breezeway Sale on Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is the 5th year the Craft Supplies Sale has been raising money for prizes in the Cherokee [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: August 22, 2011
The Murphy Library is showing Film Movement’s “A Screaming Man” on Thursday, August 25 at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. The film shows the effect of civil war on a family in the African country of Chad. This was the first film by a Chadian director to screen at the Cannes Film Festival and [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: August 1, 2011
Murphy Library patrons have been making Jeff Murphy smile. Donors have been bringing their arts and crafts by the library every day. And their work is quality. Judy Grove brought two of her original bird photographs by as soon as the Aug 19-20 date was set: [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: July 29, 2011
Thank you, thank you, thank you to all Murphy Library patrons who have donated such wonderful items to the Silent Auction scheduled for August 19 and 20. Do you have something special you want to include in our auction? Bring it by the library and make the librarians smile. Take a look at these: [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: August 2, 2010
Friends’ board members Bob MacLean and Mike Moumousis did the ultimate job for the Friends’ Auction. They picked up the Shopsmith Mark V tool system, loaded it in Mike’s truck and took it to Bob Grove Auctions. Come to Friends of Murphy Library’s Auction this Saturday, August 7, and buy it for your favorite person. [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: April 2, 2010
Friends of Murphy Library are celebrating Community Night at Brothers Restaurant, 5722 Highway 64 West on Monday, April 5 from 4:30 to 8:30. Everyone is encouraged to bring friends and family to dine at this family eatery. On Community Night, Brothers donates a portion of the night’s proceeds to the sponsoring organization. The money [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: October 12, 2009
Writer restarts his life Leonard Schiller has been trying to finish his latest novel for the last ten years. It’s going to be his best, but he’s having a hard time bringing it together. And in those ten years the public has forgotten him. Then a young woman shows up at his door.
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: September 6, 2009
Joan is a writer and a mother living in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. But like all New Yorkers after 9/11, she might as well as have been living at Ground Zero. One day her sister tells her about a friend of a friend. The friend is Nick, a fire chief who lost eight [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: July 13, 2009
Here’s an update on items for the auction from Friends’ president, Nora King: “The folks at Decker and Foster Flea Markets (junction on 129 and 64) have been very generous to the Friends’ August 8th auction:
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: July 12, 2009
Among the many African treasures donated by Faye and Bob Strang to the Murphy Library’s August 8 auction are two Masai masks from Kenya. Keep checking this blog to see other items at the auction. It is scheduled for August 8 at Grove Auctions on U. S. 64 East Alternate, two miles east of the Murphy Medical Center. The Silent [...]
Posted by: Julie Chautin on: July 3, 2009
Friends of Murphy Library are offering a triple sale Friday and Saturday, July 10 & 11, from 10 a.m. until closing. Craft supplies, books and yard sale items are all in abundance.
