Book Signing

Come to the library on Sunday, November 6th at 3:30 to visit with photographers Darryl Jones and Richard Fields who will be signing their new books. This event will be held in the downstairs meeting room. The books will be available at a special price. Amish life which retails for $29.95 will be available for $22.00 and Indiana Impressions which retails for $9.95 will be available for $7.00.

Each has released a new book earlier this year. Amish Life"In Indiana’s Amish country, families work, play, and worship much as they have since they arrived in the 1800s. Here there are few modern-day conveniences to distract people from the important tasks of living plainly and serving their God. In this lovely book, well-known photographer Darryl D. Jones captures the spirit of the Amish people, their land, and their daily lives.
Jones’s photographs are at once inspiring and intimate, expressive of the landscape and those who work the land. They do show the Amish as many have come to see them—plowing a field behind a team of horses, going to market in a black buggy, and dressed in suspenders and plain smocks. But Jones’s photographs go beyond tourist caricature. In them we glimpse faces lined by hard work and wrinkled with pleasure; tasks performed in ways that seem timeless and tasks done with the aid of modern machinery; young people who make a sport of harvest and join eagerly in a game of baseball. In them we glimpse as well the deep satisfaction of living in harmony with the rhythms of life.
Amish Life: Living Plainly and Serving God is a pictorial memento to be treasured."-Amazon.comIndiana ImpressionsNowhere else will you find a more comprehensive collection of photos honoring The Hoosier State. Photographer Richard Fields has captured the essence of what makes Indiana unique: from the Indy 500 and the Brickyard 400 to James Dean’s Grave, from the state’s agricultural roots to wildlife preserves, outdoor recreation, and historic sites.-Farcountry Press

Book Sale!

The "Friends of the Library" will be having a Book Sale in the Life Long Learning Center Annex next to the library on November 12th.