HARDWICK – Last month I wrote about April’s poetry slam at the Jeudevine. Poetry slams have been around for a while, but this was a first for the Jeudevine, and perhaps for Hardwick as well. This month, as a participant in our town’s signature annual event, the Hardwick Spring Festival,[Read More…]
I Heard it Through the Jeudevine
Reports from Hardwick’s Jeudevine Library
Library celebrates Poetry Month
HARDWICK – I have written previously of the variety of events that have been held in the Parker Ladd Community Room since it first opened last year. This month yet another first will take place there: the “All Acoustic Anything Goes Poetry Slam,” hosted by Vermont’s reigning Slam Master Geof[Read More…]
Excellent books from the world of basketball
HARDWICK – Wow! Congratulations to both the Hazen Union boys’ and girls’ basketball teams on their Vermont State Championships. For the past thirty years Hazen has been recognized as a powerhouse in boys basketball, and now the girls have won two titles in the last three years. The success of[Read More…]
Library serves community in many ways
HARDWICK – Our shortest month of the year will be a busy one at the Jeudevine. The event calendar features a variety of presentations, ranging from author discussions to income tax seminars. As I have noted before, a library serves its community in so many different ways. This week, on[Read More…]
Change to definition of library, librarian
HARDWICK – At the beginning of a new year it is not unusual to reflect on what around us has changed in the past twelve months. How much taller are our children or grandchildren? How much has that apple tree grown? How many more miles are on the odometer? How[Read More…]
Lew-Smith talks about second book
HARDWICK – Last Tuesday evening, the Jeudevine, in partnership with the Galaxy Bookshop, hosted local author Jodi Lew-Smith for the official launch of her second novel, “Asa James.” The event was held in the Parker Ladd Community Room. About forty people attended. Galaxy Bookshop co-owner Andrea Jones introduced Lew-Smith, using[Read More…]
Timely gifts from Vermont Department of Libraries
HARDWICK – Among the many timely gifts that contributed to the successful completion of the new Jeudevine addition was a grant of $725,000 from the Vermont Department of Libraries (DOL). That money was a portion of almost sixteen million dollars that the U.S. Treasury distributed to the DOL from the[Read More…]
Community room has been busy
HARDWICK – I wrote last month of Parker Ladd, a Hardwick native who bequeathed almost half a million dollars to our Jeudevine Memorial Library. In honor of his memory, the trustees have chosen to name the large meeting space in the new addition the Parker Ladd Community Room. It has[Read More…]
Ladd estate is library angel
HARDWICK – Lisa Sammet, Jeudevine’s librarian from 1993 through 2022, recalls that day in January 2018 as “one of the best days of my life.” Her spirits were at a low ebb, as a bond vote to approve her long-hoped-for expansion project had been voted down. The Jeudevine board chair[Read More…]
I heard it through the Jeudevine
HARDWICK – As school administrators and faculty begin preparations this week for the upcoming school year, I hear echoes of my teachers from long ago as they prompted my classmates and me to write a composition on “How I Spent My Summer Vacation”. Year after year I struggled to inject[Read More…]
Jewel in the Crown Shines Again
HARDWICK – One of the jewels in Hardwick’s village crown shines again. The original Jeudevine Library building has cast off the shadow of mid-twentieth century linoleum, and, under the skilled guidance of Topnotch Floors, has revealed her original late nineteenth century beauty: lustrous, rich red and golden brown oak flooring.[Read More…]
Caulking Gaps, Missing Shelves
HARDWICK — Last week the architect spent several hours inspecting the nearly completed Jeudevine addition in order to create a punch list. My understanding is that the term originated in an era when a hole would be punched through the paper next to items on a list as they were[Read More…]
