Worden Public Library gears up for the Easter holidays

The library’s Easter program is scheduled for Saturday, March 23, at 10:00 a.m. The featured book is Katherine Tegen’s The Story of the Easter Bunny, the possibly true account of how a rabbit came to decorate and distribute colored eggs on Easter morning. Illustrations by Sally Anne Lamber show how a “round old couple” decorated eggs for years until their job was gradually taken over by an observant and helpful rabbit. After the story, everyone will have a chance to make a pop-up Easter card to take home. Refreshments will also be served.

Last month’s book club featured several books about resistance to the Nazis during World War II, including: a fictionalized account of the life of actress Hedy Lamar, The Only Woman In the Room; another work of historical fiction based on the true story of a Polish Catholic teenage girl who hid her Jewish friends during her country’s occupation, The Light in Hidden Places; and The Counterfeit Countess , a nonfiction work about Josephine Janina Mehlberg, a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of Poles by taking on a false identity. Among the other books discussed were: Endurance, the true story of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition in Antarctica; a memoir by author Larry McMurtry, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen; a book written in 1942 about women confronting a changing society in the 1920’s, The Prodigal Women; and a picture book about a man’s journey across America with his dog, Maddie on Things. Our book club will meet again on Monday, March 26, at 10:00 a.m. Everyone is welcome.

March is Women’s History Month. If you are looking for historical fiction that sticks close to the facts, you may like The Women’s March, by Jennifer Chiaverini. It concerns the women’s suffrage movement in 1913, and focuses on three historical figures. Alice Paul is a veteran of the movement and has just returned from England, where she engaged in numerous acts of civil disobedience. Now in America, she will organize a massive suffrage march on Washington, D.C. Maude Malone is an Irish American who has made a name for herself by publicly challenging important figures, including then presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson, to answer a simple question, “What about votes for women.?” Ida B. Wells is an African American journalist who has shined a light on the injustice of lynching. She is campaigning for votes for African American women and will become conflicted when she discovers that the March may allow Black participation only if they are segregated. The book climaxes with the March itself on March 3, 1913, when a peaceful protest is met with violence