BOOKS, AND MORE BOOKS

On Thursday, October 27 through Saturday, October 29, the Friends of Macedon Public Library will launch their Giant Fall Book Sale during regular library hours. This is an opportunity for all of you book lovers to add to your collection without draining your bank accounts. In fact, on Saturday, the Friends will sell a special book sale bag for only $1.00, and you can fill it will as many books of your choice, for just an additional $2. That's a super bargain!

So please plan to stop by the Community Room and look through the books that are organized by genre (and alphabetized( for your convenience. You'll be helping finance library programs while acquiring some really good reading for those long winter nights that are fast approaching us.

And after you've shopped the book sale, we suggest you stop by the Bullis Room and look at the "George Washington Treaty Belt" that is on display there (November, which is Native American month).  It is one of two replicas, the other to be carried on Treaty Commemoration Day on November 11 in Canandaigua.

The current book display outside the Bullis Room is "The Spirits of the Bullis Room." If you haven't seen the various books on religion and spiritualism, you have until the end of October to look at the variety in the Bullis Collection on those subjects.  November's display will feature books on Native Americans.

POLITICS IN THE BULLIS ROOM

In this election year, you may be wondering how our country's political system and its parties evolved.  Well, guess what -- there are "scads" of Bullis books on the subject,  but we're going to give you an introduction to only a few.

1)  For a general idea of how our political system evolved (up to the early 1890s):

History of American Politics

Author: Alexander Johnston (1849-1889)

(Rev. & Enl. by William Sloan; continued by Winthrop More Daniels)

Published: New York, Scribner - 1895

2) For an idea of how our  political system may have been affected by religion:

Religion and Politics

Author:  Algernon Sidney Crapsey (1847-1927)

Publisher: New York, T. Whitaker - 1905

3) Or, for those of you who are science-minded:

Physics and Politics;

or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of 

"natural selection" and "inheritance" 

to political society

Author: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)

Published: New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1875, 1973

4) And, if your interests lie across the ocean:

                                                
The Mirrors of Downing Street;

Some political reflections by a gentleman with a duster

Author: Harold Begbie (1871-1929)

Published: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921

So ... you are invited to stop by the Bullis Room (during regular library hours) and increase your knowledge on a large variety of subjects, including politics.  The books are patiently waiting for you!

EXPLORING IN THE BULLIS ROOM

Yep ... that's what Bullis volunteers (and some visitors) have been doing this week: exploring the Bullis Room shelves for books about explorers and their discoveries.  Being that Columbus Day is tomorrow, it seemed a good and right thing to do.


And what did we find? Here are a few for your reading pleasure and information:

The Discovery of America: 

With Some Account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest

Author: John Fisk (1842-1901)

              Published by:  Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1892

Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition 

As Related by the Survivors, and in the Records and Last Journals of Lieutenant De Long

Author:  Richard W. Bliss; Compiled by: Raymond Lee Newcomb

Published by:  American Publishing Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1882

Columbus and Columbia;  A Pictorial History of the Man and the Nation,

Embracing a Review of  Our Country's Progress ...

Authors:  James W. Buel  (1849-1920);   John Clark Ridpath (1840-1900);

Benjamin Butterworth (1837-1998);    James Gillespie Blaine (1830-1893)

Published by: Caie,  Cincinnati, 1892

Missionary Explorers Among the American Indians

Edited by: Mary Gay Humphreys

Published by:  C. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913

We actually found a total of 35 Bullis  books telling of discoveries in the Amazon, Jerusalem,  Argentina, Paraguay, China, Nippur, the Nile,  Equatorial Africa, Siberia, and Scandinavia (to name a few),  

So ... tomorrow is a holiday and many of us have the day off work -- but Macedon Public Library will be  open.  Please consider stopping by and spending part of your day exploring the Bullis Room for yourself.