Planting the seeds of community service and kindness

The Jamerson Seed Library returns! Join us in growing a stronger community starting Wednesday, April 1st. Whether you’re a beginner or a master gardener, come browse our free selection of seeds, bulbs, bareroots and other items! To ensure everyone gets a chance to plant, there is a limit of 3 items per household weekly. Have extra items? Please consider donating to keep our community bounty growing! Let’s cultivate beauty, sustainability, food security, support of local pollinators, and grow together!

For the Tuesday, March 24th’s Jamerson Library’s Teen Crafts Library Fairy MaKayla showed patrons to how make magical journals to fill with photos, memories & memorabilia, adventure entries, stickers, washi tape, and other embellishments.

On Wednesday, March 25th, Kaitlyn from the Robert E Lee Soil and Water Conservation District was our guest reader for Story & Craft Time. She read the book “Bug Zoo” by Disney Books. Ben loves bugs: armored, teeny, leggy, greenie, floaty, wingy, jumpy, springy bugs! After a trip to the city zoo, Ben collects all of the bugs he can find and sets up a bug zoo. He couldn’t be happier–but what about his bugs? The kids enjoyed making bug headbands while enjoying snacks and juice. Our next Story & Craft Time will be on Wednesday, April 1, County Administrator Susan Adams will be our guest reader, featuring the book “Pete the Cat’s Wacky Taco Tuesday. It’s Tuesday, and Pete is hungry for delicious tacos. But the taqueria is closed! Pete has an idea—he and his family will make their own tacos, even if they don’t have the typical toppings. Will a scoop of creativity and a dollop of problem-solving be the right ingredients to save Taco Tuesday? Please note there is only one Story & Craft Time that day, starting at 11:00 am.

Also on Wednesday, Professor Steven Hoehner from Longwood University returned for another math program “High-Dimensional Geometry and Probability Talk”. This program was made possible by the Infinite Sums Rural and Small Libraries Grant.

For the Thursday, After School Crafts with MaKayla we the Library did personal junk journals using an assortment of stickers, pens, colored pencils, scrap paper, and lots of other embellishments to create a colorful book to keep your memories, secrets and photos in.

The Career Fair held Saturday, March 28th was a resounding success! Businesses from Appomattox and the surrounding area came together to offer job seekers valuable career advice and on-the-spot application opportunities. Despite a return of cold weather, the event drew an impressive turnout — a testament to the community’s enthusiasm and need for local employment resources. Attendees had the chance to submit applications, share their resumes directly with employers, and connect with fellow job seekers to explore new career paths and possibilities.

We want to give a huge shout out to Alexis Griffin from Griffin’s Garden, a new micro flower farm in Appomattox, for returning this year to plant new flowers and herbs in our raised beds. These beds are located on the side of the Library, that were donated by Griffin’s Garden last year to help raise awareness in the importance of planting for beautification, pollination, and food security. The Library has plans on planting their own flowers and herbs to add to the aesthetics outside the Library.

Our Library is growing—come check out our new Little Free Food Pantry in the foyer! We invite you to support our neighbors in need by donating non-perishable food items or ‘Meal in a Bag’ kits. If you are in need of assistance, please take what you need, with a limit of 3 items per family, per visit, to ensure there is enough to share.

If you have any questions or concerns about this article or other library-related topics, please feel free to call us during normal business hours.

The Library receives a steady supply of new and donated items and would like to highlight the following items:

DVDs

• The Vampire Diaries – Season 7
• The Vampire Diaries – Season 8
• Doctor Who: The Christopher Eccleston & David Tennant Years (The 9th and 10th Doctor)
• Doctor Who: The Matt Smith Collection (The 11th Doctor)
• Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (50th Anniversary Special)
• Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (2013 Christmas Special)

Adult Nonfiction:

• Anxiety & Stress Handbook & Resource Guide
• Family of Spies: a World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor by Christine Kuehn
• Midnight Flyboys: the American Bomber Crews and Allied Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in World War II by Bruce Henderson
• Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: the Life and Times of Dolly Parton by Martha Ackmann
• Ctrl + Alt + Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet by Joe Tidy
• Oxford Essential German Dictionary
• Langenscheidt’s Russian-English English-Russian Dictionary
• Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations by Stephen Ornes
• A Guide to Infinity: Ten Mathematical Journeys by Edward R. Scheinerman
• Math Cats: Scratching the Surface of Mathematical Concepts by Daniel M. Look, PhD
• The Joy of X: a Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz

Adult Fiction:

• Want to Know a Secret? By Freida McFadden
• Beach Read by Emily Henry
• How to Fly (When You Fell from Heaven #1) by Alyson Greaves
• All the Way (When You Fell from Heaven #2) by Alyson Greaves

Adult Graphic Novels:

• Electric Life by Sander Funneman

Spanish Language Collection:

• Este es un Cuento by John Schu
• Vida: Los ratones, el gato y el alebrije by Duncan Tonatiuh

Picture Books:

• Help Me Find My Hamster! By Brooke Hartman
• Vida: the Mice, the Cat, and the Alebrije by Duncan Tonatiuh
• The Chase by Jenny Bloomfield
• The Bicycle Girl: Jyoti Kumari’s Amazing Journey Across India by Garen Thomas and Suhasini Raj

Juvenile Fiction:

• The Ordinary and Extraordinary Auden Greene by Corey Ann Haydu
• Oh, Give Me a Home by Jane Kurtz
• The Snowman Code by Simon Stephenson
• Setting the Stage (Cast vs. Crew #1) by Lindsay Champion
• The Moon Without Stars by Chanel Miller
• Murray the Pirate (Murray and Bun! #3) by Adam Stower
• Dante N. Ferno is Not a Loser by Brian Gordon

Juvenile Graphic Novels:

• Winging It by Megan Wagner Lloyd
• Gabby Torres is the Best Winner Ever by Angela Dominguez
• Sidekicks: Thick as Thieves by Dan Santat

Juvenile Nonfiction:

• Mushrooms and Company by Geert-Jan Roebers
• How to Survive an Apocalypse: the End of the World Doesn’t Have to Be the End of the World by Coby Coonradt and Cameron Hardy
• The Gland Factory: a Tour of Your Body’s Goops, Juices, and Hormones by Rachel Poliquin
• The Six Queens of Henry VIII by Honor Cargill-Martin
• Abolition and the African American Story by Patricia Williams Dockery

Young Adult Fiction:

• An Ocean Apart by Jill Tew
• Gilded in Vengeance by Lyssa Mia Smith
• And the River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun
• Beyond Seven Forests by Amanda McCrina
• Coldwire by Chloe Gong
• Few Blue Skies by Carolina Ixta
• Winter White: a Modern Retelling of Shakespeare’s The Winter Tale by Annie Cardi
• The Roommate Arrangement by Samantha Markum
• Love Me Tomorrow by Emiko Jean
• Freddie and Stella Got Hot by Maggie Horne
• Beth is Dead by Katie Bernet
• Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo #1) by D. M. Cornish
• Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo #2) by D. M. Cornish
• Factotum (Monster Blood Tattoo #3) by D. M. Cornish

Young Adult Graphic Novels:

• The Silver Eyes (Five Nights at Freddy’s #1) by Scott Cawthon
• The Twisted Ones (Five Nights at Freddy’s #2) by Scott Cawthon
• The Fourth Closet (Five Nights at Freddy’s #3) by Scott Cawthon