Fauquier Library News

Dec 10

Message from the Director: December 2024

"Buddy, it’s fruitcake weather,” exclaims Miss Sook Faulk, in the lovely short story A Christmas Memory . For Buddy and Sook the...

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Nov 4

Message from the Director: November 2024

Library Director Maria Del Rosso shares a few highlights of library happenings in November.

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Oct 2

Message from the Director: October 2024

Join us in celebrating The Book Cellar's 25 anniversary!

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Sep 3

Message from the Director: September 2024

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled, according to Greek philosopher Plutarch . The lineup of what the...

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Jul 25

Message From the Director: August 2024

The green and white encyclopedia loomed large in my childhood.

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Jul 10

Message From the Director: July 2024

Our summer theme is Adventure Begins at Your Library. The operative word is “begins” but who knows where it will lead?

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Apr 8

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: APRIL 2024

It’s Monday morning and the first of our volunteers for the week shows up ready to work.

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Mar 5

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: MARCH 2024

“When it’s good, it’s very good, but when it’s bad it’s horrid.” Forgive me for altering Longfellow’s poem, but it sizes up the situation...

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Mar 5

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: FEBRUARY 2024

There’s a wow factor that greets visitors to Warrenton these days. The beige Britches building at the corner of Culpeper and Main Streets...

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Jan 12

Message from the Director: JANUARY 2024

“If you build it, they will come.” On December 18, 2003, the Bealeton branch library opened its doors to the southern Fauquier community....

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Dec 7, 2023

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: DECEMBER 2023

In the movie The Way We Were longtime buddies Hubbell and J.J. while sailing recount the best Saturday afternoon, the best month, the...

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Nov 10, 2023

UPCOMING NOVEMBER AUTHOR TALKS

Check out these Meet the Author talks coming later this month: Joy Harjo Thursday, Nov. 16 | 4-5 p.m. Register United States Poet...

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Nov 4, 2023

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: NOVEMBER 2023

I cooked my first turkey in a church cafeteria for 20 college friends doing flood relief in Bluefield, West Virginia. All went well,...

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Oct 3, 2023

A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: OCTOBER 2023

“But, where are the numbers?” I asked Mr. Hartledge, my freshman algebra teacher, after he had sprinkled the blackboard with a dizzying...

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Sep 10, 2023

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: SEPTEMBER 2023

The Mary H. Weir Public Library was one block from my elementary school. A note from my mother freed me to visit the place during lunch...

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Aug 10, 2023

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: AUGUST 2023

It’s hard to believe summer is waning but the signs are all there. The sun sets earlier, stores stock school supplies, Labor Day looms. ...

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Jul 9, 2023

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: JULY 2023

The joint is jumping! Since June 1, 14,000 people visited a Fauquier library; 330 signed up for a library card; over 1,700 attended a...

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May 15, 2023

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: MAY 2023

We paid no heed to the fly buzzing lazily among the window shades in our second-grade classroom. The trials and triumphs of Wilber and...

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Apr 4, 2023

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: APRIL 2023

In January, the New York Library announced it had acquired Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s joint personal archives. The acquisition...

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Mar 7, 2023

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: MARCH 2023

I walked out the door the other day and realized I wasn’t hunching my shoulders against the cold. Why should I? The temperature was a...

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