From the desk of Laura Pelzer 

As we are wrapping up the week, we can literally hear the SEWE buzz building throughout town. Such a festive time of year that seems to be the unofficial kick off to a season of annual festivals that will continue through to the Spoleto Finale in June. Hopefully, you will all partake in some fashion, at a minimum, to see the pups!  

In addition to the global recognition of St. Valentine’s Day tomorrow, we were also recently made aware that February also happens to be Library Lover’s Month, a notion we are more than happy to support. A reference here shares more, but it is certainly an honor to do the work we do. While there are endless quotes about the importance of and love of libraries, here are a few favorites to send you into the weekend.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know is, the location of the library.    

~ Albert Einstein   

Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives. 

~ Abraham Verghese 

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.   

~ David Ben Gurion   

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence 

that we may yet have hope for the future of man. 

~ T.S. Eliot 

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books.    

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. 

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald 

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you people who move the world.    

~ Napoleon Bonaparte  

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island. 

~ Walt Disney 

A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life.    

~ Henry Ward Beecher 

 

Fondly,  

Laura Pelzer 

Executive Director