The second annual mystery theater in the library bash was a big success. The evening featured a colorful cast of local town notables and the play was peppered with jokes about Dartmouth town government budgets, etc. Library Director Denise Medeiros as “Lotta Books” was a convict (last year’s criminal in the first annual bash) out on library confinement complete with a ball and chain and mohawk hairdo. Selectman Joseph Michaud played an attorney (he is one in real life) and Ed Iacaponi, the town’s budget director was Rocky Stallion, this year’s murder victim. Who dunnit? The audience had clues throughout the library and could fill out a police report with their guess. Ed’s daughter was the winner who guessed Nurse Ratchett. She won a mystery written by a local author, kindly donated by Baker Books.
Silent Auction items such as framed Norman Rockwell prints and massages, winery tours and a sail with Community Boating rounded out the action. Cardoza’s catered the event and ran the cash bar. All food and drink was donated by them and all present raved about the dinner buffet.
The audience featured a veritable who’s who in town with Select Board members Bob Carney, Diane Gilbert, Nat Diaz and Kathleen Horan McLean present. A huge thank-you to all the volunteers for this effort and to the Dartmouth Library Foundation for all their hard work involved in this fundraiser that is always fun, fun, fun.
This year’s second annual mystery theater fundraiser at Southworth Library will take place on Friday March 14th. Cocktails and hors-d’oeuvres will begin at 6:30 p.m. courtesy of Cardoza’s Wine, Spirits and Food Emporium. The murder mystery production begins at 7:30 p.m. A silent auction will also be held with donated items such as a guided tour of a local winery, an indoor tennis package and a sunset sail from Community Boat.
The cast of local notables includes: Edward Iacaponi as Rocky Stallion, Joseph Michaud as the Shyster Attorney, Dexter Meed as Heathcliff Bux, Henry Bousquet as Porky Prudhomme, Dr. Stephen Russell as Guy Happy, Steven Sullivan as Indy Kowalski, Captain Scott Brooks as Lt. Columbus, Sarah Storer-Rickson as Madonna Bux, Deborah Cunha as Nurse Ratchet, Shannon Jenkins as Jane Brotne and Denise Medeiros as Lotta Books.
Tickets are $30 per person and can be purchased at Southworth Library, Baker Books and Cardoza’s Food Emporium. All proceeds benefit the Dartmouth Library Foundation, actively involved in raising money to supplement our library material budget shortfall.
Southworth Library in Dartmouth is offering a new book discussion group – The Second Wednesday Book Group. It will meet on the second Wednesday of the month at 11 a.m. with the first discussion scheduled for March 12th, 2008. The discussions will be led by Southworth Reference Librarian Sharani Robins.
The first book for discussion will be The World to Come : a Novel by Dara Horn. Based on the true story of an art heist from a New York museum, it uses the fictional theft of a Chagall painting to explore one family’s troubled past. The San Francisco Chronicle commented,
“Isn’t there a Willy Wonka gum that tastes like all good foods at once? If so, Dara Horn’s “The World to Come” is the literary equivalent of that confection, equal parts mystery, sprawling novel, folktale, philosophical treatise, history, biography, love story and fabulist adventure… each page of her novel is a marvel.”
Published by W.W. Norton in January 2006, the book was:
- New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
- Entertainment Weekly Editor’s Choice
- A Book-of-the Month Club Smart Readers Selection
- Winner of the 2006 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction
We will set aside copies at Southworth Library to borrow for the book club or you can place it on hold using the online library catalog for the SAILS library network at http://www.sailsinc.org. If you would like to buy the book, Baker Books on State Road in Dartmouth offers a free discount book buying plan or 20% off the cover price.
The second book for the April 9th session will be the novel Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx. Copies of that title will be available to check out at our March 12th meeting.
