Mixed Bag: Story Time for Grown-Ups

Date and Time

December 19, 2012

Location

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)

Event Details

Love a good story? Sit back and relax as we read you a story or two at lunchtime. Bring your lunch, bring your knitting, bring a friend. Brown bag lunches welcome!

December 2012 — Holiday Classics

The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore

This familiar poem, first published on December 23, 1823 in a newspaper in Troy, New York, is largely responsible for the popular concept of today’s Santa Claus in America and around the world.

Marley’s Ghost from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Readers world-wide are familiar with the character of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge, whose cranky response to “Merry Christmas!” was always “Bah, humbug!” This selection is the first part of the popular novella where Scrooge is visited by Jacob Marley’s ghost on Christmas Eve.

Other December Story Time Dates - December 5

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

A young married couple searches for the perfect Christmas gifts to surprise each other and show their love. In the end, their gifts of love result in a different kind of surprise for both.

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

One cold December day Phoenix Jackson made the lonesome journey on foot from her home up on the ridge all the way to town to get medicine for her grandson.

Check the December schedule for Mixed Bag PM, Tuesdays at 7 PM.

All programs are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.

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