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Reading Room Cafe

The Reading Room Cafe is not a fundraiser, but a community outreach program held to provide a place for  our patrons to gather in a social atmosphere.    Dinner and a show are held twice a year, with tickets sold just to cover cost of the ingredients of the meals.    Beverly Greene, Director, prepares the food, though hors d'oeuvres and desserts are also contributed by friends of the library. Soft lighting, quiet music, and camaraderie of the guests make for a very special evening.  Currently, the library's cafe nights are held twice a year.

Here are some photos from the 2001 event.
Guest visits hors d'oeuvre bar
Virginia Hendrickson visits the
hors d'oeuvre bar.		 Dinner Guests
Dr. and Mrs. Houshang Khorram, and Rev. and Mrs. R. C. Tennyson enjoy the cafe atmosphere.

 
   

 


Folklorist/Singer Randy Wilson played the concertina, banjo, guitar, and bodhran.		 Dinner Guests
Enjoying Wilson's performance are:  Virginia Hendrickson, Mossie Day, James R. Hendrickson, Danny Ellis, and Marjorie Phipps.
Salad Course
Spinach Salad a l'Orange

Staff Preparing Dinner
Making it all come together are volunteers Wally Roberts, Megan Hopkins and Erica Hendrickson,  and staff Elizabeth Napier and Michele Lawson. 

 Library Trustees Enjoy Dinner
Board president Jay Steele, with former trustee Valerie Saunders and board vice-president Irene Adams. 

Dinner Guests
Jack and Maxine Hall visit with a friend at the
adjoining table. 
Staff Preparing Dinner
Circulation Librarian Elizabeth Napier,  Library Director Beverly Greene, Bookmobile Librarian Pat Hopkins, and Custodian Keith Madon wear several hats on cafe night. 
Director Beverly Greene Honored for Cafe Event
Library Director Beverly Greene receives the Bell Co. Chamber of Commerce's Cultural Award thanks to the county library system's Reading Room Cafe program and former Mystery Night dinner theatre events. 		 Guests Enjoy Visiting Before Dinner
Former nursing colleagues  Marjorie Phipps, Roberta Dean,  and Marva Taylor reminisce before dinner.