On Saturday, October 28, 2006, the Roxbury Library served as the setting for “Spooky Halloween Tales and Face Painting,” sponsored by Roxbuey’s Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation.

Featured in this truly scary pre-Halloween event were frightful tales of ghouls, witches, and vampires, chillingly and hauntingly recounted by Roxbury’s three virtuoso “Spellsworths”–Jeanne D’Barque, Miss Bonnie Bones, and Messier’s Grammy–and fanciful face and body paintings created by Roxbury’s Mysterious Gypsy Lady Katerina Von Marvelina for each youthful event
attendee.

To capture the spirit of these mystical and mysterious proceedings, Assistant Library Director Alice Iacovelli transformed the Roxbury Library into a magical and eery Halloween environment, inhabited by flaming cauldrons, witches’ brooms, hats, and shoes, and spider-laden cobwebs, complemented by Library Director Dian Seiler’s festive harvest-themed decorations of colorful pumpkins, both orange and white, and unusually shaped gourds of the batwing and birdhouse varieties.

Seasonal refreshments of cider, apple juice, apples, pumpkin bread, and apple cake contributed an additionally authentic touch to Saturday’s festivities.

On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, August 2nd and August 3rd, 2006, virtuoso jazz, rock, and pop musician Pamela West of Fleischmanns, New York, presented “World Music Jamboree,” a children’s music appreciation program, for Roxbury Central School CROP students, grades K-2 and 3-5, and other Roxbury and neighboring community children.

Funded by a spring 2005 NYSED Community Arts Funding Project grant to the Roxbury Library Association and held in the RCS music room on both days from 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. and from 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m., “Miss Pam’s” highly interactive performances of her new children’s compositions for bassoon, flute, and guitar made for four immensely entertaining, educational, and stimulating hours celebrating the joys brought to both children and adults by musical instruments from around the world.

For information about upcoming Roxbury Library programs for adults and for children, please contact Library Director Dian Seiler or Assistant Library Director Alice Iacovelli at telephone (607)-326-7901 or by email at dian@roxburylibraryonline.org