The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, November 9, 1994 5 A Case for Conservation Library news ‘Green Jar' campaign will offer snowblower By NANCY KOZEMCHAK The Back Mountain Memorial Library staff, friends and board members are very pleased with the response to the “Green Jar” campaign sponsored by the Friends of the Library. The next campaign will be for a ‘Snow Blower’, which will begin on No- vember 9 and run until the end of December. Hopefully we will not have as much snow as last year, but surely enough to use a snow blower. Itis a joy towatch patrons drop coins and bills into the green jar and, especially to see children beg parents for a few more coins to drop in the jar. Our friends and patrons are so supportive of their library and we thank them. The library Book Club met in October with Marge McGivern presiding at the business meet- ing. Special guest was Alexander Zubko, grandson of Elda Oleson, who shared his lunch with the book club members. Member- ship to date is 213 with $1,965 collected in dues for books on the Book Club shelf. The program was presented by members with show and tell items and interest- ing stories and announcements. Audrey Farr and Blanche Th- ompson presided at the tea table. The November meeting will be held on Monday, November 21 at 1:30 in the reference room. Guests are always welcome to attend the meeting. New books at the library: “Brothers and Sisters” by Bebe Moore Campbell is a story that burns with the fire of real life. This novel is set in the white-hot center of racially troubled Los Angeles, still healing from the deep scars of riot, violence and suspi- cion. At the heart of the story is EstherJackson, an African-Ameri- can who has a promising career. “What I Lived For” by Joyce Carol Oates is a masterpiece; a searing journey into the heart of a complex, troubled, and unforge- table man—and the women who made the mistake of loving him. At 42, Jerome Corcoran -'Corky’ to his friends and associates - is by all appearances, a successful real estate developer and broker. His illusions will be shattered. “Borderliners” by Peter Hoeg is set in the sealed-off world of an elite private school in Copenhagen in the 1970's. Peter, the narrator, has grown up in institutions and is given a last chance to join ‘normal’ society when he is ac- cepted at Biehl's Academy. Of course, he is drawn to the school’s outsiders: Katarina and August; with two different backgrounds. “Baba” by Belle Yang is a re- turn to China upon my father's shoulders. Baba is ‘Papa’ in Chi- nese and this particular Baba is Joseph Yang, born in Manchuria in 1928. Belle set out to paint and write—and thereby to preserve for posterity—Baba's memories of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. The result is a spellbinding odyssey. 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In fact, he was killed The Joyce Kilt j [21¢ e in aclion In Bronce Juring the y First World War and decorated for valor. Kilmer was a journalist Mel | orial Forest who worked for the New York Times; he wrote two volumes of poetry; and, he edited a marvel- Carolina begin to wonder whether how many arms stretched wide ous collection called the Anthol- ornotwearelostorifwearereally are required to reach all the way ogy of Catholic Poets. His wife, inTennesseeinstead. Then,when aroundthetree.) Thereisastream Aline, was also a poet. She out- one finally turns off of NC1127 running through the forest. And, . lived him by 23 years. onto Forest Service Road 416, the there is an elevation change of ap- But, Joyce Kilmer may be best anticipation is palpable. A small proximately 2,000 feet so that the remembered for an action taken parking and picnic area accom- forest includes plants adapted to 18 years after his death - the set- modates the lowlandsand ” ting aside of 3,800 acres of virgin few visitors highlands. forest as a memorial to a slain who perse- Obviously, ‘young man. During the early vere. P And, 3 ’ 800 acres honor an there is a 1930's, there was a great flurryof the persever- American hero and poet diversity in activity to protect the remaining ance is well : small plants uncut acres of mixed forest inthe worth it! 1 as well as Great Smoky Mountains before have been to this magnificent large. axes and saws had achancetofell forest twice—once as a young girl On this Veterans Day, let us them. By happy coincidence, the with my parents and sister, and remember not only fallen soldiers Veterans of Foreign Warswere pe- once (shown in the accompanying but special memorials. The Joyce titioning the U.S. government to photo) with my own family and Kilmer Memorial Forest can turn @ “examine its millions of forested parents. hardened foresters, who usually acres and set aside a fitting area of The forest is known as a virgin look at large trees and start calcu- trees to stand for all time as a mixed forest. “Virgin” means that lating board feet, into poets. The living memorial to a man who, itstreeshaveneverbeencut. And, words of Charles Newton Elliott though he lived only 31 years, “mixed” means that it hassucha illustrate my point: “Unbroken vir- rendered his country distin- wide variety of species and types gin forest; a land of hushed treed guished service through his gen- of trees that there is noone forest aisles; a dank, lush, green sun- ius and patriotism.” The Joyce typewhichdescribesit. Inlayper- dappled land; a land of woodland Kilmer Memorial Forest in the son'slanguage,itmeansthatthere monarchs and tiny flowers, where mountains of North Carolina was are lots and lots of very large trees! one feels a close kinship with all dedicated in July, 1936. There are huge tulip poplar, red living creatures, and a deeper un- Perhaps the best thing about oak, sycamore, beech, buckeye, derstanding and appreciation of y @ this memorial is that it is so difi- hemlock and white pine. (Nochild our creator. A living, magnificent ~~ cultto find. 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