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June Computer Classes 2009
Sign up now to reserve your spot in the free computer classes offered by the Wilmington Library. 
For adults sixteen or older.  Class sizes are limited. 
Sign-up in the Computer Lab or call 654-2184
DATE/TIME: TITLE: DESCRIPTION:
Wednesday
June 10th
1:30 - 3:30		 Introduction to Computers and the Internet For first time computer users.  This class will teach you the basics of what a computer is, how to use a mouse, and how to go onto the Internet.  Prerequisites: NONE
Wednesday
June 17th
9:15 - 11:15		 Searching Beyond the Basics Learn tricks in how to search the Internet.  This hands-on class will cover the difference between using Subject Guides and Search Engines.  Special Attention will be paid to Google.com.  Prerequisites: participants should have attended "Intro to Computers and the Internet" or have a basic knowledge of the Internet and how to use a mouse.
Tuesday
June 23rd
9:15 - 11:15		 E-mail Class participants will go through the process of setting up a free e-mail account.  The basic features of using an email account will be covered.  Prerequisites: participants should have attended "Intro to Computers and the Internet" or have a basic knowledge of the Internet and how to use a mouse.

Wilmington Library Computer Lab
3rd Floor

Art Loop 2009
Downtown
10th & Market Sts.
5:30-8:00
February 6, 2009 Steve Walters
Portraits
March 6, 2009 Tom Davis
Painting
April 3, 2009 Lois Showalter & Roy Blankenship
Painting
May 1, 2009 Al Caparazo
Photography
June 5, 2009 Tzu-Wen Kwok
Oriental Paintings

For more information, call 571-7400

Art Loop 2009 - At the North Branch
3400 N. Market st.
5:30 - 800
February 6th, 2009 Eunice Lafete
Artist Reception and Open Mic
March 6th, 2009 Crystal Baynard-Norman
Artist Reception and Open Mic
April 3rd, 2009 Pamela Skwish
Artist Reception and Open Mic
May 1st, 2009 Elisabeth Bard
Artist Reception and Open Mic
June 5th, 2009 Lee Walker
Artist Reception and Open Mic

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The Wilmington Library
Presents Tuesdays at Noon ...

The Great American Short Story
Discussion Leader
Tom Leitch

By long-established convention, every American writer's version of the American dream is to produce the great American novel, the book like Gone with the Wind and The Grapes of Wrath that will vault to the top of bestseller lists, making its author rich and famous, while telling hard truths about American life.  So it comes as something of a surprise to realize how prominent a role the lowly short story rather than the novel has played in American letters.  Poe virtually invented the modern short story; writers from Hawthorne to Hemingway used it as a training ground for their longer fiction; and a startling number of writers discovered in it the medium for their finest work.

Please join us at noon four Tuesdays this summer for a discussion of the work of four postwar writers who found their vocation in the short story, a form that offered them a dramatic economy and a unity of effect no novel could hope to achieve.
May 26 John Cheever
"Goodbye, My Brother," "The Enormous Radio," "The Chaste Clarissa," "The Five- Forty-Eight," "The Music Teacher," "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow," "The Swimmer," "Artemis, the Honest Well-Digger"		 Without ever leaving the orbit of New Yorker fiction and its audience, from Sutton Place to Shady Hill, Cheever reveals the passions of suburbanites who would never acknowledge any deeper longing than the wish for a new car or a better job.
June 16 Flannery O'Connor
"A Good Man is Hard to Find," "The Artificial Nigger," "Good Country People," "Everything that Rises Must Converge," "The Enduring Chill," "The Comforts of Home," "The Lame Shall Enter First," "Revelation," "Parker's Back"		 O'Connor shows the remorseless pursuit of divine grace  through dysfunctional families and a landscape littered with the most dementedly obsessed Southern stereotypes imaginable.
July 7 Donald Barthelme
"The Balloon," "Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning," "The Indian Uprising," "Views of My Father Weeping," "On Angels," "The Glass Mountain," "Daumier," "Nothing: A Preliminary Account," "Our Work and Why We Do it," "The Death of Edward Lear"		 The supreme fantasist of the American short story creates a dazzlingly surreal world in which fairy princesses are imprisoned in downtown Manhattan and angels go on talk shows to discuss the search for meaning in contemporary life.
July 28 Raymond Carver
"They're Not Your Husband," "Are These Actual Miles?" "What We Talk About When We Talk about Love," So Much Water so Close to Home," Where I'm Calling From," "Cathedral," "Feathers," "A Small, Good Thing"		 Looking for transcendence in all the most unlikely places, Carver peers beneath the boredom and frustration of American have-nots to reveal an unsettling magic.
Please call the Friends of the Wilmington Library
302-751-7407 to reserve your books.
Please note, we have limited number of books available.

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Chess Masters of Delaware
Coached by Gregory Rogers

Saturdays - starting April 11th, 11:30-3:30
Tuesdays - starting May 19th, 6:00-8:00pm

North Wilmington Library Branch
3400 N. Market St.

Come to watch this club demonstrate how the game of chess is played.  Chess instruction will be provided, along with opportunities for participants to practice by competing against one another. All ages welcome.

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