On Sunday, March 7th, library patrons sipped in style at the Chelsea House Victorian Inn, an 1880’s Queen Ann Victorian Inn run by Jim and Kim Myles. Part of the Chelsea Reads Together: Wheels to Reels events, the tea was in celebration of the film Somewhere in Time, which was shot almost in entirety at The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Participants enjoyed Darjeeling Tea and homemade fruit crepes, eclairs and scones as they discussed fascinating facts about the movie. Did you know that Richard Dreyfuss and Diane Keaton were at one time considered for the leads instead of Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour?
Many guests arrived in costume for the event
The fabulous a cappella group the Meadowlarks entertained with Victorian era songs
Patrons enjoyed viewing the many beautiful items in the inn.
Librarians Karen and Lisa model beautiful hats generously lent to tea guests by Helen Welford
Everyone had a simply delicious time!
If you would like to join in our next celebration, please consider coming to our fabulous Gala Finale, preceded by our Pre-Gala Reception. We’ll have lights, red carpet, velvet ropes, professional photographer Mark Bogarin, delicious catered hors d’oeuvres, jazz pianist Brian Brill, and academy award winner Sue Marks, a Michigan filmmaker. See the Oscar up close!
Check out our many fine programs during the Chelsea Reads Together Wheels to Reels: Movie-Making in Michigan event here.
Have a taste for great music and great chocolate? Try three fun youth programs that mix both in a feast for the senses!
Jazz Jam Jr. (ages 3-6, 10 am) is an hour of jazz fun and stories focused on improvisation and movement. Wiggle your toes to hot tunes! Instructor Tara Vesprini.
Jazz Jam (ages 7-11, 11 am) mixes the fun of jazz exploration with increased rhythmic and harmonic complexity. Jump and jive your socks off! Instructor Tara Vesprini.
At the American Songbook Performance (all ages, 12 pm) CCA middle and high-school students will perform Jazz and Musical Theatre from the 20th century. A treat for the ears mixed with chocolate treats!
Programs are presented in partnership with the Chelsea Center for the Arts. Patrons should register for each program by calling the Chelsea Center for the Arts at (734) 433-2787 (no library registration). For more information click here.
Enter The Lightning Thief Trivia Contest in the youth department! Win a treasure chest full of Percy Jackson stuff–The Lightning Thief book, Percy Jackson action figure, light pen, trading cards and more!
The winner will be drawn from correct entries on March 31.
Have you enjoyed the wonderfully crazy, bouncy, educational, silly, creepy, sticky, happy experience that is the 6-11 Club over the years? Take a look at some fun photos that we have archived before the arrival of our blog, and see how much you have grown!
Keep that candy on the house! Holidays 2008
Mixing up a bilious brew at the Roald Dahl party
A teen helper eats some wormy spaghetti at the Roald Dahl party
Kids race in flippers at the Under the Sea party
Crafts of Then and Now on Veterans Day
Decorating Pots with Tantre Farm
Paper tricks in a paper story on Paper Day!
Ready, set, go! on Paper Day
Kids plant seeds in artistic tubs with the Garden Club
Kids read and draw comics with Jerzy
Beware the colorful Stegasaurus at the Dinosaur Party!
Skeletons grin for the Day of the Dead at the 2009 Holiday Party
Read the book! Before the movie comes out March 26.
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell is about a young heir to a Viking chiefdom who must hunt down the fiercest dragon in the land, but ends up with the smallest, most ornery dragon.
So have you seenThe Lightning Thief movie yet? It came out last Friday and all the Percy Jackson books are flying off the shelf! There’s a waiting list for most of them, but if you need a Percy Jackson fix, visit the cool series website.
The Guys Read Book Club will be discussing The Lightning Thief (the book, not the movie!) (OK, maybe we’ll discuss the movie a little bit) on Wednesday, February 17 at 3:30pm in the McKune room. Bring your FREE copy of the book that you received when you signed up for the Book Club.
The 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver are here!
Check out this fun website where you can learn all about the Olympic mascots and play games, watch videos, and connect to the official Winter Olympics website.
If you like all things icky, yucky, and stinky, come learn about who cleans up Chelsea and how they do it! Find out how much garbage we really toss. Learn about how sewage helps grow crops! See what we take out of the water we drink.
Discover ways to save our town from being overrun with garbage today and in the future! Fun give-aways and tasty refreshments! Lots of things to see and touch! Sign up today! Registration.
We owe the celebration of Black History Month, and more importantly, the study of black history, to Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Born to parents who were former slaves, he spent his childhood working in the Kentucky coal mines and enrolled in high school at age twenty. He graduated within two years and later went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard.
The scholar was disturbed to find in his studies that history books largely ignored the black American population-and when blacks did figure into the picture, it was generally in ways that reflected the inferior social position they were assigned at the time.
Woodson decided to take on the challenge of writing black Americans into the nation’s history. In 1926, he launched Negro History Week as an initiative to bring national attention to the contributions of black people throughout American history.
Woodson chose the second week of February for Negro History Week because it marks the birthdays of two men who greatly influenced the black American population, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. However, February has much more than Douglass and Lincoln to show for its significance in black American history. For example:
February 23, 1868: W. E. B. DuBois, important civil rights leader and co-founder of the NAACP, was born.
February 3, 1870:
The 15th Amendment was passed, granting blacks the right to vote.
Have a taste for great music and great chocolate? Try three fun youth programs that mix both in a feast for the senses!
Read the book! Before the movie comes out March 26.
If you like all things icky, yucky, and stinky, come learn about who cleans up Chelsea and how they do it! Find out how much garbage we really toss. Learn about how sewage helps grow crops! See what we take out of the water we drink. 
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