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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: NOVEMBER 2023
I cooked my first turkey in a church cafeteria for 20 college friends doing flood relief in Bluefield, West Virginia. All went well,...
Maria Del Rosso
Nov 4, 20232 min read
A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: OCTOBER 2023
“But, where are the numbers?” I asked Mr. Hartledge, my freshman algebra teacher, after he had sprinkled the blackboard with a dizzying...
Maria Del Rosso
Oct 3, 20232 min read
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: SEPTEMBER 2023
The Mary H. Weir Public Library was one block from my elementary school. A note from my mother freed me to visit the place during lunch...
Maria Del Rosso
Sep 10, 20231 min read
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: AUGUST 2023
It’s hard to believe summer is waning but the signs are all there. The sun sets earlier, stores stock school supplies, Labor Day looms. ...
Maria Del Rosso
Aug 10, 20232 min read
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: JULY 2023
The joint is jumping! Since June 1, 14,000 people visited a Fauquier library; 330 signed up for a library card; over 1,700 attended a...
Maria Del Rosso
Jul 9, 20232 min read
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: MAY 2023
We paid no heed to the fly buzzing lazily among the window shades in our second-grade classroom. The trials and triumphs of Wilber and...
Library Staff
May 15, 20232 min read
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: APRIL 2023
In January, the New York Library announced it had acquired Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne’s joint personal archives. The acquisition...
Maria Del Rosso
Apr 4, 20232 min read
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: MARCH 2023
I walked out the door the other day and realized I wasn’t hunching my shoulders against the cold. Why should I? The temperature was a...
Maria Del Rosso
Mar 7, 20232 min read
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR: FEBRUARY 2023
In St. Peter’s Square, if you stand on one of two iron circles and look towards the colonnade, you will see one row of perfectly aligned...
Maria Del Rosso
Feb 8, 20232 min read
Fauquier Public Library will close at noon, Wednesday, Dec. 24 and reopen Saturday, Dec. 27 at 10 am.
We wish you a safe and joyous holiday season!
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