C.C. Mellor Memorial Library

Deck the halls with fresh holiday greens! Proceeds from the sale will be benefiting the C.C. Mellor Memorial Library. In most cases, our prices are substantially below retail. We buy our greens straight from the distributors, so they are full, fresh and long-lasting. Please note that there will be no same-day sales of greens, so be sure to order ahead! Download an order form at our website. Please return order forms by November 20. Pick up orders at CCM Edgewood on Saturday December 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Today's storytime video is all about sweaters and warm clothes! Find us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4rbgZQTuWwk

November is #PictureBookMonth and what better way to start than with FROGGY FOR PRESIDENT? Readers can compare Froggy and Frogilina’s platforms as they run for class president, and learn about how voting works. Check out FROGGY FOR PRESIDENT from CCM Edgewood today!

Check It Out: November 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/e/cc-mellor-library-check-it-out-4153905

Stop by the library for a grab and Go activity about exploring nature this fall! Get a kids’ nature observation notebook and check out the Story Map website for places to explore this fall. Created by Allegheny County Library Association, Allegheny County Parks, Allegheny Land Trust, and Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Available at CCM Edgewood and CCM Forest Hills curbside pickup tables while supplies last!

Our Teen Group Halloween party is tomorrow (Wednesday) over Zoom! Similar to an awesome scavenger hunt that we played this summer, we'll be racing around our homes finding awesome and hilarious things to fit spooky prompts. Costumes are always encouraged, because getting creative for Halloween is one of the best parts of the season! Email Allison at [email protected] for the Zoom password information.

Join us every Tuesday for storytime on Youtube! This spoooooooky week, we have a couple of books and songs about Halloween!

Our next online board game session is this Saturday, Oct. 31 at 2 pm! Learn more about joining this program at https://ccmellorlibrary.org/board-games-online/

As part of a technology grant from the state, we recently received a Silhouette electric cutting machine to use for programming. The Teen Group Haunted House kit was our first foray into using it. We used the cut file designed by Lori Whitlock at half size. There's definitely a learning curve to figuring out that machine! A few of the teens sent us photos of their finished projects from this week at Teen Group!. We had 6 kids log in over Zoom, and they all said it was super ...fun to put together. The houses look so cool, have intricate details, and are surprisingly sturdy. Most of the teens weren't experienced putting together little pieces, and they were impressed at how easy the houses were to assemble. We already have plans to make more designs. There are few kits left at our Edgewood branch, so feel free to grab one to put together on your own (even if you're not a teen)! There's a link to the video tutorial with the kit. This would be a fun project for adults to do with kids, too! All you need is an adhesive - tacky glue seemed to work the best. See more

Charlie Brice is the author of Flashcuts Out of Chaos (2016), Mnemosyne’s Hand (2018), An Accident of Blood (2019), and The Broad Grin of Eternity (forthcoming), all from WordTech Editions. His poetry has been nominated for the Best of Net anthology and twice for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Atlanta Review, The Sunlight Press, Chiron Review, Permafrost, Plainsongs, I-70 Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere. Judith Alexander Brice is a retired Pittsburgh psychia...trist whose love of nature and experiences with illness inform much of her work. She has had over 80 poems published in journals and anthologies, including in The Golden Streetcar, Voxpopulisphere.com, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Magnolia Review.com, and Annals of Internal Medicine, among others. Judy has twice received the Editor’s Choice Award in The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize, sponsored by The Paterson Literary Review. Judy is the author of Renditions in a Palette and Overhead From Longing, and Imbibe The Air (forthcoming January 2021). Jay Carson holds a doctorate in rhetoric from Carnegie-Mellon University. He taught for many years at Robert Morris University where he was a founding advisor to the literary magazine, Rune. He has published more than 100 poems in local and national journals, magazines, and collections. He is also the author of Irish Coffee (Coal Hill Press) and The Cinnamon of Desire (Main Street Rag). Jay considers his poetry Appalachian, accessible, the ongoing problem-solving of a turbulent youth, and just what you might need Judith R. Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer, poet and visual artist. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she is listed in the Directory of American Poets and Writers. She has published 75+ poems, five poetry collections, one fiction collection; one novel; and edited or co-edited eleven poetry collections. Robinson teaches at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. David Adès is a widely published poet and short story writer with publications in Australia, the U.S., Israel, India, England, Romania and New Zealand. He is the author of Mapping the World, Afloat in Light and the chapbook Only the Questions Are Eternal. In association with WestWords, David is the curator of the Poets’ Corner reading (and now podcast) series in western Sydney. David’s poems have been read on the Australian radio program Poetica and the U.S. radio program Prosody. David’s poetry has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, has won the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize and has been shortlisted twice for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. His poems have been Highly Commended in the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize, a finalist in the Dora and Alexander Raynes Poetry Prize (U.S.) and commended for the Reuben Rose International Poetry Prize (Israel).

This event is going LIVE on Facebook at 7 pm! Visit https://www.facebook.com/CCMellorLibrary/live/ to hear some amazing poetry by poets both local and international.

Do you like to put little models together? We have a few kits of these little paper haunted houses left for our teen program tomorrow! Everything is cut and scored already, you just need glue to assemble. It's very straight forward. There are more decorative pieces in the kit, so you can get creative. Teen Group is Wednesday at 5 pm on Zoom - all of the zoom info is in the kit (you can also email Allison at [email protected]). Pick one up at our Edgewood branch!