It is not just about New Year’s resolutions, the focus for Americans today seems to be about Healthy Lifestyles. There is information on healthy eating, special diets, healthy aging, and lifestyle changes in general. This trend of course is a Continue reading It is not just about New Year’s resolutions
NEW DVD: Gone Girl Automata The Houses October Built Pride Fray What If Lowball The Trip To Italy No Good Deed Not Safe For Work Cold In July The longest Week Boyhood Reach me Dallas seasons 1-5 Master of the Continue reading New AV at Steele – February 2015
Whenever a New Year approaches we all tend to look towards declaring resolutions, making changes in our lives, and embarking on new paths. Even though 2015 has already rolled in, I see the Winter Blues as a perfect motivation for Continue reading Self-improvement in 2015
Local poet, Cleora Lovell (1918-1997), included this verse in her 1973 book, “Unicorn in the Wilderness,” found in our local authors collection at the Steele Memorial Library. Winter Wedding Earth is wearing a wedding gown Of angel feathers that floated Continue reading “Winter Wedding” by Cleora Lovell
Steele Library has a Knit and Crochet Club that began in 2012. They meet every Wednesday from 12:30-2:00pm in the small meeting room to share their projects, good conversation, and to learn from one another. Any adult is welcome to Continue reading CCLD Knit & Crochet Club helps Chemung County stay warm, with help from community members
NEW DVD: • Into The Storm [blu-ray & dvd] • Whitetail Freaks 8 • Whitetail Addictions vol.1 • Great Lakes Salmon & Trout • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles • Eastbound & Down seasons 1-4 • Richard Gere Collection [3 movies] Continue reading New AV at Steele – January 2015
This photo was left in the copier at Steele Memorial Library on 12/18/2014 and we’d like to find its owner. Do you know anything about this photo? Please contact us if this is yours. (607)733-9175
Here’s the first “Portraits of Elmira” post done by Estefania Trujillo, AmeriCorps volunteer with Cornell Cooperative Extension. It’s an interview in the library with one of our patrons: https://portraitsofelmira.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/elmirans-talk-back-ed-patten/
Ring in the new year with Elmira’s town crier from 1850-1870, Tom Tallada (Pictured here with his bell). His wedding is described in the library’s “History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, and Schuyler Counties, NY” on page 252. It reads: The Continue reading Throwback Thursday! Ring in the new year with Elmira’s town crier from 1850-1870
“Ameta: Famous French Mirror and Fire Dancer” headlined Elmira’s Majestic Theatre’s Christmas program. According the Elmira Star Gazette article from Dec. 24, 1914, Ameta was a “…world famous mirror and fire dancer…a French woman, she had been appearing in Berlin Continue reading TBT: On Christmas day, 100 years ago in Elmira