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
NEW DVD: Impractical Jokers seasons 1-2 Pushing Daises seasons 1-2 In The Name of The King The Adventures of Merlin seasons 1-5 Free Fall Hot In Cleveland seasons 1-5 Good Burger Birdemic 2 The Scribbler Lois & Clark seasons 1-4 Continue reading More New AV at Steele – December 2014
“Glamour, Gidgets, and the Girl Next Door: Television’s Iconic Women from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s” by Herbie J. Pilato. This book is a celebration of the wonderful women of television that many of us grew up with. A fact Continue reading From pop culture to historical oddities, our new non-fiction books have some interesting subjects to appeal to all!