BELLOWS FALLS — The Rockingham Free Public Library (RFPL) invites you to be a “model-reader” during our Banned Books Week celebration, Monday, Sept. 26 through Saturday, Oct. 1.
Each year, RFPL joins libraries across the country in Banned Book Week activities and events. We celebrate the idea rooted in our Constitution's First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the freedom to choose what we read and to be able to select from a full array of possibilities. This is one of our most cherished freedoms.
For the past few years, the library has proudly and publicly celebrated our freedom to read with an exciting “live” display in downtown Bellows Falls. Covered extensively in the Vermont media, it was so popular that they're doing it again.
With a nod to circus exhibits, “Watch Live Humans Read” will fill the window of Works on Paper store located in The Square. Looking through a circus poster, passers-by will see a cozy vignette of an easy chair, lamp, books, and local folks of all ages caught in the act of reading books that have been banned and challenged.
This display with living, breathing, reading people will be ongoing during the week. Reading opportunities are available daily from 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Email [email protected], call 802-463-4270, or stop by the library and reserve the time that you would like to be seen supporting our freedom to read.