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How Lennox and Addington Meets Your Business Needs

Lindsey

Live in a Beautiful, Rural Community, with Fast Direct Logistics & Rural Business Support

If you think that living an active, rural lifestyle, and being able to run your business efficiently and effectively is impossible, think again. Every day, businesses make and move goods within Lennox & Addington County. Whether suppliers and customers are around the corner or around the world - because the location just makes sense.

Staff Picks: Before We Were Yours

Catherine

Marg Wood of the Napanee Branch of the County Libraries recently enjoyed one of the biggest new releases in historical fiction. “I love historical fiction especially when it is grounded in fact!” she says. “Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate is based on a real-life scandal that occurred in the southern states between the late 1930s and the early 1950s.

One Book, One L&A 2017

Catherine

Get your tickets for the County of L&A Libraries' 4th Annual Author Gala with Vicki Delany, author of Elementary, She Read.

Introducing Frontier Life

Catherine

Interested in the history of Canadian settlement and colonialism? Frontier Life is a digital collection of primary sources including material from the Hudson Bay Archives and the Glenbow Archives. It is designed to enrich teaching and research, examining settlement, existence and interactions at the edge of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920.

Access to Canadian library patrons has been arranged through Consortia Canada. 

Staff Picks: Ultimatum

Catherine

Andree Duval, Relief Librarian for the County of Lennox & Addington Libraries, recently read Ultimatum by Karen Robards which she describes as a breakneck speed thriller that kept her turning pages well into the night.

Museum & Archives hosting Antique Identification & Dating Clinics

Rob Plumley

Do you have a family heirloom at home that you can't quite identify or date? As part of Culture Days activities happening throughout Ontario, you're invited to a series of Antique Identification & Dating Clinics at the L&A County Museum & Archives on September 30th. Janet Carlile, accredited antiques appraiser, will be on hand at the museum to answer questions about your little treasures.

Lotus Wight performs "Live at the Museum" on September 28th

Rob Plumley

You’re invited to a great night of music at the Lennox and Addington County Museum & Archives in Napanee on Thursday, September 28th at 7pm.

The evening’s entertainment features talented performer Lotus Wight. He plays the banjo and the contrabass harmoniphoneum for an unforgettable sound that you won't want to miss. The Carolinas, the Mississippi Valley, West Virginia, Kentucky, and New England fed Lotus the sounds of tradition to help him form his one-of-a-kind music.

Vote for the 2017 Evergreen Award

Catherine

It's September which means its time for you to vote for the Ontario Library Assocation's Evergreen Award for 2017. The Evergreen Award is best described as the “readers’ choice” of Canadian literary awards. Each year, a list of ten nominees is selected by a committee of librarians and in September library patrons from all across the province can vote on their favourite. The winner will be announced during Ontario Public Library Week in October.

Staff Picks: The Last Days of Summer

Catherine

Karen from the Bath Branch of the County of L&A Libraries recently enjoyed The Last Days of Summer by Sophie Pembroke. She says it's a "warm and engaging family drama, with a little romance, and a little humour to lighten things up."

Staff Picks: Emmy & Oliver

Catherine

Caitlyn from the Napanee Branch of the County of L&A Libraries recently enjoyed Robin Benway's Emmy & Oliver, a contemporary YA romance with heart.