THE DIGITAL DIGEST
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We're toasting the life of adventurer and prolific author Jack London, who wrote 50 books in only 16 years.

Index

1. Announcements
2  Exhibition Connection: The Library's 2014 Exhibition Produced a Treasure
3. Featured Upcoming Programs: Family Movie Night & Play with Your Food
4. Recommended Reading: A London Biography & an Account of the Yukon Gold Rush 
5. Recommended Reading: Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
6. Special Collections: Jack London's The Faith of Men
7. Community Corner: Star Party at the Westport Observatory
8. Shop for Books Online

Did you know? Pequot Library is open on Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m.

Click here to register for upcoming Library Speaker Consortium author talks or to view recent recordings!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Library Hours
Monday - Friday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Thursday: Open late! 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Sunday: closed

We're sending out a huge thanks to the donors who allowed us to exceed our $100,000 Year-End Annual Fund goal! We're tallying the final figures, but we're humbled by the community's support. A partial list of donors appears at the bottom, as we're still processing the many gifts!

EXHIBITION CONNECTION

Pequot Library held an exhibition in 2014 as a celebration of the Town of Fairfield's 375th birthday and the Library's 125th anniversary that included several rare books from our Special Collections, including an illuminated manuscript from the 1500s; A Literal Reprint of the Bay Psalm Book (1862); Flowers from my Garden by Laura Gordon Munson (1864, with a handwritten inscription from P. T. Barnum to his wife); Child Life: A Collection of Poems by J. G. Whittier (1878), Women Designers of Book-Plates by Wilbur Macy Stone; and White Fang by Jack London (1906), who's pictured above. We also showed one of the first copies of Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776) and Margaret Mitchell's hand-typed manuscript chapters of Gone with the Wind with her own penciled-in notations.

In the lead-up to this exhibition, two Pequot Library volunteers discovered a letter from London to his publisher, George Brett, taped inside an edition of White Fang and composed while London was still writing this classic. He reported, “‘White Fang’ is moving along and longer than I originally intended. It is now past 50,000 [words] and still growing. I don’t know what to think of it. I’m too close to it; but it ought to be pretty good stuff.” Read more about this remarkable find here!

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