POULSBO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
September 2026 Newsletter
Email: poulsbofriends@gmail.com
Facebook: Poulsbo Friends of the Library
KRL website: www.krl.org/poulsbo
PO Box 484, Poulsbo, WA 98370
Website: https://www.PoulsboFriendsOfTheLibrary.org
PFOL NEWS
Our book sale
will be held in the community room on Saturday, September 12, from 10:00am to 2pm.
If you ae thinking of volunteering, set up is on Friday, September 11, from
9:00am to noon and Saturday hours will be from 9:00am to 3:00pm, which includes
our book sales and clean-up and packing away books. We would love to have your
help and we share food for lunch on Saturday, if you care to bringing something.
T-shirts are on order and should arrive
in time for Book Sale.
The first meeting of the 2026-27 year of Poulsbo Friends of the Library will occur on Monday, September 14 at
10am in the Community
Room. Our speakers will be Kim Hendrickson and Alex Springer of Poulsbo Cares
with the topic being Recovery
As Public Service. We will have elections of PFOL Board of
Directors and Officers at this meeting. Please join us.
The picnic at Nelson Park was a success and enjoyed by all. Good company and good eats!!
We are beginning the think of the PFOL Holiday Pot luck gathering for December. Volunteers will be needed and requested at the October 5th General Meeting.
A PFOL website is in progress and will be launched soon after September 28 upon approval of the PFOL board. The website will include information about ● Our Calendar ● New Memberships ● Donation information and ● Contact form, among other helpful items.
The current sorting room will be enjoying a refurbishment of shelving for our many book donations, making sorting for book sales easier for those engaged in its preparation. When shelving is ordered, delivered and assembled, KRL facilities will install the shelves to their preplanned location in the sorting room.
Our heartfelt and sincere condolences are expressed to Rosemary Hilburn who lost her son Jeff in a motorcycle accident last month. Rosemary was a book sorter and board member in years gone by.
KRL AND BRANCH NEWS
Summer Learning concluded on August 31st. Pam Crowe, branch Manager, will report participation data to the Board at the September 28 meeting. There were many satisfied young ones and their parents.
Room reservations for the 2027 PFOL Book Sales and meetings
have been confirmed. Stay with us for further information.
A documentary film, THE LIBRARIANS, has been given an Emmy award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. The film explores the frontline battle of school and public librarians fighting sweeping book bans and censorship in the United States. Still available for viewing on-line PBS Independent Lens.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS NEWS
Much discussion centered upon sound proofing the new study rooms, our website release date, book sales, the shelving project, investments for future needs, insurance coverage, upcoming PFOL elections, advertising sales, funding projects to benefit patrons, and membership dues. Several agenda items were tabled until the September 28 meeting.
DATES TO REMEMBER:
The dates for the remaining book
sales in 2026 are as follows.
•
Saturday,
September 12
•
Saturday,
November 14.
*Monday, September, 10:00am, General
Meeting, Speakers, Topic: Recovery as Public Service
*Saturday, September 12, 10:00am to
2:00pm, Book sale in Community Room
Poulsbo community events can be found at the following website. www.visitpoulsbo.com
Literary Quotes for September
“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of
summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football
in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee
in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped
clean by summer.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly
in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous
months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month
of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like
Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the
curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a
poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea,
Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were
creative late at night. And so it goes.”
― Helen Bevington, When Found, Make a Verse of
“Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they
were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in
September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows
would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before
they returned again next summer.”
― Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories
“There comes a day each September when you wake up and know
the summer is over and fall has arrived. The slant of the sun looks different
and something is in the air--a coolness, a hint of frosty mornings to follow. I
woke early on the morning of September 24 and reached for a warmer petticoat.”
― Ann Rinaldi, Time Enough for Drums
