Upcoming programs:
Sun, Apr 2 @ 3pm: Short Story Matinee will be screening the
film, Field of Dreams
Tue, Apr 4 @ 1:30pm: Sound Café will have a program about
Appalachian Mountain dulcimers
Sat, Apr 22 @ 2pm: spend the afternoon with local scholar Dr.Victoria Ott to learn about gender and power in Confederate Alabama
Sat, Apr 22 @ 5pm: then spend the evening with local poet(and O’Neal librarian!) Matt Layne in celebration of his recently published
volume of poetry, Miracle Strip
Tue, Apr 25 @ 6:30pm: Books & Beyond returns for a
discussion of essay collections.
Wed, May 3 @ 6:30pm: Sound Café presents Burgin Mathews and The Southern Music Research Center.
For more information, visit the online calendar at www.oneallibrary.org.
This week, Books & Beyond met to talk about museums!
Dawson City, Frozen Time (view a film trailer here)
This meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director
Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost
collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south
of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of
the Canadian Gold Rush that brought 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was
also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to
the Yukon. The films were seldom, if ever, returned. The now-famous Dawson City
Collection was uncovered in 1978 when a bulldozer working its way through a
parking lot dug up a horde of film cans. Morrison draws on these
permafrost-protected, rare silent films and newsreels, pairing them with
archival footage, interviews, historical photographs, and an enigmatic score by
Sigur Rós collaborator and composer Alex Somers. Dawson City: Frozen Time depicts
the unique history of this Canadian Gold Rush town by chronicling the life
cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and
salvation.
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: and Other Excursions into the Landscape and Dreamscape of Iceland by A. Kendra Greene
The Final Member (view a film trailer here)
Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, in the northern
Icelandic town of Husavik, stands the Icelandic Phallological Museum - the
world's only Penis museum. Over 40 years, the founder and curator has collected
every specimen from every mammal except for one elusive penis needed to
complete his collection: The Human Specimen. The film follows the curator's
incredible, sublimely comic, often shocking quest to complete his eccentric
collection, and the two intrepid men who have raised their hands to be the
first human donor.
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death, and the Estatic by Joanna Ebenstein
Of all the artifacts from the history of medicine, the
Anatomical Venus―with its heady mixture of beauty, eroticism and death―is the
most seductive. These life-sized dissectible wax women reclining on moth-eaten
velvet cushions―with glass eyes, strings of pearls, and golden tiaras crowning
their real human hair―were created in eighteenth-century Florence as the
centerpiece of the first truly public science museum. Conceived as a means to
teach human anatomy, the Venus also tacitly communicated the relationship
between the human body and a divinely created cosmos; between art and science,
nature and mankind. Today, she both intrigues and confounds, troubling our neat
categorical divides between life and death, body and soul, effigy and pedagogy,
entertainment and education, kitsch and art.
99% Invisible: A Fantasy of Fashion podcast
In the wake of World War II, the government of France
commissioned its most prominent designers to create a collection of miniature
fashion dolls. It might seem like an odd thing to fund, but the fantasy of high
fashion inspired hope in postwar Paris. These dolls also forever changed the
curator who discovered them almost 40 years later, in a strange museum perched
on a cliff in rural Washington state.
Lost at the Smithsonian with Aasif Mandvi podcast
Comedian and pop culture fanatic Aasif Mandvi gets up close
and personal with the most iconic artifacts at the National Museum of American
History. Join Aasif and his guests as they explore how vintage clothing, ratty
furniture, and mismatched shoes transformed into Fonzie's leather jacket,
Archie Bunker's chair, and Dorothy's ruby slippers and became defining symbols
of American culture along the way.
The Crown Heist by Deron Hicks
No matter how dangerous his adventures have been, Art
has always been able to count on his best friend, Camille. Now that
Camille is meeting her estranged father, Art wants to be there for her—which
means going to London. But Camille's history professor father,
renowned for expertise in British legend, is missing. When they visit his
apartment, Art and Camille find a long-missing object that suggests the
professor could be in trouble and solving a mystery related to London's
history. Follow Art and Camille as they visit the Tower of London,
National Portrait Gallery, and ride the "tube" in hopes of uncovering
the truth before it's too late.
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award
From 70-year-old debut author Anne Youngson, a novel about a farmer's wife and
a museum curator seeking second chances, hailed by NPR as "the charmer of
the summer."
Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson
Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn’t going
well. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed
with college applications. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is
adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her
brain—questions about college, love, and life in general.
Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to
join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a
double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University went
to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Two were found
in the woodshed the next day, murdered with an ax. The case was assumed to be a
burglary gone wrong, but one of the remaining seven saw something she can’t
explain. This was no break-in. Someone’s lying about what happened in the
woodshed. Seven suspects. Two murders. One killer still playing a deadly game.
The Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner
Welcome to the tyrannical city of Jewel, where impatience is
a sin and boldness is a crime. Goldie Roth has lived in Jewel all her life. Like every child in the city, she
wears a silver guardchain and is forced to obey the dreaded Blessed Guardians.
She has never done anything by herself and won’t be allowed out on the streets
unchained until Separation Day.
When Separation Day is canceled, Goldie, who has always been both impatient and
bold, runs away, risking not only her own life but also the lives of those she
has left behind. In the chaos that follows, she is lured to the mysterious
Museum of Dunt, where she meets the boy Toadspit and discovers terrible
secrets. Only the cunning mind of a thief can understand the museum’s strange,
shifting rooms. Fortunately, Goldie has a talent for thieving.
The Hermitage: The Biography of a Great Museum by Geraldine Norman
The Hermitage Musuem in St Petersburg is possibly the
greatest museum in the world. It began as a showcase for the art treasures of
the Tsars and reflects their legendary extravagance. Imperial romances,
marriages and murders all had an impact on the collection, as did the byzantine
bartering of international politics. Nationalised by the Bolsheviks in 1917,
the museum expanded to fill the imperial family's Winter Palace and the three
riverside pavilions that were built onto the palace in the late eighteenth
century. Vast, confiscated collections came the way of the museum as a result
of the Revolution - the finest treasures of the Russian nobility, as well as
two great merchant collections of Gauguin, Matisse and modern masters.
Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey
A remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the extraordinary
people, meticulous research, and driving passions that make London’s Natural
History Museum one of the world’s greatest institutions.
Treasures of the British Museum by Marjorie Caygill
The British Museum is the greatest treasure house in the world
and it could fill many books with pretty pictures ... but this is more than
that. A choice selection of topics, some well known and obvious (Sutton Hoo,
the Royal Cemeteries at Ur, the Elgin Marbles), others less obvious (the
Folkton Drums, the Lothar Crystal), fifty in all, serve as the basis for
description and discussion of both objects and collectors and the way in which
the British Museum has acquired them.
The Kentucky Horse Park (visit the park's website here)
A treasure to the state and a facility unlike any other in
the world, since 1978 the Kentucky Horse Park’s mission has been to celebrate the
human relationship with the horse through education, exhibition, engagement and
competition. Owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, each year they
welcome over 500,000 visitors from around the world.
Adam Dalgliesh looks into the connection between the grisly
exhibits at the Dupayne family museum and the murder of adopted son Neville.
The Horror in the Museum by H.P. Lovecraft
A museum should be a lonely place at night; scary and lonely
if one has an active imagination, and finds himself locked inside at night. But
what if the things in the museum began to move, and you are trapped inside?
This short story of horror should not be listened to alone and in the dark.
All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like Lab Girl and Working Stiff, All The Beauty in the World is a
surprising, inspiring portrait of a great museum, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, its hidden treasures, and the people who make it tick, by one of its most
intimate observers.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L.
Konigsburg
Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L.
Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal–winning novel.
Library of Alexandria discussed on In Our Time on BBC Radio4
This is a Robbery (Netflix)
In 1990, two men dressed as cops con their way into Boston’s
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and steal a fortune in art. Take a deep dive
into this daring and notorious crime.
How to Steal a Million (view a film trailer here) not available in the JCLC system
The daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to
steal one of her father's forgeries and protect his secret.
Simon Whistler Youtube, “The British Museum: A Collection of
Other People’s Stuff”
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