Library Closures – Apple Blossom & Carpet Installation

All Handley Regional Library System branches will be closed Friday, May 2, and Saturday, May 3 for the Apple Blossom Festival.

Bowman Library only will also be closed Thursday, May 1 for carpet installation. Handley Library and Clarke County Library will remain open on May 1.

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Book Making Workshop

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  • Registration is required for this event.
  • Registration will close on July 12, 2025 @ 10:00am.

Program Description

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Do you have a memoir, collection of family stories or poems that you would like to pass down to the next generation? In this hands-on, creative workshop, Capon Bridge, West Virginia poet John Berry teaches the method he uses to publish his books of poetry and prose. Easy to learn, inexpensive and requiring no complicated tools or publishing programs, John's method shows you how to format, print, bind and cut your own book from manuscript to finished product. 

All participants will receive a copy of John and Brenda Berry's manual, The Art of Bookcraft, including step by step instructions following the methods taught in this 3-hour class. 

Each student will also assemble a hand-stitched blank journal to take home.

Registration limited to 8. 

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