Build Your Own Fairy Garden

Whether it's fairies, gnomes or elves that give your garden that special sparkle, you'll want to encourage them to stay around. How better to do that than to build them a unique, miniature garden of their own? This class will teach you how. The garden shown in this photo can be planted in a container of its own or at the base of an old tree. Nancy Vejlstrup will discuss "fairy houses" and how a walk in the woods can provide you with many of the natural materials needed. It doesn't matter if it's a "Toad Abode" or a cookie factory in a hollow tree, you'll want to add that special magic to your garden this spring.

Program Details:
Thursday, April 2 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Cost: $10.00 per person ($15.00 per and one child (ten years or older)
Presented by: Nancy Vejlstrup, Exhibit Designer for Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Register at the library's circulation desk.

Classic Film Night on Wednesday, March 25

The featured film for this month's Classic Film Night will be Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson and William Holden and released on August 4, 1950. Sunset Boulevard is considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made. In 1989, The National Film Registry of the Library of Congress chose it for their initial list of 25 landmark films deemed "culturally, historically, or esthetically important."

The film will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Reading Room on the Second Floor. Join us at the library as we celebrate the tradition of classic film! Register at the library's circulation desk.

"...All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my closeup.''

Rising Powers: The New Global Reality

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has enjoyed the spotlight as the sole superpower in world affairs. Yet the 21st century promises to be characterized by multiple and competing sources of global power. Join Michael R. Kraig for “Rising Powers: The New Global Reality” at the Peters Township Public Library on Thursday, March 19 from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. as he provides analysis of the dynamics driving the diffusion, redistribution, and redefinition of power around the globe.

Dr. Michael Kraig is director of Policy Analysis and Dialogue at the Stanley Foundation in Muscatine, Iowa. In this role, he is currently managing the overall conceptual and substantive direction of several foundation initiatives: United Nations and Global Institutions; US and Global Security; US and Asian Security; US and Middle East Security; Rising Powers; and Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament. These ongoing programs are centered on widening the policy debate in the United States and within foreign capitals by discussing multilateral, cooperative policy options that could make both the United States and the world more prosperous and secure. Kraig has a Ph.D. in political science from the University at Buffalo, New York, with a concentration in international relations, US foreign policy, and comparative politics.

Register for this program at the library’s circulation desk, call 724-941-9430 or email Carrie Weaver.

This program is part of the library’s continuing partnership with the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and is part of this year’s series "Looking to the Future: the U.S. and the World”. An honorarium for these speakers was generously provided by a grant from the McMurray Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 764.