Meet Kaity—FCPL's Latest Library Limelight!

Stepping into the Limelight this month is Kaity who recently enjoyed her third anniversary with the Forsyth County Public Library family as a Youth Specialist at the Cumming Library. In a role she’s been preparing for since her early teens, Kaity finds satisfaction in helping both avid readers and reluctant ones discover the joy found between the pages of just the right book.

A Georgia girl from birth, Kaity has spent most of her life living not too far up the road from Forsyth County. “I've lived in many towns in the northeast of the state,” she says. “I spent the longest growing up in Commerce and Statham, near Athens.”

Staff Picks: Small Town Stories

I grew up in a midwestern suburb but spent each summer visiting my grandparent's rural home in Southern New Jersey.  Small towns are great for biking on country roads past picturesque farms and woodlands, exploring nature, buying farm-fresh corn at roadside vegetable stands, and spending long lazy days swimming or just enjoying the sunshine. When you aren't the one stacking hay and shucking corn, the relaxed pace of small town living offers extra time for my favorite pastime of all - reading. I still enjoy reading stories about the lives of people living in small towns. 

Stories set in small towns are on display this month at Sharon Forks Library but they don't all focus on the idyllic side. Check out Delilah S. Dawson's Bloom, a dark fantasy about a woman whose life takes a very strange turn when she makes a new friend at a local farmer's market, Jane Harper's Exiles, a mystery set in South Australia's wine country, Olga Tokarczuk's award-winning Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, or the Ray Bradbuy classic, Dandelion Wine. 

What are your favorite books set in small towns? 

Museum and Park Passes: The Computer Museum of America

Recently my family and I visited the Computer Museum of America in Roswell, Georgia. The museum houses one of the world’s largest collections of artifacts from the digital era including rotary photos, transistor radios, personal computers, a World War II cipher computer called the Enigma machine, and playable classic video games like Asteroids and Donkey Kong. If you enjoy old school technology like I do, you can even type up a letter on a typewriter.