Thursday, May 16, 2019

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Forsyth County Edition

Visit the Sharon Forks Library May 13-26 to share your thoughts and observations on life in Forsyth County in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Forsyth County Edition.  Add your insights to entries on sweet tea, Forsyth County's best restaurants, Springtime pollen, traffic, red clay and much more. (We’re still waiting for a contributor to explain the kudzu.)

Don’t miss your chance to contribute to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Forsyth County Edition, a one-of-a-kind book that will be appreciated by visitors to the county no matter what galaxy they hail from.

Take a selfie at the contributor's desk to share with your friends on May 25th, the day fans across the globe celebrate the original The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams by wearing towels in his honor. Why towels?
A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.   
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Alicia Cavitt
Information Specialist