While many of us are aware of and utilize nutrition supports like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, there are some benefits that accompany these that are overlooked. These are programs that incentivize shopping with local farms, support the purchase of fruits and vegetables, and provide extra dollars during the growing season to increase spending directly with the farmer.

Greetings dear readers! I am your “Marilyn Beane’s World” correspondent back for another week’s journey. If you care to join me, we will start from my home at Windward Gardens in Camden. As we travel, I will give you the news.

While rummaging in an old box of papers, I rediscovered a half-finished manuscript that the late Carol Brightman and I had intended – but failed – to publish some four decades past. It contained excerpts from the diary of Adelaide Butman, who had spent her early years in Round Pond between 1888-1902. Adelaide’s memoir, in addition to its literary merits, intimately captures with the eye of a close and affectionate observer the vitality of village life and the surprising diversity of its inhabitants.

It’s Molly, one of your adult services librarians! Today, I have the bittersweet honor of writing my very first and last newsletter message to you. Over the past two and a half (incredible!) years working here at Skidompha Library, I realized that I need to be closer to my family; I will be leaving Skidompha to move to Chicago on March 22.