Clark Memorial Library
Richmond, Rhode Island's Public Library Since 1880
7 Pinehurst Drive Phone: (401)364-6100
Carolina, RI 02812 Fax: (401)364-7675
New Adult Books
June Book Discussion
Tuesday, May 14th at 7pm EST
The Good Good Pig
by Sy Montgomery
The Good Good Pig (2007) is Sy Montgomery's non-fictional account of the life of her adopted pig, Christopher Hogwood. From piglet to 750-pound adult, Sy recounts how she met Christopher and how her community came to embrace him.
The story opens as Christopher Hogwood travels to his farm one rainy day in April. He is contained in a shoebox that is perched on Sy Montgomery's lap. Sy, a naturalist, takes the piglet into her home in the midst of personal turmoil. Her father, a survivor of Japanese internment camps and the Bataan Death March, is dying of lung cancer. Sy's mother is in denial. An only child, Sy often flies from her home in New Hampshire to her parents' home in Virginia.
Sy is also in the middle of writing another book as a tribute to fellow researches and naturalists, like Jane Goodall. She has encountered many roadblocks in researching the book: she was hit up for money by guards in Rwanda, charged by gorillas in Zaire, undressed by an orangutan in Borneo, and stood up by Goodall herself.
Tech Services
Tech Help Office Hours
Wednesdays and Fridays from 11:30am to 12:30pm
Drop in with your device and tech questions. Get help with eReaders, Libby, email, social media, software, cameras, and more.
eZone and Libby
Get eBooks on your app-equipped devices
The Ocean State Libraries eZone offers many great titles as e-books or downloadable audiobooks. To get yourself set up, come in for Tech Help Office Hours.
Scanner
Get your family photos into a digital format with the use of a high quality scanner. Make digital versions of all your photos, slides, and negatives.
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VHS to DVD Converter
Use our VHS to DVD converter to digitize your home movies.
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