Summer programming starts soon at Bossier libraries
Annie Gilmer
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The end of the school year approaches, and while the end of the school year may not mean much to you personally, it does mean that the start of our Summer Experience program is almost upon us! That’s got to be exciting news! Or, if it’s not, flatter us by pretending it is.
Regardless of your actual excitement about the reading portion of Summer Experience, we do have some fun programming planned for the summer that will hopefully appeal. For instance, we’ve been able to book some very special guests this year because we can offer in-person programming again!
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story, by Kate Summerscale
The verb to haunt can mean to practice habitually, busy oneself with, take part in and to frequent a place, but it isn t entirely clear when it began to apply to supernatural phenomena like spirits or ghosts.
Etymology Online has it that this use perhaps was in Proto-Germanic, but if so it was lost or buried and that it was revived by Shakespeare s plays, appearing first in
A Midsummer Night s Dream. Merriam-Webster adds that In the 1500s,
haunt began to mean to have a disquieting or harmful effect on, as in that problem may come back to haunt you. The meaning here is simply the lingering presence of the problem, not the possibly scary nature of the problem itself; it is applied to thoughts, memories, and emotions.