A slight chance of rain showers before 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Mount Holly Newsflash - Monday, September 26, 2022 The weather today in Mount Holly - A chance of showers and thunderstorms between noon and 4pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 63. Southwest wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Archived Newsflash emails can be read at: https://mthollynewsflash.blogspot.com
Writers' group. Just a reminder – we meet on Monday October 3rd at 1:30 at the Mount Holly Library. The topic: techniques of comic writing. If you have a favorite comic piece, please bring it. Thank you. -- Joan
TALK ON THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
In 1491, the world was in many of its aspects and characteristics a minimum of two worlds—the New World, of the Americas, and the Old World, consisting of Eurasia and Africa. Columbus brought them together, and almost immediately and continually ever since, we have had an exchange of native plants, animals and diseases moving back and forth across the oceans between the two worlds. A great deal of the economic, social, political history of the world is involved in the exchange of living organisms between the two worlds.
Alfred W. Crosby, author of The Columbian Exchange.
It is estimated that 60% of the current world food supply originated in the Americas. Thanks to the excellent farming skills of America's first people, crops like corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes offset famine in China, Europe and Africa.
Just one aspect of the Columbian Exchange, the Cavendish Historical Society will be hosting a talk on the Exchange Oct. 8 (Sunday), 2 pm at the CHS Museum, 1955 Main St., Cavendish VT. This event is free and open to the public. FMI: 802-226-7807 or margocaulfield@icloud.com
The Manhattan Short Film Festival is going on at the Town Library MSFF is a group of short films from independent film makers from around the world. These films represent a wide variety of subjects from comedy, drama, animation. This year 868 films were entered and the Manhattan Short Film Festival Selection Committee has carefully selected 10 short films as finalists. Each year more than 400 venues on 6 continents show these 10 films during 1 week. The Mount Holly Town Library is one of 3 venues in Vermont to present MSFF.This is the 25th year for the festival, the 2nd year for Mount Holly. Every person attending a showing is given the opportunity to vote for the 1 film and 1 actor they think best.We will send your vote into Manhattan Short headquarters where they will be tallied, and the winning film film and actor will be announced at 10 AM on Monday October 3rd. This announcement will be made at http://www.ManhattanShort.com All 10 finalist films are shown at each showing, a total run time of 2 1/2 hours, including a 10 min intermission after the first 5. So far the library has had two showings and Wednesday September 28th at 7 PM will be our last showing for this year.
