Collingswood Public Library

Pop Shop co-owner, cookbook author, and magazine publisher, Connie Correia Fisher, will kick off the 2010 Writers Series at the Collingswood Public Library on February 11 at 7:00 p.m.

Connie Correia Fisher
Thursday, February 11
7:00 p.m.

Like food?
Like reading?
Is there anything better?

Come to the Collingswoood Public Library on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. to hear Connie Correia Fisher talk about food writing.

If you know The Pop Shop, you know Connie—she and husband, Bill “Stink” Fisher, are its owners. However, before becoming “Mrs. Pop Shop,” Connie ran Small Potatoes Press, a publishing house which specializes in restaurant cookbook development, and she wrote wrote seven cookbooks which got attention from places like The Tonight Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. She’s also the founding publisher and former executive editor of Cuizine magazine, which focused on the Delaware Valley restaurant scene.

Bring your favorite cookbook and your appetite—for good talk about writing and publishing—to the Library for the first presentation in the 2010 Collingswood Library Writers Series.

Documentary filmmaker and Collingswood High School alumnus, Dr. Robert A. Emmons, Jr. will present his short films at the Collingswood Public Library on February 25 at 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Robert A. Emmons, Jr.
Thursday, February 25

7:00 p.m.

For its second presentation in the 2010 Film Series, the Collingswood Public Library presents Dr. Robert A. Emmons, Jr. (Collingswood High Class of 1993), a digital documentary filmmaker focusing on American popular culture. His film, Goodwill (2007) was part of the Smithsonian exhibition, Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement at the New Jersey Historical Society, and won “Best Homegrown Documentary Feature” at the 2008 Garden State Film Festival. In 2009 he received Mexico’s Lindbergh-Carranza International Goodwill Award as a “Messenger of Peace” for his work on Goodwill. His most recent film, De Luxe: The Tale of the Blue Comet, explores another obscure New Jersey history.

He has appeared on WHYY’s “Morning Edition” with Brenda Jorett and CN8’s “Your Morning” with Greg Coy to discuss his work. His published and presented works focus on electronic media, documentary film, and comic books and include Who’s Responsible Here? Media, Audience, and Ethics (Cognella, 2010), The Encyclopedia of Documentary Film (Routletdge, 2005), Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools (Univ. of Minn. 2007), and The Encyclopedia of Latino and Latina History (Facts on File, 2010). Emmons teaches film, new media, and comics history at Rutgers University-Camden where he is also the Associate Director of the Honors College.

About the Collingswood Public Library Film and Video Series

On second Thursdays in 2010, Collingswood Public Library will hos a series of presentations by area writers, and on fourth Thursdays, the Library will host a series of free movies and videos, each one featuring a presentation by someone connected to the piece being shown. All presentations will be free, and all involve Collingswood or its surrounding community in the state of New Jersey or the Delaware Valley.

It was a great day for a run, and Collingswood’s teens will soon have a great new teen area thanks to our runners, donors, sponsors, and volunteers. Check out our page for the Collingswood Book Festival 5k: “Beat the Director” to see photos, watch video, read the results, and learn more about a great race that benefited some fantastic teens.

All interested runners should plan to arrive at Knight Park at 7:30 a.m. on September 26 to pick up a number (if you’ve already registered) or to register in person if you haven’t yet sent in a check or registered online. We’ll have free yoga and stretching, led by Rachelle Damminger of Yogawood, for all participants.

We’ll be going clockwise around Knight Park. We’ll start near the corner of Zane and Park, run around the island at Park and Collings and complete that loop around Knight Park, run around the park (including the island) a second time, then finish on the part of the street that divides the island from the rest of the park. We’re not sure if that makes sense when you read it, but it should make sense if you look at a map of Knight Park.

After the race ends, join fellow runners Jen Miller and Matthew Quick for a book signing.

The good news is we’re getting a lot of nice attention for our first ever Collingswood Book Festival 5K. Earlier this week, Dawn Timmeney from Philadelphia’s NBC 10 News at 4 interviewed Collingswood Public Library Director, Brett Bonfield, about the Collingswood Book Festival 5K:

The bad news is that Christopher McDougall won’t be able to make it. He sent the following note:

Okay, I admit it—your librarian is too intimidating. I was all set to race this Saturday, but who can run with a dry mouth and quaking knees? I need at least a full year of prep before I dare to step on the roads with him. In truth, I was dead-set on being there, but an unforeseen obstacle popped up at the last minute. Have a blast, and I hope to see you next year. Run wild.—Christopher McDougall

Come join us for the Collingswood Book Festival 5K on September 26. While we’re no longer accepting mailed registrations, you can still register online (through Thursday, September 24) or send in a donation using our registration form.

All interested runners should plan to arrive at Knight Park at 7:30 a.m. to pick up your number (if you’ve already registered) or to register in person if you haven’t yet sent in a check or registered online. We’ll have free yoga and stretching, led by Rachelle Damminger of Yogawood, for all participants.

After the race ends, join fellow runners Christopher McDougall, Jen Miller, and Matthew Quick for a book signing. We look forward to seeing you there!

To get a better sense of where proceeds from the Collingswood Book Festival 5K will be going—specifically, where we’ll be putting the new teen area the race is helping to sponsor—check out the first episode of our brand new series for Collingswood TV, Your Library: