Tag: JacobMarley

• Theater in the Round at Russell Library

  A few weeks ago, I walked into Russell Library’s Reading Room at 7am on a Friday morning. My mission, with the help of two members of our facilities department and a member of the East Haddam Stage Company’s production team, was to set up 80 chairs in various configurations and then put them all away…

  Mary

  October 27, 2025

  A Christmas Carol, Events, Inside Stories, Libraries, Middletown, CT, Secrets of Russell Library

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• Ebenezer Scrooge at Russell Library

  Marley was dead: to begin with. from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens You have to give Charles Dickens credit. He knew how to craft a creepy opening to a story. He then goes on to tell the reader, “This must be distinctly understood. or nothing wonderful can come of the story…” That famous line…

  Mary

  August 18, 2025

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