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The Library will be closed for Labor Day on Monday, September 2, 2024.  We hope you enjoy a safe and happy holiday.  

Labor Day marks the day in 1894 that Congress declared the first Monday in September a national holiday to honor the nation’s workers and their contribution to the well-being of the country.  In celebration of Labor Day and all those who are labor, the books highlighted in this article both feature a unique career.  The first one crafts objects from blown glass as an Early Renaissance commercial business that continues to present day.  The other crafts online essays with words and photos as a modern blogger with an internet career.  Both fight against preconceived ideas about what they can do and stand up against those who would judge them as less than.

“Venice, 1486.  Across the lagoon lies Murano.  Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to handle.

“Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers.  As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass – but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision.  When her father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her work boosts the Rosso family fortune.

“Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and heartbreaking loss, from a plague devastating Venice to Continental soldiers stripping its palazzos bare, from the domination of Murano and its glass maestros to the transformation of the city of trade into a city of tourists.  In every era, the Rosso women ensure that their work, and their bonds, endure.

For More Information see the August 28, 2024 edition of The Greenville Advocate.