Win a Friday Night Lights Football Helmet!

Enter to win an authentic Schutt Dillon Panthers football helmet signed by Taylor Kitsch, Kyle Chandler, and other castmembers of the hit NBC television show, Friday Night Lights. Winning entry will be drawn by author H.G. Bissinger at the October 20th event at Kent State Tuscarawas. Raffle tickets are $1 each and are available at all 2009 One Book, One Community Special Events. Proceeds will benefit the 2010 One Book project. For more information, please contact your local library.

Public Libraries In Tuscarawas County

Did you know that you can check out a copy of Friday Night Lights at no cost at any public library in Tuscarawas County? Here are the names and contact information for your public library:

Claymont Public Library
215 E. Third St.
Uhrichsville, OH 44683
(740) 922-3626
http://www.claymontlibrary.org/

Claymont Public Library-Dennison Branch
15 N. Fourth St.
Dennison, OH 44621
(740) 922-5851

Dover Public Library
525 N. Walnut St.
Dover, OH 44622
(330) 343-6123
http://www.doverlibrary.org/

Gnadenhutten Public Library
160 N. Walnut St.
Gnadenhutten, OH 44629
(740) 254-9224
http://www.gnaden.lib.oh.us/

Newcomertown Public Library
123 E. Main St.
Newcomerstown, OH 43832
(740) 498-8228
http://www.newcomerstownlibrary.org/

Tuscarawas County Public Library
121 Fair Ave NW
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
(330) 364-4474
http://www.tusclibrary.org/

TCPL Bolivar Branch
455 W. Water St.
Bolivar, OH 44612
(330) 874-2720

TCPL Strasburg Branch
356 5th St. SW
Strasburg, OH 44680
(330) 878-5711

TCPL Sugarcreek Branch
120 S. Broadway
Sugarcreek, OH 44681
(330) 852-2813

TCPL Tuscarawas Branch
209 S. Main St.
Tuscarawas, OH 44682
(740) 922-2748

H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger Coming to Tuscarawas County!

H.G. Buzz Bissinger will be coming to Tuscarawas County on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 7 :00 PM. As part of the Kent State Tuscarawas fall Artist Lecture Series, Bissinger's presentation will be the culminating event of the 2009 One Book, One Community project. Refreshments and a book signing will follow the event.

H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger is one of the nation’s most honored and distinguished writers. A native of New York City, Bissinger has been the winner of such prestigious awards as the Pulitzer Prize, the Livingston Award, and the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award. He has also been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Bissinger’s most recent book on Lebron James, Shooting Stars, will be released in September. Bissinger lives in Philadelphia with his wife and three children.

Your One Book, One Community Planning Committee

It has been a pleasure to work with every member of the 2009 One Book, One Community planning committee. Made up of representatives from every public library in Tuscarawas County, this group of individuals has worked very hard at coming up with a project and schedule of events that will appeal to the community. In light of the recent library funding budget constraints, this truly has been a remarkable feat. Please know that most of the funding for this project came not from individual library budgets but from donations from civic organizations, Friends of the Library groups, school booster clubs, and local businesses.

The planning commitee for this year's project consists of:

Lorrie Wheeler, Claymont Public Library; Erin Taylor, Gnadenhutten Public Library; Paula Fawcett, Dover Public Library; Linda Hren, Newcomerstown Public Library; Michelle Ramsell, Tuscarawas County Public Library; Jim Gill, TCPL; Teresa Kutcher, Bolivar Branch of TCPL; Brenda West, Strasburg Branch of TCPL; Tami Polen, Sugarcreek Branch of TCPL; Renee Poland, Tuscarawas Branch of TCPL.

Welcome to our One Book, One Community Blog!

Thank you for your interest in Tuscarawas County's One Book, One Communty project featuring "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and A Dream," by H.G. Bissinger. This is a very exciting project for the library because for the first time all of the public libraries in the county will be working together on a project: Gnadenhutten Public Library, Newcomerstown Public Library, Claymont Public Library, Dover Public Library, and the Tuscarawas County Public Library (New Phila, Bolivar, Strasburg, Tuscarawas, and Sugarcreek). It is our hope that we can bring the community together by sharing the experience of reading the same book. Football passion runs wild each autumn in the Tuscarawas Valley so we feel that FNL will be a good fit for this year's project. We will keep you posted as events and programs are developed.