November 30, 2025 • 14 mins
Mindy and Mikaela speak with Ben Zenitsky from the Columbus Metropolitan Library about Holiday Open House and Huntington Train.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Beginning of raw.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We started out with dun da dun da Dan dun
dun dun dunn. How about them Buckeye is what a
great feeling to UH once again beat that team up North.
But at least it wasn't as long as they had
to suffer with losing against the Buckeyes for so many
years in a row?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Was it six total or four total? We were yeah, down.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
They won four games in a row. So last year's
seniors never once ever beat the Buckeyes.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Right, I was thinking about Jack Sawyer for some reason
yesterday when I was watching the game. He never beat
the buck Eyes a had and went to play for
the Steelers, but never went to play the Buckeyes.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
No, that senior class did not. And Ryan Day's very
first year he did beat that team up North and
then lost for four years in a row.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But look at what they went through.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Look at how many years in a row that they
could not beat Ohio State. So anyway, that is in
the books. Now in Ohio State will face the Indiana Hoosiers.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So it is Thanksgiving. I'm trying to get out of Thanksgiving.
My goodness, it was.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We traveled, we went down to see my parents in
Saint Simon.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It was good, the beach was good.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But I will tell you I am not prepared for
this week, so I feel like it kind of blew
in like a fast wind. Here.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I was wondering if you were going to make it in,
because you never know with air travel if they're gonna
be canceled, delayed.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I did breeze too, and I've had I've had luck.
I think it was the last breeze flight though for
a few months. One of the uh snow birds actually
told me that when I ran into them on the plane. Yeah,
we had a great time, and they.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Were they were divide and conquer. So Mikayla was with
her youngest son and Marcus was with hockey with their
oldest son.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And that did not go super well. Oh boy, how
was yours?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
How was your things? Great?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The funniest thing of all? And Ben's in from the
Columbus Public Library. And Ben's gonna tell us why he's
in because think about it, December starts tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Good time.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But you guys, this was so funny. So Mikayla was
catching you up and on that Yes, back in August,
we bought a little lake house. So they kept promoting this.
One of my favorite places is what well, Indian Lag,
No Cranberry, Cranberry's. This is where my brain.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Might be today.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Just one of mine, not the only, but one of
my little favorite places is Cranberry to say, they were
promoting it for the last couple of weeks. Come to
our drinks giving It's the day before Thanksgiving, which do
you know that more people drink alcohol the day before
Thanksgiving than any other day of the year, even New Years.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, they're getting ready to see family. Of course, be
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And I think, don't you remember in college going home
and going out with all of your friends and the Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Exactly, So they've been promoting this whole thing. Come to
our drinks giving bash. So we thought we'd try it.
It's our first year there.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
What the heck?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We go there, no electricity powers out and this place
is packed and we're all in the dark. But they
had like a generator for a band. You want to
know something, It was a great time.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You make the most of it.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
The owners made the most of it. Everybody in there
made the most of it, except for when you had
to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Because you couldn't fly.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But the taps work right, Yes, the taps were working,
they were flowing.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I guess there's no element to a tap that would
require electricity. I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You had other bottles of you know what I mean, yeah,
and other alcohol. So anyway, that was our first experience.
It just was so funny that it was a blackout Drinksgiving,
and then we were with.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
V blackout drink Thanksgiving, and.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Then we were with Randy's family on Thanksgiving, and then
we were with my family just yesterday. Well, Great Molly
has a new barn Dominium fantastic near Morrow County County.
So all was well with the world. But now we
turn to December where people are going to be busier
than ever and seeing all the sights and sounds.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And part of the sites and sounds of the holiday,
we always end up at the Columbus Metropolitan Library. So
Benzanitsky is here. Good to see you, friends, wonderful to
see you both. This is a busy time for you, guys.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It is a busy time. And mindy, MICHAELA. If you're
like me and you have two kiddos at home with
so much energy and in the weather is so frightful.
You are looking for an indoor option, an alternative, something
to get these kids moving, And at Columbus Metropolitan Library,
it is a wonderful time to come see us. We
have this week Wednesday, December third, from six to eight
(04:20):
pm at our main library, our Holiday open House. This
is our annual holiday extravaganza where we have family fun
with activities, crafts, cookies, hot coco, live reindeer, a dance performance,
and of course a very special guest from the North
Pole to help us flip the switch on the Huntington
Holiday Train.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We wait, back it up. My dance performance performance by
who it is?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It is a They're sort of like the.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Rockets, really Columbus style.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, we didn't even know that existed, did you know?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
This is why we This is why we do the show.
We learned stuff like this all the time. So they're
coming in to do some kind of kick dance, this
routine thing that's fun. And this is at the.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Main but we also have twenty two branch locations throughout
Franklin County, and all of our branches are having great
holiday events throughout the holiday season, so you can see
what's happening at the location nearest you at Columbuslibrary dot org.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
How old are your kids been?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Twenty five and two?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
He has like a real span between two of them.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You really did, sure do twenty five and two. But
that's a good thing for the library, is you cover
all ages and ranges.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
There is something for all ages at the library.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
This train, the Huntington Train, has been with you all
for how long?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So gosh? It was originally built in nineteen ninety two
and was on display for a number of years in
the historic Huntington building at Broad Street and High Street.
And we I believe this is our fifteenth or sixteenth
year of us having it at Main Library downtown. So
we've had it for number of years, and it's a
little bit different each and every year. Listen to some
(06:05):
of the stats on this holiday display. This is not
your everyday holiday display. This is six hundred square feet,
multiple trains running on more than two hundred and eighty
feet of track, fifty pounds of snowflakes. It includes a
six foot tall cathedral and eight foot tall castle, a
waterfall that pumps six hundred gallons of water an hour.
(06:25):
This thing takes several days to set up, and as
I mentioned, it's a little bit different. Each year. The
crew from Applied Imagination drives up. This is a family
company that has been installing this. Every year. They come
up and they spend several days just getting this thing
prepped in our atrium. It's a magical site to behold,
and once it's up and running, it is truly a
(06:46):
magical holiday experience.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I think there are several staples around town that when
the holidays roll around, you always have to go see.
And some of them are just that neighborhood light that
goes well above and beyond every single year, or what
he looks forward to that. But one of those two
is really going to the library and seeing exactly what
you just described. And it makes you think, because a
(07:08):
lot of people have trains around their own individual family
Christmas trees, why where did this ever start? Do we know,
like the history of why people put trains around trees
or having gigantic displays like that, Like what is it
about trains and Christmas other than the Polar Express?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
So I think, don't quote me, because we're gonna have
to use good old mister Google for this one. I
feel like the trains around the tree bit might have
started over in Europe. I don't know why I'm thinking that,
but I'm thinking that that might have been a tradition
that started that way. And you know, they do so
many different things over there for Christmas. They do for
(07:46):
Saint Nicholas, the Day of Saint Nicholas, or the Feast
of State Nicholas. They put out wooden shoes and the
shoes get filled with tiny toys. I mean, they have
a lot of different traditions over there.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That's right. And you know what, if you're ever interested
in you can always check out lots of great books
on the history of Christmas and Christmas and trading world
and trades. But I like your idea India about or
michaela about the Polar Express. I think that's oh yeah,
that was the you know, the fact that it's you know,
of course it's based on a book, Okay, I think
it's just fitting.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I looked up some stuff here. The idea of having
trains around Christmas trees began in the late eighteen hundreds,
when railroads revolutionize American life, connecting families separated by distance
and symbolizing the theme of coming home for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, there it is.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Oh there it is. So it wasn't Europe. It was
the period of revolutionary times and you know industrialization of
the United States of America, which makes a lot of
sense as well.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That would have been my second guest, your.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Second guest, because trains are such a thing in Europe.
That's why I was kind of going that direction.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And our our Huntington Holiday Train is modeled off of
a Bavarian town in Germany. So all of the buildings
are modeled off of buildings, and they were each built
using natural material like acorns and bark and moss. It's
very beautiful and if you haven't seen it, come on
in check us out. You don't need a library car.
(09:11):
But we like to say it's the most valuable card
in your wallet.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
When you're right too, when you said you can look
up so many facts and figures or there are let's
be honest, there's those lifetime Christmas movies. But there is
something about stories and Christmas time and a little bit
of magic and you have to be packed with thousands,
if not well hundreds off not thousands of stories just
like that for kids and adults, because it is a
(09:36):
magical time of the year.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It sure is mindy. And not only do we have stories,
but we have an incredible staff who just delights in
telling those stories. We have story times. Oh that's free
scores from birth to five, birth to kindergarten. Who are
so you know? Come on in check our website Columbuslibrary
dot org and you can see our story time schedule
(09:58):
at all of our location. Our staff is incredible at
turning stories into skill building and giving you equipping you
with tools that you can take home with you to
help build those literacy skills at home and also help
build that holiday magic. I do know that, you.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Know when I go to your different locations, there's always
something different thematically happening with those story times. I was
just at your Renaldsburg location in the last two weeks.
I held a group meeting there, which PSA, you have
a library card, you can rent a room if you will,
or hold a room for free, Indy. So we did
(10:36):
a group meeting at the new Renaldsburg location.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Which is gorgeous all you need.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I didn't know that either, and.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We heard a call for story time at this beautiful
new building out there in Reynoldsburg. And you know, I
know that during the holidays, they thematically also lean into
that too. So to check the time for your story
time for those of you who have grandkids or kids
who would be interested in going, then do you just
go to Columbus Library dot org and find your location
(11:02):
and then it'll list it there.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, you can. You can go to our Programs and
Events web page under the events drop down, or you
can click on the birth to five drop down and
it will have storytime schedules at all of our locations.
And you know, stop into the one nearest, you stop
into a new one that you haven't been to before.
They're all beautiful, they're all different, they're all incredibly iconic.
(11:25):
We actually have a number of new locations getting ready
to open. We're going to be opening our new Barnett
branch over on East Livingston on December thirteenth, so we're
just two weeks away. We're opening our brand new standalone
Canal Winchester branch on January tenth, and we're going to
be opening our newly transformed Linden Branch up on Cleveland
(11:46):
Avenue on January thirty first. So busy time for the
library and we're so excited to cut the ribbons for
these new communities.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's outstanding because so many things change in life, and
with technology comes that instant. But that's the one thing
that is there's nothing really like opening a good book, really,
and that's where I really am impressed that all these
libraries are continuing to open. You do have the technology
stuff that everybody needs, but still you can go back
(12:14):
in time by just cracking open one of those old
fashioned books. You can smell a good book, I think,
with the leather and the pages. To me, there's nothing
like that. I know a lot of people like kindles
and all that stuff, but I like a book.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
If you like a book, you're gonna like something they
have coming on you? Really are you have a book
surplus sale? I think that is? Is it in January?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Is it after the holidays are over?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Do you happen to know?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I sprung it on me. I believe it is this
coming Friday. The fish.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Oh never mind, it's not Genuary.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's good because it's in time for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So what happens?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Excuse me, I'm mistaken. I'm thinking about our surplus sale.
We also have a big book sale, which you might
be thinking of.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Possibly, Yeah, there's some kind of sale.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Right, we're selling stuff. It's a library, so we can
visit our Columbus Library. You scroll to the very bottom,
you'll see our friends of the library. And if you
click that link our friends of the library. They will
sell books that have been pulled from our circulation at
our locations, whether due to you know, wear and tear
(13:15):
or lack of demand. And so those books will then
go on sale and we'll sell them for you know,
starting at a dollar. And so we hold these regularly every
couple months at our locations and they are in demand.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
They do have a surplus sale of other things this Friday.
I do I pay attention. Ben sends out stuff and
I read it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Bendy, you'll want.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
This though too. Desks, tables, chair, shelves for sure, and
more will be available for cash and credit card purchase
two pm on Friday, December fifth. And this is Livingston Avenue.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So this is our temporary barnet branch which just closed down,
and so we're getting ready to cut the ribbon as
I mentioned on our new barnet.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Oh my gosh, all kinds of great gift ideas and
you're right about take the kids in there. Soon going
to be Christmas break, give yourself a break and go
to the library.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, anything else you want to share before we officially
say Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to you.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Well, just a reminder. This Wednesday, December third, our holiday
open house at Main Library from six to eight pm.
We'll have free parking and our attached garage. Come see us,
enjoy hot Coco. We'll flip the switch on the Huntington
Holiday Train, which will be on display through January eighth.
You have plenty of time, bring your whole family. We'd
love to see you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
All right, sounds good, Ben, Thank you so much and
we hope you have a great rest of the month
and into the new year.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Wonderful to see you both.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
You two a merry Christmas, Man, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
This is what matters.
Beginning of raw.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We started out with dun da dun da Dan dun
dun dun dunn. How about them Buckeye is what a
great feeling to UH once again beat that team up North.
But at least it wasn't as long as they had
to suffer with losing against the Buckeyes for so many
years in a row?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Was it six total or four total? We were yeah, down.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
They won four games in a row. So last year's
seniors never once ever beat the Buckeyes.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Right, I was thinking about Jack Sawyer for some reason
yesterday when I was watching the game. He never beat
the buck Eyes a had and went to play for
the Steelers, but never went to play the Buckeyes.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
No, that senior class did not. And Ryan Day's very
first year he did beat that team up North and
then lost for four years in a row.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
But look at what they went through.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Look at how many years in a row that they
could not beat Ohio State. So anyway, that is in
the books. Now in Ohio State will face the Indiana Hoosiers.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So it is Thanksgiving. I'm trying to get out of Thanksgiving.
My goodness, it was.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We traveled, we went down to see my parents in
Saint Simon.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It was good, the beach was good.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But I will tell you I am not prepared for
this week, so I feel like it kind of blew
in like a fast wind. Here.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I was wondering if you were going to make it in,
because you never know with air travel if they're gonna
be canceled, delayed.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Whatever.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I did breeze too, and I've had I've had luck.
I think it was the last breeze flight though for
a few months. One of the uh snow birds actually
told me that when I ran into them on the plane. Yeah,
we had a great time, and they.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Were they were divide and conquer. So Mikayla was with
her youngest son and Marcus was with hockey with their
oldest son.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
And that did not go super well. Oh boy, how
was yours?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
How was your things? Great?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The funniest thing of all? And Ben's in from the
Columbus Public Library. And Ben's gonna tell us why he's
in because think about it, December starts tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Good time.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But you guys, this was so funny. So Mikayla was
catching you up and on that Yes, back in August,
we bought a little lake house. So they kept promoting this.
One of my favorite places is what well, Indian Lag,
No Cranberry, Cranberry's. This is where my brain.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Might be today.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Just one of mine, not the only, but one of
my little favorite places is Cranberry to say, they were
promoting it for the last couple of weeks. Come to
our drinks giving It's the day before Thanksgiving, which do
you know that more people drink alcohol the day before
Thanksgiving than any other day of the year, even New Years.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, they're getting ready to see family. Of course, be
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And I think, don't you remember in college going home
and going out with all of your friends and the Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Exactly, So they've been promoting this whole thing. Come to
our drinks giving bash. So we thought we'd try it.
It's our first year there.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
What the heck?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
We go there, no electricity powers out and this place
is packed and we're all in the dark. But they
had like a generator for a band. You want to
know something, It was a great time.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You make the most of it.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
The owners made the most of it. Everybody in there
made the most of it, except for when you had
to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Because you couldn't fly.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
But the taps work right, Yes, the taps were working,
they were flowing.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I guess there's no element to a tap that would
require electricity. I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
You had other bottles of you know what I mean, yeah,
and other alcohol. So anyway, that was our first experience.
It just was so funny that it was a blackout Drinksgiving,
and then we were with.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
V blackout drink Thanksgiving, and.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Then we were with Randy's family on Thanksgiving, and then
we were with my family just yesterday. Well, Great Molly
has a new barn Dominium fantastic near Morrow County County.
So all was well with the world. But now we
turn to December where people are going to be busier
than ever and seeing all the sights and sounds.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And part of the sites and sounds of the holiday,
we always end up at the Columbus Metropolitan Library. So
Benzanitsky is here. Good to see you, friends, wonderful to
see you both. This is a busy time for you, guys.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It is a busy time. And mindy, MICHAELA. If you're
like me and you have two kiddos at home with
so much energy and in the weather is so frightful.
You are looking for an indoor option, an alternative, something
to get these kids moving, And at Columbus Metropolitan Library,
it is a wonderful time to come see us. We
have this week Wednesday, December third, from six to eight
(04:20):
pm at our main library, our Holiday open House. This
is our annual holiday extravaganza where we have family fun
with activities, crafts, cookies, hot coco, live reindeer, a dance performance,
and of course a very special guest from the North
Pole to help us flip the switch on the Huntington
Holiday Train.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We wait, back it up. My dance performance performance by
who it is?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It is a They're sort of like the.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Rockets, really Columbus style.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, we didn't even know that existed, did you know?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
This is why we This is why we do the show.
We learned stuff like this all the time. So they're
coming in to do some kind of kick dance, this
routine thing that's fun. And this is at the.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Main but we also have twenty two branch locations throughout
Franklin County, and all of our branches are having great
holiday events throughout the holiday season, so you can see
what's happening at the location nearest you at Columbuslibrary dot org.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
How old are your kids been?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Twenty five and two?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
He has like a real span between two of them.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You really did, sure do twenty five and two. But
that's a good thing for the library, is you cover
all ages and ranges.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
There is something for all ages at the library.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
This train, the Huntington Train, has been with you all
for how long?
Speaker 1 (05:42):
So gosh? It was originally built in nineteen ninety two
and was on display for a number of years in
the historic Huntington building at Broad Street and High Street.
And we I believe this is our fifteenth or sixteenth
year of us having it at Main Library downtown. So
we've had it for number of years, and it's a
little bit different each and every year. Listen to some
(06:05):
of the stats on this holiday display. This is not
your everyday holiday display. This is six hundred square feet,
multiple trains running on more than two hundred and eighty
feet of track, fifty pounds of snowflakes. It includes a
six foot tall cathedral and eight foot tall castle, a
waterfall that pumps six hundred gallons of water an hour.
(06:25):
This thing takes several days to set up, and as
I mentioned, it's a little bit different. Each year. The
crew from Applied Imagination drives up. This is a family
company that has been installing this. Every year. They come
up and they spend several days just getting this thing
prepped in our atrium. It's a magical site to behold,
and once it's up and running, it is truly a
(06:46):
magical holiday experience.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I think there are several staples around town that when
the holidays roll around, you always have to go see.
And some of them are just that neighborhood light that
goes well above and beyond every single year, or what
he looks forward to that. But one of those two
is really going to the library and seeing exactly what
you just described. And it makes you think, because a
(07:08):
lot of people have trains around their own individual family
Christmas trees, why where did this ever start? Do we know,
like the history of why people put trains around trees
or having gigantic displays like that, Like what is it
about trains and Christmas other than the Polar Express?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
So I think, don't quote me, because we're gonna have
to use good old mister Google for this one. I
feel like the trains around the tree bit might have
started over in Europe. I don't know why I'm thinking that,
but I'm thinking that that might have been a tradition
that started that way. And you know, they do so
many different things over there for Christmas. They do for
(07:46):
Saint Nicholas, the Day of Saint Nicholas, or the Feast
of State Nicholas. They put out wooden shoes and the
shoes get filled with tiny toys. I mean, they have
a lot of different traditions over there.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
That's right. And you know what, if you're ever interested
in you can always check out lots of great books
on the history of Christmas and Christmas and trading world
and trades. But I like your idea India about or
michaela about the Polar Express. I think that's oh yeah,
that was the you know, the fact that it's you know,
of course it's based on a book, Okay, I think
it's just fitting.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I looked up some stuff here. The idea of having
trains around Christmas trees began in the late eighteen hundreds,
when railroads revolutionize American life, connecting families separated by distance
and symbolizing the theme of coming home for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Well, there it is.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Oh there it is. So it wasn't Europe. It was
the period of revolutionary times and you know industrialization of
the United States of America, which makes a lot of
sense as well.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
That would have been my second guest, your.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Second guest, because trains are such a thing in Europe.
That's why I was kind of going that direction.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
And our our Huntington Holiday Train is modeled off of
a Bavarian town in Germany. So all of the buildings
are modeled off of buildings, and they were each built
using natural material like acorns and bark and moss. It's
very beautiful and if you haven't seen it, come on
in check us out. You don't need a library car.
(09:11):
But we like to say it's the most valuable card
in your wallet.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
When you're right too, when you said you can look
up so many facts and figures or there are let's
be honest, there's those lifetime Christmas movies. But there is
something about stories and Christmas time and a little bit
of magic and you have to be packed with thousands,
if not well hundreds off not thousands of stories just
like that for kids and adults, because it is a
(09:36):
magical time of the year.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It sure is mindy. And not only do we have stories,
but we have an incredible staff who just delights in
telling those stories. We have story times. Oh that's free
scores from birth to five, birth to kindergarten. Who are
so you know? Come on in check our website Columbuslibrary
dot org and you can see our story time schedule
(09:58):
at all of our location. Our staff is incredible at
turning stories into skill building and giving you equipping you
with tools that you can take home with you to
help build those literacy skills at home and also help
build that holiday magic. I do know that, you.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Know when I go to your different locations, there's always
something different thematically happening with those story times. I was
just at your Renaldsburg location in the last two weeks.
I held a group meeting there, which PSA, you have
a library card, you can rent a room if you will,
or hold a room for free, Indy. So we did
(10:36):
a group meeting at the new Renaldsburg location.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Which is gorgeous all you need.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I didn't know that either, and.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
We heard a call for story time at this beautiful
new building out there in Reynoldsburg. And you know, I
know that during the holidays, they thematically also lean into
that too. So to check the time for your story
time for those of you who have grandkids or kids
who would be interested in going, then do you just
go to Columbus Library dot org and find your location
(11:02):
and then it'll list it there.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, you can. You can go to our Programs and
Events web page under the events drop down, or you
can click on the birth to five drop down and
it will have storytime schedules at all of our locations.
And you know, stop into the one nearest, you stop
into a new one that you haven't been to before.
They're all beautiful, they're all different, they're all incredibly iconic.
(11:25):
We actually have a number of new locations getting ready
to open. We're going to be opening our new Barnett
branch over on East Livingston on December thirteenth, so we're
just two weeks away. We're opening our brand new standalone
Canal Winchester branch on January tenth, and we're going to
be opening our newly transformed Linden Branch up on Cleveland
(11:46):
Avenue on January thirty first. So busy time for the
library and we're so excited to cut the ribbons for
these new communities.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
That's outstanding because so many things change in life, and
with technology comes that instant. But that's the one thing
that is there's nothing really like opening a good book, really,
and that's where I really am impressed that all these
libraries are continuing to open. You do have the technology
stuff that everybody needs, but still you can go back
(12:14):
in time by just cracking open one of those old
fashioned books. You can smell a good book, I think,
with the leather and the pages. To me, there's nothing
like that. I know a lot of people like kindles
and all that stuff, but I like a book.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
If you like a book, you're gonna like something they
have coming on you? Really are you have a book
surplus sale? I think that is? Is it in January?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Is it after the holidays are over?
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Do you happen to know?
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I sprung it on me. I believe it is this
coming Friday. The fish.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Oh never mind, it's not Genuary.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That's good because it's in time for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
So what happens?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Excuse me, I'm mistaken. I'm thinking about our surplus sale.
We also have a big book sale, which you might
be thinking of.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Possibly, Yeah, there's some kind of sale.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Right, we're selling stuff. It's a library, so we can
visit our Columbus Library. You scroll to the very bottom,
you'll see our friends of the library. And if you
click that link our friends of the library. They will
sell books that have been pulled from our circulation at
our locations, whether due to you know, wear and tear
(13:15):
or lack of demand. And so those books will then
go on sale and we'll sell them for you know,
starting at a dollar. And so we hold these regularly every
couple months at our locations and they are in demand.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
They do have a surplus sale of other things this Friday.
I do I pay attention. Ben sends out stuff and
I read it.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Bendy, you'll want.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
This though too. Desks, tables, chair, shelves for sure, and
more will be available for cash and credit card purchase
two pm on Friday, December fifth. And this is Livingston Avenue.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So this is our temporary barnet branch which just closed down,
and so we're getting ready to cut the ribbon as
I mentioned on our new barnet.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Oh my gosh, all kinds of great gift ideas and
you're right about take the kids in there. Soon going
to be Christmas break, give yourself a break and go
to the library.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yeah, anything else you want to share before we officially
say Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to you.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Well, just a reminder. This Wednesday, December third, our holiday
open house at Main Library from six to eight pm.
We'll have free parking and our attached garage. Come see us,
enjoy hot Coco. We'll flip the switch on the Huntington
Holiday Train, which will be on display through January eighth.
You have plenty of time, bring your whole family. We'd
love to see you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
All right, sounds good, Ben, Thank you so much and
we hope you have a great rest of the month
and into the new year.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Wonderful to see you both.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
You two a merry Christmas, Man, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
This is what matters.
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