There may be no place like home, but sometimes it's better to feel at home and be somewhere else. A look at the local libraries proves the point.

Libraries have become the Community Centers of the day, hosting programs for anyone who can get there.

The Howard Whittemore Memorial Library in Naugatuck provides the inspiration to delve into a good book the minute you walk in the door. Modernized over the years, the lobby retains the sacred aura created by Stanford White, the architect who lost his life by a gunshot to the face due to the romantic throes of forbidden love.

 Below the beautiful glass domed ceiling, the four walls are ringed with Emily Dickensen's words, illiciting an immediate hunger for a good book.

  He ate and drank the precious Words 

His Spirit grew robust 

He knew no more that he was poor;

Nor that his frame was Dust.

He danced along the dingy Days

And this Bequest of Wings 

Was but a Book 

What Liberty, A loosened Spirit brings.

~ Emily Dickinson

Around the towns, students performed in the Monroe middle school production of Up the Down Staircase, while two Woodbury boys showed off their own skills on skateboards.