Scandalous!! Candles burning in a public library!!! Blimey - we'd never allow that in the libraries I worked in!!!

As for the other... maybe granny wasn't listening to the verse hard enough, but to placate, maybe the reader could read it from the book, showing the title to all? How about she uses a tambourine jingle to get their attention (works well at my daughters' school) rather than the candle?

Sympathies to you, it's hard to work around peoples prejudices, especially in such a fundimentalist area.

LTS