We would like to thank Texas Farm Bureau and Dickens County Farm Bureau for kicking off the Collaborative Summer Reading Program, “Tails and Tales,” with a wonderful presentation by their representative, Jana Middleton.
Jana did a fantastic job relating to the children how important agriculture is. Even with a little dirt in the carpet and one little one not too fond of pickles, the program was great. It was entertaining and informative. I even overheard more than one grownup say they learned something from the presentation.
Thank you to the other representatives from Farm Bureau, Mike Smith, Chuck Hinson and Joan Day, for supporting the program. Kristy Price has been busy getting more presentations for the summer. On Tuesday, July 13 at 10 a.m., award-winning meteorologist from KMAC, Jacob Riley, will be here to give a weather related presentation to the children.
In August, thanks to the Texas Commission on the Arts representative Chris Espinosa will be doing a program for the children. By the time this issue of the newspaper comes out we will have had our program from Texas A&M Forest Service. I saw some of the photos from when they were in Crosby County, and it looks like fun.
We received memorial donations this past week for Shirley Whitefield, Dexter Clay, Case Clark, Samantha Freeman, and Linda Henderson.
Last week in this column I talked about getting the audiobook for our Overdrive, “Me & Patsy: Kickin’ up Dust” by Loretta Lynn. It is available on your smartphone or tablet with a library card and the Libby app.
The person before me finished early and I finished it last night. It was a great book. Lynn is a great storyteller and pulls no punches. This is her account of Lynn’s tragically short-lived friendship with country music legend Patsy Cline. When they first met, Loretta Lynn was just getting started in the music business. She was very naïve about many things. Patsy Cline was established in Nashville and on the rise in the music industry. She and Lynn hit it off from the beginning. The narrator’s accent was similar to Loretta Lynn’s, and it was easy to imagine her just talking and telling me about their friendship. It made me laugh and also shed a tear or two. I would recommend this book to fans of either Lynn or Cline, or to anyone who loves a great friendship story. The book will also be available in the library to check out within a week or two.
An audiobook on CD’s was donated to the library this past week, Sandra Brown’s “Mean Streak.” In this New York Times bestselling thriller, a doctor is kidnapped in the mountain wilderness after a fight with her husband—and as the FBI closes in, she must make dangerous choices to survive.
Check it out at the library!
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