The T-Mobile Hotspots funded by our South Plains Electric Cooperative Operation Round Up Community Grant are ready for checkout at the library. We have four TMobile MIFI PRO 5G hotspots available for our patrons to check out. These hotspots will enable our patrons who may not have access to internet to connect their computers, laptops, smart phones, tablets, or streaming TV’s. You must live in Dickens County, have a valid library card, and be over the age of 18 to check these out. We appreciate South Plains Electric Cooperative for their generous donation.
The businesses and citizens of Dickens County are some of the most caring and giving of any place I have lived. We may not be the wealthiest community as far as income goes, but when it comes to giving, we rank right up there. One of these caring and giving citizens recently made a generous donation to the library. Thank you so much for your support!
This past weekend I attended the Christmas festivities in Matador. They had a fantastic turnout. There were more people walking downtown that I imagined lived in the whole county. The children (and some adults) were anxiously awaiting the arrival of Santa Claus, who arrived in their lighted Christmas parade.
Along with Santa were several characters from Doctor Seuss’s Grinch books. Motley County Library was hosting photos with the Grinch and other characters, plus a bake sale and a children’s store. There were vendor booths set up around the downtown area.
One of the highlights for me was a book signing at the Motley County Museum. Our very own Will Brandon, a.k.a. Barbara Brannon, was there with the prequel to her Will Rogers medalist “The Wolf Hunt: A Tale of the Texas Badlands.” I got a signed copy of “A Study in Crimson: Or the Tale of the Red Man” for the library. Fast-paced and laced with authentic local detail, this second book in the awardwinning Derrick Miles series will satisfy Western enthusiasts everywhere.
I also got signed copies of two of Motley County native Marisue Burleson Potts’ latest books. The first one is “Cowgirls Don’t Cry.” If you love stories about pioneer life during the Westward Expansion, this is packed full of struggles, challenges and triumphs that really happened in the Rolling Plains region of Texas. The other from Ms. Potts is titled “Direct Your Letter to the Matador Ranch: A Cowboy’s Long Distance Romance with a Cotton Farmer’s Daughter.” Step into the lives of a Tennessee plowboy-turned Texas cowboy and the cotton farmer’s daughter he “cold wrote” a letter to. The relationship they built on paper over a five-year correspondence resulted in her family moving to Motley County, Texas, and was instrumental in merging the cattle ranching and cotton farming cultures in post-Civil War northwestern Texas.
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