The Collaborative Summer Reading Program will be back this summer with the theme “Tails and Tales.” It will be great to have the children back in the library this year. The dates for the program are June 8, June 15, and June 22. Kristy Price, the new director of children’s programming, plans on beginning the children’s story and activity time again after the summer programming is over.
We have some amazing programs booked this year, including everyone’s favorite, Joan Day and her animals. There will be more details on the other programs soon. There’s a rumor that Smokey the Bear might make an appearance. We have another program for the children in August that will be brought to us courtesy of the Texas Commission on the Arts. We will have more information coming on that program in the next few weeks.
The library received memorial donations this past week for Linda Henderson. Linda was an avid reader, and her presence is greatly missed at the library.
A donation of Fred Arrington’s “A History of Dickens County” was received from Kelly Cartier. The library received an email from Kelly asking if we would like to have the book. It arrived in the mail last week. Mary Ann Gregory and the Gregory family have always been big supporters of the library. This week she donated several books to the library. They will fit nicely in our growing Texas collection. I haven’t had a chance to look through all of them, but from what I have seen it is a great collection of Texas history. Thank you to these kind donors and all who support the library.
Speaking of Texas books, we received two new books on this great state courtesy of the Tocker Foundation Grant we received a while back.
In “Texas Obscurities: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional, & Nefarious” by E.R. Bills, some of these quirky true stories might surprise even the most proud Texan. Austin sat the first allwoman state supreme court in the nation in 1925. A utopian colony thrived in Kristenstad during the Great Depression. Bats taken from the Bracken and Ney Caves and Devil’s Sinkhole were developed as a secret weapon that vied with the Manhattan Project to shorten World War II. In Slaton in 1922, German priest Joseph M. Keller was kidnapped, tarred and feathered amid anti-German fervor following World War I. Author E.R. Bills offers this collection of trials, tribulations and intrigue that is sure to enrich one’s understanding of the biggest state in the Lower Forty-eight.
We also have “Texas Ingenuity: Lone Star Inventions, Inventors, & Innovators” by Alan C. Elliot. This collection of inspiring and often quirky stories highlights dozens of examples of innovation from Lone Star history. The Hamill brothers devised a better oil well to reach gushers at Spindletop. The first Neiman-Marcus store opened in Dallas in 1907, revolutionizing the retail fashion world. Astroturf emerged at the Astrodome in 1966. Fritos and corn dogs are just two ubiquitous snack foods claimed as Texan originals.
We also received a few large print fiction books also courtesy of the Tocker Foundation Grant. From Tracie Peterson we have “Endless Mercy.” Peterson is one of our favorite authors in Christian fiction. In Christian romance we have the first book in the Brothers in Arms series from Mary Conneally, “Braced For Love.” We also received a young adult novel I mentioned reading on the Libby App, “Cousins” by Karen M. McManus. The list wouldn’t be complete without a new James Patterson mystery. Available now is “The Palm Beach Murders.”
Check it all out at the library!
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