Calendar of Events
March 19, 2013
One Book, One City for Kids
One Book, One City for Kids is an annual reading program that encourages all 4th graders in the city to read and discuss the same book. The program also strives to encourage a lifelong love of reading among students, to inspire readers to bring story ideas and themes to life through discussion, and to build collaborative ties between public libraries, school libraries, and area schools. This year the entire city will be reading Special Delivery! by Sue Stauffacher. In this book, ten-year-old Keisha and her family’s animal rescue center face more challenges involving a baby crow in a mailbox and a skunk found in the nearby community garden.
Adult Computer Class: Genealogical Research Using Online Databases
Participants will learn what it takes to conduct genealogical research through an understanding of genealogy database software, and techniques for locating and organizing family history information. Several key online databases will be explored. Basic computer skills are required for this course.
Write Michigan Awards Ceremony
Celebrate the Write Michigan Short Story Contest winners! Author Wade Rouse will speak at the event. Rouse is a humorist and memoirist whose work has been featured multiple times on NBC’s Today Show as well as on Chelsea Lately, People.com, Salon.com, Forbes.com, Publisher’s Weekly and Michigan Radio, where he is a regular contributor. He is the author of five books and was named by Writer’s Digest as “the #2 writer, dead or alive, we’d love to have drinks with.” Wade was just behind Ernest Hemingway and just ahead of Hunter S. Thompson.
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