December Newsletter: 'The Beat Goes On' Events and More!
Read our December newsletter and learn how you and your family can enjoy entertainment at no charge to you this fall! Check out some new digital titles in eAudiobook and eBook format!
Read our December newsletter and learn how you and your family can enjoy entertainment at no charge to you this fall! Check out some new digital titles in eAudiobook and eBook format!
Imagine being a young, non-English speaking immigrant and new bride in America after growing up in Hitler’s Germany. Annelee writes about her experiences in “War Child” and “Empty Chairs” and will share these stories with you. Click here to print and share the event poster. Tuesday, September 4 10:00 a.m.… Read More»
If you love Agatha Christie, we have a program for you! Minnesota Author Gerald Anderson has a wonderful series of mystery novels set in such exotic places as Fergus Falls, Vergas, Rothsay, Bemidji and more! Learn how Anderson came up with the idea to set mysteries like, “Murder Under the… Read More»
Bergsgaard, of Lake Park, has written intriguing crime novels centered around special agent for the state crime bureau, Franklin Delano “Doc” Martini. Bergsgaard himself is a retired special agent for the US Treasury Department and for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Click here to print and share the event… Read More»
Now that was hard work! The efforts of the young men in the Depression-era Minnesota Civilian Conservation Corps advanced the conservation of Minnesota’s natural resources five decades in a few short years. Learn about Barbara Sommer’s interviews with the men that she’s chronicled in her book, “Hard Work and a… Read More»
Get your genealogy on! Online genealogists of all abilities are encouraged to come and learn as Rick shares “The 10 Best New Web Tools of the Past 10 Years” and “The Beginners Guide to Online Genealogy.” Click here to print and share the event poster. Monday, September 24 10:30 a.m.… Read More»
This entertaining multi-talented musical duo shares Minnesota musical heritage with the songs Minnesotans would have been singing in 1858 like “The Farmer is the Man,” and “Lincoln and Liberty.” Click here to print and share the event poster. Tuesday, October 2 9:00 a.m. – Norman County West Elementary School (Open… Read More»
Shakespearean drama in north woods Minnesota? Yes! In a bold reinvention of “Hamlet,” Enger tells the story of a young man trying to hold his family together in a world tipped suddenly upside down. Click here to print and share the event poster. Monday, October 8 10:30 a.m. – Cormorant… Read More»
Landvik made her debut as a novelist with “Patty Jane’s House of Curl,” and also wrote the very popular, “Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons.” She recently self-published her sci-fi novel “Mayor of the Universe” and also works as a comedienne, actor and playwright. She resides in Minneapolis. Click here to… Read More»
Between 1854 and 1929, more than 100,000 children were sent from New York City, via orphan trains, to new homes in rural America. Lund Nelson, an acknowledged authority on the Orphan Train Movement and its ties to our region, will share about the fate of the children…from child laborer to… Read More»