@ Your Library
Outside is finally looking springlike and that means summer reading is just around the corner. That also means the library is shifting to its summer schedule. But first there’s tomorrow!
Stop by the library between 10 – 3 (Saturday, May 17th) and make a pinwheel for protection. April is Child Abuse Prevention Awareness month (and May is Mental Health Awareness Month) and various organizations have joined forces to create a family fun day. Start at the library and make a pinwheel, stay for the concert (see details below) then head to Kerry Park for a bike rodeo and lunch followed by bowling at Timber Pins. A full day of fun for all ages.
The 11am concert is “Going to Bartalina” with folk singer Charlie Maguire. He shares songs and stories of commercial sailing on the Great Lakes. 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald and the 120th anniversary of the Mataafa disaster. Shipping on the Great Lakes has always been dangerous, which means exciting to some. This all ages concert is sponsored by the Arrowhead Library System and is funded in part or in whole by a grant from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
As you plan your summer don’t forget time to read. The library can help with summer planning. Check out our travel guides or explore our Minnesota room for books about area attractions to learn about and then explore. Use Libby and Hoopla, digital apps with e-books and audiobooks so you don’t have to take a suitcase full of reading and listening materials with you on your travels.
Summer reading will begin Monday, June 2nd and the theme is “Level Up at Your Library” so join us for lots of fun games including community games here in the library. We are looking forward to lots of fun this summer.
In the meantime, swing by the library and borrow a book of short stories, grab a magazine or find a new author to explore or try a graphic memoir, there are some amazing ones. Try The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft or Fifteen Tales of Murder, Mayhem and Malice from the Land of Minnesota Nice or maybe An Anthology of Famous American Stories selected by Bennett Cerf. We still have physical magazine subscriptions including to Say magazine a native journal, Prevention and Reader’s Digest, but also Minnesota History, Canada’s History and Artist’s magazine.
Some of the amazing memoir’s in our collection include El Deafo by Cece Bell, The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea by Vannak Anan Prum, They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, The Worst Journey in the World by Sarah Airriess, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets by Margaret Kimball or A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat. This is just a small smattering of real life adventures of humans living ordinarily amazing lives.
Summer hours begin on Monday, May 19th. Summer hours are Monday – Wednesday 10 am – 8 pm and Thursday – Friday 10 am – 6 pm.