STAFFORD — A very important question to ask a venue when you are enjoying their establishment: “Would you share your favorite thing about your venue?”
Jordan has found that the guides are stumped for a few seconds and then come up with very interesting things like:
• Fossilized Dinosaur Poop
• A program from Ford’s Theatre the night Abraham Lincoln was killed — with President Lincoln’s blood on it
• Carry Nation’s Dentures
Our’s here at the library would have to be the stained glass window of Nora Larabee, with the evening sun making it turn sparkly and throwing rainbows all through the library.
Our Kansas Celebration Friday night had many highlights:
• Adrienne Minnis on flute, accompanied by Linda Hiebert on piano, playing “Dust in the Wind.”
• Janet Hardin singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and then leading us in “Home On the Range.”
• Jordan Roemerman sharing unique places to visit in Kansas.
• Shawna Duval displaying her Laser Art.
• A fantastic meal provided by the Culinary Class of Stafford High School.
• Sharing an evening with 50+ friends and family.
It is amazing what the First Friday committee organizes for terrific nights for the Stafford Community. Come join us in June for another great evening.
May starts our new book challenge “A Bouquet of Books!” Challenge yourself to read five books out of a choice of nine categories before August 1st. It is a great way to jump start your reading pleasure.
We have received a grant from Golden Belt Community Foundation to enhance our new programs of reading to preschoolers on Monday mornings and Recently Read, our new reading group for adults. This will help us fulfill needs to make our new programs successful. Thank you Golden Belt Foundation and the people that support the foundation!
Coming up:
• Story Hour Monday Mornings 10-11
• Every Wednesday except 3rd Wednesday - ESOL with Rachel Sandoval 6 p.m.
• May 1 - New book Challenge
• May 27 - 5:30 Recently Read book group.
• June 6 - 6-8 Barry and Meta West, Community Cookbooks From the Past. We’ll take a look at how community cookbooks can provide insight into people, places and time periods. Using Stafford cookbooks that span a time frame from 1926 to 1985, Meta and Barry find out how cooks of the past (many whose surnames you will probably recognize) not only filled a cookbook with recipes, they also preserved a record of their collective efforts to fund a new Stafford church in 1926. Meta, with assistance from Barry, will share ads from that same cookbook - testaments to the booming businesses that were thriving in Stafford. Feel free to bring any of your Local/Family cookbooks. Sue Griffiths will have a display of aprons and potholders. Core will provide food for purchase.
• “Color Our World” Summer Reading program will be in June and July.
• The next board meeting will be May 14.
Gerry Hildebrand is the head librarian for the Nora Larabee Memorial Library. Phone 620-234-5762, email larabeelibrary@gmail.com or visit Facebook at Nora Larabee Memorial Library.
