Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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December is here and the Library schedule is full of fun holiday activities. Tuesday afternoons, December 6 and 13 at 2:00 p.m. will be the adult ornament making classes. The itinerary will include traditional German stars and Danish heart baskets with materials provided. Please let us know if you would like to attend. The Library will also be participating in the Whitehall Christmas Stroll on December 10 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. The Friends of the Library will be hosting an open house with lots of goodies for the adults and students, while the...
I hope everyone has a wonderful few days off for Thanksgiving. The Library will be closed Thursday and Friday this week so the staff may enjoy the holiday with friends and family. Saturday will resume regular hours from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. This is new book season in the publishing world and the collection is receiving new works from favorite authors almost every day. I wanted to share some of the new titles which arrived just in this week. Many popular mystery authors are releasing new works in time for the holidays. Patricia Cornwell has a...
It was the third year of the Civil War, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln declared that each November there would be a national day of Thanksgiving. It was based on a celebration which first took place in 1621, when the Wampanoag Indians and the Plymouth settlers shared a meal after the fall crops had been harvested. The New World had been a cruel lesson for the pilgrims with only 51 settlers surviving out of 102 original arrivals. Now life was once again hard for a nation at war with itself. Would the long Civil War ever end? It would take...
On November 11, 1918 at 11:00 a.m. World War I Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch met with the German delegation to sign the armistice aboard his railway carriage near Compiegne, France. Although many people think of this event as the end of the First World War, it was initially a 30 day cease-fire agreement which was continually renewed until the formal signing of the peace treaty a year later. In 1954 this day was changed to honor all persons who have served in the armed forces of the United States and is celebrated as Veterans Day. In...
How would you feel if a total stranger had the authority to tell you what you could or could not read? This week the Library is recognizing the right of all Americans to read what they wish through “Banned Books Week”, September 25-October 1. People are always surprised when they see which books have been banned and for what reason. The fact that the Bible, If I Ran the Zoo by Dr. Seuss, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and The Call of the Wild, by Jack London have all been banned shows a wide div...
Music and art are the themes for September children’s programs. Butch Paquin will be teaching a watercolor class for school age children on Tuesdays at 4:00 pm and the library will be providing all of the supplies. Please call the Library to sign up for this set of classes so we may have enough paints and paper for everyone. Donna Weldon returns on August 31st to do a special musical story time as I will be out of town for the day. She will be a regular story time provider on the second Wednesday of each month. Pre-school children are i...
