The 2010-2011 We the People Bookshelf program has concluded. Thanks to Mayor Tim White, State Rep. Jeff King, Anne Ritchie, Ben Seel, Courtlynn Rose, and Isaias McCaffery for helping with our events! The Bookshelf will shortly be available for checkout.
ICC history professor Isaias McCaffery will be presenting a lecture on the Battle of Gettysburg focusing on the mistakes each side made that affected the outcome of the battle and the Civil War. The lecture is in the 2nd floor meeting room Thursday April 14 at 6:30. 2011 is the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War!
Kids in 4th-8th grade who like writing are invited to this fun program Tuesday afternoons at 4:00 from February 15 through March 8. We’ll start off with some weird writing activities (like “Describe the gunky stuff that gets caught in the basket at the bottom of the sink. Don’t use the words disgusting or gross.”) Then writers can try their hand at being newspaper columnists, like Darby in Jonathon Scott Fuqua’s book Darby. We’ll publish the columns on the library website!
Our next Bookshelf Bunch program for kids in grades K-3 is on Thursday Nov. 18 at 5:30. Listen to Tico and the Golden Wings and other stories about friendship. Then write on a golden wing something you’ve done to be a good friend. Put your wing on the turkey on the bulletin board!
Our first program for the 4th-8th grade Writing Club is coming Tuesday November 9. We’ll be looking at several figures featured in the Bookshelf collection, namely Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, George Washington Carver, and Cesar Chavez. Then, after discussing some poetry forms, kids can write a poem about a leader of their choosing. Once they’ve perfected their poems, they can write them on a fabric square that will be sewn into a quilt. The program begins at 4:00 in the 2nd floor meeting room.
State Representative Jeff King in his talk about “A More Perfect Union” mentioned the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as an example of a union that doesn’t work very well. The six Christian groups that administer the church have a hard time agreeing on things, and literally fight among themselves. Find out the whole story here.
Don’t miss ICC political science professor Ben Seel’s lecture on The Constitution: An Engaged Citizenry, complete with an American flag cake! That’s Thursday Sept. 30 at 6:30.
