Summer Reading Program supplies

 The staff is making plans for Summer Reading Program.  It is scheduled from June 13, 2011 (a Monday) until July 6 (a Wednesday).  The library needs ice cream buckets and round oatmeal cardboard containers or round hot chocolate mix cardboard containers for craft projects.  If you have some to donate to the program, just drop them off at the library.  And Thank you.

Forts of Nebraska presentation

 Sunday afternoon, The Friends of the Library hosted a very entertaining and informative presentation on “The Forts of Nebraska” by Jeff Barnes from Omaha.  Mr. Barnes was a very knowledgable speaker, had wonderful slides to show and gave us some very interesting history about our beautiful state of Nebraska and how it related to the history of the United States at that particular period of time.  He covered 11 Forts in Nebraska beginning with the first one in 1820, Ft. Atkinson.  Nebraska forts were outstanding and important, especially Fort Kearny (at Kearney, NE) and our beloved Ft. Robinson.  The library will have his book, “Forts of the Northern Plains”, available soon.  It covers forts of the plains during the Indian Wars.  Mr. Barnes has driven over 13,000 miles in researching and photographing these historical sites.