Alger Reads Book Club meets this coming Tuesday, Feb. 27th at 6:00pm to discuss Eden Waits by Maryka Biaggo. Based on the true story of Upper Michigan’s utopian experiment in Schoolcraft County. In 1893, financial panic imperils the settlement homesteaded by Abraham and Elizabeth Byers. Abraham, a preacher and self-proclaimed man of the people, rails against greed and corruption and launches the Hiawatha Colony, a product-sharing community designed to support its members through self-sufficiency. All are welcome to attend the discussion of this fascinating book.
Registered voters of Alger County will see the Public Library millage on their ballots on Tues., Feb. 27. This is a renewal of the current county-wide library service millage with a rate of .2950 mils for a 6 year period running from 2025-2030 inclusive. Munising School Public Library, the sole legally established public library in Alger County, contracts with the county for funding to administer library service for all residents and landowners of the county.
Alger Roots genealogy help is every 4th Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Stop into the library for a 30 minute ask the librarian session for finding your “roots” online in Ancestry.com Library Edition, FamilySearch.com, MyHeritage Library Edition and the Alger County Digital Archive. With the popularity of the PBS series Finding Your Roots, the interest in family tree research has exploded. The Munising Public Library is your one stop resource for getting started and for filling in those missing branches. No RSVP necessary, just stop in and unlock your story with Alger Roots.
Tail Spinners Story time will meet at the library this coming Monday, Feb. 26th at 10:30 A.M. Pre-school aged children and their caregivers are invited to attend this 30-minute activity for ages 7 and under. We are excited to see you and your little one at the library!
NEW BOOK: End of Story by A.J. Finn. “I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.” So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story… while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life “detective fever.” “You and I might even solve an old mystery or two.” Twenty years earlier—on New Year’s Eve 1999—Sebastian’s first wife and teenage son vanished from different locations, never to be seen again. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why has he emerged from seclusion, two decades later, to allow a stranger to dig into his past? “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” As Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastian’s life, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth… while Madeleine begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night. And when a corpse appears in the family’s koi pond, both women are shocked to find that the past isn’t gone—it’s just waiting. (Provided by publisher).
