September is Library Card Sign-Up Month and the Munising Library is ramping up for it to be the most successful Sign-Up Month ever! Everyone who signs up for a card in the month of September will earn an automatic entry into our Fall Reading Gift Bag Drawing and will also receive an MSPL tote bag filled with info about all the library services and offerings. Mini drawings throughout the month for new cardholders will feature library swag, books, and other items. If you have a library card that you have not used inside the library in over five years, it is most likely no longer valid and will need to be renewed or replaced as well. Your new card will qualify you for the drawings too! Stop in during September and find out why a library card is the handiest item in your wallet.
Mark your calendar for October 9 at 6 p.m. when Bill Jamerson will bring his program Boys of Winter – Ski Jumpers of the Upper Peninsula to the Munising Library. Jamerson, a musical historian, will tell stories and perform songs based on interviews with ski jumpers of the bygone era. This is a family friendly event. For more information please call the Library at 906-387-2125.
Tail Spinners Story time will meet at the library this coming Monday, September 23 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. This week will be a Ranger Read-along on the topic of butterflies! We are excited to see you and your little one at the library!
NEW BOOK: North Country: Essays on the Upper Midwest and Regional Identity. Edited by John K. Lauck and Gleaves Whitney. Travel north from the upper Midwest’s metropolises, and before long you’re “up north”—a region that’s hard to define but unmistakable to any resident or tourist. Crops give way to forests, mines (or their remains) mark the landscape, and lakes multiply, becoming ever clearer until you reach the vastness of the Great Lakes. How to characterize this region, as distinct from the agrarian Midwest, is the question North Country seeks to answer, as a congenial group of scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explores the distinctive landscape, culture, and history that define the northern margins of the American Midwest. From the fur trade to tourism, fisheries to supper clubs, Finnish settlers to Native treaty rights, the nature of the North Country emerges here in all its variety and particularity. (Provided by publisher).
