Fall Harvest is over for this Hildebrand Farm! Now they can clean up the machinery and put it away for winter. We kind of celebrated Saturday, (not that the crops were worth celebrating, but at least that work was done). We were in Pleasantview to pick up my sweeper and ate at the Dutch Kitchen. Their special for the day was Turkey Dinner so we celebrated Thanksgiving early. It was a great meal with wonderful service.
I have been busy re-reading “Gone with the Wind.” It is a totally different book than the one I read in the ’60s. How can that be? I guess it’s because I was a teenager in the ’60s and probably the romance part of it caught my attention more. Now I’m really amazed at the detail Margaret Mitchell put into the book about the South, before, during and after the Civil War. It has been awhile since I have seen the movie but there is so much the movie couldn’t cover and I understand why Margaret Mitchell couldn’t endorse it. As in most times, “The book is much better than the movie.” Having said that, the movie was also good in its own way.
Is there a book that you really enjoyed when you were younger? Maybe now is the time to revisit it and see it in a whole new way.
Denise Dickson, Nancy Hildebrand, Shelly Brensing and I attended the South Central Community Foundation Grant Program at St. John Thursday. We were glad to represent Nora’s Library and receive a $1,000 grant check for a new computer and a $1,954 grant to help “Preserving Nora Legacy” to finish updating our ADA bathroom. It was interesting to see how the Foundation has helped so many of the entities in our area. Thirty thousand dollars for Stafford County alone. Tears of thanks were shed for these grants and past grants that have revived a “can do attitude” in our area. It is also nice that youth from the whole area are selected for Youth Making a Difference. These young adults helped with grant selection and Stafford County’s delegates were there to give the checks. Thanks for making a difference!
We had several people stop by the library to watch the pictures of Stafford Veterans. This video is available to anyone who wants to stop by and watch. The pictures included vets from the Civil War to modern day. I have been asked if others could be added. Stop by and see if your Veterans picture is already included. If not, maybe we could find a way to have them added.
A book that has been much talked about that I will be ordering is “Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin” by Mildred Schindler Janzen. It is a story about how one Kansas child, whose family went back to Germany to help on the family farm, was caught up in World War II. A documentary has been shown in several places in Central Kansas that has immortalized Mildred’s experiences in film. We hope the documentary does well in film festivals and that it can be more widely seen soon.
The consensus on the Larabee Library News at this time is, Tuesday in the Great Bend Tribune. Hopefully this will give our readers a chance to find it in print as well as Facebook on Monday mornings.
Don’t forget we are having a “Fall into Reading” book challenge that will end Dec. 1st. Only five books read out of nine categories will get you a fun prize. Call or stop by the library for more information.
November is the month of “Giving.” The Library will be collecting the following items for the school this year – underwear, socks, and gloves of all sizes, self care products, deodorant, shampoo, bodywash, female products. We are asking people to drop off the above items to the library during the month of November. Thank you!
November 14, 5:30-6:30 p.m. We will be reading to Parents as Teachers Preschoolers, “I Thought I Saw a Penguin.” I hear Penguins might be hiding in the library? Penguin singing and dancing might be involved?
November 28, 2-6 p.m., Is “Giving Tuesday” for the Golden Belt Community Foundation(GBCF). The library will be accepting donations on this day, which will receive additional matching funds from Golden Belt Community Foundation.
Come see us at Nora’s Place! Our address is 108 N Union, Stafford
Next Board Meeting: Nov. 8 at 6 p.m.
Come join us at Nora’s -
Our library hours are: Monday Morning 8 a.m.-noon; and Tuesday-Friday 2-6 p.m. Phone is 620-234-5762 and the email is larabeelibrary@gmail.com. Visit Facebook at Nora Larabee Memorial Library.
By Gerry Hildebrand, head librarian for the Nora Larabee Memorial Library. Phone 620-234-5762, email larabeelibrary@gmail.comor visit Facebook at Nora Larabee Memorial Library.
