UPCOMING EVENTS
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Preschool Story Time: Every Thursday at 10 AM
Genealogy Group: Monday, September 10 at 10 AM
Goldiblox Class: Sat. September 16 at 10 AM
Book Discussion Group: Thursday, September 21 at 7 PM
Library Board meeting: Monday, September 25 at 6:30 PM
Free Essential Oils Class: Saturday, September 30 at 10 AM
Artist Reception for Sr. Mary Catherine Jacobs, O Carm: Sunday, October 1, 2-3 PM
Click on the Exhibits page for more information about our featured artist
Sunday, October 8: An Evening with Marcia Mitchell, 5 PM
Grace United Methodist Church, Piedmont
Genealogy Group: Monday, October 9 at 10 AM
NEA Big Read Event:
Preschool Story Time: Every Thursday at 10 AM
Genealogy Group: Monday, September 10 at 10 AM
Goldiblox Class: Sat. September 16 at 10 AM
Book Discussion Group: Thursday, September 21 at 7 PM
Library Board meeting: Monday, September 25 at 6:30 PM
Free Essential Oils Class: Saturday, September 30 at 10 AM
Artist Reception for Sr. Mary Catherine Jacobs, O Carm: Sunday, October 1, 2-3 PM
Click on the Exhibits page for more information about our featured artist
Sunday, October 8: An Evening with Marcia Mitchell, 5 PM
Grace United Methodist Church, Piedmont
Genealogy Group: Monday, October 9 at 10 AM
NEA Big Read Event:
GOLDIBLOX CLASS
Saturday, September 16 at 10 AM
The classes are designed to familiarize young girls with engineering concepts in a fun way. Boys are welcome too!
More classes will be offered in October! Learn more about Goldiblox at their website: https://www.goldieblox.com/
The classes are designed to familiarize young girls with engineering concepts in a fun way. Boys are welcome too!
More classes will be offered in October! Learn more about Goldiblox at their website: https://www.goldieblox.com/
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
BOOK DISCUSSION:
Thursday, September 21 at 7 PM
September title: The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
A classic work of American literature, this book has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene in 1990. In a collection of linked short stories, O'Brien depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. O'Brien's award winning novel helped to reset our understanding of the Vietnam war and its consequences.
Sign out a copy of the book at the library and join the discussion.You can meet the author in Sturgis on September 22 and also at the SD Festival of Books on September 23. See the Big Read Schedule of Events HERE.
Thursday, September 21 at 7 PM
September title: The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
A classic work of American literature, this book has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene in 1990. In a collection of linked short stories, O'Brien depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. O'Brien's award winning novel helped to reset our understanding of the Vietnam war and its consequences.
Sign out a copy of the book at the library and join the discussion.You can meet the author in Sturgis on September 22 and also at the SD Festival of Books on September 23. See the Big Read Schedule of Events HERE.
ARTIST RECEPTION FOR SR. MARY CATHERINE JACOBS
AN EVENING WITH MARCIA MITCHELL
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8
5:00 PM POTLUCK DINNER FOLLOWED BY TALK AND BOOK SIGNING
GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 10060 FOOTHILL DRIVE, PIEDMONT
Ms. Mitchell is former associate director of the American Film Institute and a former senor executive for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She began her career as a journalist and has received national awards for writing, editing, and photography. In May 2007, Marcia testified on the Katharine Gun case to a Capitol Hill panel. She is the co-author with Thomas Mitchell of The Spy Who Seduced America: Lies and Betrayal in the Heat of the Cold War (2002) and The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion (2008). The latter novel is in development as a major motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins and Harrison Ford.
5:00 PM POTLUCK DINNER FOLLOWED BY TALK AND BOOK SIGNING
GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 10060 FOOTHILL DRIVE, PIEDMONT
Ms. Mitchell is former associate director of the American Film Institute and a former senor executive for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She began her career as a journalist and has received national awards for writing, editing, and photography. In May 2007, Marcia testified on the Katharine Gun case to a Capitol Hill panel. She is the co-author with Thomas Mitchell of The Spy Who Seduced America: Lies and Betrayal in the Heat of the Cold War (2002) and The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion (2008). The latter novel is in development as a major motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins and Harrison Ford.
GENEALOGY GROUP
Next meeting: Monday, October 9 at 10 AM
Are you researching your family history? Our Genealogy Group meets at 10 AM the second Monday of every month. It's a small group with LOTS of years of experience. We often can suggest resources to help with your brick walls! Anyone is welcome to join us anytime! You can access Ancestry on the library computers again!
Are you researching your family history? Our Genealogy Group meets at 10 AM the second Monday of every month. It's a small group with LOTS of years of experience. We often can suggest resources to help with your brick walls! Anyone is welcome to join us anytime! You can access Ancestry on the library computers again!
BOOK SIGNING WITH VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 AT 2 PM
Piedmont Valley Library
The author of many books, Sneve's latest work is entitled "Sioux Women: Traditionally Sacred" published by the SD State Historical Society
From the publicity release:
“‘Sioux Women’ is the first nonfiction, young-adult work that the South Dakota Historical Society Press has published,” says Nancy Tystad Koupal, press director. “It contains important information, accessible for any audience, along with beautiful photographs that depict life as it was and is for Sioux women.”
Driving Hawk Sneve, the daughter of an Episcopal priest and a Lakota Sioux mother, was born and raised on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. A member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, she has authored several books for young adult readers, both fiction and nonfiction. Sneve received her B.S. and M.Ed. degrees from South Dakota State University and taught English in public schools throughout the state and at the Flandreau Indian School. The recipient of the Native American Prose Award and the Spirt of Crazy Horse Award, she is the first South Dakotan to receive the National Humanities Medal.
Piedmont Valley Library
The author of many books, Sneve's latest work is entitled "Sioux Women: Traditionally Sacred" published by the SD State Historical Society
From the publicity release:
“‘Sioux Women’ is the first nonfiction, young-adult work that the South Dakota Historical Society Press has published,” says Nancy Tystad Koupal, press director. “It contains important information, accessible for any audience, along with beautiful photographs that depict life as it was and is for Sioux women.”
Driving Hawk Sneve, the daughter of an Episcopal priest and a Lakota Sioux mother, was born and raised on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. A member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, she has authored several books for young adult readers, both fiction and nonfiction. Sneve received her B.S. and M.Ed. degrees from South Dakota State University and taught English in public schools throughout the state and at the Flandreau Indian School. The recipient of the Native American Prose Award and the Spirt of Crazy Horse Award, she is the first South Dakotan to receive the National Humanities Medal.
