Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Board Games and Pizza Halloween Party

October 18th, 2008 12:30-2:30

The Hubbardston Library is hosting a Board Game Night for lovers of old-school face-to-face gaming fun! Play one of our board games - including chess, checkers, Scrabble, Monopoly, Clue, Risk and Stratego - or bring one of your own.

We'll have a couple of pizzas, along with refreshments. We had a great turn-out last time, maybe 35 people! So come on over to the library to have some fun!

Wear your Halloween costume!

Fall Celebration Featuring Live Music!

September 25th, 2008 6-8 pm

Fall Celebration featuring local musical talents Joe Herald, Martha Fahey, and Catherine Biewer (Martha's friend).

September is National Library month and we are having a library card drive. All card holders can sign up for a free prize give away to take place at 7:30 on the night of the Fall Celebration. Prizes are

1) Personal DVD player
2) CD player
3) $25 gift card
4) $25 gift certificate from Hubbardston Market

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Board Games and Pizza

August 28th, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

The Hubbardston Library is hosting a Board Game party for lovers of old-school face-to-face gaming fun! Play one of our board games - including chess, checkers, Scrabble, Monopoly, Clue, Risk and Stratego - or bring one of your own.

We'll have a couple of pizzas, along with refreshments. So come on over to the library to have some fun!

Friday, July 4, 2008

July 4th

A little history, courtesy of wikipedia:

  • In 1776, John Adams declared, "The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore."[3]
  • In 1777, thirteen guns were fired, once at morning and again as evening fell, on July 4 in Bristol, Rhode Island. Philadelphia celebrated the first anniversary in a manner a modern American would find quite familiar: an official dinner for the Continental Congress, toasts, 13-gun salutes, speeches, prayers, music, parades, troop reviews, and fireworks. Ships were decked with red, white, and blue bunting.
  • In 1778, General George Washington marked July 4 with a double ration of rum for his soldiers and an artillery salute. Across the Atlantic Ocean, ambassadors John Adams and Benjamin Franklin held a dinner for their fellow Americans in Paris, France.
  • In 1779, July 4 fell on a Sunday. The holiday was celebrated on Monday, July 5.
  • In 1781, the Massachusetts General Court became the first state legislature to recognize July 4 as a state celebration.
  • In 1783, Moravians in Salem, North Carolina, held the first celebration of July 4 in the country with a challenging music program assembled by Johann Friedrich Peter. This work was titled "The Psalm of Joy".
  • In 1791 was the first recorded use of the name "Independence Day".
  • In 1870, the U.S. Congress made Independence Day an unpaid holiday for federal employees.[4]
  • In 1941, Congress changed Independence Day to a paid federal holiday. The residents of Vicksburg, Mississippi, celebrated Independence Day for the first time since July 4, 1863, when the Siege of Vicksburg ended with a Union victory during the American Civil War.

Grandma's Storytime

The Hubbardston Library just received a generous donation of $200 with the following note:

Please accept this donation in honor of "Grandma's" Fahey and Burleson who bring Storytime to our kids encouraging them to read and for spending time with them and allowing them to use the library.

The library thanks the person or persons that made this anonymous donation!

Monday, June 30, 2008

Board Games and Pizza

July 24th, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

The Hubbardston Library is hosting a Board Game party for lovers of old-school face-to-face gaming fun! Play one of our board games - including chess, checkers, Scrabble, Monopoly, Clue, Risk and Stratego - or bring one of your own.

We'll have a couple of pizzas, along with refreshments. So come on over to the library to have some fun!

In Memory of Michael Frechen

Margie Wirth, Helen Hoskins, and Pat Baese have donated the book "Stories For Young People" by Oscar Wilde in memory of Michael Frechen.

Thank you very much for your donation!

Independence Day Weekend

The Hubbardston Library will be closed on July 5th (Saturday) in observance of Independence Day weekend.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

In Memory of Christopher R. Johnson

Pat Baese has just donated the following books in memory of Christopher R. Johnson.

Lucky O' Leprechaun by Jana Billon
Dinotopia Pop-Up Book by James Gurney
J is for Jump Shot by Mike Ulmer

Thank you for your donation Pat!

Friday, May 23, 2008

Hubbardston's Healthy Community Town Hall Round-Table Dinner

Ionia County Health Department Invites you to the:

FREE COMMUNITY

Hubbardston's Healthy Community Town Hall Round-Table Dinner

June 18, 2008
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
At the Hubbardston Community Center
305 Russell Street, Hubbardston, Michigan 48845

Discussions will include:
1) Increasing physical activity by making it easy and safe to be physically active daily
2) Supporting daily consumption of and easy access to healthy food
3) Supporting tobacco-free lifestyles by focusing on tobacco prevention and reduction by promoting smoke-free environments

Free Meal Provided

For more information please contact:
Stacy Moore - Health Educator
616-527-5341 (or) smoore@ioniacounty.org

RSVP by : June 9, 2008
Register early to be entered for Door Prizes!

Event sponsored by:
Michigan State University Extension
Michigan Department of Community Health
Ionia County Health Department
ICSAI

New Board Member and Treasurer

At last night's meeting, the board voted for Carol Schrauben to join our board. Carol has brought several people into the library via scrap-booking sessions, as well as helping us with fund-raising and donating books. Welcome aboard Carol!

Also at last night's meeting, we have voted to have Cherri Muirhead become our new treasurer. Cherri has been a board member since the beginning, and has been instrumental in the Texas Hold'em fund-raising events that continue to help the Hubbardston Library. Library finances are now being tracked via Quickbooks, to help the board in making financial decisions. Thanks for volunteering Cherri!

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Summer Teen Reading

The following are new books have been ordered for boys and girls. Recommended by Amazon.com:

The Chronicles of Narnia
Lock and Key
What My Mother Doesn't Know
Uglies Book 1
Feed
Tantalize
The Last Summer (of You and Me)
Airhead
Peak
Prom Nights from Hell
Slam
Stop in the Name of Pants!
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Gossip Girl
The Carlyles #1
Deadline
The Truth About Forever
Tyrell
Game
Madapple
Guys Write for Guys Read: Boys’ Favorite Authors Write About Being Boys
Someday This Pain Will Be Use
Monster
Knights of the Hill Country!

MJ Bishop Concert!


MJ Bishop is an acoustic solo artist out of Seattle. Her music is described as folk Americana with attitude; lyric-driven melancholy that's gutsy, introspective, organic, emotive, acoustic, and laced with twang. A modern-day Patsy Cline whose voice has been seasoned to Americana perfection. She has been compared to k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris, Natalie Merchant, Kim Richey, Dar Williams, Rory Block, Indigo Girls, Cowboy Junkies. Her influences include Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, k.d. lang, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams.

Pull of the Moon, MJ's long-awaited third album (set for release in late May 2008), sees her rolling up her sleeves and plunging into the grittiness that is Americana, through the sweet, familiar melodies of folk. The added trim around the edges reveals her deep roots in country, jazz, rock and pop.

On these 12 tracks, MJ's unwavering smoky vocals start from the dirt in the crawl space, climb the stairs to the kitchen, the bedrooms, the attic, and finally blast through the roof. She takes you on a journey starting with the evocative opener "Up North" (about her small home town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula), weaving a story around the life of a guitar, life's pushes and pulls, love, loss, heartache, freedom from the nine-to-five job, and the appeal of the open road. You will be conflicted by the lyrics as they first lure you with the promise of good times before abruptly dropping you into a chasm of loneliness and heartache.

MJ is set to tour Summer 2008 (Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina) to share and promote her new CD.

Producing a pretty big sound armed with only a single guitar and her vocal chords, MJ's songs leave you humming well after the last note is sung. Personally connecting with the audience is important to MJ, and her charm, musicianship and professionalism shine during her performances. Entertaining runs in the family and she claims to be addicted to the stage.

MJ has performed steadily since 1998 in and around Seattle, and has also taken her music to Oregon, Idaho, Texas, California, Montana, Michigan and Florida. She has shared the stage with many Northwest musicians, including The Starlings, Christy McWilson, The Paperboys (Canada), ThorNton Creek, Moe Provencher, Nancy K. Dillon, Eva Tree, Matt Price, and Brandi Carlile.

Combining deep roots in acoustic music with a maturing country sensibility, MJ creates a genre that is, in many ways, her own.


This concert will be 7-9 pm on Tuesday, June 24th at the Hubbardston Library. Depending on the weather, it may be inside or outside, so please bring your camp chairs just in case.

Ice Cream and refreshments will be available.

Tickets are $15 per adult, for MJ. $20 at the door.

Library donations are appreciated.

Learn more about MJ Bishop at her web site:

http://mjbishopband.com/

or

http://myspace.com/mjbishopband

Friday, May 9, 2008

Board Games and Pizza

May 29th, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm and June 21st, 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm

The Hubbardston Library is hosting a Board Game party for lovers of old-school face-to-face gaming fun! Play one of our board games - including chess, checkers, Scrabble, Monopoly, Clue, Risk and Stratego - or bring one of your own.

We'll have a couple of pizzas, along with refreshments. We had a great turn-out last time, maybe 35 people! So come on over to the library to have some fun!

Monday, April 28, 2008

Spring Clean Up!

Hubbardston Library
Sponsors
SPRING CLEAN UP
at the Hubbardston
Community Center

Saturday May 3rd
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
(Rain date May 10th)
Please help us spruce
Up YOUR Community
Center grounds…we
will rake, weed, mulch,
and more.

LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

May Chicken Dinners

Chicken Dinner

Tuscan Masonic Lodge
206 North Washington Street
Hubbardston, Michigan 48845

Saturday, May 3, 2008

4-6pm

Adults $8 , Youth 6-12 $4 , under 5 free

There will also be a Chicken Dinner on May 26th, Memorial Day, from 11 am - 1 pm!

Thursday, April 17, 2008

More Books from the Library of Michigan

Many thanks to Mary Rumler and Kate Nicholoff of the Library of Michigan for thinking of us and donating the following books:

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Theft By Mortgage - Michael Burdick
Greener Pastures- Clarence Underwood
The Father of All Things - Tom Bissell
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Fortune's Rocks- Anita Shreve
The Appetizer Atlas - Aurthur L. Meyer and John M. Vann
The Forest Lover - Susan Vreeland
A Hard Time To Be A Father - Fay Weldon
Peter and His Pet Petoskey Stone - Victor B. Eicheler
Forbidden Fruit - Betty Deramus
V'era - Stacy Schiff
Plain Truth - Jody Picoult
Traverse City From Farmstead to Lake Shore - Thomas Kachadurian
Inside Outside - Janet R. Gilsdorf, MD
Made In Detroit - Paul Clemens
A Wedding In December - Anita Shreve
Imagine What America Could Be - edited by Marianne Williamson
Little Saint - Hannah Green
High Lonesome - Joyce Carol Oates
The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
Burning Secrets - Steve Brezenoff
How Stella Got Her Groove Back - Terry Mc Millan
Summer Sisters - Judy Blume

We're limping along now with our computer and software, still not quite 100% yet, but we're cataloging books again. Stop by the library and check out these new books!

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

And The Rest Of The Michigan Notable Books

The following books will be added shortly. Our librarian computer is dead, so we are switching to one of the patron computers, but that is not yet running. Hopefully, we'll get that going on or before this Saturday.

Up In Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard
Paper Tiger by Ted A. Kluck
Elijah Of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtics
The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
Iggy Pop - Open Up And Bleed by Paul Trynka
My Brave Mechanics - The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War by Mark Hoffman
The Father Of All Things by Tom Bissell
The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
Sweety Pies by Patty Pinner
Connecting The Dots by Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project

Monday, April 7, 2008

More Michigan Notable Books

We will be adding the following books, shortly. Our librarian computer is down, so it's not possible to catalog new books as they come in. We hope to get this fixed quickly.

Write It When I'm Gone - Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford by Thomas M. DeFrank

Returning To Earth by Jim Harrison
A Primer on Parallel Lives by Dan Gerber
Alden B. Down Midwestern Modern by Diane Maddex

We'll let you know when we get more books!

Thursday, April 3, 2008

2008 Michigan Notable Books

The 2008 Michigan Notable Books list is the Library of Michigan's annual selection of up to 20 recommended books reflecting Michigan's rich cultural heritage, featuring high-quality titles with wide public appeal that are either written by a Michigan resident or about a Michigan-related topic.

The Hubbardston Library has purchased these 20 books! At this time, we have the following:

Mackinac Bridge - A 50-Year Chronicle - 1957-2007 by Mike Fornes
Sailing Grace by John Otterbacher
Fork in the Road by Eric Villegas
From The Vine Exploring Michigan Wineries by Sharon Kegerreis and Lorri Hathaway
One Thousand Tracings - Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge

The others will be arriving soon. Stay tuned!

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Used Book Sale!

The Hubbardston Library will be having their very first book sales on
Saturday, April 12th from 11 am to 7 pm. These books are typically
duplicates of books that we already have shelved. Most books will
sell for one dollar or less, so they are a real bargain! The book
sales is the same day as the Hubbardston Community Center Spring
Fling, so come by a little early to browse for books!

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Spring Fling!

Spring Fling Roast Beef Dinner
April 12th, 2008
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Cost $7.00 Adult, $4.00 (12 & under) free (4 & under)

Entertainment by Local Talent 6:00 pm

Raffle Drawing at 7:00 pm -- $500, $125, & $75 will be raffled

The Public is Welcome

Hubbardston Community Center at 305 Russell Street, Hubbardston, Michigan 48845

Thank You, Library of Michigan!

Many thanks to Randy Riley and Kim Laird from the Library of Michigan. They've just donated the following books left over from the Michigan Notable Books program. These books are brand new, and will be available in the library in the next week or so:

Mandy and Pandy Say, "Ni Hao Ma?" by Chris Lin
Stone Crazy by Tracy Gallup
Shell Crazy by Tracy Gallup
Warily We Roll Along by Irene Warsaw
The Mud Hole by Arthur Brood
Burning Secrets by Steve Brezenoff
Egrets To The Flames by Barbara Anton
Amazing Women of West Michigan by Crystal Bowman
Sammy Sosa in 9 Innings by Julio C. Malone
Faith In The City by Angela D. Dillard
Loons Have Landed! by Terry Camp
Becoming Dead Right by Frances Shani Parker
The Boy Who Killed Caterpillars by Joshua Kornreich
The Covenant Field by Chris Zimmerman
In Line for the Exterminator by Jim Daniels
Mr. Pleasant by Jim Ray Daniels
Double Time by Priscilla Cogan
Citizen Moore by Roger Rapoport
Cause of Death by Stephen D. Cohle, MD and Tobin T. Buhk
Cold, Clear, and Deadly by Melvin J. Visser
A Secret Of The Universe by Stephen L. Gibson
Page One: Vanished by Nancy Barr
That's Just Kramer! by Ron Kramer with Dan Ewald
strike dog by joseph heywood
Goblin Hero by Jim C. Hines
The Boys I Borrow by Heather Sellers
Cold War Confessions by Jay Carp
Driven Abroad by Ron French
Seasons on the Au Sable by Rusty Gates
Perfect From Now On by John Sellers
Not Far Away by Lois Beardslee
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp by Fritz Stansell
Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission by Christopher Paul Curtis
Remarkable Michigan Women by Julia Pferdehirt
The Moments Lost by Bruce Olds
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
Madonna by Lucy O'Brien
Gas City by Loren D. Estleman
Threshold Resistance by A. Alfred Taubman
Fowl Weather by Bob Tarte
Neck Deep by Ander Monson
Launching A Leadership Revolution by Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward
My Dear Helen by Nancy Seligmann
The Women Were Leaving the Men by Andy Mozina
Figured Dark by Greg Rappleye
Father, Tell Me I Have Not Aged by Russell Thorburn
Eight Dogs Named Jack by Joe Borri
Telling Our Stories by The Flint ColorLine Project
The Secret Zoo by Bryan Chick
A Pocketful of Passage by Loraine Campbell
Poems New, Used, and Rebuilds by Jeff Vande Zande
Voices Of The Lost And Found by Dorene O'Brien
the lost girl by James Morrison
Level Playing Fields by Peter Morris
Whittemore Michigan by Lugene Daniels
The Train Of Tomorrow by Ric Morgan
Sonny Sez! by Sonny Eliot
The Greatest Gift by John O'Shaughnessy
Hot Rocks by Lev Raphael
Hope For Carsonville by Erin Q Hartman
Hallies Heart by Shelly Beach
Mighty Tittabawassee by Roselynn Ederer & Kathryn Ellen Lewis
Unto the Daughters by Karen Tintori
My Grandma Likes To Say by Denise Brennan-Nelson
The Crayon Kids' Art Adventure by Jennifer Ruprecht
The Comet Kid by Sonja Richards
Hot House by the Cranbrook Academy of Art
Grammie's Secret Cupboard by Cynthia Furlong Reynolds
Ginger and Petunia by Patricia Polacco
Frog Prince by Kathy-Jo Wargin
The Decoy by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
3 Tales of a City by Daryl T. Schlender
Thin Ice edited by Reinder Van Til and Gordon Olson
Shooting Star by Alana Paluszewski
Houses of Study by Ilana M. Blumberg
A Tree Grows in Trout Creek by Coralie Cederna Johnson
Genies, Meanies, and Magic Rings by Stephen Mitchell
The Future City on the Inland Sea by Eric D. Olmanson
The View from the Helm by James J. Duderstadt
Twisted Justice by Patricia Gussin
Inside Inside by James Lipton
Pictures from our Vacation by Lynne Rae Perkins
Priscilla McDoodleNut DoodleMcMae Asks Why? by Janet Mary Sinke
The Curious Polka-Dot Present by Cheri L. Hallwood
Casey Cougar by Ronald & Diana Meyer
The Christmas Boot by Lisa Wheeler
Brewster the Rooster by Devin Scillian
Three Lessons for Astair the Bear by Martin Brennan
The Voyagers Paddle by Kathy-jo Wargin
Mackinac Bridge by Gloria Whelan

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

MJ Bishop Concert!


MJ Bishop is an acoustic solo artist out of Seattle. Her music is described as folk Americana with attitude; lyric-driven melancholy that's gutsy, introspective, organic, emotive, acoustic, and laced with twang. A modern-day Patsy Cline whose voice has been seasoned to Americana perfection. She has been compared to k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris, Natalie Merchant, Kim Richey, Dar Williams, Rory Block, Indigo Girls, Cowboy Junkies. Her influences include Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, k.d. lang, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams.

Pull of the Moon, MJ's long-awaited third album (set for release in late May 2008), sees her rolling up her sleeves and plunging into the grittiness that is Americana, through the sweet, familiar melodies of folk. The added trim around the edges reveals her deep roots in country, jazz, rock and pop.

On these 12 tracks, MJ's unwavering smoky vocals start from the dirt in the crawl space, climb the stairs to the kitchen, the bedrooms, the attic, and finally blast through the roof. She takes you on a journey starting with the evocative opener "Up North" (about her small home town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula), weaving a story around the life of a guitar, life's pushes and pulls, love, loss, heartache, freedom from the nine-to-five job, and the appeal of the open road. You will be conflicted by the lyrics as they first lure you with the promise of good times before abruptly dropping you into a chasm of loneliness and heartache.

MJ is set to tour Summer 2008 (Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina) to share and promote her new CD.

Producing a pretty big sound armed with only a single guitar and her vocal chords, MJ's songs leave you humming well after the last note is sung. Personally connecting with the audience is important to MJ, and her charm, musicianship and professionalism shine during her performances. Entertaining runs in the family and she claims to be addicted to the stage.

MJ has performed steadily since 1998 in and around Seattle, and has also taken her music to Oregon, Idaho, Texas, California, Montana, Michigan and Florida. She has shared the stage with many Northwest musicians, including The Starlings, Christy McWilson, The Paperboys (Canada), ThorNton Creek, Moe Provencher, Nancy K. Dillon, Eva Tree, Matt Price, and Brandi Carlile.

Combining deep roots in acoustic music with a maturing country sensibility, MJ creates a genre that is, in many ways, her own.


This concert will be 7-9 pm on Tuesday, June 24th at the Hubbardston Library. Depending on the weather, it may be inside or outside, so please bring your camp chairs just in case.

Ice Cream and refreshments will be available.

Tickets are $15 per adult, for MJ. $20 at the door.

Library donations are appreciated.

Learn more about MJ Bishop at her web site:

http://mjbishopband.com/

or

http://myspace.com/mjbishopband

Board Games and Pizza

April 24th, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

The Hubbardston Library is hosting a Board Game Night for lovers of old-school face-to-face gaming fun! Play one of our board games - including chess, checkers, Scrabble, Monopoly, Clue, Risk and Stratego - or bring one of your own.

We'll have a couple of pizzas, along with refreshments. If we have a good turn-out, we'll make this a regular event!

Chicken Dinner

Chicken Dinner

Tuscan Masonic Lodge
206 North Washington Street
Hubbardston, Michigan 48845

Saturday, April 5, 2008

4-6pm

Adults $8 , Youth 6-12 $4 , under 5 free

Scrapbook Fundraiser

All proceeds go to the Breast Cancer 3 Day walk.

When: April 5, 2008
Where: Hubbardston Library
Time: 9 am until midnight
Cost: $20.00 + a dish to pass (for lunch or dinner), Continental Breakfast, Coffee, and Bottled water provided

Contact: Carol Schrauben 989-981-6874.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Still More Books

The following books should be available next week sometime...

Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Walking To Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright
Imperial Reckoning by Caroline Elkins
Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Hirohito by Herbert P. Bix
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big by Berkeley Breathed
Opus by Berkeley Breathed
Mars Needs Moms! by Berkeley Breathed
W.E.B. Du Bois by David Levering Lewis
John Adams by David McCullough
de Kooning by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate
Vera by Stacy Schiff
Khrushchev by William Taubman

Again, the books above are a cross section of history, fiction, non-fiction, and biographies. In fact, there are 3 children's books by Berkely Breathed. All of the books above won the Pulitzer Prize between 2000 and 2007. Enjoy! - Duane

Thursday, March 13, 2008

More New Books!

The following new books will be available in the Hubbardston Library this Saturday (March 15th). These books are all Pulitzer Prize winners in categories of Fiction, Non-Fiction, History, Biography, and Poetry. These books were all published between 2000 and 2007. They are new books:

Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon
late wife by Claudia Emerson
Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
repair by c. k. williams
March by Geraldine Brooks
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
Practical Gods by Carl Dennis
Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter
interpreter of maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Gulag by Anne Applebaum
Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Are there any specific books or authors you would like the Hubbardston Library to carry? Please let us know! - Duane

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

New Books!

Here are some new books that will be added to the library this Saturday:

Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower

Polio by David M. Oshinsky

Freedom From Fear by David M. Kennedy

The books above are all Pulitzer Prize winners. Stop by the library and take a look! - Duane

Friday, March 7, 2008

Celebrate the season with an Irish Book


The Hubbardston Library contains several Irish books.  Stop by and check one out!

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

New Books!

We have donated books coming into the library nearly every day, but the following are newer releases than most:

The Woods by Harlan Coben
The Abduction by Mark Gimenez
Pandora's Daughter by Iris Johansen
7th Heaven by James Patterson
Final Sins by Michael Prescott
The Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver

Deb Bolton donated the above books. Thanks Deb!

See you at the library! - Duane

Monday, March 3, 2008

Thank You!

On behalf of the Hubbardston Library, we wish to thank Karl Harter and everyone else who volunteered for the Chicken Dinner on March 1st!

For everyone who made and donated home-made pie, thank you very much!

And thanks to everyone in the community who bought chicken dinners too!

This will be the biggest donation to the Hubbardston Library to date, and we appreciate it very, very much!

Welcome back Helen!

Helen Hoskins has been in Colorado for the past couple of months to visit family. She is back now, so stop by the library to say hi! She's usually there in the afternoon.

Helen told me that the snow is a lot deeper out there. She also bought a couple of hundred dollars worth of books that are being shipped back.

Welcome back Helen!

- Duane

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Dean's List

Joshua Fahey has made the Dean's List for Fall 2007 at Michigan Technological University.

Joshua has been a big help during the startup phases of the Hubbardston Library.

Congratulations Joshua!

The Dean's List for student's living in the area can be found at the Lansing State Journal web site:

http://www.lsj.com

Board Games and Pizza

March 27th, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

The Hubbardston Library is hosting a Board Game Night for lovers of old-school face-to-face gaming fun! Play one of our board games - including chess, checkers, Scrabble, Monopoly, Clue, Risk and Stratego - or bring one of your own.

We'll have a couple of pizzas, along with refreshments. If we have a good turn-out, we'll make this a regular event!

Friday, February 22, 2008

Scrapbook Fundraiser

All proceeds go to the Breast Cancer 3 Day walk.

When: March 1, 2008
Where: Hubbardston Library
Time: 9 am until midnight
Cost: $20.00 + a dish to pass (for lunch or dinner), Continental Breakfast, Coffee, and Bottled water provided

Contact: Carol Schrauben 989-981-6874.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

eBay Seminar

From the United States Postal Service postcard about this event:

Learn how to buy, sell, and ship with ease.

Come by eBay Day, and find out how simple it is to buy, sell and ship on eBay. You'll learn fast and easy ways to buy and sell almost anything on eBay - and you'll also learn about the "Quick, Easy, Convenient" online shopping options the United States Postal Service offers to eBay users. Our innovative, integrated online shipping solutions are just part of the reason why the U.S. Postal Service is a preferred shipping service on eBay.

Stop by eBay Day between the hours below:

Hubbardston Library
305 Russell Street
Hubbardston, Michigan 48845

Thursday, March 20th
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Mixed Doubles Euchre Tournament

To benefit the Hubbardston Library

Saturday March 29th, 2008

American Legion Post 182, Hubbardston, Michigan

Games begin at 1:00 PM, Sign up at Noon

60% Payback, Luncheon Available

For more information call Jim or Susie Barker at (989)981-6973 or (989)981-9445

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Texas Hold'em

Texas Hold'em at the Hubbardston Community Center

When: Last Sunday of each Month (Feb 24, March 30, April 27), 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM (registration begins at 4:00 PM)
Buy In: $30.00 for $10,000 of chips
Blinds: Start at 25/50 and double every half hour
Prizes: 1st - 25%, 2nd - 15%, 3rd - 10%, 4th - 6.6%, 5th - 3.3% (60% going to winners, 40% to Hubbardston Community Center and Hubbardston Library)

Players are encouraged to pre-register with Robert Fahey 517-526-1025 cell or 517-989-6503 home.

Non-alcoholic refreshments and snacks provided for a fee.

Tournament open to the public - 18 years and older.

Sponsored by the Hubbardston Garden Club or the American Legion for the benefit of the Hubbardston Community Center and the Hubbardston Library.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Chicken Dinner on March 1st

Chicken Dinner

Tuscan Masonic Lodge
206 North Washington Street
Hubbardston, Michigan 48845

Saturday, March 1, 2008

4-6pm

Adults $8 , Youth 6-12 $4 , under 5 free

Proceeds to Hubbardston Library

Monday, February 4, 2008

Hubbardston Library now an official Michigan Non-Profit!

Welcome to the Hubbardston Library online newsletter!

Shortly after the Village of Hubbardston purchased the old Elementary School from the Carson City-Crystal School District, a decision was made to turn it into a community center. A few volunteers wanted to create a local library. How do we do it?

We started with a couple of classrooms, some old furniture, and old books that the school left behind. Now, we have 4 classrooms of space, lots of brand new donated bookcases, over 9,000 books, 3 iMac computers, wireless internet, and over 500 VHS movies! Most of these items were donated by folks in the community, and even outside of the community.

We first tried to start a Michigan Non-Profit Corporation, but we were rejected. We needed to contact the State of Michigan Library to start a library. So, we hired a lawyer and met with the Village of Hubbardston, North Plains Township, and Lebannon Township. We also met with the Carson City Public Library and the Lyons Township District Library. The lawyer for the State of Michigan Library even came to visit, with further information on starting a library.

After all of that, we concluded that the time just isn't right for starting a real library. We needed to stop spending time and money on those things, to focus on building up the library itself. So, we formed a Michigan Non-Profit called the Hubbardston Book Nook. Although that is the official name, we still call ourselves the Hubbardston Library. And we still hope to become a real library someday.

Please stop by sometime and take a look around! - Duane