Finance Committee

Community Canvas

Show us your talent! No matter what age you are, we want to see your creativity. Stop by the library and pick up a canvas (while supplies last) before November 13th; paint on it, draw on it, make a collage on it, etc. Then return it by November 20th and we will display it in time for the community to see at the Community Tree Lighting event on November 30th.

Teen Tiny Art Show

TEENS! Explore your creativity by making Tiny Art to share with the community! In conjunction with out Community Canvas, stop by the library and pick up a tiny canvas (while supplies last); paint on it, draw on it, make a collage on it, etc. Then return it by November 20th and we will display it in time for the community to see at the Community Tree Lighting event on November 30th.

Great Michigan Read Book Discussion: "The Women of the Copper Country"

One title, one state, and thousands engaged in literary discussion. Join us for a discussion of the book "The Women of the Copper Country" by Mary Doria Russell. Please sign up in advance as copies and space are limited. In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. In Annie’s hands lie the miners’ fortunes and their health, her husband’s wrath...