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No MOVIE in August!
La Cygne Library Swan Room
Bring your lawn chairs and snacks
Sponsored in part by Peoples Telecommunications.
Movie Licensing USA
Celebrating 100 years of Library
Service to La Cygne and the surrounding area. We are planning
activities for Oct. 29th. Watch for more details.
If you would be interested in having a T-shirt with this logo on it please
contact the library, as we are trying to determine whether there is
interest before we purchase.
images/CEHesser video.wmv
http://lacygne.podmatic.com
podcast version, requires QuickTime
We
are partnering with the La Cygne Historical Society to try to highlight
former La Cygne residents and stories about those who helped make the
town. If you have information or pictures or artifacts, contact the
Historical society or library and let us know. The above files are
ones that we are piloting as a sample of what we would like to do.
Check
out our new collection of Inspirational Audio Books!
If anyone has pictures of
Library events in the past or pictures of former librarians or board
members, please contact
Janet
at the library...we are working on a project entitled "100 Years
of Libraries in La Cygne" to be celebrated in 2010. Also if you
have stories or pictures of Pansy McDowell, we need that information for
the Historical Society Project.
CHECK
OUT OUR ARCHIVE NEWSLETTERS
WINTER
2010 NEWSLETTER
September 2009 Newsletter
May 2009 Newsletter
February 2009
Newsletter
October 2008 newsletter
Previous newsletters
may newsletter.pdf
pdf/feb2008news.pd
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Upcoming
Events
Monday, August 30, 2010 6:30 PM
Kansas Humanities Council and Friends of Library present a Speaker's
Bureau program
featuring
"Kansas Military Forts"
by Leo E. Oliva
Military posts--Leavenworth, Scott, Riley,
Larned, Harker, Dodge, Hays and Wallace have been important in Kansas for
more than 150 years. These forts were essential to westward
expansion and served a critical function during the Civil War.
During other times, they wer charged with removing American Indians from
Kansas. This presentation will examine the history of military forts
in Kansas, how forts became an anchor for growth in parts fo the state,
and the continuing influence of forts in the present day.
Leo Oliva is a former professor of history at Fort Hays State Univeristy.
He has written a dozen books, and writes a weekly newspaper column called
"Our Kansas Heritage"
Program will be in the Swan Room, with refreshments
following the presentation.
The Jewelry class scheduled for June
29th has been cancelled, we will reschedule sometime in September.
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