February | March

February 11, 2008 - Livingston Reads Kickoff Program -
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Keep the Great Lakes GREAT!
Video of our Program
The Great Lakes hold one-fifth of the world's freshwater supply and currently provide drinking water to over 42 million people. Yet each day, our Lakes are damaged economically and ecologically by untreated sewage, toxic pollution, and invasive species. Unless we invest in a solution today, the price we pay tomorrow will be much higher and future generations may never experience the Great Lakes as we know them.
Fortunately there is a solution - you! Please attend the upcoming presentation at Brighton District Library. Melissa Damaschke, Sierra Club Great Lakes Regional Representative, will discuss threats to the Great Lakes and solutions to those threats as well as actions you can take to PROTECT the Great Lakes.

February 16, 2008 - Read n' Craft - 11 - 11:30am

In honor of the Livingston Reads book: The Worst Hard Time, which focuses on the Dust Bowl and environmental concerns, the Fowlerville District Library’s Saturday Morning Read n’ Craft program on will focus on “Our Big-Big Environment.” This program includes books and a craft for ages 4-9. Registration required. For more information call 517-223-9089.

February 26, 2008 - Livingston Reads: Movie Night! - 7 - 9 p.m.
The Cromaine District Library will be showing "Surviving the Dust Bowl" by PBS and 2 documentary shorts by the Resettlement Administration; "The River" and "The Plow that Broke the Plains"; which show how Man, in their ignorance and greed, created deserts out of the Great Plains.
Registration required. Please call (810) 632-5200 to register.

MARCH:

March 4, 2008 - Book Discussion - The Worst Hard Time -
7:00 - 9:00 pm
At Cromaine District Library, Sallie Brodie will lead a lively book discussion on this important book by Timothy Egan on the environmental disaster created by greed and ignorance.

March 5, 2008 - Historic Dust Bowl Films DVD Series
2:30-3:15pm
Pinckney Library
The Plow That Broke The Plains (1936)
Rain For The Earth (1937)
Farmers War Against Dust; Fight To Save Wheat Crops (1937)

March 10, 2008 - Surviving the Dust Bowl - 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
The Fowlerville District Library will be showing the PBS film "Surviving the Dustbowl" which presents “the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease—even death—for nearly a decade” during the Dust Bowl. Please call 517-223-9089 for more information.

March 11, 2008 - The Legacy of the Dust Bowl - 7 - 9 p.m.
The Cromaine District Library will be hosting Professor David Wright from Michigan State University, who will talk about the causes of the Dust Bowl, and what has been done to prevent this type of disaster from occurring again.
Registration required. Please call (810) 632-5200 to register.

February, March and April - Book Club in a Bag
Hold your own book discussion group by checking out a "Book Club in a Bag" at Howell Carnegie District Library.
The kit contains a plastic case containing twelve copies of The Worst Hard Time and a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders. Click here for availability.

April 8, 2008 - Breaking the Mystery of Depression Glass - 6:30pm
Hamburg Township Library will host glass experts Al & Pat Carlson will display pieces as they discuss the value and history of this beautiful and utilitarian American glass. A display of glass lightning rods will be included. This is not an appraisal, do not bring glass. No fee.
Please register here or by calling 810.231.1771

April 10, 2008 - Book Discussion - "The Word Hard Time" -
12:00pm and 7:00pm
At 12:00pm, join Holly for a brown bag lunch and discussion of "The Worst Hard Time" at Howell Carnegie District Library. Dessert will be provided but make sure to bring your own lunch.

At 7:00pm, Holly will hold another discussion of "The Worst Hard Time" and dessert will be provided.
Please register by calling Howell Library at (517) 546-0720

April 17, 2008 - Book Discussion - "The Worst Hard Time" - 6:30pm (at Stonehouse Cafe)
Join Genie from the Hamburg Township Library and other readers to discuss "The Worst Hard Time" in this cozy cafe setting. Free coffee courtesy of Stonehouse Cafe.
If you need directions, please call 810.231.1771

April 17, 2008 - AUTHOR VISIT/BOOK SIGNING:
Timothy Egan - 2:00pm
Cromaine District Library will host Mr. Egan as he briefly discusses his book and signs participants copies of "The Worst Hard Time". Books will not be sold at this appearance so make sure to bring your own.

April 17, 2008 - Meet and Greet/AUTHOR Visit:
Timothy Egan - 6:30pm
Meet author Timothy Egan at his reception at Howell Carnegie District Library at 6:30pm, then stay to here him speak about his award-winning book, and our Livingston Reads choice, 'The Worst Hard Time".

April 21, 2008 - Book Discussion - The Worst Hard Time -
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Led by library staff, the Brighton District Library Book Discussion Group welcomes everyone and does not require registration for its meetings. Extra copies of discussion titles are available at the library a month or more before the meetings; additional copies can be obtained through the catalog system. The book The Worst Hard Time, by Timothy Egan, will be discussed at this April meeting.

April 22, 2008 - An Inconvenient Truth - 7:00 - 9 p.m.
The Cromaine District Library will be hosting Edward and Annette Jones, 2 of the 1,000 volunteers trained by Al Gore, who will present a slide show of this groundbreaking presentation and will talk about the effects of climate change and what we can do to help the planet. Registration required. Please call (810) 632-5200 to register.