Change of meeting notice… .  

The Park County Library Board will meet Tuesday, Dec. 29, at 4:30 p.m. in the Bison Room at the Park County Public Library, Cody.

 

Sam Mihara’s Memories of Heart Mountain – 

• 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, Powell library.
• 9:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 16, Meeteetse School.
  • Sign up for a 1 p.m. Friday, Oct.16, a field trip from Meeteetse to the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center. The cost is $10 to ride the bus and admission for the 2 p.m. guided tour is $5 per person. Call the Meeteetse Recreation District to reserve a seat on the bus at 868-2603.
• 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, Cody library.

Sam Mihara’s wartime confinement at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center began when he was nine years old.  Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation photo at left.

Following the 1942 attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Government sequestered 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, and Arkansas.

At a free Memories of Heart Mountain program, Sam will tell the story of family and friends who lived with him in prison camp. Follow this link for More Info… .

Visit Banned Book Week Sept 27-Oct 3  for the 10 most challenged titles of 2014 and why they were challenged.

The first three are available at your Library… . in multiple formats … .

1.  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
2. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
3. And Tango Makes Three, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell

 

These are a few of the Books banned historically. Borrow them from your Library… .

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1884;
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley, 1965;
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown, 1970;
• The Call of the Wild, Jack London, 1903;
• Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961;
• The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951:
• Beloved, Toni Morrison, 1987

Meeteetse at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11. 

Don’t miss Rancher, One Book Wyoming author and photographer Cat Urbigkit.

Cat’s books Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs: How They Guard Sheep , The Guardian Team: On the Job with Rena and Roo and Shepherds of Coyote Rocks were selected for One Book Wyoming this year. All three books are available to check out at the libraries.

Cat will pass out folders, fact sheets and stickers for all kids at the program. The Wyoming State Library provided several copies of the bilingual edition of “Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs” for some lucky kids.

Follow this link to a 2013 Wyoming PBS interview with Cat.