Summer Reading starts

June 16th! 

Summer Reading Kick-off

June 16th, 10-12pm!

Programs for Ages 0-120!

A Salute to Our Volunteers

In honor of National Volunteer Week, Bacon Library would like to recognize the significant contributions made by volunteers each year to our organization. Volunteers contribute to our access of local history resources, assist with programming, serve in advisory capacities, clean, straighten and organize, provide delivery to homebound patrons and help us in so many other ways. Many, many thanks to all our volunteers!!

State Park Pass Program

Park & Read program gives library customers a free pass into Michigan state parks, museums and historic sites

The Department of Natural Resources and the Library of Michigan have teamed up once again to offer their popular Park & Read program at more than 400 participating libraries across the state. The program, now in its fourth year, offers library card-holders the option of checking out a one-day pass that waives the Recreation Passport entry fee into any of Michigan's 101 state parks and recreation areas.

The one-day pass, a $10 savings, also provides free, one-time access to any of the more than 500 events scheduled to take place within the state parks throughout the summer. Passes are valid for seven days from checkout and are good for day use only. Park & Read runs now through Oct. 1, 2012.

Many participating parks even offer hammocks for loan. Set up under a shady tree and read, snooze or watch the clouds drift by.

The Park & Read pass is also valid at any of the 11 museums or historic sites within the Michigan Historical Museum system. These engaging places focus on themes in Michigan history, so why not learn about Michigan's fascinating history through your local library and then live it by visiting one of our great museums or historic sites?

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Lego Winners

Congratulations Lego Contest Winners!

Ages 7 & Under

2nd Place  Brayden Felt and Robbie Longoria  (Tie)

1st Place Zander Lambert

Ages 8-11

2nd Place Braeden Hopkins

1st Place Zach Beadorn

Ages 12 & Up

1st Place  Nicholas Bartolotta 

It's a Michigan Thing

The January 16, 2012 edition of New York magazine noted that Stevens T. Mason became the governor of Michigan at age 23. He also was Michigan Territorial Secretary at 19.

Michiganders already know about their “boy governor,” but the magazine further noted that Mason invented the way that the Great Lakes State natives display their hand and point to the part of the state where they live.

This obscure bit of information is not generally known, and why it took the Manhattan oriented New York magazine to bring it to light might cause some head scratching—with Petoskey, Mackinaw City and Cheboygan doing the scratching.

Many locations around the state join in the fun by referring to their neck of the woods as the thumb, the tip of the mitt, the middle of the mitten and the little finger.

The Upper Peninsula also gets into the act with its own version of a sideways placed hand with a thumb extended to portray the Keweenaw Peninsula. All of Michigan’s residents, both Yoopers and Trolls, can engage in geographic pantomime.

The Michigan tourist project, Pure Michigan, sells mittens--one hand traces the outline of the Lower Peninsula, and the other hand traces the U. P.

Recently, the Wisconsin tourist bureau raised the hackles of the Wolverine state when it announced a tourist campaign using the mitten metaphor. When another state tried the mitten on for size, Michiganders shouted hands off! Michigan’s mitten suddenly looked more like a boxing glove. T-shirts and hoodies with the message don’t mess with the mitten went for sale.

Fortunately, Wisconsin’s campaign was short lived. Once the dairy state removed their ill-fitting mitt, Michigan was once again the one and only mitten state. There are several web sites devoted to this handy practice.

The graphic shown here is from the children’s book M is for Mitten, by Annie Appleford and illustrated by Michael G. Monroe, available at the library.

Curious about E-books and E-readers??

In addition to access to downloadable e-books and audiobooks through our subscription to OverDrive, Bacon Library now offers a Kindle and a Nook available for checkout to patrons!!

Our goal in offering this service is to allow you an e-reader experience so you can make informed decisions should you decide to purchase one.


A few titles are pre-loaded onto each reader. Additional titles may be downloaded using Overdrive’s Destination Download with your library card. The cardholder must be a resident of a city that subscribes to Overdrive (current participating Downriver libraries: Wyandotte, Trenton, Taylor and Allen Park). E-readers may be checked out for free to adult patrons with cards in good standing and circulate for 3 weeks. Access to a personal computer may be required to download e-books; certain free software may be necessary to complete the download process.


Contact Bacon Library at 734-246-8357 for more information

Lego Contest

 

Build a creative, fantastic Lego construction at Bacon Library and enter it into our 8th Annual Lego Contest

Rules:

1. Come to the library on Saturday, March 10th between 2:00pm and 4:00pm. Using our incredibly huge stash of Legos you can design and build your creation. Then you’ll be able to enter the contest and begin earning votes right away!

2. There will be three age categories: 7 and under and 8 through 11 and 12 and up. Constructions made by a group will be placed in the age group of the oldest participant.

3. Entries will be displayed at the library through Saturday, March 17

4. Be sure to come in and vote! Bring family and friends to vote for their favorite, too!

5. Winners will be announced Monday afternoon, March 19th.  There is no need to be present.

One prize will be awarded to the builder in each age category whose creation receives the most votes from library patrons. All participants receive a ribbon and certificate.

Newbery and Caldecott Winners

This American Library Association announces 2012 Youth Media Award winners:

John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature:

“Dead End in Norvelt”  by Jack Gantos

Two Newbery Honor Books also were named:

"Inside Out & Back Again," written by Thanhha Lai 

"Breaking Stalin’s Nose,” written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin

Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children:

“A Ball for Daisy," illustrated and written by Chris Raschka

Three Caldecott Honor Books also were named:
“Blackout,” illustrated and written by John Rocco
"Grandpa Green" illustrated and written by Lane Smith
“Me … Jane,” illustrated and written by Patrick McDonnell


For more award information:
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/american-library-association-announces-2012-youth-media-award-winners

Family Fun Night: Let It Snow

Join us January 16th @ 6:30 for snow stories, snacks, and we’ll be making our very own snow globes!

Click here to register online or call 734-246-8357 to reserve your spot. 

Lighthouses on the lower Detroit River

This is a photograph of the Mariners Memorial Lighthouse in Belanger Park in River Rouge. It is the only active land-based lighthouse on our "Downriver" stretch of the Detroit River.


There are numerous buoys as well as the Livingstone Channel upper light in the river.

The Detroit Light in Lake Erie is a working light, but not in the Detroit River.

On land, the Grosse Ile light has been renovated and, is on occasion, open for tours, but it is no longer an active navigational aid. The light on the southern tip of Boblo Island is a ruin.

Three other working lighthouses that were operating in the early 20th century no longer exist. They are: Ecorse lighthouse, Grassy Island lighthouse and Mama Juda lighthouse.


For almost two centuries lights have aided navigation along the river, and to some extent, still do.


Photo by WH, November 2011

Wyandotte's Bridge to Nowhere

Five viaducts span Eureka Road near Roosevelt High School. Four of them support busy mainline railroad tracks, but the trackless westernmost of the five seems to serve no purpose. Although pedestrians sometimes use it to cross Eureka, essentially, it is a bridge to nowhere.

It was not always so. In 1902, when the automobile was only a curiosity, an electric railway named the Detroit, Monroe & Toledo Short Line Railway ran along what we now call Electric Avenue in Wyandotte. It stretched from Detroit to Toledo. Interurban streetcars clacked along the route and its tracks ran across the bridge to avoid traffic on Eureka Road.

The increasing popularity of the automobile and buses finally lead to the end of the trolley line in 1932.

For a more detailed history of the railway, look for the article that will appear in the Friday News Herald in early January.

Help us give back to the community this Holiday Season

Looking to give back to your community this season.  We can help!  We have many great opportunities to help out those in need.

 

Toys for Tots
Drop off your new unwrapped toys until December 13^th, 2011. 

Free Press Gift of Reading

November 1^st-28^thDrop off your new unwrapped books here.

Giving Tree
Nov 28^th through Dec 19^th
Bring in new items such as: mittens/gloves, hats & scarves and place them on the giving tree. Items are collected and delivered to local charities. Let’s keep this tradition of giving alive! Come place your item(s) on the giving tree today to help keep someone warm tomorrow!

Pets Need Comfort Too
Nov 28th through Dec 19th

There is a continual need for gently used but clean blankets, towels, washcloths, bowls, leashes, collars, pet beds, food, etc. among local animal shelters. Donations of all types of clean and new items are being collected during library hours.  A box will be available for drop off,  then we will distribute to our local shelters.

Downriver Community Food Pantry
Donate non-perishable food items inside the entrance of the library off of Vinewood.   Downriver Food Pantry is located at  140 Superior Blvd inside Doherty Hall in Wyandotte, 734-281-6733.  They distribute food on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10am-1pm. 

Pumpkin Contest

Bacon Library's Pumpkin Decorating Contest

· All families are welcome to participate.  You may enter one pumpkin per person or one pumpkin as a family.

· Pumpkins must be whole and may not be cut into or scooped out.

· You may paint or draw on your pumpkin.  You may also glue objects, paper, and materials of any kind.

· Pumpkins may be brought in any time between October 17th and October 24th. (They will be on display through the end of October.)

· Voting will take place October 27th through closing on Halloween.

· Print Registration sheets  or they are available at the Reference Desk.  They must be turned in with pumpkin. 

Family Book Club

Thursday, October 27th at 6:30 pm

In honor of Halloween, we will be reading The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. We encourage families to read the book together, then come for discussion, a book-related craft, and snacks!

Stop by the library to pick up a book today! Patrons ages 10 and up are welcome to join us for this new book club.

Doll and Me Tea, October 6

Lighthouse Program

In 2010, the Bacon Library added another fascinating resource to its extensive local history collection, a book titled Ladies of the Lights: Michigan Women in the U. S. Lighthouse Service, by Patricia Majher and published by the University of Michigan Press. The author is currently the editor of Michigan History, our state’s official history magazine.

Majher’s work gives us a personal look at the life of these women in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Keepers from our own Detroit River lights Mamajuda, Grassy Island, Ecorse and Gibraltar are included in this study.





We are pleased to announce that Patricia Majher will be presenting a program on these lady lighthouse keepers at the library on Saturday, October 8 at 2 p m. This is a free program and no registration is necessary.

There will be a book signing after the presentation. Those interested in Great Lakes lighthouses and the Detroit River history might consider owning their own autographed copy.

New Harvest: Eating Healthy for You and Your Family

October is Tackling Hunger Month, Health Literacy Month and World Vegetarian Month (okay...and Spinach Lover's Month but that one's less popular). So what better way to kick off this foodie month than coming to the library and learning tips about eating healthier foods?

Saturday, October 1st at 2:30 pm, we'll be meeting up to talk about easy ways to shop for healthier food and the importance of eating locally and eating with your family! Snacks (healthy ones of course!) will be provided.

My Doll and Me Tea

My Doll and Me Tea
Thursday, October 6th @ 4pm.
The perennially popular characters of the book series
will be the theme of a tea featuring games, stories, crafts
and a snack. Call to register your seat today! 734-246-8357.

* The newsletter says Tuesday, October 6th but it really is Thursday,October 6th.

Download Destination

Bacon Library is very excited to be able to offer eBooks and Audio books to download right from home! Download Destination just keeps getting better! It now includes Kindle books too! We will be offering OverDrive Introductions:
Thursday, September 22nd at 7pm. & Saturday, October 8th @ 10:30am.

Tip: When selecting library, we are under Bacon Library, not Wyandotte!

Teens: Picture it @ Your Library

Celebrate Teen Read Week!

Teens, Picture It @ Bacon Library
October 16th-22nd
Hey teens, we want you to Picture It in Wyandotte! Take a photo of your favorite place in Wyandotte. You may use photo software to edit it and make it creative if you want. All photos need to be emailed to Kelly at kray@baconlibrary.org by October 12th! We will then make a cool Wyandotte Poster which will be displayed the week of October 16th.

A Message from Author Scott Turow

Carnival 2011

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Our Investor Education Program featured on Fox 2 Detroit!!

Investor Education Programs Available in Many Communities: MyFoxDETROIT.com

Investor Education Series Starts Monday September 12

 Bacon Library will be offering a seven part investor education series presented to our patrons free of charge with funding provided by the Investor Protection Trust in Washington D.C.  All classes are non-commercial and free from sales pitches.  You will receive quality information from a trusted source, without the worry that someone will try to sell you something.  All classes meet on Mondays at 6:30pm.

Patrons are welcome to attend as few or many of these classes as they like. 

 Please call the library to register at 734-246-8357.

September 12th- Investing Fundamentals

September 19th- Your Money in the Balance: How to Manage Your Investments While Managing Your Debt

September 26th- 7 Simple Steps for Managing Your Investments

October 3rd- Alpha Boomers: Boom or Bust for Your Retirement?

October 10th- How to Select a Financial Services Provider

October 17th- Your Money: How to Invest in a Complex and Agenda-Driven World
October 24th- Financial Planning For Women

 

More information on each program can be found by clicking on "Upcoming Adult Programs" at the top of this page.

Labor Day Closings

In honor of Labor Day, Bacon Library will be closed Saturday, September 3 and Monday, September 5.

This year is the 129th American Labor Day. It was started by Peter J. McGuire, co-founder of The American Federation of Labor in 1882 after he witnessed a similar labor festival in Canada. President Grover Cleveland declared it a federal holiday in 1894.

Labor Day has come to mean a day of relaxation and celebration. So enjoy that last summer BBQ and your last opportunity to wear white! See you Tuesday, September 6!

(The above picture is a Norman Rockwell painting of Rosie the Riveter, taking a lunch break. It was featured in the Saturday Evening Post on May 29, 1943)

Bacon Library Now Offers OverDrive

Bacon Library Now Offers Download Audiobooks, eBooks, and Music
Best-selling and classic titles available anytime, anywhere

Bacon Library has expanded its services with audiobooks, eBooks, and music, available to download from the library’s website. Wyandotte residents with valid library cards can check out and download digital media anytime, anywhere by visiting http://tln.lib.overdrive.com.

Users may browse the library’s website, check out with a valid library card, and download to PC, Mac®, and many mobile devices. Users will need to install free software. For audiobooks, music, and video: OverDrive® Media Console™. To read eBooks, users will need Adobe® Digital Editions. Titles can be enjoyed immediately or transferred to a variety of devices, including iPod®, Sony® Reader™, Barnes and Noble’s Nook, and many others. Some audio titles can also be burned to CD to listen on-the-go. Titles will automatically expire at the end of the lending period. There are no late fees!

This new service, powered by OverDrive, is free for patrons with their library card. To get started downloading audiobooks, eBooks, and music, visit http://tln.lib.overdrive.com

Shop at the Friends' Book Sale

Looking for some good reading material that you can take camping, on a picnic, or to the beach or pool without having to worry about loss or damage? Check out our Friends of Bacon Library Book Sale in the multi-purpose room! We have a wide variety of books, movies, and music available at terrific prices. We have been fortunate to receive a large amount of donated items recently, and our shelves are bursting. Right now any item in the book sale is available for $.25 The money earned from the booksale is used by the Friends group to enhance your library experience through purchases of equipment, furniture, and programming. If you are doing some end-of-summer cleaning, we are happy to accept your donations of books and audiovisual materials that are in good condition.

War, Home Delivered

The momentous, screaming headlines of the global war were tossed like grenades by twelve year-old paperboys onto the trim lawns and front porches of small town America.

The news packed into those papers had an explosive impact on the occupants of those homes, for nearly all had a family member fighting in the fray.

Through the month of August, the Bacon Library display cases holds original copies of local newspapers reporting the great events of World War II in bold headlines.

This presentation gives the viewer a visceral experience that recaptures some of the feeling of how it was. From the collection of Gary Ciaccio.

Last program of July!

Join us this Saturday at 2:30pm for our henna program presented by Hiral Henna.

Spots are still available but space is limited to 20 people so call us at 734-246-8357 to register today.

Everyone who attends will go home with their very own body art!

Patrons 13 years and older are welcome to attend.

This is an example of their work from their website.

Summer Reading- Upcoming Adult Programs

We have some great programs for older teens and adults coming up within the next two weeks. Please call 734-246-8357 to register for our Saturday programs.

Saturday July 23rd @ 2:30pm
Feng Shui

Taught by Patt Slack- Feng Shui practitioner

and owner of River's Edge Gallery here in Wyandotte.

Saturday July 30th @ 2:30pm
Hiral Henna

A program for patrons ages 15 and up. Space is limited to 20 people.

Visit their website Hiral Henna to see examples of their work.

Monday July 25th @ 5:30pm
Sweet Adelines

Members of the local Sweet Adelines group, which meets in Southgate, will be here to recruit for new members and do a singing demonstration. They perform barbershop harmonies and are looking for new female members to join their group, preferably women who are of retirement age.

If you know a woman who enjoys singing, encourage her to stop by the library July 25th to find out more information. The Sweet Adelines are an international organization and more information about them can be found here: Sweet Adelines International.

While you're at the library, check out our new books display. We have gotten in a lot of new titles recently and our display is full. Help us make some room for even more new titles that will be arriving soon!

Art Fair at 50

This year’s Wyandotte Street Art Fair is the 50th.

In 1962, six artists gathered on First Street in downtown Wyandotte to show their artwork. Only a handful of people stopped to take a look. From this humble beginning, the Wyandotte Street Art Fair eventually grew to attract 400 artists and 150,000 fairgoers.

Gloria Dunn, one of the original founders, authored a book about its beginning titled Wyandotte Art Fair History: The Fair That Wouldn’t Stop Growing. The Bacon Library has this book for sale for $10.00. The book will also be available at the Fair, just look for the Wyandotte Historical Society table near City Hall.

Summer reading is for adults too!

In addition to all the wonderful programs we are having this summer for children and teens at Bacon Library, we are also having three programs in July for adults.  Join us this Saturday July 9th at 2:30 for the first one: scrapbooking.  Just bring some of your vacation photos with you and we will provide the rest of the supplies.  We will be making a stand alone scrapbooking piece that you will be able to display in your home!  It's a great program for beginners but all skill levels are welcome to attend. 

While you are here, be sure to register for the adult summer reading program.  Registration takes about a minute and every book you read this month gets you an entry into one of our weekly prize drawings. 

Teen Recipes

These were the rcipes prepared at our Teen Program Food Around The World.

Cucumber Salad with Sour Cream
1 cucumber peeled and thinly sliced
salt
2 tablespoons vinegar
1 taablespoon superfine sugar (optional)
4 tablespoons sour cream

Sprinkle the cucumber with plenty of salt and leave to drain in a colander for at least 1/2 hour until it softens and loses it's juices. Then rinse in cold water and drain. Mix the vinegar with the sugar and sour cream and pour over the cucumber slices. Mix well.

Apple Slaw
½ cup whipping cream
½ cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon sugar
1 large apple
4 cups cabbage -- shredded
In a large bowl combine cream, mayo, and sugar. Core apple, dice but do not peel. Add diced apple and cabbage to mayo mixture. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

French Onion Dip
2 cups sour cream
1 package dry onion soup mix
Mix well and serve!

Hummus without Tahini
1 can garbanzo beans/chickpeas
1/4 cup olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon cumin
In a food processor, blend all ingredients together until smooth and creamy.
Serve immediately with pita bread3, pita chips, or veggies. Store in a airtight container for up to three days.

Easy Salsa
2 Tomatoes
1/2 Vidalia Onion
Cilantro to taste
Using a chopper or food processor, blend all together! The kids added a teaspoon of sugar.

Read and Relax in Michigan State Parks; Park & Read Program Offers Free Park Passes for Michigan Readers

Park and Read Passes are available at Bacon Memorial District Library!

Spend a lazy day with a good book in the great outdoors compliments of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Library of Michigan.
Back for a third summer, the DNR and the Library of Michigan are offering their Park & Read program at more than 400 participating libraries across the state.
While checking out a book, Park & Read allows library cardholders to "check-out" a one-day pass that waives the Recreation Passport entry fee into any Michigan state park or recreation area. This $10 savings also provides a one-time, free access to more than 500 events taking place in state parks throughout the summer, and to make the day even more relaxing, some of the state parks are offering the loan of a hammock.
The Grand Rapids Public Library has been a part of the Park & Read program since its inception in 2009. Marketing and Communications Manager Kristen Krueger-Corrado says the library saw participation jump by 10 percent last year.
"Many of our patrons are struggling to find work and making do with less. The Park & Read program allows them to have an inexpensive way to enjoy Michigan's natural beauty, spend time with family and friends, and exercise their mind and body," Krueger-Corrado said. "Many of our patrons expressed their excitement at being able to check out a Park & Read pass - it was the only way they were able to afford to take their family to the beach that summer. And who doesn't love a day at the beach?"
Passes are valid for seven days from checkout and can be used for one day at any one of Michigan's 98 state parks. Passes are valid for day use only. The program runs through Oct. 1, 2011.
For more information on the program and a complete list of participating libraries, hammock availability and park events taking place throughout the state, visit http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10365---,00.html.
The Recreation Passport has replaced motor vehicle permits for entry into Michigan state parks, recreation areas and state-administered boating access fee sites. This new way to fund Michigan's outdoor recreation opportunities also helps to preserve state forest campgrounds, trails, and historic and cultural sites in state parks, and provides park development grants to local communities.
Michigan residents can purchase the Recreation Passport ($10 for motor vehicles; $5 for motorcycles) by checking "YES" on their license plate renewal forms, or at any state park or recreation area. To learn more about the Recreation Passport, visit http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10365_55798---,00.html or call (517) 241-7275.
Non-resident motor vehicles must still display a valid non-resident Recreation Passport ($29 annual; $8 daily) to enter a Michigan state park, recreation area or state-administered boating access fee site, which can be purchased at any state park or recreation area, or through the Michigan e-Store at http://apps.michigan.gov/MichiganeStore/public/Home.aspx.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is committed to the conservation, protection, management, use and enjoyment of the state's natural and cultural resources for current and future generations. For more information, go to www.michigan.gov/dnr.