Dark Shadows descends on Public Library

Experience television’s most popular gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows, during an afterschool screening at 4 p.m., Thurs., Oct. 28, at the Cloquet Public Library. The television series, which ran from 1966 to 1971, featured Barnabas Collins, a 200-year-old vampire who believes he has found the reincarnation of his long lost love, among other things. The series aired after school, and, at the time, youngsters raced home from school to watch.

Twilight fans will enjoy this vintage vampire tale. The showing will feature a summary of the show’s beginnings as well as the episode of Barnabas’s arrival. Dark Shadows is available with permission from MPI Media Group.

The program is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, call 879-1531. (drawing by Jesse Fultz)

Teen photo contest winners on display

The Regional Winners of the Arrowhead Library Association’s Teen Photo Competition, as well as individual winners and entries from libraries in the Arrowhead Library System, are now on display at the Cloquet Public Library. The display will rotate among participating libraries in the Arrowhead System, remaining in Cloquet through the end of the month.

Regional winners in the Enhanced Category are Samantha Camilli, Grand Rapids, First Place; Anna Andrick, Virginia, Second Place; and Asha Fritsinger, Cloquet, Third Place. In the Non-Enhanced Category are Grand Prize and First Place winner Thomas Loewen, Babbitt; Second Place winner Mary Curnow, Buhl; and Third Place winner Rachel Rouse, Babbitt.

This project was funded by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. For more information, call 879-1531.

Oral History Workshop at Cloquet Public Library

Oral History Workshop

Presented by Barb Sommer

Friday, November 5

9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

What is oral history?

Why do we do oral history?

What are some of the steps that can help you learn to do oral history?

What about possible funding options?

Wrap-up questions?

Space is limited. Reservations may be made by calling 879-1531.

Box lunches will be provided.

This program is co-sponsored by the Carlton County Historical Society, Cloquet Public Library and Arrowhead Library System by “A partnershipbetween Minnesota Regional Public Libraries and the Minnesota Historical Society. Made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.”

War Experienced: Minnesota Home Front, 1941-45

Join us at the Cloquet Public Library on Thursday, September 30 at 6:30 p.m. for a presentation by Thomas Saylor on War experienced: Minnesota Home Front, 1941-45. Saylor will examine 'women and men working', 'homemakers and mothers', and 'life on the farm', featuring oral histories he did in the Cloquet area. Dr. Thomas Saylor is Professor of History at Concordia University-St Paul. He attended the University of Akron (OH) and the University of Rochester (NY), where in 1993 he earned a Ph.D. in History. He has had research fellowships at the Free University of Berlin, Germany; the University of Munich; and Oxford University.
As founder and director of several oral history projects since 2001, Dr Saylor has conducted hundreds of individual interviews. The program is being co-sponsored by the Cloquet Public Library and Carlton County Historical Society in conjunction with Minnesota’s Greatest Generation programs presented by Minnesota Regional Public Libraries in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society. Programs are made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund created through the passage of the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment by the vote of Minnesotans in November 2008.

Minnesota Goes To War

Join us at the Carlton County Historical Society on Friday, Oct 8 at 2 PM for a presentation by Dave Kenney on Minnesota Goes to War. Kenney will be talking about life on the Minnesota home front during World War II, with special emphasis on shipbuilding operations in Duluth/ Superior and the important role played by the Iron Range. Dave Kenney is a freelance writer specializing in Minnesota history. After earning degrees from St. Olaf College and the University of Missouri-Columbia, he established a career in television news-first as a reporter in Asheville, North Carolina and Norfolk, Virginia, and then as a senior writer for CNN in Atlanta. The program is being co-sponsored by the Cloquet Public Library and Carlton County Historical Society in conjunction with Minnesota’s Greatest Generation programs presented by Minnesota Regional Public Libraries in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society. Programs are made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund created through the passage of the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment by the vote of Minnesotans in November 2008.

Fall activities for children

Preschool Story Times (ages 3-5) will be at 10 a.m., Wednesdays, beginning Sept. 15 through Dec. 1.

LapSit Story Times (ages 0-2) will be at 10 a.m., Thursdays, beginning Sept. 16 through Dec. 2. Join us for stories, song, play and good times.

The Library will also host afterschool matinees at 3:15 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month, beginning September 16. For more information, call 879-1531.

Fall Book Sale in October

The Friends of the Cloquet Public Library will host their annual Fall Book Sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sat., Oct. 9, 2010. Everyone is welcome to come and browse through our ample selection of discarded library books as well as area donations, ranging in quality from used to next-to-new.

Proceeds from sales will go to library programs and new book acquisitions.

Join your friends at the Cloquet Public Library’s Fall Book Sale. For more information, call 879-1531.