Wednesday, August 29, 2012

LABOR DAY CLOSURE

The Upton Branch Library will be closed on Monday, September 3 in observance of the Labor Day holiday.

We will resume our normal hours of 12:00 noon until 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 4.

Friday, August 24, 2012

BOOK DISCUSSION TO MEET

The Book Discussion group will meet Thursday, September 13 at 7:00 p.m. in the Upton Branch Library meeting room.  There are copies of the book available for you to borrow from the library.

The second book in our book discussion series is the story of Anne Moody and what it was like to have grown up black in Mississippi in the forties and fifties - and how she survived with her pride and courage intact.

(The original meeting date was September 20 - please note the date has been moved to September 13 at 7:00 p.m.)

Monday, August 6, 2012

BOOK DISCUSSION

UPTON BRANCH LIBRARY ANNOUNCES A READING AND DISCUSSION PROGRAM OF WOMEN’S MEMOIRS

Starting in August, Upton Branch Library hosts “Ordinary Lives: Memoirs of American Women,” a reading and discussion series in the Wyoming Humanities Council’s Reading Wyoming program. The discussion group meets August 16, September 20, October 18 and November 15 at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public. To 
register and borrow books, contact the library at 468-2324 or stop by the library at 722 4th St.
Participants will read and discuss “Bronx Primitive” by Kate Simon, “Road Song” by Natalie Kusz, “All But the Waltz” by Mary Clearman Blew, and “Coming of Age in Mississippi” by Anne Moody. All of these books present women writers finding their places in the world.
Betty Strong returns to lead the discussions.