Fitzgerald. He has written

several other books and is

currently working on a book

about 1968 political

events.

Michigan Notable

Books is designed to

promote reading and

raise awareness of

Michigan’s literary

heritage. The program

annually selects 20 of

the most outstanding

books published—

titles that reflect

Michigan's diverse

ethnic, historical,

literary and cultural

experience.

The 2014

Michigan Notable

Books program and

tour are made

possible thanks to the

generous support of

the Library of

Michigan, the Library

of Michigan Foundation,

Michigan Department of

Education, the Michigan

Humanities Council, Meijer,

and the Michigan Center for

the Book. Media Sponsors

are Mittenlit.com, City Pulse,

Dome, Queue Advertising and

Tom Gennara Photography.

The Library will host

Michigan Notable Book

Author Michael Schumacher

June 5 at 6:30 p.m. He

has written a number

of books but his

presentation centers

around November’s

Fury, a book about Lake

Huron’s terrible storm

of 1913, just named a

Michigan Notable Book

for 2014.

The book tracks

the ‘freak hurricane’ of

1913 which ultimately

claimed twelve ships

and severely damaged

dozens of others. The

total loss of life was

over 250, making it the

deadliest storm in

Great Lakes’ maritime

history.

The storm started

in Lake Superior and

Lake Michigan but

moved quickly to Lake Huron

where the worst damage

occurred. Schumacher

details the storm and the

aftermath, including the

search for missing vessels and

the bodies and wreckage

washed up on shore.

November’s Fury is the

third in a trilogy about Great

Lakes’ shipwrecks; his first

book was The Wreck of the

Carl D., about the sinking of

the Carl D. Bradley. Mr.

Schumacher became well

known to many families in

Rogers City who had lost

someone in that tragedy.

Schumaker’s second

book was The Mighty Fitz: The

Sinking of the Edmund

Lake Huron’s Deadliest Storm

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E

Deadliest Storm 1

Library Activities 2

Staff Appreciation 2

Summer Book Club 2

Used-Book Sale 3

New Board Member 3

Staff Spotlight 4

Carnival to Aplex 4

Tech Help 4

Authors in the Fall 5

Current Members 6

New member signup 7

Library News S P R I N G I S S U E M A Y 2 0 1 4

O U R G O A L S :

To secure

materials

beyond the

library

budget

To provide

library

volunteers

To present

programs

and activities

To expand

library

offerings

Library Activities special collections program

presented by Dr. Greg

Resnick

READ Tutor Training

May 20 5:00 pm to 8:45

Help someone learn English

as a second language

Work with just one student

Volunteer 3 hours a week

Training open to any commu-

nity member.

Summer Book Club begins

June 17

Kindermusick

May 17: 11:00 am to noon

Jane Lusardi presents music as a

way to teach children ages 0 to 4

to become better learners. Regis-

tration required: call 356-6188.

Jewish Heritage in Alpena

May 19 6:30 pm—8:00 pm A

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describing

picture or

graphic.

L I B R A R Y N E W S

P A G E 2

ALPENA COUNTY

GEORGE N. FLETCHER

PUBLIC LIBRARY 211 N. 1st Avenue

Alpena, MI 49707 Phone: 989 356 6188

WEB SITE

www.alpenalibrary.org

LIBRARY DIRECTOR

Eric Magness-Eubank

LIBRARY HOURS Books and Circulation

Mon-Thurs. ..9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Fri-Sat. . . . . .9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Sun. . . . . . . .1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

COMPUTER LAB HOURS Mon-Thurs. . . .9:30 am to 8:45 pm

Fri-Sat . . . . 9:30 am to 4:45 pm

Sun. . . . . .1:00 pm to 4:45 pm

Special Collection Hours

Mon-Thurs. .10:00 am to 8:00 pm

Fri-Sat. . .. . .10:00 am to 4:00 pm.

Friends of the Library President: Ken Dully

To secure books/materials

beyond the library budget

To provide volunteers for

library activities

To present programs and

activities

To expand library offerings

To support the library’s

visions and goals

The exciting theme of this

year’s Summer Book Club is

Fizz Boom Read. Summer

Book Club kicks off with

registration at 9:30 a.m. on

Tuesday, June 17 at the

Library. At 10:00 a.m. a

Magic Show featuring

Gordon Russ will follow. The

fun will continue with a

picnic lunch for $1 from 11:30

a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Children’s Librarian Mary

Clute has several activities

scheduled for Summer Book

Club, including a production

from the Acting Up Theatre

of Grayling, Michigan on

Tuesday, June 24 at 10 a.m.

On Thursday, June 26, a

Bedtime Math Pajama Party

will be held from 6 to 7:00

p.m., and on Tuesday, July 1

Zeemo the Yo Yo Man will

dazzle young readers with

tricks using yoyos.

A field trip to the Besser

Museum is planned for July

10, including a viewing of the

movie, “Journey to the

Moon.”

If you’re interested in

volunteering with the Summer

Book Club by listening to

students talk about the books

they have read and what they

liked best, please call Mary at

356-6188 extension 13.

Summer Book Club

Staff Appreciation Luncheon donated by Cindy Johnson.

Friends of the Library

provided prizes, plants,

and flower arrangements

as tokens of their

appreciation for all of the

hard work and dedication

the library staff provides

the public every day.

Each spring Friends of the

Library hosts a luncheon for library

staff. This year the

luncheon was catered by

Jon Benson of JJ's. It

was a wonderful two-

soup-and-salad meal

with delectable cupcakes

and enchanting cookies

with a literary theme, made and

Giant Used Book Sale P A G E 3 M A Y 2 0 1 4

Be sure to attend this year’s

Friends of the Library Used

Book Sale for a huge selection

of used books at bargain prices.

To support this sale, please

donate books, CDs, videos,

DVD's, audio books, puzzles

and games—all will be

welcome.

Drop off donations at the

library from June 1 through July

25 during regular library hours.

Some items do not sell and we

must pay for their disposal.

New Board Member

So please, do NOT donate:

Encyclopedias

National Geographics

Record Albums

Magazines

Textbooks

Old Computer Manuals

Bibles

Cassettes

VHS Tapes

Reader's Digest

Condensed books

Book Sale Times

Tues . July 29 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Wed- July 30 9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Thurs July 31 9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Fri- Aug. 1 9:30 am -1:30 pm

Please note—there’s a Friends of the Library MEMBERS ONLY

EARLY SALE

July 29—noon till 2:00 pm. Not a member?

You can join any time before the sale.

Chapter 1 at Bingham and

Sunset and working with special

needs kids at AHS.

She eventually went back

to school at Saginaw Valley

State University to get special

certification and entered the

special education department to

teach math before retiring in

1998.

She has been very busy

since, doing a lot of volunteer

work in various capacities. “One

of my biggest accomplishments

was getting the Gifted and

Talented program started,” Judy

said. She organized the summer

programs that were first held in

Alpena and served as president

of that board for several years.

The Friends of the Library

welcomes Judy Reimann to its

board membership. Judy was

born and raised in Alpena. After

graduating from Alpena High

School, Alpena Community

College and Central Michigan

University, she began a career

in education.

Judy’s first job was in

Garden City, Michigan,

teaching math and science at the

junior high school level. She

came back home in 1966. That

year, she married her high

school sweet heart and had a

daughter with whom she stayed

at home for several years.

Her return to work took her

all over the APS system, such as

The richest person

in the world - in

fact. All the riches

in the world -

couldn't provide you

with anything like

the endless,

incredible loot

available at your

local library. You

can measure the

awareness, the

breadth and the

wisdom of a

civilization, a

nation, a people by

the priority given to

preserving these

repositories of all

that we are, all that

we were, or will be.

—Malcolm Forbes

P A G E 4

Carnival Moves to Aplex

Tech Help!

Staff Spotlight Brenda Stevens started

working at the Alpena

County Library in May

1988 when the card catalog

was still being used. She

worked the Circulation

Desk during that first

summer and then took a

position with the READ

Program as secretary. A few

years later, she became that

program’s coordinator and

worked with them

for thirteen years.

Brenda then moved to

Technical Processing as the

head of that department,

where she works currently.

She is now starting her 27th

year at the library. She is in

charge of choosing,

ordering and cataloging all

books and materials for the

library and reconciling cash

registers. The broad nature

of the position keeps

Brenda engaged and on the

go. She also participates in

some of the Library's

puppet shows!

The light of Brenda’s

life is a 9-year-old

grandson. She also has two

Miniature Dachshunds at

home with whom she loves

to walk. Reading and

knitting are two of her

favorite pastimes, as well

as cutting wood with her

husband for their outside

wood furnace.

The following are one-

hour periods when tech

help is available:

Mon: 10:00 a.m.

Tues: 11:00 a.m.

Wed. 2:00 p.m.

Thurs. 4:00 p.m.

staff felt an air conditioned

space would be best for

Book Club participants and

carnival volunteers. “For

the past three years, the

hottest day all summer has

been the same day as

Summer Book Club

Carnival. We worry

about children and

volunteers becoming

overheated and decided to

try this new location.”

After several years of

very high temperatures on

Carnival Day, the Summer

Book Club Carnival will

be at the “Air

Conditioned” Aplex

Wednesday, July 16 from

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Library Director Eric

Magness-Eubank notes the

Alpena County Fairgrounds

have been too warm in

recent years and Library

L I B R A R Y N E W S

Have a question about

email attachments? Need to

know how to configure

iTunes? How can I upload

pictures to Facebook?

Where can I find a good

tablet for basic computing?

Come in and ask for general

tech help.

VOLUNTEERS

NEEDED!

If hot weather has

kept you from

volunteering, be assured

Aplex air conditioning

will keep you cool.

Please come in out of

the heat to help July

16. Call Brenda at 356-

6188, Ext 12.

Authors in the Fall: Philip Levine P A G E 5 M A Y 2 0 1 4

The Library is pleased to

announce that the 2014

Authors in the Fall program

will feature US Poet Laureate

Philip Levine.

Mr. Levine will speak on

Sunday, October 19 at 7 p.m.

at Alpena High

School

auditorium.

Library

Director Eric

Magness-

Eubank said,

“Philip Levine

is one of the

great poets of

the last half-century.

He gives a compelling

voice to the working class. He

is one of the most celebrated

poets that Michigan has ever

produced. We are thrilled to

bring him here this October.”

Mr. Levine has

accumulated a number of

important honors. In 2011,

Levine was appointed US

Poet Laureate. He won the

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in

1995 with The Simple Truth;

the 1991

National

Book

Award for

Poetry and

Los

Angeles

Times

Book Prize

for What

Work Is. In 1980 he

received the National

Book Award for Poetry and

the National Book Critics

Circle Award for Ashes:

Poems New and Old.

Levine grew up in Detroit,

Michigan, the second of three

sons of Jewish immigrant

parents. He addresses his

Jewish immigrant heritage in

his poetry as well as creating

portraits of the working class.

He began work in car

manufacturing plants at age

14. He taught for more than

thirty years in the English

department of California State

University.

Best known for his

poems about working-class

Detroit, his work employs

themes of the social and

economic realities of Detroit

in the twentieth century.

traditional bookstore values,

particularly a passion for books

rather than making as much

money as possible.

Her store is a booklover’s

bookstore much like that in the

movie, “You’ve Got Mail,” the

kind often described nowadays

as a “dying breed.” Bookstore

customers often see widely–

known authors there on a

regular basis. Ms. Burton has

hosted authors such as E. L.

Doctorow, Isabel Allende, John

Updike, Margaret Atwood, and

Sue Grafton.

Actual copies of The

King’s English may be hard to

Betsy Burton’s book, The

King’s English, centers around

a huge love of books. It

includes a close examination of

the book business, especially of

the author’s own bookstore,

also named The King’s English,

in Salt Lake City. Burton has a

passion for authors themselves,

hosting highly respected

authors on a regular basis and

she embraces another interest,

her ardent feminist activities.

An ardent book reader all

her life, Betsy Burton has

owned her bookstore almost

thirty years. The bookstore is

not large or lavish but maintains

“The King’s English” book review

“He is one of

those poets whose

work is so emotionally

intense, and yet so

controlled, so

concentrated, that

the accumulative

effect of reading a

number of his related

poems can be

shattering.”

—Joyce Carol Oates

Philip Levine

find. Amazon.com sells only

Kindle versions. If you wish to

buy hard-cover or paperback

copies,

the most

likely

place to

get them

is The

King’s

English

book

store:

find out

more at

www.kingsenglish.com.

P A G E 6

Current Members: Friends of the Library Cornish, Eric and Shelly

Cox, Josie

Crittenden, Red and Barb

Davis, Curt and Shari

Decker, James and Marga

Dehring, Janet

Dort, Bryan and Lesslee

Doubek, Denny and Sandy

Dowd, Walter and Margie

Dully, Marie and Ken

Eller, Bob and Sue

Engstrom, Rick and Sharon

Fish, Jim and Jackie

Florip, Daniel and Stephanie

Florip, Jim and Ann

Frantz, Barbara

Garant, Kathy

Gehrke, Darrell and Ann

Gibbs and Kibbe, Apis and Dan

Goodney, Debra and Family

Granlund, Ben and Marge

Haase, Dottie and Bill

Hall, Mary and Edwin

Hall, Terry and Nan

Hanna, Belinda and Brian

Heraghty, Patrick & Anne

Hardesty, Ann

Herbert, Jackie

Herring, Chuck and Jan

Holcomb, Alice

Imhoff, Bradley

Jarmuzewski, Gary and Sandy

Joseph, Mabel

Joynton, Olin and Patricia

Kaminski, Marie

Kavanaugh, Ed and Vera

Kenney, Linda

Kindt, Carol

Knowlton, Herb and Carol

Kowalski, Wayne and Jill

Krajniak, Kim

Krans, Jerry and Debbie

Kroll, Ann

Kunze, Lew and Kathryn

LaCross, Ellen

Lahti, Jodie

Larson, Ilene

LaMarre, Elaine

Lance, Doris

Lance, Paul and Patricia

Lavoie, Tom and Joan

Lawson, Sue

Lenart, Susan

Lessard, Sharon

Ludlow, Jeanne

Lund, Michael and Carol

Lyngos, Robert

Mack, Eleanor

Manitz, Phyllis

Masters, Betty

Matuzak, Anne

Matuzak, Augie and Peggy

Maxwell, Sue

McDonnell, Bill and Betty

Melville, Kenneth and Janice

Mendel, Roger

Meneghel, Rose and Ron

Misiak, Christa and Anna

Moore, David and Cathy

Moran, Maxine

Moutharn, Barbara

Mundorf, Carol

Murch, Mike and Billi

Nethercut, Gordon and Vernie

O'Connor, Diane

Ogger, Kay

Ohmart, Bruce and Patsy

Pfeiffenberger, Lucas and Janet

Phillips, Celeste

Phillips, Roger M. and Sue

Prescott, Lisa and Keith

Priebe, Elizabeth

Prieur-Bastow, Marian

Ransdell, Catherine

Rapin, Jim and Carey

Reimann, Judy

Agius, Barb

Aliferis, Carlene

Anderson, Carolyn

Artley, Janet and Dennis

Barey, David J

Beamish, Gerry

Beckeney, Bruce

Behnke, Elizabeth

Beland, Joe and Kay

Bennett, Tom and Lorraine

Benson, Eulah

Berkey, Jim and Cindy

Besler, Judy

Betoski, Margie and Dan

Birdsey, Gordon and Dorothy

Boldrey, Jim and Penny

Boyce, Dick and Jeannine

Boyd, Carol

Brandenburg, Ray and Marj

Breckenridge, Gordon and Kaye

Brege, Gail

Briscoe, Shirley, Jennifer, and

Bill

Brousseau, Joan

Buchner, Pauline J

Burke Engineering Co.

Burton, Ann

Carnahan, Terry and Dorothy

Carney, Tom and Maureen

Case, Bob and Judith

Cieciorka, Tom and Polly

Cole, Esther

Comar, Mary Alice

Compton, Jodene

Connon, Bruce and Midge

L I B R A R Y N E W S

Resnick, Gregg

Retherford, Barb

Rickard, Sharon

Ringlein/Hines, Laura and

Kurt

Rousseau, Denise

Seguin, Audrey

Sexton, Shawn and Sue

Shaffer, Pat and Jim

Shafto, Carol

Sheridan, Steve and Family

Shuler, William and Mary Lou

Silver, Alice

Snow, Gordon

Speer, Don and Jane

Springer, Lloyd and Mary Lou

St. Onge, Jane

Standen, Jere and Diana

Stewart, Jim and Lynne

Stewart, Don and Jean

Stibitz, Florence

Stoner, Mary J.

Strong, Mickey

Suszek, Joel

Szatkowski, Carolyn

Szczukowski, James

Szydlowski, Dave and Rose

Taylor, Cynthia

Trelfa, Annette

Titus, Sonya

Tower, Bill and Lora

Tretinik, Steve and Delilah

Upham, Karen

Valley, Jenny

Walmsley, Marie

Wells, Mildred

Wiesen, Chuck and Julie

Wilson, Harry and Cindy

Wilson, Pete and Lynn

Wilson, Kim

Wiseman, Jenna

Wisniewski, Leona

Zeller, Dolly

NOT LISTED HERE?

Membership is from Jan.1

to Dec. 31 of each year. If

your name is missing

maybe it’s time to join

again? Sign-up form is on

page 7.

Friends of the Library Wants You! P A G E 7 M A Y 2 0 1 4

HELP US BUILD A BETTER

LIBRARY

The Friends of the Alpena Library

exists to help the library in many ways:

to make it more user friendly, to provide

needed items not in the regular budget,

to encourage volunteers for the many

library activities and more.

The chief way that Friends of the

Library raises money to support the

library is through membership fees.

Membership in Friends of the Library

extends from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 of each

year.

If you failed to spot your name on

the membership list, it is probably time

to restore your membership.

Fill out the form below—enclose a

check for membership dues (all dues go

to support our library). Turn in the form

at the library’s first-floor checkout.

Already a member? Then we

encourage you to offer the sign-up form

below to prospective new members

who would be willing to help in our

activities.

While we do encourage members to

volunteer, members are not required to

volunteer. But if any VOLUNTEER

OPPORTUNITIES you spot just below

are something you’d like to do, please

check the line just before it.

Take or mail this form to the library with your check, payable to:

Friends of the Alpena County Library 211 North First Avenue

Alpena, MI 49707

Volunteer

Opportunities

___ Blizzard of Books

___ Used Book Sale

___ Books & Brown Bags

(book reviews)

___ Receptions

___ Gardening (library

flower beds)

___ Serve on FOL board

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