AUTHOR TALK TODAY (MAY 14) 1-3 PM

From GFJ’s Digital Archives: “The Great Wilno” aka “The Human Cannonball” is fired from a cannon 250 feet into the air (and thankfully into his net) during the annual E-J Workers Labor Day celebrations. The event took place in front of an estimated 50,000 spectators at En-Joie Park (behind U-E High School) on Sept,. 2,…

The Public Computing Center will be closed again Tuesday January 22 due to staff illness.

This year’s raffle quilt is on display: “French Romance” by quilt artists Carol Bunnell and Sandy Minehan. Tickets are a dollar apiece or six for five dollars and proceeds go to support children’s programs here at GFJ. The drawing will be held September 11. Other quilts, some for sale, will be on display soon.

Are you ready for summer reading? We are! Check out the Kid Zone for info on all of our great summer programs.

We are delighted to announce that Amazon’s “Kindle” e-reader can now be used to read books downloaded from GFJ’s “Overdrive” service.  Click on the “Download Overdrive” icon at www.gfjlibrary.org and start reading.  The collection is growing at a rate of about 40 titles per month.

TUESDAY EVENINGS: Refreshments 7 PM, Review @ 7:30 PM   OCTOBER 5 – “     The Lacuna” by Barbara Kingsolver. An epic journey from the Mexico city of artists Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo to the America of FDR, Pearl Harbor, and J.Edgar Hoover. A poignant story of a man pulled between the two nations. Reviewed…