Imagine you are a child. Imagine you live in a lower-income community. You don’t have a lot of opportunities to see different cultures, try new foods or see new places. You are content, though, because your friends and families live nearly the same lives. Sometimes you wonder about the rest of the world, but you’re…
Wednesday, June 3 from 9:00-10:00 a.m. Monthly meeting of the Friends of the Library. All are welcome! Ed Robson Branch, 9330 E. Riggs Rd., Sun Lakes 85248; phone 602-652-3000; e-mail www.mcldaz.org. Contact: Nelson G. Mitchell III, Marketing/Public Relations Coordinator Phone: 602-652-3045 Fax: 602-652-3071 Email: NelsonMitchell@mcldaz.org
Andrea Hummel On Wednesday, April 1 at 10:00 a.m., the Robson Friends of the Library, in cooperation with the Arizona Humanities Council, will host Hugh Grinnell in the Lecky Room. His program is called “Saving the American West: The Story of George Bird Grinnell.” George Bird Grinnell was variously known as the Father of Glacier…
Andrea Hummel On March 26 at 11:00 a.m., Sun Lakes Friends of the Library is delighted to be hosting Patricia Bracewell, a novelist whose historical fiction has received rave reviews. Her first book, Shadow on the Crown, began the story of Emma of Normandy in what will be a trilogy. Book number two, The Price…
Program on Arizona’s Orphan Abduction set for March 4 Andrea Hummel In 1904 New York nuns brought 40 Irish children, ages two to six, to a remote Arizona mining community. From the list of adopting families, the nuns had been led to believe the families were Spanish Catholics. The families, however, were Mexican. The Anglo…
Andrea Hummel Friends of the Robson Library are happy to announce an exciting program presented free of charge in the Lecky Room, a comparison of the Southwest in the art of Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keefe. This program, accompanied by many visuals of the artists’ work, will be February 4 following the monthly meeting of…
Andrea Hummel Being a Friend of the Library doesn’t just mean you like to read a lot. Although the Sun Lakes chapter of Friends of the Library is pretty much filled with people who like to read, this group has so many more facets! An important feature of the Friends’ work is the little bookstore…