Jennifer Harden Steps into Full-Time Role as Adult Services/Outreach Librarian
As of July 1, 2024, the Frankenmuth Wickson District Library has welcomed Jennifer Harden into the newly established role of full-time...
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Chelsea Keat
Feb 293 min
Exciting Springtime Events: Great Michigan Read Program
As winter comes to a close, the Wickson Library is gearing up for an exciting array of spring programming. Partnering with Michigan...
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Chelsea Keat
Feb 193 min
Books for Lunch
One of my favorite aspects of Books for Lunch is that it seamlessly showcases the power of storytelling to transport us across time,...
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Chelsea Keat
Jan 222 min
Beyond Books: Connecting through Adult Sensory Story Time
I enter the library and shake the snow from my boots. I’m ten minutes early, but already there are a few people gathered on this...
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Chelsea Keat
Jan 22 min
Follow the Reader
When I was a college student in West Michigan my landlord had a single bumper sticker on the back of her car that read, “Follow the...
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Chelsea Keat
Nov 20, 20232 min
Wickson Reads Book Club
Many of us have probably been reading books by ourselves for most of our lives. Outside of the stories our caregivers read to us as a...
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Chelsea Keat
Oct 23, 20232 min
Friends of the Library Present “Rosie the Riveter”
National Friends of Libraries Week is October 15-21, 2023, the perfect time for us to pause and celebrate the ongoing work of the...
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Chelsea Keat
Jul 3, 20233 min
From Fortune 500 to France: How a Single Book Changed Everything
What if I told you a single book could alter the course of your life? Would you believe me? For native-born Michigander, podcaster, and...
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Chelsea Keat
Jun 19, 20232 min
Library of Things: Lending to Reduce Consumption
When you think of checking something out from the library, you probably think of books. Why wouldn’t you? Books are, and probably will...
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Chelsea Keat
Jun 13, 20232 min
Chevy in the Hole, A Love Letter to Flint, MI
Kelsey Ronan's 2023 Michigan Notable Book, Chevy in the Hole, is a stunning, painfully honest love letter to Flint, MI. The popular story...
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Chelsea Keat
Apr 17, 20233 min
Books for Lunch
This week I opened the windows and read to the soundtrack of birdsong, the hum of my neighbor’s lawnmower, the rush of the creek at the...
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Chelsea Keat
Mar 27, 20232 min
The Friends of the Library Spring Garden Program
Spring is officially here, and we’re gladly welcoming the warmer, more colorful changes of the season. In my own yard, the robins have...
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Chelsea Keat
Mar 6, 20232 min
Join Us for a Michigan Notable Book Discussion
According to the Library of Michigan, “Every year, the Library of Michigan selects up to twenty of the most notable books, either written...
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Chelsea Keat
Feb 20, 20233 min
February’s Books for Lunch
Books for Lunch, the library’s no-obligation book club, continues to meet on the second Tuesday of every month from 12:30-2:00 pm. We’ve...
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Chelsea Keat
Feb 13, 20233 min
Love for the Wickson Library
Love is in the air this week as many of us celebrate Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re celebrating with a loved one, boycotting the...
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Michelle Duclos
Sep 13, 20213 min
"Nothing is pleasanter than exploring a library."
Nineteenth century British poet Walter Landor made this observation, and many people have agreed since then. I thought it would be...
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Michelle Duclos
Aug 2, 20213 min
Adult Summer Reading Bingo Ends in Three Weeks!
In the library’s quest to have fun in the summer rewarding readers for doing what they do, i.e., read, it has become easier than ever to...
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Michelle Duclos
Jul 19, 20213 min
Books for Lunch bunch builds reading lists
Books for Lunch had its first post-Zoom era in person meeting at the library last week, a dozen strong including three new people. Here...
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Michelle Duclos
Jun 28, 20213 min
Books for Lunch: a little history, a lot of fun
Nine years ago, during a discussion about the library needing a book club, then-director Mary Chasseur told me there was a history of...
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Michelle Duclos
Jun 14, 20213 min
Summer Reading is on!
Beginning Monday, June 14 – two days before this article is published in the newspaper – Summer Reading is once again happening for every...
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