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Amanda Danning: La Folly, La Clobber and La
Rogue & Heads and Tales |
Peter Fletcher,
Classical guitarist
Ranger Cindy |
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Buck Cole: Texas General Land Office Archives and Records |
Roger Wade: POW Camps in Colorado County
Roger Wade: The Other Side of the Shutter: Columbus Photographers |
| e-Reader Workshop |
Ronald McDonald |
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Evelyn Joann Russell: Afloat on a Full Sea: the
Clarke Family of Galveston Island |
Summer Reading Program 2014 |
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Texas Archeological Society (TAS) |
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Gary E. Mckee: Draft Resistance during the
1860s |
Tracking the Texas Rangers: the twentieth century
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| Linda Owen: Emerency Care |
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| 2014 Live Oaks and Dead Folks |
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| Nitsana and her magic puppets |
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| Open house |
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Paul Spellman: Old 300 Gone to Texas |
News from 2013 |
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Peter Fletcher,
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Classical guitarist, Peter Fletchered, performed at the Nesbitt
Memorial Library on March 10, 2015 for 45 listeners. This was his sixith
time playing at the library. His last visited was in March of 2011. |
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Buck
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Buck Cole from the Texas General Land Office Archives and Records
spoke at the library on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Mr. Cole taught computer users
how to use the GLO website for genealogy research. More information
about the Texas General Land Office Archives and Records can be viewed
here at their website. |
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Evelyn Joann Russell: Afloat on a Full Sea: the Clarke Family of
Galveston Island |
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On Feb. 12, 2015 the library hosted Evelyn Joann Russell. Joann is a
fifth generation islander who used old newspapers, courhouse documents
and goverment records to develop these accounts of her historic
ancestors. It is an accurate history of the Clarke family and their
descendants. The program focused how to write and publish your own
family history! |
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Roger Wade-The Other Side of the Shutter: Columbus Photographers |
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On January 29, Roger Wade spoke at the Nesbitt Memorial Library
about early photographers featured at the Live Oak Art Center exhibiton
featuring historial photographs of Columbus. Pictures featured are from
the library's archives. |
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e-Reader Workshop |
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Director, Susan Chandler, taught three individuals how to use their
e-Reader on January 29, 2015. |
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Open House |
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The Nesbitt Memorial Library opened its doors to host the first ever
"Open House" at the library. Twenty-one people came and enjoyed wassail
and a cookie with Director, Susan Chandler. It was a very nice treat
during this winter season! |
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Gary E. McKee: Draft Resistance in Central Texas during the 1860s |
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Gary E. McKee visted the Nesbitt Memorial Library on Thursday,
December, 11, 2014. He presented his monograph, Draft Resistance in
Central Texas during the 1860s, to 18 thrilled listeners. McKee is a
local historian from Fayette County. |
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Paul N. Spellman: Old
300 Gone to Texas |
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Mr. Spellman presented his new book, Old 300 Gone to Texas, at the
Nesbitt Memorial Library on Thursday, November 13, 2014. The book
describes the journey of families, single men, widows and widowers of
the "Old 300". They came to Texas from different states and countries to
join Stephen F Austin in settling along and between the Colorado and
Brazos rivers. |
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LODF 2014 Cemetery Tour |
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The 12 Annual Live Oaks and Dead Folks Cemetery Tour was held on
November 7 & 8, 2014. The tour consist of eleven haints from the Odd
Fellows Rest Cemetery. Linked below are pictures from the event.
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Stephen Harrigan:
Remember Ben Clayton |
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Author Stephen Harrigan kicked started Gulf Coast Reads with his
visit to Nesbitt Memorial Library on September 30th. He spoke about this
award winning book Remember Ben Clayton. A book discussion about this
book will be held in the Bill Stein Texas Room on Oct. 17 at 10:30 am.
Members of the community are encouraged to attend! |
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Linda Owen: Emergency Care |
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Author Linda Owen signed copies of her book, Emergency Care on
September 16, 2014. |
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Roger Wade: German POW
Camps in Colorado County |
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Roger Wade gave a presentation on September 11, 2014 about the
prisoner-of-war camps which were located in Colorado County during World
War II and the impact they had on Colorado County.
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2014 Summer Reading Program |
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Fizz, Boom, Read! was the 2014 Summer Reading Program theme. Special
thanks to this year's readers: Nancy Koehl, Glenda Lambert, Gwendolyn
Neath, Bonnie Meyer, Rebecca Harris and Rebecca Kamenski. Out of the176
children that signed up 121 were awarded a certificate for reading at
least 10 books or 250 pages! Thirty-six children completed the goal of
reading 80 books or 2,000 pages! All together over 3,300 books and
58,000 pages were read this summer! After Julian Franklin's spectacular
Go Wild program 9 gift cards were given away in a drawing. Four children
won $25 gifts and five won $10. Also, 36 children won tickets to a
Houston Astros game. Three teens parcipated in the Spark a Reaction!
teen program. One lucky teen won a gift card of $25. Seven adults
parcipated in the Literary Elements program and one winner was also
chosen for a $25 gift card.
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Ronald McDonald |
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The Nesbitt Memorial Library welcomed Ronald McDonald as a speical
guest for this year's Summer Reading Program. He preformed magic tricks
with squeaky hamburgersand magical bag!
More photos can be viewed
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Nitsana and her magic puppets! |
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The Nesbitt Memorial Library welcomed Nitsana the puppeteer back for
a special Storytime on July 8, 2014. She amazed children of all ages
with her bright and colorful magic puppets!
More pictures can be viewed
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Amanda Danning La Folly, La Cobbler and La Rogue & Heads and Tales of
the Revolution |
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Mr. and Mrs. James E. Brasher donated two programs to the Nesbitt
Memorial Library. La Folly, La Cobbler and La Rogue to an audience of
all ages. Heads and Tales of the Texas Revolution taught teens how to
determine the cause of death through injuries by working together in
groups. |
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Ranger Cindy |
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Ranger Cindy visited the library during the first week of the Summer
Reading Program. Ninety kids were amazed to see a live corn snake, baby
alligator, lizard and a turtle. Children also enjoyed digging up objects
in a sand pit. More photos can be viewed
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Tracking the Texas Rangers |
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Bruce Glasrud, Harold Weiss, Donaly Brice and Paul Spellman came to
the Nesbitt Memorial Library to talk about the Texas Rangers in Texas
history. Each spoke brief on their work and collectively and
knowledgably answered questions. |
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Texas Archeological Society (TAS) |
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Sue Gross from the Texas Archeological Society (TAS) spoke about the
Archelogical Field School to be held at the local dig site on June 14
through the 21 of 2014. This site is along the Colorado River and
contains artifacts that date to 6,000 B.C. This site is located south of
Columbus on the Tait Ranch. |
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