FUN!!!!! Newport Activity Puzzle Pack

Come and pick up an Activity packet.Enjoy completing the Activity/Puzzle pages.Put your name and phone number on each page because each completed page is an entry into a drawing for a gift basket!!!A new Activity/Puzzle pack each month!!!!!One packet per person

8120 N Dixie Hwy., Newport, MI, 48166, US

Friends of the Newport Branch Library Meeting

Join us for Friends of the Newport Branch Library  meeting.  New members are always welcome and encourage to attend.At this meeting we will be discussing upcoming library events, ideas for future fundraising and ideas for future events.  Please share this with your fami......More

Join us for Friends of the Newport Branch Library  meeting.  New members are always welcome and encourage to attend.At this meeting we will be discussing upcoming library events, ideas for future fundraising and ideas for future events.  Please share this with your family and friends.

8120 N Dixie Hwy., Newport, MI, 48166, US

Memorial Day

All branches of the Monroe County Library System are closed in observance of Memorial Day.

Newport Non-Fiction Book Club

Join us on the last Tuesday of the Month as we discuss non-fiction books.  New members always welcome.  This month we will be discussing Raising the Hunley by Brian Hicks.Summary: The history of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is as astonishing as its disappearan......More

Join us on the last Tuesday of the Month as we discuss non-fiction books.  New members always welcome.  This month we will be discussing Raising the Hunley by Brian Hicks.Summary: The history of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is as astonishing as its disappearance and subsequent recovery. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron "fish-boat" vanished without a trace somewhere off the coast of South Carolina. For more than a century the fate of the Hunley remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Civil War. Then, on August 8, 2000, with thousands of spectators crowding Charleston Harbor, the Hunley was raised from the bottom of the sea and towed ashore. Now, award-winning journalists Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf offer new insights into the Hunley's final hours and recount the amazing true story of its rescue.Dramatically told, filled with historical details and contemporary color, illustrated with breathtaking original photographs, Raising the Hunley is a spellbinding narrative-and one of the most fascinating Civil War books to appear in years.

8120 N Dixie Hwy., Newport, MI, 48166, US

FUN!!!!! Newport Activity Puzzle Pack

Come and pick up an Activity packet.Enjoy completing the Activity/Puzzle pages.Put your name and phone number on each page because each completed page is an entry into a drawing for a gift basket!!!A new Activity/Puzzle pack each month!!!!!One packet per person

8120 N Dixie Hwy., Newport, MI, 48166, US

Historical Fiction Book Club

All readers are welcome to join us as we read and discuss Historical Fiction books. Copies of the books can be picked up at the library. Discussions will be on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm. This month we will be discussing The Dictionary of Lost Words by P......More

All readers are welcome to join us as we read and discuss Historical Fiction books. Copies of the books can be picked up at the library. Discussions will be on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm. This month we will be discussing The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams.Summary: "As a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the "objectionable" words they omit."--NoveList Plus.

8120 N Dixie Hwy., Newport, MI, 48166, US

Juneteenth

All branches of the Monroe County Library System are closed in observance of Juneteenth.

Summer Reading: Color Our World

8120 N Dixie Hwy., Newport, MI, 48166, US

Newport Non-Fiction Book Club

Join us on the last Tuesday of the Month as we discuss non-fiction books.  New members always welcome.  This month we will be discussing The League by John Eisenberg.Summary: "The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus taking in $14 billion......More

Join us on the last Tuesday of the Month as we discuss non-fiction books.  New members always welcome.  This month we will be discussing The League by John Eisenberg.Summary: "The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus taking in $14 billion in annual revenue and provoking intense national debate over issues from player safety to political protest. Yet its current dominance obscures a surprising origin story. As it turns out, in the beginning most people found the very idea of professional football absurd. In The League, acclaimed author John Eisenberg reveals how the five men who built the NFL took an immense risk by investing in the sport in the 1920s and 1930s. Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell first achieved renown as gamblers, bookies, and prodigal sons. What they shared, other than street smarts and a competitive streak, was an unusual passion for professional football at a time when the nation was obsessed with college football, baseball, boxing, and horseracing. As Eisenberg shows in this absorbing chronicle of the NFL's first decades, the League nearly failed numerous times. It was frequently short on funds or fans, and often both. New teams appeared and quickly folded. The Depression and the Second World War only magnified the challenges the owners faced. The five rivals succeeded because each sacrificed the short-term success of his team for the longer-term good of the League. Together they instituted a draft and revised the rules to transform a plodding, run-based game into a dazzling aerial show. Together they ushered the NFL into the TV era of the 1950s -- when the league we know today first came into view. A remarkable story of sportsmanship and business ingenuity, The League is an essential read for any fan of our true national pastime." -- From publisher's description.In the 1920s and 1930s Art Rooney, George Halas, Tim Mara, George Preston Marshall, and Bert Bell achieved renown as gamblers, bookies, and prodigal sons. What they shared, other than street smarts and a competitive streak, was an unusual passion for professional football at a time when the nation was obsessed with college football, baseball, boxing, and horseracing. In its first years the League nearly failed numerous times: frequently short on funds or fans, and often both. The five rivals succeeded because each sacrificed the short-term success of his team for the longer-term good of the League, and by the 1950s the NFL we know today first came into view. -- adapted from publisher info.

8120 N Dixie Hwy., Newport, MI, 48166, US

Summer Reading: Color Our World

8120 N Dixie Hwy., Newport, MI, 48166, US

Historical Fiction Book Club

All readers are welcome to join us as we read and discuss Historical Fiction books. Copies of the books can be picked up at the library. Discussions will be on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm. This month we will be discussing The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman.......More

All readers are welcome to join us as we read and discuss Historical Fiction books. Copies of the books can be picked up at the library. Discussions will be on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm. This month we will be discussing The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman.Summary: A tale inspired by the tragic first-century massacre of hundreds of Jewish people at Masada presents the stories of a hated daughter, a baker's wife, a girl disguised as a warrior, and a medicine woman who keep doves and secrets while Roman soldiers draw near.

8120 N Dixie Hwy., Newport, MI, 48166, US

Independence Day

All branches of the Monroe County Library System are closed in observance of Independence Day.