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PBS Online Film Festival

Today is the first day of the PBS online film festival. Every Monday between now and March 30 they will introduce a new category of short films. You can watch them here or on the PBS YouTube channel. This week’s

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A Visit With Santa!

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National Gaming Day 2011!

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Fall Festival Fun!

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Fall Festival Saturday!

Don’t miss our second annual Fall Festival, Saturday, October 29, 11:00-1:00. We’ll celebrate autumn with games & crafts, bob for apples, and generally have a great time. To see what the festival was like last year, take a look at

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Teen Lock-In

The 2011 Teen Lock-In was great fun! Small libraries around the country participated in online gaming, an interview with teen author Gabrielle Zevin, and food + fun at their local sites. We built a website just to document the event. Here’s a

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World Listening Day–Soundwalk

On World Listening Day (July 18) one of the founders of this commemorative event, Dan Godston, was interviewed on Canadian radio station CKUT. He even mentioned our soundwalk event here at the Mammoth Public Library. You can listen by following

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cholla bud harvest

On Saturday, April 30, ethnobotanist Martha Ames Burgess taught us how to collect and prepare cholla buds. This program was offered in conjunction with Key Ingredients, a traveling exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution that was hosted by the Oracle Historical

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Three Cups of Tea . . . or only two?

Our book club selection for this month, Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, has come under scrutiny as he is accused of making false claims in the book. Find out more about it and tell us

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Author talk–Onofre Tafoya

Join us Saturday, April 16, at 2:00 p.m. for a FREE presentation by local author Onofre Tafoya. Tafoya worked 38 years in the San Manuel Mine and is the author of two books on the subject. His first book, Mother

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