Music @ McKune Kicks off w/ Alberta Adams

Sunday, January 9 | 2:00-3:00pm | McKune Room | Drop-in

Keep warm on cold winter afternoons with hot music from Alberta Adams - the undisputed Queen of the Detroit blues scene. At 93 years old, she's a living legend. Her performance will be backed by the RJ Spangler Trio. No registration necessary, just drop-in!
 

Stories of Chelsea

The Chelsea District Library's Stories of Chelsea project involves conducting videotaped interviews with Chelsea-area residents about different topics of Chelsea history.

This program serves as a significant step in the library's dedication to preserving a record of American social and family life as experienced in the Chelsea area. The topics scheduled to be covered in Stories of Chelsea are:

· One Room Schoolhouses
· WWII Veterans
· Farmers
· Village Life
· Local Landmarks

The Stories of Chelsea Team is still filming interviews for the Farmers project.

This topic is focused on the Chelsea-area's farming heritage. We'd like to preserve the stories of farmers and about farming both then and now.

If you have a suggestion of active or retired Chelsea-area farmers who you think could contribute valuable stories to the project, please suggest them here. Please provide the person's name and contact information if possible, along with a description of their connection to farming or Chelsea life.

How did a baked potato launch this local history project?
Listen to Director, Bill Harmer and Head of Adult Services, Sara Wedell tell the story on the Lucy Ann Lance show!

Head of Adult Services, Sara Wedell & Director, Bill Harmer on the Lucy Ann Lance Show

Fold Your Own Book Workshop

Artist-in-Residence Jerzy Drozd and artist Anne Drozd will lead a hands-on workshop to create a hand-folded book along with a box to keep it in. Anne and Jerzy will demonstrate this skill as a story-telling medium, it's a great way to share poetry or pictures as well. This activity is perfect for adults or families with kids ages 8 and up. Materials will be provided. In partnership with the CCA and funded by the Chelsea Community Foundation. This workshop is perfect for kids AND adults. Register now!
 

Hometown Libraries: A History of Community Involvement for the Love of Reading

Thursday, January 13 | 7:00 - 8:30pm | McKune Room


Join the Historic Chelsea Interest group for a fascinating evening with Grace Shackman, local historian, WCC and Adult Learners Institute instructor, and author of four books about Washtenaw County history as well as the long-running "Then and Now" column for the Ann Arbor Observer. Grace will explain how the first libraries in Chelsea, Manchester, Dexter, and Saline were started by civic-minded citizens as a volunteer effort. Originally located in makeshift quarters, they grew into buildings of their own. Since passage of District Library legislation in 1989 allowing for more stable funding, all four libraries have grown substantially into the modern institutions we enjoy today.
Register now!